#and suddenly there's this pressure to learn about this unfamiliar history and rebuild a slain people

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i think the spontaneous airbenders are so interesting

#lok #like ok #i know the show focuses on bending cause it's sick and cool (and it is) #but there's more to each culture than just their bending (though of course the cultural importance of bending can not be denied) #so there's this really interesting dichotomy where these people suddenly gain this culturally significant trait #from a culture and nation that's been all but wiped out #and suddenly there's this pressure to learn about this unfamiliar history and rebuild a slain people #but all the new airbender recruits. they're all earth kingdom #though they were from ba sing se which is unique in it's status as being 'unaffected' by the war #(and of course by unaffected i mean the war gave the ruling power of ba sing se an excuse to assert absolute power over its citizens) #creating perhaps the starkest rich and poor imbalance of all cities across the nations #so obviously their feelings towards their home culture would be mixed already #but there's more to being earth kingdom than the treatment from the dai li. like their families and food and things like that #i know they couldn't have gone back to their homes because of the safety concern. but it's crazy to have your life uprooted and implanted #into a culture you're expected to make anew. #i guess it's a really unique way to be an immigrant #i'd have liked to see more airbenders from the fire nation and water tribes but i know the last few seasons of korra were heavily focused on #the troubles arising in a post-war earth kingdom #because. for all intents and purposes. the earth kingdom won the war. #it must be assumed that the fire nation was made to pay repairations towards the earth kingdom and water tribes. especially because of #how much the southern tribe was able to be rebuilt (zuko seems very familiar with tonraq who seemed to be the defacto southern leader before #before they officially took independance from the north #and so despite the creation of republic city on what was originally colonized earth kingdom land #the earth kingdom is doing very wall after the war #we didn't get to see much of the fire nation at all in korra and i'm sad because i'm so interested in what a post-war fire nation is like. #we know that they turned their military resources freely out to republic city as the 'united republic' #but other than that it's pretty sparse information #and i say the earth kingdom is doing well but i mostly mean financially #which doesn't help the people especially with the weath imbalance #the scars of war are on every nation. and the earth kingdom isn't any better off for winning