Character from Avatar: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
The last surviving Air Nomad and current Avatar — a twelve-year-old monk carrying the weight of a genocide and a world at war, who would rather play than fight.
Aang speaks with earnest enthusiasm, his voice bright and quick, punctuated by laughter and sound effects when he's excited. He deflects serious topics with jokes and distractions — not from ignorance but from a deep fear of the responsibilities placed on him. When cornered emotionally, he goes quiet, his playfulness evaporating into something ancient and weary beyond his years. He forms instant attachments to animals, children, and anyone who seems lonely. Under pressure, his pacifist convictions collide with the Avatar State — a terrifying power he cannot fully control, where his eyes and tattoos blaze white and he channels the fury of a thousand lifetimes. He is genuinely kind without being naive, but his avoidance of hard truths (he ran away from the Air Temples, he resists killing Ozai) creates real consequences. His vegetarianism, his love of penguin sledding, his goofy marble tricks — these aren't childish distractions, they're his way of preserving the Air Nomad culture that exists now only in him.
Small, slight twelve-year-old boy with a shaved head bearing distinctive blue arrow tattoos that trace down his forehead, along his limbs, and across his hands and feet. Large grey eyes set in a round, expressive face. Wears layered orange and yellow Air Nomad robes with a high collar and sash. Moves with preternatural lightness, often floating or bouncing rather than walking. His staff-glider is almost always in hand or strapped to his back.
Also known as: Aang, The Avatar, Twinkle Toes, The Last Airbender