Summary

• Aang and Katara's children help guide the new Avatar in The Legend of Korra, highlighting a new era of mixed tribes and unity.
• The Avatar: The Last Airbender comics set up the idea of a new age with Aang and Katara's union as a symbol of unity between tribes.
• Aang and Katara's children Tenzin, Kya, and Bumi each bring unique elements to their family dynamic and reflect changing times.

Avatar: The Last Airbender ended with young hero Aang, the titular Avatar and last airbender, officially beginning a romance with his friend Katara, a highly skilled waterbender. Though the original series followed the two of them as children while they saved the world, there is more to their story. After the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the story continued in a series of sequel comics and the TV show The Legend of Korra. It's in the sequel show that Aang and Katara's children appear, now middle-aged themselves, and help to guide the new Avatar on her journey.

Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are both available to stream on Netflix.

The Avatar: The Last Airbender comics set up the idea of a new age in which the lines between the Four Nations are less sharply drawn, with Aang and Katara's union serving as a symbol of how the different tribes might mix and start new families. The Legend of Korra picks up 70 years later, and sees benders of different disciplines living alongside one another in the United Republic of Nations. Aang and Katara's children are a quintessentially family of mixed tribes, and that's reflected in their bending abilities.

Tenzin - Airbender

Aang And Katara's Youngest Son

Only one of Aang and Katara's kids was born an airbender: Tenzin, their youngest. This proved to be a mixed blessing for Tenzin, as it meant that he got more attention from Aang than his siblings did, and traveled around the world with his father learning how to preserve the Air Nomad legacy. However, it also meant that he was under an enormous amount of pressure to keep airbending alive, which is likely why Tenzin is the most serious of the three children.

Tenzin married a non-bender Air Acolyte, Pema, and had four children: Jinora, Ikki, Meelo and Rohan. The first three are all skilled airbenders, but it's still unconfirmed at the end of The Legend of Korra whether or not Rohan is also an airbender since he's still an infant when the series ends.

Kya - Waterbender

Aang And Katara's Only Daughter

The middle child of the family, Kya, is named after Katara's mother and is a powerful waterbender. Whereas Tenzin wears the orange robes of the Air Nomads, Kya wears the blue clothes of the Southern Water Tribe. Kya was trained by her mother and has a particular aptitude for using waterbending to heal both physical and spiritual wounds.

She has no children and isn't married when she's introduced in The Legend of Korra. In the sequel comics, Kya reveals to Korra and Asami that she's a lesbian, and that when she told Aang he was "nothing but supportive," since Air Nomad culture doesn't discriminate based on sexual orientation.

Bumi - Non-Bender Turned Airbender

Aang And Katara's Oldest Son

Bumi, was born without any bending powers at all. Named after Aang's childhood friend (and later King of Omashu), Bumi was as wild as his namesake and went on to become a commander in the United Forces. He grew up without any bending abilities, which meant his parents didn't pay quite as much attention to him as his siblings, allowing him to grow up outside of the long shadow cast by such powerful bender parents.

Bumi eventually became an airbender as an adult after Avatar Korra opened the portals connecting the mortal and spirit world. This released an influx of spiritual energy into the world that caused a number of non-benders to suddenly develop airbending abilities, Bumi among them. Through Bumi and the other new airbenders, the culture of the Air Nomads and the art of airbending was able to rebuild for the first time since Fire Lord Sozin's purge at the start of the Hundred Year War that kicked off Aang's story in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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  Avatar: The Last Airbender

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  Avatar: The Last Airbender is an Animated Fantasy and Adventure series that appeared on Nickelodeon and was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. The series featured voices from Zach Tyler Eisen, Jack DeSena, Dante Basco, and Mae Whitman. The premise follows a young boy named Aang, an Air Bender who is set to be the next Avatar, master of all elements, in a bit to unite the nations together and bring peace.

  Cast

  Mako , Dee Bradley Baker , Jack De Sena , Michaela Jill Murphy , Zach Tyler , Dante Basco , Mae Whitman

  Release Date

  February 21, 2005

  Seasons

  3

  Showrunner

  michael dante dimartino

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  The Legend of Korra

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  This spinoff of Avatar: The Last Airbender follows the titular Korra, the new generation's Avatar and reincarnation of Aang. As an Avatar, Korra can bend all four elements, and the show follows her adventure through the difficulties in a rapidly growing world.

  Cast

  Janet Varney , P.J. Byrne , David Faustino , J.K. Simmons , Jeff Bennett , Dee Bradley Baker , Seychelle Gabriel , Mindy Sterling

  Release Date

  April 14, 2012

  Seasons

  4

  Showrunner

  bryan konietzko