Suddenly, Fire Nation soldiers arrive, and they ambush and capture him.Īang and Kya have been tying the reins to Appa's horns. He finds some wild berries and eats them, but they taste bad. Kya is reluctant to let Aang go off by himself since he is the world's last hope, so Sokka goes out to look for food alone. Sokka, agitated that the two of them are playing around, demands they help him look for food. Seeing her frustration, Aang proceeds to give her some pointers by demonstrating the correct leg stance. Kya tries to practice her waterbending, but she cannot control it well. Zuko, defending his ship, starts attacking the massive serpent with firebending. This buys Aang and his friends enough time to get away safely. Deprived of its prey, the serpent searches for another victim to attack, and begins to attack Zuko's ship upon spotting it. Moments later, a serpent rises out of the water in front of Appa, who manages to evade it. Zuko launches fireballs in an attempt to bring them down, but Appa manages to avoid the attack. Aang, Sokka, and Kya are flying on the Avatar's flying bison, Appa, fleeing from Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, who is pursuing them on his ship. The pilot begins with Kya explaining the war between the nations and the absence and later discovery of Avatar Aang. The characters were the earliest forms of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. These modifications were the ones presented to Nickelodeon, the same ones which persuaded the corporation to "greenlight" Konietzko and DiMartino's plans and produce their pilot.
Īs other characters were created, and concepts such as the bending arts' reliance on martial artistry came to be, the show's focus shifted slowly from sci-fi heavy to more Asian-influenced.
Konietzko eventually fell in love with the drawing of a "balding human man in his forties wearing a futuristic outfit" and later adding an arrow design to his head as well (an early prototype for Aang) along with sketches of a "robot cyclops monkey holding a staff" (an early concept of Momo ) and "a bipedal polar bear-dog hybrid" (an early concept of Appa that was later recycled as Naga ).
Since January 2002, Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko had been given the blessing of Nickelodeon's then-head of development Eric Coleman to begin crafting a series that contained "action and adventure" and "legends and lore". Early designs of Zuko and Fire Nation soldiers.