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Nerdist Editor Rotem Rusak has been a queer Avatar: The Last Airbender fan for nearly two decades. You can learn all about her love of Zuko’s story on Nerdist’s Laser Focus Podcast. This category is for all characters who have been confirmed to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or any other gender or sexual minority. That comic just felt like a weak fanfic on how the Avatar universe handles gay relationships.

It was as if I was reading a comic about a poor ship rather than an Avatar story. Netflix's 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' adaptation, helmed by series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, may feature several new LGBTQ+ characters. Read and download Rule34 comics based on Avatar: The Last Airbender. Various XXX Adult comic comix sex hentai manga for free.

But the earlier tale of The Last Airbender offered no representation in this arena. In fact, it makes the origin story of an entire group of benders overtly queer. Secret tunnel! Which, honestly, makes it kind of that much more amazing.

In the fourth episode of the Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action, Sokka and Katara encounter a group of nomadic, hippie earthbenders playing some tunes outside the tunnels of Omashu. To explain how the tunnels came to be, the hippies tell the myth of Oma and Shu, the first earthbenders. Oma and Shu, they share, were two lovers from enemy villages who learned earthbending from the badgermoles in order to create a place where they could share their love.

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However, one day, Oma did not come to meet Shu in their tunnels; she had been killed in an attack. In devastation, Shu wielded her great earthbending powers, bringing both villages to their knees. But instead of striking against them, she declared the war over. But hey, did you catch that? Unlike in the Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon, Oma and Shu are two ladies this time, and that makes the myth of the first earthbenders a queer one.

Of course, Oma does die tragically in this story, which is a fate we never love for our queer characters and love stories. We now know that all earthbenders in the series get to have their bending thanks to the love of two queer women. Lore and history carry great weight in this franchise in particular, so the alteration of one of its main myths to include queerness is a very welcome one. Hoped, yes, but I did not expect it.

The tale of Oma and Shu is depicted with such a poignant and beautiful hand; it really resonated with me. And the way in which the show shifted a previously straight narrative into a queer one without any fanfare is commendable. Diffuse queerness is an important aspect of normalizing the idea that queerness exists within these worlds.

I would say that for the span of the whole story, this little bit of queerness is insufficient. But for the first season of the show, I will gladly take it. Hopefully, the series and its creators understand that turning a main character queer is every bit as simple as turning Oma and Shu into queer ladies. Not to mention the character of Toph always felt very queer-coded in the cartoon. And as an earthbender, Toph would now have a beautiful queer history to follow, should she become a queer character in her own right.

Of course, the Kyoshi Warriors are definitely not straight. She ships Zukka and is proud of it! Sign out. Return to Homepage. Entertainment: New movies this week Diddy verdict analysis Chuck E. Solve the daily Crossword 29, people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

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