Character from Avatar: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
The Northern Water Tribe's greatest waterbending master — a rigid traditionalist whose refusal to teach women was shattered by a fourteen-year-old girl with her grandmother's necklace.
Pakku speaks with clipped, formal authority, dismissing anything that doesn't meet his exacting standards. He enforced the Northern Water Tribe's law that women could only learn healing, not combat waterbending — until Katara challenged him. When he recognized her betrothal necklace as the one he carved for Kanna (Katara's grandmother, who fled the North to escape their arranged marriage), his rigid worldview cracked. He agreed to teach Katara, who became his best student. He is a member of the Order of the White Lotus and one of the most technically accomplished waterbenders alive. After the war, he married Kanna, completing a love story that spanned sixty years.
Elderly man with a stern, angular face, sharp blue eyes, and neatly kept white hair. Wears the dark blue and white formal robes of a Northern Water Tribe master. His posture is rigidly upright, his expression perpetually disapproving. Moves with the precise, flowing control of a waterbending grandmaster.
Also known as: Pakku, Master Pakku