So I am late to the party squeeing about this, because despite hoping up and down in my chair at the news I was too busy agonizing over Anthy's glasses to post about it. (I wish I was kidding.) But. You guys.



OMG YOU GUYS. FEMALE AVATAR. BAMF FEMALE AVATAR. Look at her back! That BAMF stance! Those muscles! Those hips! SWOON. Could she have been designed more for me, seriously. Seriously.

And check out this interview with Mike and Bryan.

Some choice excerpts (emphasis mine):

Michael DiMartino: [...] And we have so many great female fans out there, who really responded to Katara in the first series, we thought we have the fan base who are really going to enjoy seeing the Avatar be a female.

Konietzko: Mike and I, we love those characters too, and we’ve encountered countless fans who are male who really like those characters too. We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.

Can I just... marry you guys? Please?

Also I swear I saw something somewhere where they were saying that Nickelodeon wanted them to tone down the awesome ladies, and they were like, no bitch, but maybe I dreamed that? Because I can't find it now.

If Tenzin is Aang’s son, who is his mother?

DiMartino: [To Konietzko] We can say that, right? [To Speakeasy] It’s Katara. It’s not a huge surprise.

looooool you guys are such trolls, ilu so much.

I also love how they flatly refused to talk about The Last Airbender movie. Generally you'd expect them to hype up a major feature film which could boost their own earnings, but no, they make it clear they don't want anything to do with that piece of shit. Haha.

So yeah, anyway, SO EXCITED YOU GUYS. BAMF LADYBENDER AVATAR. SO. EXCITED.