#rangi avatar

Late Valentine’s day sketch:

Mako: if you want my advice, you just need to grow a pair and ask Asami out!

Ok i wanna talk about avatar yun. Idk what the general fandom consensus is about him and i honestly dont care. I am very sympathetic to yun. He was an orphan promised everything, raised as the avatar, expected to excel. He was trained endlessly in sometimes cruel ways. But he still managed to be a happy silly guy for the most part. Until the day he found out he was lied to, an important secret had been kept from him. One of his guardians, one of the men who had told him he was the avatar, had secretly and genuinely suspected it was yuns friend and servant for a while but especially after certain events. Boom, one betrayal. Then his other guardian dragged both him and his friend off to some demented spirit to determine which of them was truly the avatar (another mini betrayal) and when it was discovered to be kyoshi instead, he was immediately discarded and sacrificed to the spirit, which was a HUGE betrayal. Kid found out he wasnt really the avatar AND now he has felt betrayed by TWO of his guardians/mentors and one of them has just completely discarded him like trash with no hesitation. And then he had to survive father glowworm with no prior knowledge (EATING him was. A choice. But ok whatever works ig) I think anyone would snap to some degree after ALL that. While i dont condone mass murder, i am very sympathetic to him and i think his story is truly a tragedy. Like should he have slaughtered an entire town? No probably not, but tbh they were being really fucking rude to him for no reason at all i think that may have been the final straw that broke his already fractured and incredibly unstable mental state. All that said. His death was in fact the only real option, poor yun, poor kyoshi, poor rangi. And i dont see enough people saying poor kelsang, he deserved better too.