Suki is one totally badass non bender! And I really don’t get why some photos don’t include Suki whenever I type in “The Gaang/Team Avatar”. I also hope that Suki isn’t an underrated ATLA character (Is she? You tell me!) because she’s pretty darn awesome! Not only does she recur throughout the series, but she plays a major role in the finale… Suki deserves a rightful place on Team Avatar and this is why:
When we first met her, we learn she’s the leader of an elite team called the Kyoshi Warriors. She’s also only 15.
She likes to make it her point that girls can fight just as good, maybe even better, than men. “I am a warrior. But I am a girl too.”
She once crossed the Serpent’s Pass with the GAANG because she wanted to make sure Sokka got to safety. Talk about commitment!
And let’s not forget the time she found Appa and took care of him. This was one big touching moment 😭
And the time she fought Azula off, knowing full well she could get captured, so that Appa could fly away to safety and find Aang
SHE ALSO SINGLE HANDEDLY CAPTURED THE WARDEN OF THE HIGHEST GUARDED SECURITY PRISON IN THE FIRE NATION by climbing 3 levels of a building with nothing to use at her expense but just herself. TALENT! That’s literally my fave scene of her. She was so BADASS!!!
My FAVORITE THING is researchers who wholeheartedly embrace the Ms. Frizzle aesthetic and wear their field of study on their literal sleeve. Everyone in the invasive crayfish consortium has tiny lobster-print shorts or socks. All the middle-aged dad scientists here at the lab have shirts with fish and/or fishing tackle patterns on them. My moss specimen and ammonite earrings keep getting noticed by women who are wearing silver fishbone-shaped or native plant-themed earrings themselves. Every single person on the outreach team has at least one shirt with an anchor pattern on it from Old Navy, and almost all the younger researchers have tattoos featuring their research interests – one fisheries biologist has a half-sleeve of native species she literally uses as an outreach tool. We are self-aware and having a blast with it, honestly.
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