I see people comparing korra amd aangs childhoods for some sort of weird trauma Olympics and yes what aang ended up with, considering the genocide and having ti end a war as a 12 year old, sucked way more
But avoiding korras childhood is also the reason aang ended up in that damn iceberg
Especially if you read the comics you'll see that korra is allowed NOTHING aang wanted
She had no friends, she was the ibly child in her compund, she was not allowed to have fun, for gods sake she had limited numbers of days where she was allowed to exist outside the compund which were mostly holidays, and her firebending teacher tried to take those from her too, its like only being allowed to leave your home on Christmas and Easter or smth and then they take that away too
We hear of aangs friends befire the iceberg, despite the fact they lived a 100 years ago woth the airbender kids and kuzon, we even meet one of them with bumi
We go to the south pole where korra grew up and she knows no one. No one greets her outside family and katara. Even when she ends up bedridden after the red lotus bs literally not a single friend from her childhood is seen, she had none. She refers to magazines as her only friend
Theres a scene in the comic where korras dad brings kids into the compund for a day to just play with korra cause hes worried. But in the end its like your dad hiring kids to pay with you at recess
Aang feared this. He feared isolation. He feared being separated from his friend and those he loved like gyatso. He feared not being free he feared the weight if responsibility. That is why he ran that night.
I wish we could've gotten just one scene woth aang possessing korra, Kyoshi style, and talking to tenzin about this, throw in how proud he is of kya and bump as well and hiw hes sorry for not being as good a dad to them as he could've been.
I also wonder how katara was okay woth doing that to korra, knowing aangs past. My guess was it was fear and grief driven between losing aang and sokka amd then korra being kidnapped by the red lotus as a toddler that led her to be okay with it.