Ty Lee Is An Air Nomad [Avatar: The Last Airbender Theory]

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Today J jumps off a flying bison into the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender to try and determine if Ty Lee of the Fire Nation is in fact a descendant of the Air Nomads!
Special Thanks to Chris Wildi for suggesting this topic!
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[@SuperCarlinBrothers]

Who is your favorite NON Bender from Avatar?

[@DeathGodRiku]

Sokka

[@ItsOPji]

Sokkaaaaa

[@aspiring_cryptid3173]

Sokka, easy

[@solaire67]

Sokka

[@jahdyaantoine4854]

Sokka. I love that goof.

[@Kilometers_KPH]

You know its interesting because of what Piandao says to Sokka: "You might want to think of a better Fire Nation cover name. Try "Lee." There's a million "Lees"." and Ty Lee is a Lee.

[@TheLucydOne]

Try Lee = Ty Lee

[@arabellamills7326]

Ty Lee is her first name though

[@frozetei8169]

@@arabellamills7326 Ty is her first name Lee is her surname

[@johngolder2216]

@@frozetei8169 since when does any character have a surname during the series besides toph

[@mariewasgehtsiedasan6045]

@@johngolder2216 Because only high ranking people have surnames, usually (e.g. Game of thrones) and Ty Lee is from a socially important family

[@danielbaldwin5756]

Now I'm just imagining an air nomad putting on red clothes and walking around like "hotman" "hotman" and everyone else going "wow what an upstanding fire nation citizen"

[@maYTeus]

Flameo hotman!

[@kittylitty01]

Flameo hotman

[@toriandtilly]

That is EXACTLY what happened. Like Aang was in a freaking school very obviously not knowing the social norms and refusing to uncover his forehead and not one single person batted an eye. The fire nation was probably the best place to hide

[@MoodyMickey]

Flameo 👏 flameo👏

[@Miko_Maus]

Lolololll

[@katielynnstephens4410]

Tenzin, Aang's airbending son, married Ty Lee's daughter Pema. Her having any kind of airbending in her blood could help explain why all her children are airbenders with great power. Even Aang struggled to get an airbending child. It just makes sense.

[@wrl8587]

all air nomads are benders because of their strong connection to spirits. i think since aang was spiritual and katara wasn't, it made it difficult to get an airbending child. i think it was easy for tenzin and pema because tenzin is spiritual and even tho pema is a non bender, she's an air acolyte and is also like the air nomads just remove the airbending

[@katielynnstephens4410]

@@wrl8587 that makes sense too

[@yossefbudagov8748]

How do you know Pema is Ty Lee's daughter?

[@kristastreams8667]

But Pema being Ty Lee's daughter would explain to me why jinora looks like ty lee

[@baruch4]

Ah, ha!

[@AngelicaNerd]

Ty Lee: a descendant of Air Nomads, born in the Fire Nation, joined an Earth Kingdom team of warriors from an island that has some Water Tribe influences in their names and clothing. So, she's basically the Avatar without bending.

[@cameram-guy8684]

Genius xd

[@Deinz1024]

Parkour!

[@mintinggoodwithchocolatech2278]

True

[@m.g.m.6408]

Or Ms Worldwide

[@hyperdragon2846]

Dont the kyoshi warriors have air bender descent

[@jasonanderson2508]

Another note: Everyone in the fire nation has very thin sharply shaped eyes but Ty Lee's are round... the same shape as Aang's eyes.

[@vincegonzalez2171]

Eye shape is where I thought he was going when he mentioned the eyes. I noticed it too.

[@yiataful]

And Ty lee has grey eyes like all the other Air Nomads

[@spaghetti5914]

and not just the fire nation, in general the appearance and features don't really match the other nations as well

[@Bigtamel]

No have you seen the fire nation kids from the school. They looked just like Ang.

[@jasonanderson2508]

Bigtamel aight you got me there :/

[@markoa7723]

What y’all are forgetting is it wasn’t illegal to marry between nations before the war so it is completely possible for an air bender to have married a fire bender which could explain why ty lees family could’ve been so high up in status. It’s because they lived there before the war

[@nurdle8673]

This is an equally possible alternative in my opinion, and I like it a lot

[@markoa7723]

Nurdle, yea there hasn’t been a lot confirmed about ty lees ancestry so the possibilities are endless

[@Vael221]

This seems like a rather reasonable explanation. A former air nomad marrying into a high ranking Fire Nation family would probably also get away with swearing loyalty and renouncing any allegiance to the Air Nation if questioned. Ty Lee is very clearly a Fire Nation citizen and sees herself as such. Even if her skills/abilities point towards an Air Nomad great grandparent or such, there is zero evidence to suggest they are explicitly taught to "keep the Air Nation alive" or anything like that.

[@soidontthinkicanthinkofago4162]

Superbeltman . Just no.

[@michelleng472]

Yeah, Kyoshi's mom was an airbender but her dad was an earth bender

[@CaoNiMaBi]

Cabbage Man is a Reality Bender. He twisted reality to appear and become the main character in every episode.

[@themegayoutuber]

NoOoOoOo! My CaBbAgEs!

[@YoloTB]

Plot Twist he taught Itachi the Genjutsu

[@kashu8774]

...he wasn't the cabbage bender?

[@pokemasta6019]

@@kashu8774 maybe if he had a child with a water bender, he child could learn to bend the water in the cabbages, thus, cabbage bending.

[@pokemasta6019]

@The Arctic Fox do you by chance know alolan vulpix?

[@JJ-tz7jn]

Ty Lee: I hate being apart of a matched set! Also Ty Lee: (joins Kyoshi Warriors)

[@ultraghostrider8305]

in the comics she has some inner conflict about that and almost runs away.

[@assassingoose3984]

She nearly quits the kyoshi warriors cuz of that reason in the comics but toph gets her to go to the circus she had joined to see the show and she sees her sisters alos becam like her yaknow they all jump like her and then the circus was attacked by bandits i think idk i dont really remember and when she tried to defeat one of the bandits that was a huge boi and then she fell down and hurt her knee so then her sisters came in and saved her so she realised why its great to have twins like that or idk (i dont remember a lot about the comics)so thats why she didn't quit

[@violetlavi2207]

I think the Kyoshi Warriors were never her ending point. I think it’s just one step on her journey of self-discovery, learning how to be her own person, untethered to anyone. She had that sorta in the circus but Azula was still a looming threat even then, and she ruined it for Ty Lee. So Ty Lee would have to find something in which she feels secure to be herself

[@garboge]

Lol

[@averagepinkhairedperson]

so i honestly see this as a big step for her character. where before she was doing everything she could to be different if even it didn’t make her happy, her joining the kyoshi warriors is where she is happy and it doesn’t matter if she’s different or not because she’s doing what makes her happy! thanks just my thoughts tho and i have read the comics yet.

[@ladyswellegant96]

Don't forget that Air Nomads don't get their arrow tattoos straight away, they must earn it. That being said there were plenty of air nomad children and possibly some adults who escaped and didn't have the arrows, allowing them to hide in plain sight.

[@ladyswellegant96]

@ela robinsin It's referenced that you can become a "master" at any age, so long as you earn the right. Aang is the youngest to receive his arrow and become a master for create the air scooter.

[@nadia.callais]

ela robinsin I think to become a master air bender you have to master 36 air bending skills and create your own, and Aang mastered 35 and created the air scooter

[@Comuniity_]

@@ladyswellegant96 actually Aangs grand daughter Jinora got her tattoos a year younger then him, but he was until then

[@elijahgabrielsantos5279]

But none of their offspring or decendants joined Tenzin? Or even came out when the war was already won?

[@ladyswellegant96]

@@elijahgabrielsantos5279 it could be the case that in an effort to protect themselves, they taught the basics of spirituality and ideals, but didn't teach air bending. So after a 100 years, the bending aspect was forgotten, and teaching can change.

[@nible8055]

Aang is the avatar so he doesn’t count as just an airbender. So in reality the show was named after appa

[@ng7756]

When you think about it, their wasn't a single regular human Airbender at all anymore. Also, their isn't a human with a full Airbending Ethnicity. Aang was the last one, Tenzin is half Air nomad and Water tribe. And his children are only 25% Air nomad. The new Air benders are from Earth Kingdom Decent. So basically the Air nomad Origin is gone.

[@FrarmerFrank]

till everything changed when Legend of Kora Attacked Actually was in comics that Aang found the Eastern? Temple Air Bison herd still in their caves (Appas claustrophobia is his personal quirk) The Fire Sages also keep a flock of Air Bison....if just for Kora to confidently use (but to be fair Bison=meat to non Air benders)

[@Cowabungas]

That is flat out wrong, he is an airbender. How else would he only pass down airbending traits to his kids?

[@ij5355]

eye- he is tho? before he knew he was the avatar he was solely an air bender. even so ethnically, he is an air bender

[@drunkenrooster]

Avatar, and the Last Airbender

[@ninja84443]

I think your theory is extremely possible. Referencing to Legends of Korra after the Harmonic Convergence, Airbenders suddenly started popping up everywhere for what seemed like no reason. But what if it wasn't for no reason? What if all the people who gained Airbending were all descendants of surviving Air Nomads? It's like you said, it's highly unlikely that all the Nomads were on the islands when the Fire Nation attacked. especially when they're supposed to be nomads.

[@marisafernandes9259]

I always thought the same thing. Recessive genes and all that

[@ognjensinjeri837]

I agree, but I think only people who "got" airbending are the ones who already were airbender who had weak powers so they never discovered them, because I think Pema is Ty Lee granddaughter and she didn't have airbending at the end of the show

[@MachimoLP]

Yesssss, and that would make the plot in TLOK sooo much more interesting!!

[@hbsavage0387]

@@MachimoLP sadly they flubbed mostly everything else

[@milkman3873]

i agree completely. i think it's all recessive genes. bomi (aangs son) got air bending, which is almost a sure sign that it has something to do with ancestry

[@karlarosas1424]

What i would give to have a spin off focused on Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee. The beach episode has always been one of my favorites and it left me craving for more interactions between these four characters.

[@jayden.02]

Yessss especially after azulas mental breakdown and zuko being good it’s gonna be so good

[@arrynwilliams2842]

Same

[@TheScholarOfLemons]

i want a spin off alternate timeline where basically azula recovers and has good boy children whith waterbender and water bender daughter is ming hua and she not good girl but has brother which good boy

[@wolfehneko6136]

Theres always the comics you can go to, I've read comments about bits of the comics and they sound interesting :^

[@karlarosas1424]

@@wolfehneko6136 I've read a few of the comics and personally I don't like what they did with Azula's story.

[@Jahsper]

You should've also mentioned that Ty Lee's ancestors hiding in the Fire Nation is very possible due to Hanna of the Water Tribe hiding in the Fire Nation herself after escaping custody.

[@Janoha17]

*Hama.

[@ryhofiet6416]

Hama was taking revenge on the fire nation not hiding she was trying to give them the same pain as the water Benders when they all got taken away and put in prison

[@joshumali7627]

Ryhofiet well she was having her revenge while staying hiding (to an extent). Nobody in the village she was at new she was a water bender.

[@jade-rachaeledwards7101]

Although it would be cool to try and find like other benders hiding out. We got to see Zuko and Iroh hide in the Earth Kingdom Hama in the Fire and we got to see Team Avatar hideout. I think if we looked hard enough we could find others who are in hiding.

[@asrealkatsikaki6306]

Hanna Montana

[@elvellarambles9151]

Oh, I'd go even farther than that: I 100% believe she's an untrained airbender. She's more than just 'lightfooted' -- look at the height of all her jumps! Nobody but Aang can jump that high. She wasn't just in the circus -- she was a trapeze performer in specific, and the brief glimpse we got of her at work implies that she's normally quite comfortable in midair. Her fighting style seems to emphasize speed and evasion, like Aang's does, and rather than aggression like Azula's or Mai's. So yeah, Aang might have been the last actual survivor of the Air Nomads as they were before the, um, genocide, but I'm sure there are other untrained airbenders with refugee ancestry that just ... didn't turn up in canon often.

[@gabrielsaphira9479]

Smart!

[@VDont]

Nope! We see zuko jump tens of feet to get to the fire ship when azula invaded the eastern air temple

[@kylemorrison6162]

@@VDont not quite the same thing

[@tori.e720]

I dont really think so.... because in Korra, after the spirit portals were opened, random ppl became airbenders and their bending was really obvious and uncontrollable....

[@inferiorinferno8859]

@@tori.e720 Those random people wre implied to be the descendants of non-bending Air nomads. The Air nomads also produced non-benderss and I read somewhere those were sent to the other nations as grown ups, basically exiled once they could fend for themselves. Ty Lee could also easily have been related to those non-bending Air nomads.

[@linlinda8791]

Aang wasn’t actually the last air bender. Appa was also an air bender

[@nordiasmith5697]

Exactly thats what I've been saying

[@irynatalkachova5701]

Appa and Momo: the last air benders

[@nordiasmith5697]

@@irynatalkachova5701 momo's an earth bender

[@fortymcmeme3846]

@@nordiasmith5697 what how

[@Ex1stingRn]

Mole badgers are earthbenders

[@james13sylar]

I thought from the thumbnail you were going to mention Tenzin's daughter, Jinora, which also has an uncanny resemblance to Ty Lee. In any case, I do agree that there could have been Air nomads surviving the genocide of their culture, mostly hiding in the earth nation because, well, it is huge and have some safe spots that resisted the 100 years of war, but some could also hid on the north and south pole, and even in the fire nation. It is also possible that Ty Lee's airbender ancestors married into the fire nation before the war started, so even if her ancestry is known, nobody would suspect or see her in a bad light. Also, in LoK, the new air benders could be the descendants of the surviving air nomads, with their bending reawakening due to the harmonic convergence.

[@kaitlynnmonroe3782]

Bumi is a testament to that possibility

[@oyudie2745]

Ty lee is her grandmother

[@basil_forgot5715]

Yea, upon seeing the thumbnail I guenuenly thought it was jinora with ty Lee's hair

[@superbeltman6197]

Part Air Nomad, Raised Fire Nation, Joins a Earth Kingdom warrior group,had a crush on a Water Tribe boy, wow tylee is wearing all the hats Edit:777 likes... nice also this a new record for me so thx

[@StormageddonTMS]

Noah Stutznegger had a crush on a water tribe boy? Eh? That counts right?

[@Gambito99100]

@@StormageddonTMS came here to say that

[@kodyhirchak8336]

And she has a crush on sokka, a water tribe warrior

[@tomn6800]

@@StormageddonTMS Yup.

[@fireflyfox93]

Kinda fits with the nomad thing then.

[@The_Jovian]

I like the theory that the actress who plays Aang in the Ember island theatre is one of Ty Lee's sisters

[@zacharywilliams2]

I mean thats pretty much common knowledge.

[@nonomen6665]

@@zacharywilliams2 ...Is it?

[@tyrannapusandfriends6254]

Nonomen it wasn’t for me until I read a comment on this video (not this one, but yeah, 20 seconds ago)

[@Jo-chilin]

Zachary Williams no it isn’t? I’m obsessed w avatar have been since I was a child, and I’ve never heard this theory

[@bluebearyq]

Zachary Williams If Ty lee’s sister was playing a character, why wouldn’t she play ty lee? You know, Ty lee? Her own identical sister, who was also a character in the play???

[@gh05tW]

But has anybody noticed that the thumbnail makes ty lee look exactly like jinora. This also kind of helps the theory of pema being ty lees daughter or relative

[@somberbadusern]

When she says she has 6 identical sisters I think she meant she had 6 sisters who just looked like her, not that they were born at the same day

[@maschinka_]

Yeah I always interpreted it as them just being sisters that looked very much alike, not literally identical

[@maschinka_]

@@cutiekpopgirl cause her and her siblings clearly got neglected in some way, at least that's how I always interpreted it, there were too many siblings that looked too similar and their parents never payed much attention to any of them individually, they were just each part of a set, Idk I never even considered that there could be another explanation, before I came across this video I never even considered that some people might interpret it as her having literally identical sisters lol

[@theportalsnake1332]

bro it shows her " matched set of sisters" in a comic so debunked

[@BrandonW95]

She also has that “Airbender spirit” Aang has talked about.

[@CD-Freedom]

When?

[@kaileb254]

CD Freedom when did i ask?

[@CD-Freedom]

@@kaileb254 Never mind. I thought you were talking about a specific moment, but you meant she acts a lot like an air nomad, or like the people in the Northern Air Temple.

[@abandonedtoonz4718]

Oof

[@amadeerfilms5529]

CD Freedom no aang actually says that

[@crstph]

i also love how she ends up with the kyoshi warriors bc it shows her growth in that she no longer feels the need to “prove” how individualistic she is through appearance etc, and is comfy in an identical uniform because she finally FEELS like her own person

[@piperlee4213]

Until she hates it because she feels like a piece in a set again (comics)

[@strawberryslums]

@@piperlee4213 but Toph helps her over come that again on a lIFe CHanGINg JouRNey, to the circus, where her sisters are.

[@piperlee4213]

BubbleNubZ oh yeah I forgot about her sisters being in the circus 🤣 I wonder if she ever stayed part of a set; only time will tell + new comics 🤞

[@mattysdentist2134]

Ty lee is cool because in the beach episode she knocks out a bunch of simps.

[@StrandedClone]

As i joked before, fir some men she is a bloodbender if you know what i mean

[@mattysdentist2134]

NicksAlleyway Bruh

[@StrandedClone]

@@mattysdentist2134 xD you got it! *Uncultured Swine Test Passed*

[@jayden.02]

@@StrandedClone haha saw ur other comment on the simp bender comment

[@BigFanOfCocks]

I would say a mix of simp and incel or maybe im wrong

[@mateonicolas1584]

U forgot that Tai Lee can almost fly in the trees.

[@shounenbat510]

Ty Lee moves almost exactly like Aang in the trees.

[@ghettokage6104]

My brothers name is Tai Lee, the one from avatar is TY Lee

[@Rickettson]

Also love how Ty Lee's fighting style is pressure points; a way to defeat an opponent without killing them. The Air Nomads were renowned as peaceful, so what better way to defend yourself than with a way to temporarily knockout a threat! I doubt Ty Lee is a direct Air Nomad, but I can see her ancestors being Air Nomads that could hide without their arrows, and having them develop and pass down the pressure point fighting style!

[@datscrazy4095]

Not all had arrows, Aang had Fire Nation friends and most of them did get along with other nations (they were peaceful). Also charka is very important to Air benders so it makes sense they learnt to disable bending by blocking the pointa

[@CD-Freedom]

Yeah, I like her fighting style too.

[@zuzu6864]

Only the air bending masters had arrows, otherwise, I agree

[@jerryjustice5021]

her fighting style is called che blocking

[@jerryjustice5021]

arrows are only given to masters

[@scarymeunster9095]

Funny thing, in the novels, Avatar Kyoshi’s mother was an air nomad. However, after adopting a criminal lifestyle, her bending was spiritually blocked - which is where Kyoshi inherited her war fans.

[@chestersantidiaz7450]

@bryan diaz varela it didn't have to do with the criminal lifestyle directly. It's due to spirituality. Zaheer, although a criminal was very spiritual. Jesa, Kyoshi's mother, abandoned the spiritualistic lifestyle which caused her air bending to wane. So this theory about Ty Lee being an air nomad descendant is very plausible. Since air nomads would have to hide their ability and abandon their culture, traditions and lifestyle to the point that their air bending became dormant.

[@ipiinsih3655]

@@chestersantidiaz7450 Very plausible but Bumi doesn't seem like a very spiritual person

[@nouveauscripter1718]

@@ipiinsih3655 Neutral Gin bro

[@SdotWebb]

I Love that someone else read that novel.

[@scarymeunster9095]

Triste St. Clair My bad, that’s what I meant, but I didn’t phrase it very well. Jesa followed more a life of explicit activity, and while Zaheer was a criminal, he was far more spiritual about it. Also, for Bumi, he was best friends with a little spirit dude - which just so happens to look like flopsy, might I add. Coincidence? I think _not._

[@creatorfollower3868]

This theory, if correct, can also help explain why opening the barriers to the spirit world in The Legend of Korra gave certain people Airbending, they were descendants.

[@itsemma2690]

She looks like Jinora In the air nomad clothes! From The legend of korra

[@trollsdontgetblocked9941]

Because Ty Lee is her other grandmother, pema is ty lee’s daughter, and pema is jinoras mother

[@kevster5252]

@@trollsdontgetblocked9941 umm is this true?

[@trollsdontgetblocked9941]

@@kevster5252 yep, confirmed

[@anthonyfelix2972]

Ty Lee would be an unbeatable fighter if she had the ability to airbend, using bending for normal people then chi block for benders is a scary mix.

[@2Ten1Ryu]

Good thing she is pretty cheerful and not aggressive then :D

[@Draiocht012]

Not to mention that air-bending could be horrifying if applied lethally. Creating and manipulating vacuums and pressure waves would be no joke and when added to her already impressive maneuverability she could practically fly. And don't get me started on gale-force wind in opposing directions that, while not sharp as anime typically depicts it, could likely tear apart anything we've seen in the given world.

[@arcanumelite4853]

@@Draiocht012 Air bending is probably the most dangerous of all the elements in the show.... there is basically unlimited air and you can never run out of it... while even firebenders can run out of energy for their firebending given enough time as the energy comes from within them but is still used up... airbending however is completely unlimited... Its a good thing that the airbenders are basically pacifists that avoid fighting at all costs otherwise they would be a threat far worse than the fire nation.

[@Draiocht012]

@@arcanumelite4853 I'm not sure about that. Nothing happens without the expenditure of energy. Just because Firebending is the only one we get an exact explanation of how the chi becomes the fire doesn't mean the others don't use their chi when they bend. That being said I do agree it's the most potentially lethal.

[@KuroDCupu]

The question is, why no benders ever learn chi blocking? It can't be they just think it's useless.

[@MODNAR67]

She’s an airbender cause she be laughing at gravity

[@idontwanttotellyou2554]

XD

[@goldsimba6483]

XD

[@temujinkhagan5308]

XD

[@sonicfansquad7689]

XD Pants are an illusion and so is death

[@benjiwagner6115]

XD

[@Strangeness_coven]

Whenever i hear ba sing se i cant help but think of iroh's little song " its a long long way to ba sing se and the girls in the city they look so prettyy..." lol

[@jewswami]

She doesn't say she's identical septuplets, she says she has 6 sisters who look just like her. I have a friend who has 7 brothers and sisters of all different ages and they look uncannily alike. Any of the sisters who are close in age could easily be mistaken for identical twins. I never got the sense that she was literally identical, just that she was 1 of a huge number of sisters who all looked really similar and whose personalities bled together.

[@featgoose972]

Just read the comics and you will see that they are definitely identical 🤦‍♂️

[@eliasraine8726]

“Can you imagine giving your twelve year old a flying animal and being like ‘have fun?’” Parents in Pokémon: nervous sweating

[@asandax6]

They give kids Dangerous Animals that can with enough fire power to Destroy the entire World and be like yeah you can force them to fight.

[@krealyesitisbeta5642]

Imagine that one kid who caught a drifloon.

[@ChiliFlakkes]

Sometime I think the spirits evolved into Pokémon

[@Naisy77]

Omg

[@acaerwyn9821]

That happens at age 10.

[@realcolby]

One of Aang’s granddaughters in LOK looks so much like Ty Lee that I actually thought she was the person in the thumbnail for the split second that I forgot who Ty Lee was.

[@anonymousfellow8879]

Colby Ah same

[@finger6797]

Oof

[@memesredacted]

Jinora

[@briannaquepasa5174]

That's what I thought. There's def resemblance from past ancestors.

[@tigershark94]

There is a running fan-theory that Pema (the wife of Aang’s son Tenzin) is the daughter or granddaughter of Ty Lee

[@aliahduiker4911]

I also like the theory that Pema from legend of Korra is Tylee’s daughter.

[@ajaderabbit8399]

I kinda buy into this because before this video, I watched the "Why do Aang's tattoos glow?" Video. Summing up that video, the tattoos were made along where Chi flows, which lines up with Ty Lee's fighting style. She knows where Chi points are, which is knowledge almost exclusive Air Nomads

[@Deathbyranch]

I read that air bender’s bending weakens when they are not spiritual. Avatar Kiyoshi’s mom was an air bender who become a criminal and her bending got weaker as a result. That is why she used fans (and eventually kiyoshi used them!!). The spiritual life of air nomads meant almost all were benders but if they had to hide and didn’t practice spirituality and air nomad culture, their bending would eventually faded away. Maybe the people who gained air bending in Harmonic conversion in LOK had air nomad Ancestry!!

[@pinkpaint2662]

I mean all the people who got air bending in legend of Korea did have air nomad features.

[@tsuyuasui7297]

Drawing With Dylan YT kai literally looked straight out from the north pole lol.

[@tsuyuasui7297]

Zahra Hussain wait what, avatars kiyoshi’s mom was an airbender?

[@marissaedwards560]

@@tsuyuasui7297 in the comic novels her mother is an air bender, yes.

[@elkanleephoto]

that makes sense cuz aang is boomies father

[@SailorWenus]

Some points I’d like to make: - One of Ty Lee’s sisters played Aang in the ember island players satire play - Ty Lee’s combat skills would be suitable for an Airbender refugee fighting w/o their bending, but still fighting swiftly (just like Aang) - The size of Ty Lee’s family could be a result of the family’s lineage trying to breed an Airbender

[@IAmCrystalPalm]

Wait that actress was one of Ty Lee’s sisters??

[@milesparker557]

Ty Lee's sister? Where was that jnfo from?

[@justsomeguyanimations]

The size is cause they're septuplets They weren't going for that many butter it just worked out that way

[@davidloza9316]

Yeah, the fact that she can jump from tree to tree really sells me on this, the only other people I can think of doing that are aang and his descendants, excluding the random airbenders that just pop up out of nowhere

[@davidloza9316]

@@justsomeguyanimations "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness." -Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

[@BOREDcentre]

Im alil uhhh... messed up so to speak, but why does nobody ever ask about Angs parents? We hear about every other characters family life except Ang- why dont we know ANYTHING about them? Was he given up at birth? Whatsup?

[@Cachalyce]

As far as I know, traditionally air nomad children are raised communally & not directly by their parents, often not even knowing which nun/monk were their actual parents. So Aang might not even know himself who his parents are.

[@AS-lu7gm]

@Lady Seashell Bikini actually, it's confirmed that air nomad has LGBT community. So, free love is probably an accepted concept

[@srivatsarao7979]

Azula, who is literally heir to the throne- Zuko: am I a joke to you

[@dargondude2375]

Ozai: Zuko you've always have been a worthless joke to me.

[@SpectralArchivist]

"My father says she was born lucky... He says I was lucky to be born." So, basically, yes.

[@nagapandian]

Srivatsa Rao well Zuko is SUPPOSED to be the heir to the throne until someone named the loser lord didn’t like him and banished him

[@smith22041]

They're both heirs, Zuko was an heir apparent, and Azula was an heir presumptive.

[@glanni]

As firstborn, Zuko was the rightful heir. The fire nation must take the right of the firstborn really serious, if you look at how Azulon was pretty mad about Ozai asking to be firelord instead of Iroh, and the only things furthering Ozai's plan was either killing Zuko or Azulon. The easiest way for Ozai to name Azula his heir was by somehow getting rid of Zuko. And so he simply memed him.

[@hamiltondavisdavis]

Theory: Monk Gyatso was part of the White Lotus. He played Pi-sho with Aang all the time. When Aang was gonna leave for a different temple Gyatso was gonna run away with him and take him somewhere affiliated with the white lotus. But Aang ran away. Source:Season 1 the storm. The white lotus has been around since Avatar Karuk.

[@karlwilker579]

Makes sense.

[@luisburgos7365]

That’d be nice. But isn’t Iroh the founder of the White Lotus?

[@dylankees167]

Luis Burgos I don’t think so

[@hamiltondavisdavis]

@Shesha Was he suppose too? too him its a random pi-sho peice which game is played everywhere. In the Storm episode Gyatso playfully cheated with the White lotus peice when playing with Aang. (Check Out the 13:00Min Mark).

[@hamiltondavisdavis]

@@luisburgos7365 look up Nerd Wire white Lotus on KZbin. Everything you need to know is in there. Unless you read the comics

[@s1mplyru188]

is may a metal bender or do she just got infinite knifes

[@M3I0n_Me]

Her parents were strict and didn’t allow her to do a lot of stuff. So she would spend time in her room throwing knives at a target. Then she got good. So she is always carrying around knives to throw in danger.

[@reaglecart3827]

@@M3I0n_Me does she has hundreds of those that she brings around? when she is fighting the guard in when zuko n friend escape it seems like she has an unlimited supplies or something

[@Pinxy_P]

Any other OGs here remember "These socks are amazing!"

[@jaidenx_Akari]

Yes

[@BrownNinja777]

I'm so glad that they're doing avatar theories now! What a great series to get stuck into

[@SuperCarlinBrothers]

I love it so much!

[@charsworldanimation5904]

I love avatar

[@BrownNinja777]

@@SuperCarlinBrothers Easily my favourite series of all time. Will still cry whenever leaves from the vine plays 😭

[@sandro5535]

@@SuperCarlinBrothers Do you consider the Turf series cannon, or another JK pandering?

[@sandro5535]

@Mikey Taylor "I have mastered fire bending in over a thousand lifetimes" Roku ATLA (the desserter) First avatar 10 000 years ago LOK Beginnings. Now they state there were only a 100 avatars ...

[@hasmas2659]

I remember discussing this topic with my brother when the show was airing. Her fighting style is exactly how I thought non-air bender fighting style would be. Which made me think that her family was a descendent from a marriage of an air nomad and a fire nation probably before the fire nation attack.

[@RaindropsBleeding]

well, Air Bending is based on Bagua Zhang (which is the same style used by the Hyuugas if you watch Naruto) which focuses on redirecting your opponent's energy. Ty Lee's style is Kyusho Jitsu, which focuses on pressure points and disabling your opponent's limbs. Following the philosophy of redirecting energy, I would say either they would simply still learn Bagua Zhang, or Aikido would be favored. Aikido follows the same principle of redirecting energy, and is used by the Kyoshi warriors, who use fans as their main weapon, which would indicate favor of Air bending, which we see Kyoshi use often, despite her Earth Kingdom lineage.

[@woahtism7489]

BleedingRaindrops circle walking

[@Dokataa]

@@RaindropsBleeding kyoshi is half air bender and half earth bender, actually!

[@brashblond]

@@RaindropsBleeding Kyoshi's mother was an airbender who had her bending removed.

[@RaindropsBleeding]

@@brashblond huh, I didn't know that. that's pretty cool. was that in the comics?

[@geotraveler6152]

Perhaps General Iroh and/or the White Lotus played a role in the protecting Ty Lee's family. I've always believed there was some air temple connection to Ty Lee and her family's past. Glad to see others saying the same thing.

[@01AnnaBanana10]

YES! I have always thought this but never really put words behind it. Ty Lee stands out so much from the rest of the fire nation. Her personality, her face, and her fighting style always reminded me of Aang.

[@Moesie]

Its cuz she wanted to be different then her sister she left and worked in the circus .as an acrobat Persoballity has nothing to do with fire nation. Fire people are kind spritual in there element to learn fire They learned and became programmed like kim yung un does to there people If u watch the episode where aang went to a fire nation school u realize they are quite friendly

[@AnywayJenniferSim]

Dude I’m convinced she’s an Airbender, with how high and far she’s able to jump (like onto the gondola at the Boiling Rock when Azusa had to Iron Man over).

[@spencer7674]

@Avatar Review yeah she called him cute and when they were fighting in the earth palace, she made a joke about how they were "dancing"

[@robertgronewold3326]

Air Nomad genetics were all over the world of Avatar. This was proven when after the Harmonic Convergence in Legend of Korra, a bunch of people suddenly developed airbending abilities. They had the latent airbending genetics, and the influx of spiritual power activated the ability.

[@raphaelj2541]

No, opals family only has earthebending genetics

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@raphaelj2541 The show creators actually confirmed that everyone who's powers activated had an airbender ancestor. It didn't necessarily mean that it was a recent one. With Opal, it could be five hundred years aback, but the gene would be there, dormant and full of potential.

[@deb8bro]

Robert Gronewold Where did the creators confirm this?

[@SarcyseTiranin]

@@deb8bro Yeah I'd be interested to know. It's sounds like a plausible explanation.

[@aamiw99]

This is the kind of stuff the creators should've confirmed IN the show cause it'd make that arc much more enjoyable.

[@prubruh3229]

Ty Lee is Aang's alternate dimension form as a girl (for me)

[@sarahwyley9073]

She’s definitely a air nomad simply because of the eyes the eye color is one of the biggest things in the avatar series many don’t realize it but it legit tells what element they are Earth= Green Fire= Yellow/Red Water=Blue Air=Grey

[@Moesie]

So just cuz she had grey eyes she must be air nomad? So if u see a black dude with blue eyes he must be white? If u see an arab with grey eyes he must be white? If u see a blonde person white person with brow eyes are they asian? Makes no sense Air color had nothing to do with your element back ground . It usually means what region ur from

[@stoosies]

Ty Lee made me question a lot of things in my youth

[@mewtwo150clone]

👀

[@reapermaster1233]

This comment can be red in many different ways

[@mewtwo150clone]

The beach episode 👀

[@briannaquepasa5174]

If you know you know 😂

[@AmataTai]

Same~ 🌸🌸

[@jjkthebest]

Alternative hypothesis: a high ranking fire nation general fell in love with an air nomad during a raid.

[@supercorncob5040]

i need this as a story now

[@MrBudderbomb]

Why would an air nomad fall in love with a general attacking her home lol.

[@myboicyndaquil2824]

@@MrBudderbomb maybe they had already fallen in love and he used the raid as the excuse to get her out? or had heard about the order early enough and had enough time and resources to discreetly warn and move her?

[@MrBudderbomb]

@@myboicyndaquil2824 well he said they fell in love "during" the raid.

[@myboicyndaquil2824]

@@MrBudderbomb fair point

[@flameboundaries4496]

The theory isn't far-fetched. I mean she never once in the show fire bends, just like Mei doesn't fire bend wither. Mei is probably a Non-Bender. But Ty Lee could honestly be a Air bender just from being able to balance so well on trees, rocks and buildings.

[@andreeacat7071]

Also Ty Lee doesn’t seem to have any of the physical attributes the others have (black hair, dark eyes.)

[@inmyworldkindagirl]

And she never hurts anyone, just disables them temporarily

[@ryoba.]

@@andreeacat7071 a lot of people in the fire nation have brown hair. plus zuko and ozai have golden/light brown eyes.

[@justmerandii]

Is it just me or on the thumbnail, Ty Lee looks like an older Jinora? Aang: I’m the last airbender Appa, Ty Lee and her sisters: *Am I a joke to you?* Edit: what if Azula knew about Ty Lee being an airbender, but she chose not to say anything because: *Azula Always Lies* And/or Azula respects Ty Lee because Ty Lee respects her There is also a chance she wanted Ty Lee and her family to be the last airbenders so she wanted to wipe out Aang. Although we know it’s most likely cuz she knew Zuko was supposed to capture the Avatar to restore his honor and go back home and she didn’t want that, but at the same time she did want Zuko to come home, probably just to get on her nerves. * She has the same eye color as Aang * She has brown hair, unlike other fire nation citizens, and Aang has brown hair in Book 3 and a brown beard in TLOK. * She is flexible, agile and is an acrobat. Air is the element of freedom. * She uses Chi-Blocking to defeat her enemies instead of hurting/killing them. The air monks always told Aang that all life is sacred. Fun, irrelevant fact: At Sozin’s Comet, Azula had one loose hair. Later on in the episode, her hair becomes all jacked up. It’s a metaphor to her mental state. When Azula had that single out of place hair, it was a metaphor to show a warning about her mental state. During her battle with Zuko and Katara, her hair was getting more ruined and ruined. It was showing her mental state. When her hair looked the craziest, she was fully mentally ill and acting like a complete animal, so she was put in a straitjacket and put in an asylum. Sorry to waste your time with this long comment 😅💅🏾 here’s a meme: Aang: harmony Roku: balance Kyoshi: justice Yanchen: knowledge Kuruk: 💧🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧 💧 🌊 🏄🏾‍♂️ 😃surf’s up🐧. 🐤. 🏄🏾‍♂️ 🌊 🌊 🐧 👁👄👁 💅🏾🥶😂. 🐧🌊 🌊 🏄🏾‍♂️ 🏄🏾‍♀️. 🏂 🚤. 🛥. ⛱. 🏄🏾‍♂️. 🏄🏾‍♂️🌊 💧 🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧🏄🏾‍♂️🐧💧

[@cosmicklutz1675]

"Ty lee and Aang have the same eyes" Naruto fans crawling out the woodwork: *THIS HAS MEANING!!!*

[@necrym]

yes it doessss

[@infinitypercival5958]

And the snakes start to sing...

[@Logan-yp9zc]

I mean in avatar, your eye color usually indicates what nation you belong to or have lineage in. Green for EK, Brown for FN, Blue for WT, and Grey or hazel for AN.

[@squirrelcoom]

Good thing he didn't talk about same hairstyle (Ino/Deidara, redhead characters 👀)

[@imeeragxb6084]

Logan but azula has gold eyes...:/

[@monkeymode5652]

This actually would explain the Korra series too. In the legend of Korra, a bunch of people are suddenly able to airbend after a spiritual occurrence. The people who are able to suddenly airbend seem to be random in the show, without any pattern. But if you think about it, Bumi, Avatar Aangs first non-bender son, gets airbending. What are the odds of him, specifically him getting airbending. The answer is really really high! He carries the genetic marker of an Airbender, and the spiritual occurrence triggered his bending. That would mean for all other people in the world who obtained airbending, they would have carried the genetic marker for an Airbender too by ancestry, making the whole deal way less random, but actually quite clever. This would also mean that there were in fact a lot of survivors after the initial attack. That, or the airnomads were really into interracial reproduction.

[@Xijiel]

Totally agree with you had a similar thought

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

I mean, logistically speaking since air nomads were traveling all over the place anyway, they were a lot more likely to come into frequent contact with other peoples than any of the other nations. So historically they probably did have a whole lot of interracial pairings.

[@goddessrick8734]

Hello future me made a video basically confirming these points I think your right on the money

[@fatherdog346]

it still doesnt explain why they couldnt bend

[@monkeymode5652]

@@fatherdog346 resessive gene. Think of it as children born with blue eyes and after a few years they become a different color like brown or green

[@TheConfessionsGuy]

This video is so true because pema is ty Lee’s doughter and she is an air nomad

[@Captain-Luma]

One of my theories is that Ty Lee is a descendent of a kind of rogue Air Nomad who, like Ty Lee, struggled with being in a set and part of strict system. Escaping the Air temple, she went off and started a life elsewhere, likely in the fire nation where the people, for all of their regulations themselves, are quite passionate. In her lineage, the air bending would never really carry on but Ty Lee would still adopt the nimbleness and physical prowess of her ex-air Nomad matriarch.

[@nellymaganga2628]

Don’t forget how similar aang and ty lee’s clothes are

[@RoosterChan]

Oh shi- IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!

[@Baby_microwave]

And they look the same

[@smiles5054]

Step siblings

[@SexyTom.]

(Off topic)Check out Elca Gaming they working on a Avatar game in Dreams

[@declanmoore75]

@@smiles5054 only a 100 year age difference

[@didosauce6008]

Y’all ever noticed that ty lee fights everyone directly except aang. Like we see her 1v1 katara and sokka but never aang

[@imunchonfrogbones]

good point. i guess they have to make sure the main characters fight each other 🤷🏽‍♀️ meaning azula and zuko vs aang. it would make since that she might hold back instead of attacking aang

[@Dddduuummb]

See that was one thing i had always wondered could ty lee chi block avatar state aang. In fact if ty lee was in a tournament like tophs i would pay to see it

[@Azier18]

@@Dddduuummb could be possible, since chi blocking might be the only way to subdue a rogue avatar.

[@Dddduuummb]

@@Azier18 wow... i wish there were a spin-off / alternate timeline where ty lee is the hero of the story who has to stop the avatar from destroying the world.

[@zoey9077]

@@Dddduuummb Ty Lee couldn't get close enough to Avatar State Aang. Anyone hostile who approaches Avatar State Aang is dealt with swiftly. There's enough experience in every avatar ever to be proficient with countering all kinds of attacks. Lightning was obviously an exception. It helps that lightning literally moves at the speed of light, and someone generating it would be hard to hear from a distance in a room full of combat, but someone within a few feet of you should at least cause air to move in a way the avatar would notice.

[@chloej1611]

Brilliant theory. I was wondering about Ty Lee's brown hair too, since that color is only present in Air Nomads, Water Tribe members, and a good chunk (though not all) of Earth Kingdom members.

[@jonathanleroy133]

The reason Aang knows what penguin sledding is, is his past avatar lives where water benders so it was familiar to him so it brought back old memories.

[@louisuncensored]

Him : my mom won’t get me a car at 16 but AVATAR CAN GET A BISON AT 12 Me : *appa is on autopilot*

[@louisuncensored]

HOW DIDI THIS GET SO MANY IIKES

[@kenyangooner1092]

Kristopher Prime bro nah think about the escape scenes while being shot w fire balls

[@Enderia2]

*like 7 or something*

[@jacobisaacs792]

he got app when he was younger than 12

[@louisuncensored]

HOW ARE THESE LIKES REAL OMMMMGGGGGG TYYYYYY

[@coldmill8615]

This show hit so hard that fandom is still active 13 years later... And no wonder why, truly proud of this community

[@marlinfromfindingnemo8954]

Well technically if you’re counting legend of korra then it’s 6 years but it’s still impressive how long the fanbase has lived and been good

[@burg153]

Same with undertale

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

@@marlinfromfindingnemo8954 I'm not counting Legend of Korra, LOL

[@Isokatmydydecsf]

@@burg153 you mean the sans Undertale fandom. Nah jk but yeah there’s like three fandom, the deltarune one, the Undertale one, and the Undertale snas au which has been out of control since the last three year Deltarune kinda relived the hype I feel like. But now it’s cooled down until the next chapter is out.

[@immortalgamer3960]

There's something very much along these lines that I've always though. So they say that the air nomads can all airbend because of their spiritual purity, so it makes sense that their decedents in hiding would not be able to airbend. In Legend of Korra when a whole bunch of people gain airbending, I always wondered if it was the descendants of surviving airbenders that were never able to airbend... you know, kinda like Bumi.

[@s.l.8731]

Ty Lee has to be an air nomad! That makes so much sense!

[@lategamingwithiainjarvis]

And then there’s Tenzin’s child Jinora and when you compare her to Ty Lee you can see similar characteristics.

Late Gaming with Iain Jarvis i actually thought it was a pic of Jinora on the thumbnail

[@Starfock]

I thought that was her I’m the thumbnail lol

[@sugarmagnoliagaming4437]

Tenzins wife is ty lees daughter

[@Cassandra6]

I thought it was Jinora in the thumbnail

[@beinghere.doingnow2640]

@ I thought that too!

[@katynadal6646]

I know having multiple babies at one time does happen but. I never took it as that her sister's are all the same age as her. I always took it as that all six of her sisters just so happen to look exactly like her. Because that does happen. I have a friend who's brother looks exactly like him. And it's mindboggling to me how strong genetics can be.

[@claraboe2755]

Yeah same. I dont know if she actually said that she has identical sisters or just sisters who are (basically) identical to her

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

@@claraboe2755 She called her and her sisters a "matched set", so if they're not identical sextuplets they're at least identical sisters.

[@Me-da-Ghost]

perhaps 2 twins and a triplet

[@Ocker3]

Or Octuplets and one didn't survive?

[@kwispyblue0562]

This is how I took it too. They never actually say in the series that they were the same age, and if they were it would have been pretty likely that another one of the sister's was friends with Azula and Mai too. I'm pretty sure they were just sisters who looked incredibly similar. Like he said Identical septuplets has never happened, ever so if this was the case I think they probably would've been more clear about it. I mean Ty Lee does talk about her family a couple times through out the series.

[@muhammadusman-nq6qg]

0:59 I bet y'all couldn't even read the text that said "this is a lot of little text to read in a short amount of time but I believe in you" the level of reading the whole article

[@dacimuci]

My favorite non bender is Mai but the theory that ty Lee’s daughter is Pena is mind blowing if it’s true because then she would actually be a AIR NOMAD

[@regularguy8110]

General falls in love with an Air Nomad. Hides where they are from, marry and have kids.

[@brennawilmoth3456]

*wattpad has entered the chat*

[@frankiesuckslol2648]

@@brennawilmoth3456 HAHA

[@MysticMyths]

J: "We could do a whole episode about bending and genetics." Me: PLEASE, YES

[@user-sb4ej1yo5h]

I second this

[@bellamccormick5071]

This comment needs more attention

[@MysticMyths]

@Deylan Acasio depending on what exactly you mean, we already are

[@selenes1654]

my theory is there's one gene for bending yes/no and another gene decides what nation's genes/bending to carry, like kid of a earth bender dad and water non-bender mum could be an earth bender (yes/earth-both from dad), non-bender that can pass on the earthbeding gene and have earth bending kids (no bending from mum/earth heriatage from dad), a water bender (bender from dad/water heriatage from mum) or water non bender (no/water-both from mum). This does not take into account dominant or recessive genes cause I'm not bothered to look into that and work it out

[@selenes1654]

although katara's born to 2 non-benders, yeah? and her brother's a non-bender, so bending must be recessive

[@mythic_snake]

I always assumed Ty Lee was being hyperbolic when she said she had 6 identical sisters. Like, yes she had 6 sisters, but lots of siblings look very similar. So I just assumed that's what she meant, not that they were septuplets.

[@tyriekcarr9123]

what ab the theory that Pema, Tenzin's wife in Legend of Korra, is Ty Lee's daughter?

[@BlueDiasDB]

The fact that some Airbenders escaped the inital attacks makes even more sense when you think about a ton of people became Airbenders after Harmonic Convergence (TLOK), and since we still dont know a real reason why, its very possible that they're descendants from those Airbenders who escaped. Especially since there were so many in Ba Sing Se which was the safest place for Airbenders to flee to.

[@MagusAgrippa8]

Not to mention Aang’s own non-bender son became an Airbender after that event. Lends even more credit to certain people being ‘chosen’ based on their ancestry, giving them that last push to unlock the power.

[@battlesheep2552]

I had this idea that it makes sense in the case of Zaheer, maybe he was a descendant of survivors of the air nomad genocide, with his ancestors keeping the culture alive in secret, which is why he was so obsessed with air nomad culture, and why it isn’t a complete diabolus ex machina that he got airbending powers.

[@VDont]

This makes no sense. The writers just gave aang’s son the power to airbend solely because he was the only non-bender that was actually in the group. Also harmonic convergence is the time that spirits become the stongest, so it isn’t unlikely at all that they saw the air nomad population suffering greatly and donated bending ability to then

[@MagusAgrippa8]

Battlesheep It’s possible that Zaheer got airbending specifically because he’s been living their culture. He’s a very spiritual man, and you could argue that airbenders (and even children of airbenders, like Bumi) have a greater connection to spirits and the spirit world.

[@JakeConrad666]

Vedant Narayan, but spirits don’t grant bending. It is strictly a physical world phenomenon. The lion turtles granted bending to the first peoples to protect them from spirits. Spirits probably hate bending, it’s how the humans attempt to become like the gods

[@andremanzaro]

About air nomads in Ba Sing Se: Aang said that air nomads didn't like Ba Sing Se bc of its hierarchical structure and even he haven't been there.

[@shreya6234]

that’s true but it’s possible that that didn’t matter if an air bender fell in love with someone living there

[@ottokasbauer1986]

Yeah but gotta do what u gotta do to not get bbq’d

[@dreamysodagaming]

Otto Kasbauer OMG 😂😂😂

[@ivonastrukar4715]

That's why it would be the best place for them to hide.Because no one would expect it.

[@violetlavi2207]

14:04 the Kyoshi Warriors are probably also only one stop on Ty Lee’s journey of self-discovery. She falls in with them because she needs to be doing something, she can’t stay still, but maybe eventually she moves on from it and finds something that suits her better

[@rexwolf6011]

I love your musings, I always thought Jet might be a candidate for lost air nomad lineage.

[@ThOldSchoolGamer]

"Let's talk about her appearance...there are some things that REALLY stand out!". Yup, mhm, her hair.

[@annarchy200]

Ty Lee's hair is pretty though.

[@DarrylPanji]

Yes

[@evolve5954]

Her hair looks amazing

[@ThePinkRebel]

Obviously air nomads would try to blend in... The OG airbenders shaved there heads

[@golfball6276]

Ckight k not the women avatar yangchen had hair and she was a woman

[@diepssuarez2676]

One of the cool things about this theory, is that one of Ty Lee's septuplets plays Aang during the ember island performance. They look so simmilar!

[@Comuniity_]

AVATAR STATE YIP YIP

[@mollyclark6828]

..... I can’t believe I never noticed this. She looks EXACTLY like Aang... what

[@makusuwerusan7390]

I really like this idea of ty lee as an air bender. My main reason for agreeing is that, like Aang, she uses self-defense in a semi-peaceful way to destroy her enemies blind violence. Instead of killing Fire Lord as everyone wanted Aang to, he took his bending away; completely destroying Ozai's ability to do anything with malice. Similar to Aang, her way of fighting is very pacifist. I don't want to hurt you, I just don't want you to move so you can leave me alone. She clearly was only around Azula because of fear. She put up major fronts all seasons long. Even initially when Azula stayed for the circus, Ty Lee knew that Azula would never leave her alone and that she couldn't just chi block her and run away without MAJOR consequences. That moment when she was clearing the makeup off of her face, I thought she might have she'd a few tears. Ty Lee does resemble Jinora a bit too. All and all, definitely Air bender material

[@AtinDalkoness]

I've theorized that this vary thing is what lead to the resurgence of the air benders in Korra. All the people who gained the power of air bending after harmonic convergence were the non-bending descendants of air nomads who went into hiding after the war. My three biggest pieces of evidence for this theory are as follows. 1st, we have Bumi, the only know non-bending child of an air bender. 2nd, we have the fact that almost, if not all, of the new air benders are from what is now, or was at one point, the earth kingdom, the largest population, and most likely place for the refugees to seek to hide. The 3rd evidence is Zaheer. In TLoK, it doesn't say much about where Zaheer came from. What we do know is that he didn't learn all those things about ancient air nomad beliefs in that cell for all those years. My guess is that it's something that was passed down his family, like stories about where their ancestors came from? Anyway, I've been sitting on this one for a while, this just seemed like the perfect place to say it all out loud.

[@naya4607]

yessss

[@ajacrum2875]

I would like to add Ty Lee’s extreme agility as proof she was actually an airbender. 1) airbending is the only bending you can’t see, such as when Aang airbends in the blind bandit and everyone thinks he’s earth bending. 2) There are times when Ty Lee appears to be jumping off the air (s2 e8), and she can drop from higher distances than everyone else. Not saying she was trained, she was probably the first air bender in her family in generations, but I think she subconsciously used it in her fighting style.

[@Watcher-in-the-Dark]

I was thinking something similar because yes it's a cartoon but the feats of acrobatic ability is almost impossible in some scenes and the show does a pretty good job at being in the realm of the realistic (when it comes to normal human abilities and not bending obviously). Like most of the normal humans don't do anything to crazy or unrealistic except in a few unique scenes. Perhaps hers are just part of these but she is consistently able to preform these incredible feats so I thinks it's something to consider.

[@iamsylar789]

Exhibit B: Ty Lee running on those cable lines over the Prison in the Volcano Lake. Then she jumped 20 or so feet from one cable car to the other with ease. ....Ty Lee is a living Airbender confirmed.

[@brendalafferty213]

I have to agree, also she's probably aware that she's an airbender but #1. Is illegal to be an airbender cause she'll get killed specially being so close to the fire nation. #2 she probably doesn't know how to airbend all that much because there's no one to teach her (like how Katara knew the basics, to move water around but still needed to learn more tricks) it never crossed my mind that she could be an airbender but I noticed she was 100% different her friends

[@RowanBuchananroabie]

@@Watcher-in-the-Dark Exactly this. Ty Lee is one of the few "non-benders" we have ever seen that jumps around the way she does and is as nimble as she is. Her appearance is also VERY out-of-line with the Fire Nation and even the circus master had a more distinguished fire nation appearance compared to her. Her clothes bear a heavy resemblance to Air Nomad styles, just with a modern girly twist and in muted Fire Nation colors, and she also strongly resembles Jinora. Even if she has no bending, I can see a non-bender Air Nomad having that kind of physical nimbleness naturally, as it's just characteristic of their people to be that way. She also uses non-lethal methods to fight. I think this was all intentionally meant to hint that she had air nomad ancestors. She just sticks out like a sore thumb among fire nation citizens and the one character she she resembles the most-- not even just in her fighting and fashion styles, and physical appearance, but in personality-- is Aang. She's a bit more bubbly than even he is, but she has a similar approach to the world and is light-hearted and joyful like he is. She is also the only other character on the show with even remotely the same amount of agility and light-footedness.

[@Darkpumpkin21]

I would assume, though, that Aang would notice her airbending when they fight. Aang has seen her before in action.

[@will.langley22]

Well I mean the fire nation also wiped out all of the dragons, and they were all over the world.

[@itmovesitchats]

They uhhh... missed some of those..

[@stevenfeagley3227]

Don't forget the style in which Ty Lee moves is Air Nomadic as well. Aang and Ty has similar movements and the way she sneaks around others can't be anything but Air Nomadic.

[@_hxri_5505]

She is such a underrated character - she NEEDED more screen-time along when she got in with the Kyoshi Warriors rather than in the comics. Other than her “Air Nomad” style, she’s really strong, flexible, and agile. Plus she introduced us to chi-blocking - which makes her the unique person she is. She even made Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors better - another reason why she should be considered the strongest non-bender. She’s just a badass character with her nice vibe as well. One of the most unique characters in the show that deserved better honestly.

[@_hxri_5505]

Joonie bums Agree. Season 4 could have been such a ride seeing them a bit more with the Gaang instead of Azula! Would have made another opportunity of making the show even better than it already was.

[@DistressedCrab]

••• Mix Heaven ••• I've never hear anyone call it the Gaang and I love it

[@MrDrProfJMF]

@@_hxri_5505 simp

[@_hxri_5505]

Jeron Fishburn Can you blame me tho?

[@MrDrProfJMF]

@@_hxri_5505 nah fam. She's hot

[@deljorel]

I’ve always thought that Ty Lee was of air nomad descent. Aang is most likely the last Airbender, but not the last of Air Nomad descent.

[@milkymommy681]

i remember reading that a lot of air nomads weren't monks, and the fire nation only wiped out the temples. i wonder if any of the other nomads survived, but concealed their bending to avoid prosecution

[@saint7187]

All air nomads were monks, and even if they weren't it is stated that air nomads have a 100% bender rate do to their deep connection to the spirit world. So anyone of air nomad descent would be an Airbender. The only exceptions to the air bender rule are Aangs childrens, which may be because of him being the Avatar, or Katara being incredibly predisposed to breed non benders

[@ng7756]

@@milkymommy681 That's not true, the Firenation hunted down all of the last Airbenders that escaped the attacks of the Air temples.

[@achillesrodriguezxx3958]

@@ng7756 There are many waterbenders living in the earth Kingdom who have assimilated into their culture. Avatar kyoshi's mom was a renegade air nomad. I think there are many more unnamed renegades who managed to assimilate into the cultures of the other nations due to their disdain of the air nomad ways. Ty Lee has grey eyes, a rare trait among the fire nation. Just like how suki has blue eyes a trait of the water Tribe which suggests water Tribe descent. Kyoshi Island is a port where people of diffrent nations mixed.

[@fufu2000_]

@@saint7187 I mean I wouldn't say Katara is incredibly predisposed to breed non-benders. Only 1 out of 3 of her children was a non-bender, the other two an airbender and a waterbender. And in the end, 2 of her children were airbenders and 1 was a waterbender sooo she now has had 100% of her children as benders.

[@omaralfar1666]

7:23 "My turn to give you a quick history lesson" 😂

[@yossiholstein2081]

don't forget that the fire nation attacked 100 years ago. it's not here parents than managed to sneak in the fire nation, it's her grandparents or great gandparents. this is how ty-lee didn't even know she was an air nomad

[@SkyBlue-iu3ly]

Ty Lee is a sweetheart, and she seems like she'd be a good friend, to be honest.

[@newsaxonyproductions7871]

#Tyzula

[@lordtoomas]

@@newsaxonyproductions7871 no

[@dolphinseye739]

yes

[@goldensilence5841]

New Saxony Productions fu no

[@jelli6736]

same as mai

[@Asianboi9d5ive]

I love this Avatar: The Last Airbender content. Since J knows this fandom, Ben needs to do Percy Jackson theories.

[@jade-rachaeledwards7101]

Omgs that would complete this whole channel

[@xxashyplayzxx3476]

That would just be the best. But like book content cause we don’t accept those disgusting movies.

[@jade-rachaeledwards7101]

@@xxashyplayzxx3476 but we might just accept the new TV show on Disney+. Rick is helping to create it.

[@destinymormance181]

AGREE

[@theowltalk8039]

I would LOOOOveeeee that

[@stormy7042]

ty lee: YOU DONT KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE BEING PART OF A MATCHED SET also ty lee: **joins kyoshi warriors and looks exactly like them**

[@Maccas_besties1275]

Who else just watched this channel a year ago and got really into avatar , and watched this video and a second into it your already obbsesed with this channel again

[@angelasimpson5581]

When i saw the title, I said “ Yep yep yep yep yep..... that makes a lot of sense”

[@HighDesertComics]

Aang? Who's Aang? The show I watched was called Avatar: Sokka's War Harem.

[@HighDesertComics]

@Deylan Acasio Navi?! There's an Ocarina of Time movie? I have been betrayed.

[@DraconicDuelist]

@@HighDesertComics Don't feel too bad, it is live action. Link and his best friend have a lot of fun on their talk-show though.

[@franzy871]

@@DraconicDuelist Sadly there aren't many recordings left of these shows because the Nazis ordered to destroy them all during the Holocaust. Sad story.

[@front.mp4957]

I understood all those references until the Holocaust one just ruined it.

[@DraconicDuelist]

@@front.mp4957 Yeah I don't get it either...

[@cyborgstar]

Just finished Avatar for the first time and now it's time to binge-watch the Carlin Brother's videos.

[@fdrngm266]

The fire nation ensured that everyone had military capabilities, everyone breath fire except May and ty lee... Plus ty lee lived outside of the fire nation, further cementing the fact that she possibly loved the feeling of living nomadic. She was also the playful one, like aang sooo agreed ty lee was a low key an air descendant in retrospect