Pu-on Tim

Pu-on Tim was an acclaimed Earth Kingdom playwright. He was best known for his play based on the life of the Avatar "The Boy in the Iceberg", considered to be his seminal work. He scoured the globe gathering information on the Avatar, from the icy south-pole to the heart of Ba Sing Se. His sources include singing nomads, pirates, prisoners of war, and a surprisingly knowledgeable merchant of cabbage.

History
Writing "The Boy in the Iceberg" almost drove Pu-on Tim insane. He would spend weeks at a time on the road, staying up for days, researching leads, and following the Avatar. He literally has hundreds of scrolls filled with notes about the Avatar. It's as if he's managed to talk to every person with whom the Avatar has come in contact. Pu-on Tim often describes the experience of following the Avatar as a painful and blurry dream. However, in the end, Pu-on Tim couldn't be happier with his unbiased view of the Avatar and his companions. He calls "The Boy in the Iceberg" his "masterpiece". Sadly, other critics have been less kind about the play, calling it merely "watchable". But in its short time in the theater this play has truly made an impression. In fact some of the audience members liked the play so much, they even dressed up like their favorite characters. It's not uncommon to see several "Prince Zuko"s excitedly watching the play.

Trivia

 * Pu-on Tim's name consists of two parts: "Pu" (浦 pǔ), is a Chinese surname meaning "beach", and is one of the Hundred Family Surnames. On-tim (安添, ān tiān), his given name, roughly reads as "increasing peace". The character 安 (ān) is also used in Aang's name. His name exclusively uses the Cantonese readings of the characters.
 * Oddly, when Sokka read the poster aloud, he did not reverse the order of Pu-on Tim's family and given names, as he did with Toph's.
 * Pu-on Tim can be seen on the bottom-right corner of "The Boy in the Iceberg" poster (picture shown).
 * The ending to "The Boy in the Iceberg", in which the Fire Nation gained total victory in the war, was especially odd considering the playwright was from the Earth Kingdom. Because he was performing the play in the Fire Nation, it is possible he was pressured to write a pro-war ending by the Fire Lord's government or that the play was changed from its original version.
 * Pu-on Tim was named after Avatar Writer Tim Hedrick.