Ah, the Avatar state. Now there's a topic that people who haunted the shipping threads are very familiar with.
What a lot of people are forgetting is that Aang had already mastered the Avatar state. In CoD he unlocked the chakra, went into the Avatar State at will, and was only stopped from kicking some serious ass by Azula's timely lightning bolt. It was stated specifically in DoBS that the only thing stopping Aang from entering the Avatar state was the residue energy from the lightning that had enfused itself with the wound. All it required to unlock itself again was the right pressure applied in order to untangle the conflicting energies. There you go, simple.
And don't even get me started on how Aang did not have to stop loving Katara after he had unlocked the chakra, because if you do you will regret it.
Edited on 08/04/2008 10:33pm