#anti lok comics

[balanceoflightanddark]

Kuvira and Bryke's Problem with Moral Ambiguity

I will be honest with you...I really like Kuvira.

She is probably one of my favorite characters from Legend of Korra. I like her design. I like a lot of the ideas behind her. And I think Zelda Williams did a great job with the character. So I can understand why Bryke wanted to do something different with her and try to redeem her.

Here's the problem. I love Kuvira...but she's also indicative of one of the show's biggest problems. Mainly the inability to commit to a morally ambiguous conflict.

Again, the whole point of Kuvira's character was that she wasn't a wholly irredeemable monster. That her methods, while heavy handed, weren't entirely in the wrong and her heart was in the right place. And we do see evidence of that early on with her forces giving relief to billages, stamping out bandits, and outing corrupt officials. Heavy handed and early warning signs sure, but nothing too over the top.

Then they made her into a power hungry dictator.

Yeah. Kind of hard to sell her as sympathetic when she takes imagery from real life oppressive and fascist political parties and governments.

Sad thing is, Kuvira here is not the exception to this. Throughout The Legend of Korra, we are presented with many antagonistic groups that are responding to some injustice or moral qualm which doesn't paint the current status quo the heroes are defending in a good light. Non-bender discrimination led to Amon and the Equalists. Unalaq was a response to mankind losing touch with the Spirit World. The Red Lotus were spurned by corruption in high places. And Kuvira was restoring order to a broken Earth Kingdom full of anarchy. It's clear that Bryke intended for all of these groups and characters to have some kind of point to generate moral ambiguity. Asking whether or not Korra and Co were truly in the right.

Yet when it came time to deliver, the antagonists were almost always portrayed as being in the wrong and often were portrayed in a way that makes it difficult for the audience to truly sympathize with them. The Equalists and the Red Lotus become terrorists. Amon is a bender with flimsy reasonings. Unalaq literally fuses with the Avatar equivalent of Satan. And again, Kuvira becomes a dictator. While their points are given some credence, the characters themselves always become a final boss for the heroes to triumphantly defeat. Which...muddies the message since it becomes difficult to see the villains' argument when they're treated the way they are.

Now admittedly, it is difficult to write a character like this. Balancing out the character's reasonable and sympathetic traits with the need to be an opposing force to the protagonists who audiences are normally predisposed to root for. So the question remains: how do you go about finding this equilibrium?

While I'm not a professional writer, I can think of at least two good methods. The first is allowing the antagonist to do genuinely good things that seems at odds with their position. This could include a concern for civilians or their comrades, limiting their violence, or throwing themselves in the line of danger for the sake of others. Kuvira does demonstrate this a few times with sending relief to civilians who need it or choosing to face down the Avatar herself rather than ordering her men to do it.

The second is actually giving a concrete reason for why the antagonist is escalating things. Maybe the situation is just that bad where the antagonist feels the need to escalate or is a response to something that the heroes did. Perhaps the antagonist's grievances are legitimate and they have a solid reason to fight. Again, this is explored with Prince Wu's incompetence and the attempted assassination on Kuvira's life by Suyin. While her methods are heavy handed, you could see why she may need to employ them.

The foundations for a solid character are there. If they expanded on that, we could've had a fairly compelling conflict where neither side is entirely in the right nor are they in the wrong.

And then they introduced re-education camps and had Kuvira invent the Avatar equivalent of an atomic bomb.

Uh...hate to be that guy, but why the hell is Kuvira sympathetic again? Especially when other villains who did far less evil get crapped on while she gets a redemption arc in the comics?

glares at what they did with Azula

...I'm sorry but no. Korra wouldn't have ever turned out to be a fascist And trying to say the villain can be redeemed because they're like the hero raises so many flags for the franchise as a whole that I'm surprised they didn't do the same with Ozai. What? He's who Zuko would've ended up as if he went too far.

I get what they were getting at with Kuvira. I really do. And with better writing, maybe she could've been that character I mentioned. The groundworks are all there. But the problem they ran in was consistency and commitment. They failed to keep her sympathy and anti-villain status consistent by making her too horrible to properly feel for. And they never actually committed to fostering this morally ambiguous conflict.

Trust me, I'm not knocking against Kuvira and her fans. I'm really not. I understand the appeal. I even think a lot of her fans have better interpretations and ideas than Bryke (trust me, Kuvira has some pretty good fanfics out there). But if they wanted to redeem who we saw in the series, we needed more than a single comic trilogy. Especially when other characters don't even get a chance at that.

#kuvira #lok critical #lok salt #i guess #kuvira meta #anti bryke #anti lok comics

[asura22zoro]

the legend of korrasami is turf and here is garbage

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Woooooooow. I didn't bother reading those comics, but based on that video, it seems to be worse than I had even expected. o_o (Who okayed that art style?)

#anti lok comics #Youtube

[burst-of-iridescent]

seeing people say they knew all along the live action would be bad after seeing the news about them toning down sokka’s misogyny bc “the original creators never would’ve let this happen! that’s why they left!”… ohhh my god. oh my god. the original creators made the legend of korra. the original creators had story direction on most of the post-atla comics. the original creators were involved with the goddamn m. night shyamalan film for fuck’s sake & spoke positively about it (at least, right up until it bombed upon release and then… *crickets*.) they cannot be trusted on jack, and i for one am immensely glad they are staying far, far away from the project.

regardless of whether the live action succeeds or not, bryke were never going to singlehandedly make it a cinematic masterpiece so please get that out of your heads and start judging the live action on its own merit — not by the inclusion (or lack thereof) of two men who have proven over and over again that they know fuck all about what truly made their show great.

#besides if recent adaptations have taught me anything #it’s that sometimes… creators being involved with adaptations is Bad Actually #anti bryke #anti lok #anti atla comics #atla live action

[azulaang-chakras]

"Maiko isn't canon anymore! Mai isn't Izumi's mother!"

Bryke, the heads of Nickelodeon and Paramount, and whoever the fuck is writing the comics nowadays could all come out tomorrow and say those exact words while introducing their new Izumi-producing OC and I'd still be like "It sure is nice that Mai and Zuko are happily married and doing a great job governing the Fire Nation while raising their kids together."

#maiko #anti comics #anti lok #technically #as it's that show's fault for leaving izumi up in the air #this reminds me: i should work on my maiko baby ocs #fandom bullshit

[mah-o-daryaa]

For a show that's progressive, one-of-a-kind, ground-breaking for its time, and relies on "Show, don't Tell" a lot throughout the series, it bugs me how ATLA (or, more specifically, Bryke) preferred to tell the audience that Aang is a master airbender without showing us why. I mean, Toph, Zuko, Azula, and Katara are all shown practicing and improving their mastery in bending (although Katara has become rather overpowered), so why can't Aang have the same treatment?

Yes, Aang may be a child prodigy, and he did get airbending tattoos from inventing the air scooter, but I personally think that inventing an airbending technique (which demonstrates impressive ability and skill) is a way to gain the arrows prematurely, but isn't a requirement. Nothing in the show ever suggests just how far he's mastered his native element, let alone the other three. In the beginning of Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King (3:18), Aang says he thinks he still needs to practice his firebending more (which in hindsight makes sense, as he's just started relearning it from the dragons five episodes ago), and Toph notes that his earthbending could use more work too. Right off the bat, Aang is two elements away from complete mastery of all four, but later on he's seen practicing waterbending with Katara, implying he hasn't mastered it either.

We don't even see Aang practicing his airbending by himself post-iceberg, preferring to show off to random girls (like in Kyoshi Island). He just learns the elements, but doesn't really learn the philosophies behind each element. In this regard, he makes Kuruk and Roku look venerated in contrast. (To be fair to Aang, he had a specific deadline to master the four elements before Sozin's Comet that no other Avatar besides Wan had to deal with, but couldn't he try to make an effort to learn from the other nations?) Additionally, compared to Tenzin and Zaheer, Aang doesn't stand a chance against either of them (even though Tenzin is his son, but since Tenzin wasn't the Avatar, he could focus on upholding the Air Nomad culture and legacy). Even Jinora could go toe-to-toe with him at similar ages. He isn't really that impressive in any of the elements, to be honest; we've seen what a master of any specific element can do in both ATLA and LOK, as well as in the novels.

The main thing people often get wrong is that mastery isn't a final goal; it's a specific mindset. As in Pai Sho, what separates true masters from everyone else is that true masters always look for improvement in their strategy or skills. That's why Aang isn't a real master of the four elements: He always takes the easy way out, never trying to better himself or improve what he can already do.

I think this quote from Zaheer perfectly sums up what I've been saying: When you base your expectations on what you see, you blind yourself to the possibilities of a new reality. Even though it stems from his anarchist beliefs, it is genuinely one of the more insightful pieces of wisdom in the franchise because it promotes progress, a constant theme in life. Toph was able to invent metalbending because she wanted to "see" a reality where she could be recognized for her own talent in spite of her blindness; Zuko could learn firebending from the dragons because he could see a reality where he would regain his honor and fight alongside the Avatar, and so on. By contrast, Aang only takes things from surface-level, not putting any effort into understanding the true meaning of being the Avatar.

Speaking of Pai Sho, guess which Avatar constantly improved his/her abilities? Kuruk. Unlike Aang, Kuruk readily asked his companions, Jianzhu, Hei-Ran, and Kelsang, to continue teaching him, ever after he mastered the four elements that he was required to do, saying they would all benefit from the experience (the "true master" quote I mentioned above was actually said by him). Not only that, it was even inverted; sometimes they taught Kuruk, other times he taught them (which technically makes him the first known Avatar to teach bending to others). He was right, as during their lifetimes, they were the most powerful benders of their respective elements in the world!

Kuruk also had an intuitive connection to each of the four bending philosophies, which to this day remains unrivaled by any other Avatar, and was also one of the first people to suggest the idea that the four elements are connected (homeboy's literally a younger Water Tribe Avatar version of proto-Iroh, I'm honestly not going to be surprised if Iroh actually learned his belief from Kuruk during the former's visits to the Spirit World over tea and Pai Sho matches). If you ask me, Mone, learning the cultures and philosophies of the four nations is way more important than mastering the four elements, because the Avatar isn't just the bridge between the four nations; he/she is also the symbol of a unified world, and the franchise is saying that only one Avatar even bothered to do that? In my opinion, if we go by this rule, that easily cements Kuruk as the greatest Avatar in history!

Aang, on the other hand, never does this. Instead, he puts the Air Nomads on a high pedestal (which in turn causes him to place Katara on a high pedestal), and doesn't respect or learn from other nations' philosophies. He openly disrespects SWT culture and actively makes sure Tenzin doesn't have any exposure to the culture that Tenzin still belongs too, and worse, he pushes his own culture on other people's throats (remember the time he forced a homeless couple to "give up on hope because it's a big waste of time"? Or the time he forced Katara to not murder Yon Rha?) and values his own nation and values above the rest of the world (like the time he refused to kill Firelord Ozai because "all life is sacred", even though he has actually killed before, but if he doesn't kill Ozai, the latter's going to burn the entire Earth Kingdom to the ground!). That doesn't sound like something the Avatar is allowed to do, but Aang gets away with it anyway because ... hero?

There's actually another Avatar who focused on his/her own nation above the rest of the world. Avatar Szeto, Yangchen's predecessor, became a government official in his homeland, the Fire Nation. Under his tenure, the Fire Nation transformed from a fragmented, disaster-stricken state to the centralized, technologically-advanced nation we know of today. Unfortunately, this led him to neglect the other nations and, shortly after his death, the four nations were caught in a political event known as the Platinum Affair, which Yangchen had to deal with, eventually kick-starting the cycle of the current Avatar fixing their past lives' mistakes, while leaving problems for their future selves to fix. This problem might have even led to the growing ambition of Firelords Zoryu and Sozin as dictators, with the latter starting the Hundred Years War.

Aang not only valued his own nation's values above the others, he also forced said values on his non-Air Nomad companions; signed anti-miscegenation laws and tried to forcefully deport Fire Nationals from the colonies to return the land to the Earth Kingdom, even though they had already blended in with Earth Kingdom citizens, didn't wan to be separated from their families, and Zuko perceived the citizens of mixed heritage as his own subjects; refused to let his family practice SWT culture, even though his children could benefit from being members of both cultures, not just one or the other, and set an example for mixed-race families around the world; refused to teach Kya and Bumi Air Nomad culture because he thought they weren't airbenders and therefore "not real Air Nomads", even though they were just as Air Nomad as Tenzin was, if not more; and forced Tenzin to uphold the legacy of an entire nation on his shoulders. The fact that this was all written by complete accident is the cherry on top, representing just how badly Bryke screwed up.

... On a completely unrelated note, The Other Side of Paradise by Glass Animals (which is also one of my favorite songs) is definitely a Kuruk song. The last third of the song in particular sums up his tragic journey as the Avatar so well, and I always think of him while listening to it.

#atla #atla critical #atla comics critical #aang critical #mah rambles #fighting back #kuruk #yes I've done it again #to no one’s surprise #you miscalculated #I love Kuruk more than I hate Aang #if no one gets the reference I'm going to be sad #avatar cycle #past avatars #past lives #anti bryke #yes I'm going that far #I can't even be mad at lok anymore #the seeds for who the gaang would end up as were already planted in atla #so I'm going to the root of the problem

[miss-sweetea-pie]

Imagine looking for validation for your CANON ship in a cook book. This is the thing that get me about post- Atla content. LOK and the first 3 comics the promise, the search, and the rift were all made in the same time frame. And fans had there criticism about them. Everything after that shows and comics are damage control but it’s a little too late since we know how this story ends.

#anti kataang #anti bryke #anti atla comics #anti lok #just to be safe! #look me tagging correctly

[the-badger-mole]

Hi! Been loving your blog and writing!

I really like your characterization and opinions of A.ang. It’s nice to read fan fic and blogs that just gets it. Down the road and back again was just *chef’s kiss*. (Also uncharted waters I’m loving! I never know what to expect and each chapter is so good)

Anyways I was wondering if you have any head cannon’s of what a K.ataang marriage would look like? For me I imagine it being it being extremely passive aggressive, also A.ang is really selfish so that definitely would hurt their marriage. It’s kind of like the opposite side of the toxic coin with M.aiko being a screaming match and in your face constantly breaking up, K.ataang would be toxic but it’s quite and they would try to save face in public. I don’t know What do you think?

I kind of touched on it in Choices and Consequences, but I picture it being a lot of Katara swallowing her feelings and being a single mother to four children. I don't believe she was ever actually in love with Aang. She may have tried to tell herself she was, but I think the only reason she ended up with Aang is because she felt like she owed him. Kataang was unhealthy on both their parts, and while I do tend to focus on Aang (because he's awful, and I will not ever stop pointing that out), I think Katara was guilty of putting him on a pedestal. She knew the Avatar would save the world, and I think that's why she ignored Aang's flaws. Everyone wanted to end the war, but for her, it was a deeply intense and personal desire, and the Avatar would be the one to deliver that. It's a lot of pressure to put on a 12 year old who grew up slow in a world without war, and she knew that. On some level, Katara was aware of how much pressure Aang was under, which is why I think she was so insistent on everyone being gentle with him, even though they didn't have that kind of time. Then when he actually did end the war (he didn't, at least not alone, but the show refused to give credit where it was due) Katara felt some sort of obligation towards him and called it love.

Katara is a smart, passionate girl, and she would've wanted a partner who would appreciate that and respect her thoughts, feelings and opinions. The glimpses of her relationship with Aang in the early comics show me that she didn't have that with him. Aang didn't respect her feelings over those of his fangirls. He ignored her discomfort, and even thanked her for understanding why he needed to connect with those girls who were being horribly disrespectful because "sharing his culture"🤮. It wasn't their treatment of her that upset him. It was them doing something that offended him personally.

Meanwhile, Katara had to swallow her own feelings and smile through it all. That's how I see their relationship going. I think Katara might have convinced herself that he respected her thoughts and opinions because he relied on her as a caregiver and he took her everywhere, but I think as he grew into his own, he would've expected her to step back and be contented to be a homemaker/broodmare while he did the important Avatar work, which is why I think Katara wasn't present in that scene in LoK where bloodbending was banned, even though she was ostensibly the only other bloodbender in the world, but Aang was front and center. It's also my theory on why when Aang was about to go all in on pushing for anti-miscegenation, instead of her telling him that it would be a bad idea because of the effects it would have on the families and communities Aang would be separating, she appealed to how it would affect him.

I don't think their marriage would be passive aggressive. I think Katara would just make herself as small as possible and do her best to keep the Avatar happy and on track because that's what she owed him. She'd have moments of acknowledging her deep unhappiness and regret, but she wouldn't dwell on it. And she would convince herself she was content to be a devoted wife and mother, and nothing else.

#atla #anti aang #anti kataang #honestly the comics and lok make me feel so depressed for katara #she really gave that jerk her entire life #just for him to be as bad a father as he was a husband #and a horrid avatar #it's like bryke WANTS me to hate their pet ship #THE YEAR OF CONTENT!!!!

[loveamongdragons]

I don't know exactly what it was, but when a friend of mine started watching LoK back in the day and I glimpsed a few scenes, I got that weird feeling that something is off and I don't wanna watch it - despite having loved ATLA.

I haven't watched it to this day and truth be told, considering the treatment of Katara and Toph turning into a cop, among other things, my motivation to catch up with it is minimal.

I've read The Promise and The Search, and found both disappointing and, again off, and haven't read any of the ATLA comics since.

Idk, I love to live in a bubble where canon ended with ATLA.

#anti lok #anti legend of korra #atla #avatar the last airbender #mine #anti atla comics

[fancylala4]

Unpopular opinion: even if nick didn’t mess up the series behind the scenes, the legend of korra would have still turned out bad.

The creators of avatar can’t write a good story to save their lives as we can see in the comics for both shows.

#mine #anti lok #anti bryke #anti atla comics

[fanfic-lover-girl]

How Writers Acknowledge and Downplay Character Flaws

What do writers like JKR and Bryke do when they want to superficially point out a character's flaws but don't want the audience to take these flaws seriously?

Have these flaws be pointed out by antagonists or unlikable characters.

It's a nasty trick they play. By having a disliked character point out the hero's flaws, the audience is poised to disagree and downplay the flaws.

Let me list some examples:

Hagrid: Hagrid is called out by Draco, Rita and Umbridge for being a bad teacher and a generally awful person. How does the fandom react? We see these valid criticisms as an attack on Hagrid and the fandom treating him like a poor baby. You have people believing Draco was a bully terrorizing this grown man and his dangerous pet. And Dolores and Rita are bitches, hated by the trio, so everything they say is of course a lie. I know Dolores is HP's most hated character...but objectively she had some good points about the state of Hogwarts. And while Rita is a sleazy journalist...she writes a lot of truth.

Korra: Raiko correctly points out how the spirit vines were due to Korra's stupidity as a foolish avatar. He points out how Korra went on a spirit vacation with Asami in the Turf (Turd) Wars comics when people needed her. Everything in season 3 and 4 is partly Korra's fault. Does Korra take responsibility? Of course not. Raiko is just a sleazy politician and Korra is the avatar so Raiko is the bad guy and must be taken down.

Harry: This is a last-minute addition and I don't feel as strongly about Harry as the previous two but it bears mentioning. Snape is one of the only, if not the only person, in the series to call out Harry and Marauders for their awful behavior. Look, Snape is not the nicest teacher. In the context of the other bad teachers at Hogwarts, he is not as bad as Snaters (such a funny word lol, who came up with this?) make him out to be. Anyway, Snape acidly points out Harry's showboating, his laziness, the bad traits he shares with his father and other things I can't recall right now. However, because Snape is a nasty, bitter, mean teacher, people are quick to dismiss his insults as superficial. Because Snape's remarks against Harry have the backdrop of a grudge against his dad, JKR primes us to not take these criticisms seriously. Of course, some of Snape's insults are baseless like his intro potions class scene in book 1 but that does not mean everything he says about Harry is necessarily because of his bitterness towards James.

#anti korra #anti hagrid #anti rubeus hagrid #anti jkr #anti bryke #character flaws #harry potter series #legend of korra #draco malfoy #dolores umbridge #rita skeeter #raiko lok #korra is a bad avatar #avatar korra #manipulative writing #anti turf wars comics #umbridge was not 100% wrong #rita often said the unwanted truth #severus snape #harry james potter #harry potter

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

can i ask which comics are the ones you don't like? i thought "the promise" and "the search" were pretty good, but i never read any of the ones that came after that.

I only like two Avatar comics. "Lost Adventures" because is just the characters doing their thing, and the recent "Azula In The Spirit Temple" because it was the first time in many years in which anyone on the writting team remembered "Oh yeah, Azula used to be an actual character that just happened to have a breakdown in the finale instead of a deeply offensive, ableist mockery of mentally ill people that we have be constantly physically abused when she's doing literally nothing just because mentally ill = evil"

That's not to say there aren't any good moments in the comics I didn't like, only that:

1 - There's not enough of said good moments for me to want to read it again.

2 - There are way too many HORRIBLE things in them for me to consider them canon.

I still prefer most of them to Korra though, because at least I was just angry instead of angry AND bored out of my mind.

#atla comics #ableism #anti lok #anti korra #anti legend of korra #there are no comics in ba sing se #the comics suck

[supernintendochalmersagn]

#anti bryke #anti lok #anti aang #anti atla comics #anti atla films #anti avatar studios #anti kataang

[burst-of-iridescent]

Hi, can I ask why we hashtag anti bryke? They did give us a great story except for the love story ending which was lame. Maybe that’s why he hates us so much because he doesn’t like to give us the satisfaction? Or is it a chicken and egg thing and he hated us first, reason for the anti bryke hashtags?

two reasons: 1) tagging correctly is just proper tumblr etiquette, and it's good to cover your bases when criticizing atla so you don't accidentally cross paths with antis and 2) bryan and mike have never failed to be real assholes to zutara shippers, like that lovely incident where they took fanart made by their own fans and used it to make a parody video mocking zutara at a fan convention, which featured gems such as "women who ship zuko and katara will forever have doomed relationships". real fucking classy to take something fans of your show invested time and effort in for free, and use it to publicly make fun of them just because they had the audacity to use critical thinking skills in their choice of ship instead of lapping up your half-baked self-insert romance.

(they never apologized for this either; in fact, bryan later went on to put the video up on his own tumblr and called it a joke. yeah dude, zutara shippers definitely found it funny when you basically declared open season on us to the rest of the fandom.)

i would heavily hesitate to say they gave us a great story: bryke are good visual guys, and we can certainly thank them for conceptualising atla, but the people who truly made atla great were the writers, particularly aaron ehasz and elizabeth welch. and if you want proof of that, all you have to do is look at what happened when bryke didn't bring their writer's room over to LOK with them. hmmm, i wonder which avatar series is better known and lauded for its strength of storytelling?

#anti bryke #not to mention the fact that they've lied about kat.aang being “in the DNA of the show” #disrespected their own characters time and again in both the comics and LOK #and still continue to disparage zuko and zutara in the year of our lord 2023 #like my dudes we get it you're insecure #but this is pathetic even for you #zutara

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

I know that I've been repeating myself about how I envision the back half of season 2 of Legends of Korra being moved over into Aang's saga in addition to adding Book 4: Air. But I don't want it to be shoe-horned in like it was in LOK. I want there to be build-up like there was with Sozin's comet. Because of that, certain scenes from certain episodes would need to be altered.

Winter Solstice Part 2: By the time Aang meets Roku, gives the expedition about the comet, tasks Aang to prepare to be a fully realized master avatar and defeat the fire lord before the comet arrives. He adds in a warning. If Aang fails, the fire lord's comet-enhanced destruction will cause the divide between the plain of spirits and the material world to break. He doesn't mention Vaatu's name but subtly describes him as an ancient monstrosity who will feed on the imbalance the FN has caused, which causes him to break free and become too strong for even the avatar to handle.

The Library: The gaang find manuscripts of an event called Harmonic Convergence and learn the names Raava and Vaatu but not much detail beyond that.

Season 3 gets two more episodes at the premier while Aang is in a coma. Beginnings parts 1 and 2. Tales of Avatar Wan. Aang finds the time to explain to the gaang about the first Avatar sometime later.

The Avatar and The Fire Lord: A recent fan theory suggests that Vaatu used the approaching harmonic convergence to spread dark energy which ultimately caused Sozin to kill his friend Roku and exterminate the Air Nomads. This has some in-universe basis since a tribe of firebenders attempted to take lands from spirits for themselves and became violent and destructive to achieve this goal. This occurred partly due to Vaatu's malevolent influence growing from the upcoming harmonic convergence. Another theory suggests that Vaatu was manipulating Unalaq into helping him, much like he did to Wan ten millennia ago, by encountering him on a trip to the Spirit World, where Vaatu begs him to free him as he has been "wrongfully" imprisoned for ten thousand years. Well, here, both theories are true but it's only Sozin being manipulated in the case of the second theory. It's revealed that Harmonic Convergence will arrive by the end of Fall, just as Sozin's Comet will arrive by the end of Summer.

Nightmares and Daydreams: During Aang's dream sequences, Vaatu makes appearances and cameos. Sometimes Dream Ozai transitions into Vaatu briefly. Foreshadowing a Dark Avatar Ozai but instead of fusing with Vaatu. Ozai IS Vaatu.

Sozin's Comet Parts 1-4: There's a twist that Ozai never traveled to the Earth Kingdom to level it down. Instead, he encounters the lion turtle Aang met. Ozai battles the behemoth. He struggled at first but Ozai managed to win. He consumes the lion turtle's soul, gaining its abilities and attributes, by using a form of energybending he was secretly studying. It's revealed that the comet is the sun spirit, Agni. Ozai uses his powers to consume Agni's soul, which causes the comet to lose its power and fall to the earth. Ozai could feel where the dragons were hiding, he psychically ripped the souls from Ren and Shaw's bodies and were both under Ozai's complete control. That's how season 3 really ends.

Throughout season 4. Vaatu gains control over the rest of the sources of all bending by consuming the souls of the elemental spirits and original benders who embody them, all within the opposite order of Aang's cycle. He absorbs extra souls too, like Hakoda's, Ursa's, Long Feng's, all members of the white lotus, the fog of lost souls, and its soul prisoners.

It's revealed that the reason Vaatu manipulated Sozin is that his needless war would cause Iroh's mother to be a spiritually attuned sage. Why he'd want that is so he can contact her and manipulate her into setting him free. She does so by astral projecting into the tree, Vaatu fuses with her and when they warp back into her body, Vaatu's dark powers/status are lost until Harmonic Convergence. Ilah shortly becomes pregnant with a second child and dies birthing the child. The child's name was Ozai.

Vaatu's true plan is to steal Raava's power over light/peace/yang for himself, evolving into the spirit of balance and bending themselves. But not until after 10,000 years of pure/eternal darkness, chaos, death, and destruction after Raava's death. With his bending, Vaatu makes sure that he gets stronger as the aspects of Yang regrow instead of weaker, which, in turn, makes Raava keep getting weaker.

Upon learning this plan and understanding that the light side of spiritbending restores the internal balance of spirits and possibly humans, Azula and Aang hatch a counterplan to use spiritbending on Vaatu and Raava at the same time. Vaatu and the fog will be purified into nothingness while Raava becomes the spirit of bending and balance, saving the world and setting all souls free in the process and without even having to wait 10,000 years.

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #lok #the legend of korra #raava #vaatu #atla book 4 air #atla au #dark avatar #dark avatar ozai #anti atla comics

[opalsiren]

and like i've said it before but it bears repeating, no children's animated show will come close to the genius of atla ever again. though the imitators have tried, it was really just the stars aligning in the most serendipitous way to create a near-perfect show with god-tier writing, acting performances, and visuals. even other media made by the producers just aren't up to the same standard of quality. nothing will ever come close again.

#yes atla is a very flawed show but compared to the imitators it's perfect #and i don't mean 'imitators' in a derogatory way necessarily #the closest that has come to being as good as atla in a similar genre is probably kipo imo #and before the l.ok defenders and comic enthusiasts start blowing up my mentions: pls don't #atla #a:tla #.txt #anti legend of korra #anti lok #anti atla comics #anti a:tla comics #tagging jic

[miss-sweetea-pie]

“Someday, this will all be funny”

Save myself/ Ashe

My first ever fan edit!

#anti kataang #katara #katara deserved better #anti lok #anti atla comics #I unfortunately read the comics #zutara #it had to be done #please be nice #fan edit