Not as impressive as all the stuff I’ve seen here before but I was jumping for joy! Never found blue or yellow before. Next up on this list is dark blue, red, and purple!
Sorry, I know the title is worded kinda funny but I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it.
I know that airbenders traditionally raised children communally and the temples were gender segregated.
What I am wondering, is there any information we have about the specifics around dating/ making babies, and then later what the process is for taking that baby from the mom to be raised communally?
Like, would a young airbender who has only been exposed to people of their same gender go wild once they are allowed to be nomadic and wander the world, and have a bunch of partners? Do you think the visits to the northern/southern air temple would be like the olympic village where everyone is sleeping with everyone and the monks/nuns make the beds out of cardboard to discourage things? Or would the monks/nuns be encouraging it so that more airbenders get made.
With airbenders avoiding earthly attachments, would people be discouraged from forming longer lasting romantic/sexual relationships with others and pushed more towards quick flings? We know the airbenders were chill with same sex couples, which to me implies it might have been normal for longer-term couples to exist.
Also, once an airbender lady is pregnant, how would they go about handling separating the baby from the mom? I feel like there would probably be a collective of nursing airbenders that all nurse the babies collectively vs the mom nursing the baby herself, to discourage any long term parent/child bonding.
Finally, what would happen in the case that a wandering airbender dude happened to meet a non-airbender lady (let’s say for the sake of the argument they are a nonbender) and that lady gets pregnant. Since all air nomads are benders, I would assume the baby would be an airbender. What wquld the process be for the baby to be identified and brought to a temple?
I know that this is a kids show, so I doubt they are talking in depth about airbender sex and childrearing, but I’m genuinely curious if there has been anything mentioned in any supplementary material. And just what people’s ideas/headcanons are for these sorta things.
I’m not so much concerned about the fact it is a crack in reality, moreso the timeline of the different people/entities that interacted with it and what their goals were.
Like why did Raymond Fielding let Agnes live there with him? Did he know she was an agent of the Desolation?
Why did the Cult of the Lightless Flame send Agnes there? Did they know Fielding was an agent of the Web?
Was it just the Web that was fucking around with Ivo Lensik during his statement, or was there more involved? I initially believed it was the Spiral because Lensik mentions he was afraid he was developing the schizophrenia that ran in his family, which was very Spiral coded. But it seems like the Web is the thing that made him pull down the big tree.
The other thing that made me think that it was the Spiral with Lensik was that Father Burroughs shows up and he is being tormented by the Spiral. I thought it was a 2 for 1 special kinda thing.
But then is it just coincidence that the Spiral showed up in a place already heavily associated with the Web and Desolation? I thought the entities didn’t really like when the others encroached on their territory(The Slaughter attacking the Stranger/Sarah Baldwin in the spooky prison(?))