Characters I also love, sweet good bot Aang and writing him having to confront other worldviews, especially from places he didnât expect is interesting.
ATLAxDOS - PoV Nukka
âNukka! Talk some sense into her! Revenge isnât going to accomplish anything! Why canât you go with them and try to convince her that.â
Nukka glanced over at Aang, the unreadable expression on her face a familiar one that meant she was deep in thought. It was true that sheâd argued against revenge but not for the reason that Aang had. She shook her head, not quite able to look Aang in the eye.
Sometimes it was hard to look Aang in the eye, his perceptions so different than her own--even if they were no less valid, how she had been raised made his pacifistic beliefs seem almost fanciful. That wasnât fair to Aang though, there was nothing wrong with teaching forgiveness over revenge--In fact, it was the exact same kind of thought process that had once lead another bright young messianic boy to peace. But revenge was easier, hate was easier, and Shikako wasnât as strong as Naruto.
Nukka wasnât as strong as Aang.
So she looked him in the eye because not doing it would be a disservice to everything the boy stood for. Nukka might not be strong, but she wasnât a coward, not in this.
âIf I went Iâd kill him myself.â
Aangâs look of shock made her wince, sheâd let him down, and not just in refusing to âtalk senseâ into Katara. Nukka sighed heavily, speaking about her mother--about Kya was hard. Katara and Sokka hadnât been there, hadnât been helpless to prevent such a stupid unneeded death. Hadnât held a blood-soaked parka against Kyaâs stomach to keep her alive long enough to tell Hakoda goodbye.
Nukka had lived the first ten years of her new life disoriented but slowly settling into the idea that life in the south pole while dull would be peaceful, at least until she grew older. It hadnât occurred to her until after the fact that sheâd forgotten Kyaâs death. Denial had been her main tactic--Kya wasnât her real mother so she shouldnât be mourning her--but by that logic then Yoshino hadnât been her real mother either and that thought was ridiculous.
So instead she focused on other things, on training, on avoiding Hakoda because she couldnât look at him without being confronted by the fact that she hadnât saved Kya--That if she had just remembered one thing Sokka and Kataraâs mother would still be alive.
And that was what it came down to--The man, the raider, the bastard that had killed Kya, Nukka saw no reason that he should be allowed to breathe the same air, to stand under the same sun as wonderful, forgiving people like Aang. It wasnât fair or right that monsters who killed women in front of their children got to live while an entire race of forgiving, peaceful people were murdered senselessly.
The world wasnât fair but Aang was still trying to make it fair and Nukka couldnât discourage him from trying, even if she didnât agree. Because Nukka would take the easier route and let Aang take the road traveled by Uzumakis and avatars.
âKatara is a good person, Katara is a healer. She has a fighterâs resolve but killing in defense and killing out of malice are two different things, sheâll hesitate.â I wouldnât, went unspoken but echoed loudly through the awkward silence.
