The Entire Life of Avatar Roku (Avatar TLAB Explained)

Avatar Roku was the Avatar before Aang, he taught Aang a lot, but he actually had a very interesting story of his own. His story goes beyond the original series and expands into the video game books, the sequel series, etc., all that information can be overwhelming, so in this video. I'm going to take a look at his character and go over all the media he appeared in while explaining the

entire

life

of Avatar Roku and analyze his character. Roku was born in the Fire Nation and continued the Avatar's

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cycle as the Avatar before him. Avatar Kyoshi was an earthbender in his youth, he was a cheerful young man who wore his heart on his sleeve, easily making friends with the people around him due to his welcoming personality.

At a young age he became friends with Susan, who was the Prince of the Fire Nation. The two were best friends and shared many things, like advice on toys and even a birthday every year, they had a joint birthday party, which was very important since Susan was the prince. Roku never saw souls the way others saw him, all he saw was the friend he had always known and grown up with Roku lived in Susan's shadow for most of his early life. . Roku wasn't anything special while he was growing up, in fact, he was a bit of a nobody, he couldn't talk to girls he wasn't very good at.

Fighting like this didn't knock him down most of the time and he tended to be clumsy and embarrassed, something Susan tried to help him with by catching him when he fell at his 16th birthday celebration. Sozin once again caught Roku when he stumbled looking at the girl. that he liked Tom at the events that took place at that party would change Roku's life forever when the fire sages approached him and Sozin at first the two thought they were there for Susan but instead they were there to announce that Roku was the In the next

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he was surprised and went from being a nobody to one of the most respected people in the world, everyone bowed before him and also his best friend, who had always been a superior, was the last thing about Roku He was no longer in the shadow of society.

The first time Susan was on his Roku he knew that he had to leave the Fire Nation and face his destiny as an

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in order to learn the other three elements he had to travel the world. Roku began to pack his things but was interrupted by the fire. wise men who had told him there was no need as he would no longer have worldly possessions, everything was changing and Roku was overwhelmed, it felt like everything was happening too fast before Roku laughed, he had one last meeting with his best friend when Roku Sozin told him that he had no worldly possessions.

Sozin took off the helmet that indicated he was royalty as he handed it to her. Sozin told him that he hoped he could at least keep that treasure of Roku's that he had peace with for the rest of his life. He was a lifelong friend and he used it every day he lived. Roku began his avatar journey by first going to the southern air temple, doing airbending, there he met Gyatsu and would later train Roku in his next life, training Aang, the two bantered during the lessons, but when it all came down to That's why Roku took his training very seriously, learning to glide in the air and even inventing some new moves, such as some that resulted in mid-air learning to control water.

Roku went to the Northern Water Tribe, each avatar fights with the opposite element of The opposite of Firebending was Waterbending, so Roku fought better with this element. There Roku grew a beard, which was common among Water Benders, and immersed himself in the culture to help him master and better understand the element of it. He finally mastered it and it was so good. that he was able to send his master flying to the Central City of the Northern Water Tribe after mastering fire, air, and water. Roku had to master his fourth and final element of Earthbending, he went to the Earth Kingdom and there he met his teacher, the LDS master.

Roku described Sud as being uncompromising, stubborn and forceful, but he eventually became Roku's lifelong friend at the end of Roku's training, whereupon he was able to beat him on a mountain while he surfed on the rocks. Roku went through eleven years of training to develop his full potential in bending everything. four elements said it was a better job but he said it was worth it at the end of his training he was very powerful however he still needed to master the Avatar state and become one with the spirit world the fire sages helped master Roku This specifically, the fire sage fire because Roku struggled to clear his head and eventually became frustrated after five months of training.

He said that he had not come any closer to mastering the Avatar state. He was impatient and because of this he decided to use the Winter Solstice Sun to help him, it worked and helped him enter the Avatar state, but he did not know how to control himself, he blew the roof off the temple and got trapped in the state. Roku became frantic when he could see his body but couldn't control it. fortunately, House whoo Roku admitted that he was wiser than him and got him out of this after old cosmic Roku had to rebuild the temple and then they would continue with the avatar state training.

Roku did just that and actually called the temple home for a time that he built. secret passageways that used magma from the volcano below him, there was also a built statue of Roku in the room where the sun hits on the winter solstice when the sun hits him during the solstice, his eyes lit up as if he was in the avatar state which Roku finally mastered. Roku finally returned to his home in the Fire Nation after 11 years of bending training and a year of training in the spirit world in the Avatar state, he finally reunited with his old friend for the first time in 12. years.

Sozin was now the Fire Lord and when Roku approached him, he told him that his subjects usually bowed to him, but that he was the exception, the two hugged each other and even after all those years apart, Sozin was still broken. whose best friend, while Roku was back in the Fire Nation, reunited with her childhood love, Tom, in the past, she barely knew he was alive, but when he returned, Roku was persistent and ended up winning her over when he they got together Roku believed the two met because his love for her was so real that he also jokingly added that being the avatar didn't hurt her chances after getting out of it either. for a while Roku asked her to marry him and she said yes.

Roku then asked her old friend Susan to be her godfather and he too accepted after the ceremony. Sozin asked Tom Man if he could borrow Roku. Here Sozin commented on how much power they would have. would have if they banded together and said it was meant to be, he told Roku that the Fire Nation should take over and expand their prosperity to make the world an empire ruled by the Fire Nation. Roku's job as an avatar was to keep peace between the four nations. and he was forced to silence his friend by saying that the Four Nations must remain equal and separate.

Roku left saying that was the last thing he wanted to hear about it. Roku believed this was his first real test as his avatar and it was very difficult. Susan had been his friend from the beginning and he wanted to stay that way. She was still wearing the helmet that Sozin had given her before laughing and Roku appreciated it even after all those years, so closing it was very difficult, especially when Susan wanted them to fight side by side like they had always dreamed of with her children. . Roku continued to travel the world now accompanied by his wife Tom Men.

He fulfilled his avatar duties in both the spirit world and the mortal world. Tom Men eventually stopped traveling with him. When the two had a daughter they named Rena, the three lived on an island a hundred miles from the capital of the Fire Nation and the island would later be called Roku Island, named after Roku himself. Tommen and Rena stayed there full time while Roku continued traveling. the world where he was needed but during his free time he stayed on the island with his family one day Roku found a dragon egg but his parents were nowhere to be found Roku decided to raise the young dragon as his own and named him Fang the two were inseparable and Fang became his friendly and loyal steed one day, many years after his conversation with his old friend Susan Roku, he discovered that despite his warning, Sozin had followed his plans for domination, first seizing lands in the Earth Kingdom. , formed Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom such as You Dao, a colony that comes out much later in the series, while Suka was the Fire Lord, Roku was furious about this and went to confront him, so Sim Sozin was immediately angered by how Roku addressed him, since he was the Fire Lord, and demanded. respect Chozen called Roku a merchant and Roku begged his old friend not to challenge him Roku told his friend that it was all over and as he walked away Sozin tried to hit Roku with a cheap shot giving him everything he had, a blow that could and should have given.

He would have killed Roku if he hadn't been Avatar Roku realizing that the friend Ian once knew was gone and knocked him down and entered the Avatar State, destroyed the palace they were in and had Sozin dead by right. Susan was not Roku's friend. If he had wanted to know that he was now a different person, malicious, evil and selfish, Roku knew that he should have defeated him once and for all and, if it had been anyone else, he would have forgiven him, however, he forgave him in the name of his past friendship He was blinded by his past and what he wanted to believe was still within his old friend that he was still the young and friendly boy he had grown up with.

Roku knew that if he didn't kill Susan he still had to guarantee safety and peace for the rest of the world, he told Sozin that if he took a single step out of line, he would finish him off forever, the threat worked and Sozin obeyed Roku. The two did not see or speak to each other for 25 years, after that, Roku continued his life with Tom. men and continued to fulfill his duties as an avatar in his old age, he spent much more time at home, but by this point his daughter Rena had grown up enough to move out and start her own life in the Fire Nation one night, while Roku and Tom's men were staying at their house, the volcano on their island erupted when they ran out of their house.

Roku dropped a helmet that Sozin had given him. Roku took saman and the other civilians who lived on the island to safety and tried to save their homes and the island the eruption was huge no one in the Fire Nation had seen anything like it Roku fought the volcano using the four elements and He was winning, but his success didn't last long, who knew there was no way to do it. All this while he thought he could barely breathe, the poisonous volcanic gases overwhelming his dragon. Fang tried to come rescue him, but Roku told him to leave when he entered the Avatar State, he was able to stop the volcano from destroying everything on the island. but seconds later, another one right next to it erupted and Roku didn't have much fight left and his face showed real exhaustion, disappointment and fear, just at that moment Susan came to rescue him riding her own dragon and Roku was hopeful that he would be able to regain power.

He couldn't believe that his friend who he hadn't seen in 25 years was there to help him, it was like old times, he no longer saw the sadistic Fire Lord, but once again he saw his friend who he had met all those years ago. When they were young, the two worked together to stop the eruption and Roku even saved Susan's life before she fell off the cliff while they were fleeing, however, Roku was hit directly in the face with a toxic gas and it was more than he expected. that his old body could handle. He fell to the ground and extended his hand to his old friend for help.

Roku was surprised and disappointed when Susan told him that without Roku around all of his plans were finally possible. Roku was left there to die while Sozin flew away on his dragon. Roku was kneeling. the ground completely alone until Fang descended towards his master and the two were swallowed up by the island after everything on the island had settled. Roku's daughter, Rena, went to visit the site where her father had died. There she found the helmet that Sozin had given to Roku. which she used all her life, Rena kept it safe at home where she raised her daughter and Roku's granddaughter, Ursa, when Sozin's son, the fire lord, azulon, arrived at Riina's house with his own son, Prince Ozai, informed Serena and her husband, Jin-suk, that OSA was going to propose to Ursa.

Rena took out her father's headdress and cried waiting for her daughter to return home. She knew what that family was capable of and he knew that they could have saved his father from a horrible and painful death the tears fell as he held the headdress knowing that his daughter would be forced to become part of that horrible family, the goos headdress would eventually reach Iroh and during the events of The last Airbender series was given to Roku's great-grandson and Zuko, even though Roku died, this was not the end of his story or his legacy, he continued to live through the avatars after him.

Roku uses the dragon Fang in the spirit world to contact Aang and thenHe was able to warn Aang about Sozin's comet, who informed him how his old friend used to do it. comment 100 years earlier to complete the plan to let Roku die so the Fire Nation could expand and conquer. Susan's grandson, Ozai, now plans to use the same comet 100 years later to end the war that Sozin had started after Roku's death. Roku then. gave adding the mission that would define the last Airbender series to master the four elements and defeat the Fire Lord before the comet arrived, after that Roku took over Ank's body to get him out of a fight with Zuko Chou and the fire sages and showed his true power by destroying the temple he had once called his home, he later appeared not to Aang but to Zhang Zhang, the deserter, to scare him and teach Eang firebending during the egg journey.

Roku became a mentor and spiritual guide who provided him with information or advice when he was lost. or didn't know what to do during the siege of the Northern Water Tribe, he told Aang in the spirit world that he find Co to learn about the ocean and the Moon spirits to help them stop the fire nations' attack. . He also taught him about the Avatar State, how it worked and how he could use his past lives, including Roku himself. to help him on his journey when Aang surrendered after he was almost killed in Ba Sing se Roku appeared to him saying that he had not failed him and then admitted that if there was anyone to blame for the state of the world it was himself referring to his weakness when it came to saving his old friend Susan, he told Aang that he inherited his problems and mistakes, then told Aang that he was destined to redeem him and save the world.

Later, Roku showed Angus life and the mistakes he made with Susan. to help Aang better understand how the war started and why he needed to end it, although Roku was a mentor to Aang, the two had some disagreements about morality and what was right versus what was wrong when Aang needed advice on what to do. with the Lord of Fire. Ozai Roku said he should kill him, he

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it in his life, he tried to be disciplined and show restraint but he said it all backfired by starting the war Aang was now fighting and yet he was determined not to kill Ozai and finally I can not hear.

Roku found another way by leading Ozai to spend it and hang heads again about a year after the war ended. Aang was once again faced with defeating another Fire Lord, but this time it was Sukho who, as I said, was actually Roku's great-grandson as his granddaughter Ursa had Zuko and Azula with Ozai had promised to go that if he started become a threat, Aang needed to kill himself and they had come, he called out to Roku using his necklace and Roku said that even though the war was over, The world was still not at peace. Roku apologized to Aang, saying that he was still dealing with the consequences of his own indecision.

Roku was more than eager to fulfill his promise and said that his great-grandson was at his clearest when he asked Aang to do that. The promise Roku pointed out that this was the exact same situation he found himself in all those years ago, but this time Aang was Roku and Zuko was so Sim that he was actually Zuko's other great-grandfather, this time on the side of the family. her father Roku saw the parallels and it scared him, he mentioned that so many died because he let his friend go and told Aang not to make the same mistake when Aengus Roku did regret not killing, so without Roku immediately said yes without hesitation.

Aang was a little surprised and said that Sozin was his. friend and Roku responded saying that he was more than just a friend but a brother but because of his brother the world was burning and of course he didn't agree with all this but Roku said to use his knowledge and remember that when you are in a position of power you must put the needs of the world before your own when Ann came face to face with Zuko, she almost did what Roku had told her to do, but held back at the last minute when a war was about to start because of Zuko and called.

Roku again wearing his necklace and Roku once again sad for keeping the promise and killing Zuko when Aang said it wasn't the air nation way. Roku said that the avatar has to put the world above his own nation, his own friends and even his own family. He said that it hurt him to defend the death of his great-grandson, but he said that he had to do it when Angus Roku, how could he be so cruel as to kill his own family, Roku said that it was because it is the duty of the avatar and for him to succeed. where he failed, Aang must advocate for putting the world above all.

Roku left him with the words that said contemplate the world. He once again was able to stop the conflict without killing. Refusing to listen to Roku after everything had calmed down and Aang was. in Ba Sing he called Roku again using his necklace and told him that he was not like him, but Roku responded by saying that they were the same person and that he was disgusted that Roku had said to kill his own great-grandson and said . that when he told him to look at the world he saw all his loved ones and allies including Zuko Roku responded by saying that by not killing Zuko he was putting the world at risk but Aang said it was a new world and thanks Roku for everything he had. .

He taught him and told him that he wouldn't be the avatar he was today without him, but ended up saying that he had to figure out the rest on his own. Aang said goodbye and Roku came desperately calling for him as he turned into dust and cried. as he broke the necklace and burned it, severing his connection with Roku by doing this and not only trapped Roku but also all of his past lives, however, Aang made a new necklace and reunited with Rocio while Aang tried explain. For interrupting him, Roku simply lowered his arms and the two hugged each other as they hugged each other and told Roku that he missed him a lot.

Roku then

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that Aang's past lives only advised based on his own triumphs and failures, but that it is the job of the current avatars to find him. balance not only between spirits and humans but also between past and present avatars, the two patches fixed Aang's connection with the other past avatars and after Aang passed away, Roku was there to help to the next avatar, Korra, the one he was with and to the other past. The avatars after she lost her control group helped her enter the Avatar State for the first time and Roku and all the other past avatars entered the Avatar state and also restored Roku's control of Korra and finally arrived when Raava, the spirit that united past avatars, was killed. cutting off the chorus and all connection of future avatars with her past lives.

Avatar Roku was very powerful and was very different from Aang. He made many mistakes that he regretted, but becoming Aang's mentor was the best thing that happened to him because he had Angra in mind. the mistakes of him thank you so much for watching guys you can follow me on social media links that will be below if you like this video make sure to hit the subscribe button to help grow the channel. I want to give a big greeting to all of you. My patrons are listed below, if you want to be featured in the next video and get lots of other rewards check out my patreon again.

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