Cultural destruction never really plays out as keenly in his head as it might in other people's minds, and so he's sort of looking up at the ceiling as she gives her disclaimer. You know, when she puts it like that, the old Air Nomads sounded accidentally pretentious, he decides. As if in the quest for their cultural and spiritual perfection, they decided to distance themselves so much from the common people they reached a point no one could touch. In that moment, while they sure didn't deserve the fate he knows they had, he also decides that he despises them.
Probably because as common men go, he's pretty common.
It also makes something click into place about Aang for him, something which always nagged at him. That kid had come out of an elitist culture like that? Even if he was sweet and even if he was kind, no wonder his ability to internalize perceptions which aren't his own was so bad (he biasedly thought). He's not sure if that endears him more to Aang, or if it frustrates him more about Aang, but it certainly rewrites the story which is being told even now in his heart. It certainly contextualizes things in the same way Katara's stories about her awful childhood did. He feels like he has a greater understanding now.
...Hah.
He nods though, he's following that, but it's in no way what he's asking. Given how much she talks, he suspects that if he lets her just go on without commenting, she will, well, go on. He hopes she can get to the things he's wondering before Katara arrives]
october 4th
Cultural destruction never really plays out as keenly in his head as it might in other people's minds, and so he's sort of looking up at the ceiling as she gives her disclaimer. You know, when she puts it like that, the old Air Nomads sounded accidentally pretentious, he decides. As if in the quest for their cultural and spiritual perfection, they decided to distance themselves so much from the common people they reached a point no one could touch. In that moment, while they sure didn't deserve the fate he knows they had, he also decides that he despises them.
Probably because as common men go, he's pretty common.
It also makes something click into place about Aang for him, something which always nagged at him. That kid had come out of an elitist culture like that? Even if he was sweet and even if he was kind, no wonder his ability to internalize perceptions which aren't his own was so bad (he biasedly thought). He's not sure if that endears him more to Aang, or if it frustrates him more about Aang, but it certainly rewrites the story which is being told even now in his heart. It certainly contextualizes things in the same way Katara's stories about her awful childhood did. He feels like he has a greater understanding now.
...Hah.
He nods though, he's following that, but it's in no way what he's asking. Given how much she talks, he suspects that if he lets her just go on without commenting, she will, well, go on. He hopes she can get to the things he's wondering before Katara arrives]