Sorta Figured Out Shinjuro Rengoku's Height. We Know That Tengen Is 6'6 And In This Panel, Shinjuro Is

Sorta figured out Shinjuro Rengoku's height. We know that Tengen is 6'6 and in this panel, Shinjuro is only a few inches shorter. I'd say he's prolly about 6'0-'3ish.

I also think he's prolly around 43-45. In the Meiji period (just before the taisho period), men usually got married in ages ranging from 18-30 (but mostly commonly got married around 25-30). In the picture of him with a pregnant Ruka, he appears to be in his early twenties (I'd say about 23). When Senjuro is born, Shinjuro appears to be in his late twenties. So that must mean that Shinjuro probably got married young for the time to continue the Rengoku family quickly. That also suggests that Shinjuro probably has no other siblings to help continue the line.

Idk, I'm just spitballing at this point, but basically, Shinjuro is most likely in his early 40s and 6'2ish

Kokushibo and muichiro manga colouring

Something about a man who's never been the first choice being chosen by his wife straight on and she, who regards his existence as a blessing, when all his life he was never one.

Do you think that when Shinjuro held his grandkid he thought back to when he first held Kyojuro?

and AND AND AND IM IN PAIN

Every time I look at tojuro I just AAAAAAAA

I kinda hate when people act like Aang is this naive kid who doesn’t know what’s going on or what he’s doing, especially at the beginning of the series.

For example, in “The Southern Air Temple, " he shows Sokka and Katara around, acting excited and playing around. Do you think that he doesn’t know what’s going on? Do you think that Aang, someone who grew up in that temple doesn’t know what is supposed to look like?

In his timeline, he had been gone for at most one week. Do you really believe that he would think it is normal that the place that was filled with people a few days ago is now completely empty Do you think that he would find it normal that the entire place is run down and poorly kept?

I’m just confused. Since episode one, the narrative has made it obvious that Aang has avoidant coping mechanisms, where he outright ignores what’s happening around him because he cannot deal with it. It’s an integral aspect of his character (since it’s the reason he ran away after finding out he was the avatar, which quite literally sets off the plot). I get it if people don’t necessarily like that aspect of his personality (wrong opinion, btw), but understanding that it’s there and how it affects how he interacts with the world is important to getting ATLA.

Yes, he did know what the being avatar meant to an extent, and he knew he had to learn the three elements, but the reason he didn’t go to the North Pole straight away was because he didn’t want to. He wanted to put it off for as long as possible, going on adventures and “eventually getting to the NP”.

There was literally a 2 part episode (The Winter Solstice) to tell us that Aang couldn’t just mess around that entire season because it introduced a time limit to defeat the Fire Lord. Ever since then, the gaang pretty much beelined for the NP, plus some detours, but that’s the magic of worldbuilding.

I would talk about his reluctance to learn waterbending from Pakku, but that’s a different post altogether.

Obviously, he didn’t understand what it was like growing up in the middle of a war (because he didn’t). Still, no one understood what losing their entire people and being the last of their kind was. And no one calls other characters naive or stupid for their constant insensitivity throughout the series…

The bottom line is that he knew; he always knew. It was just easier to pretend he didn’t.

Headers of my favorite ships for you

Akaren

Inotan

Sanegiyuu