#baatar

[wilcze-kudly]

A barely coherent ramble on the Beifongs being a family of people with an incredibly high ability to feel things

Toph

I think a lot of people really misinterpret Toph. They see her for her role as powerhouse. However, one of her key abilities is actually her ability to sense her surroundings with earthbending.

But that's not all. Toph is able to sense people's heartrates and tell when they are lying or not.

In fact, Toph is a surprisingly empathetic person. Despite her abrasive and harsh personality, she's surprisingly good at reading people and seems to have very high emotional intelligence. She's extremely good at identifying people's strengths and their weak points. Multiple times, she's able to successfully get under people's skin very efficiently.

Girl is using her empathy to bully people good for her.

Sure, she often uses a tough love approach, however I would argue that it's a self defence mechanism. Toph doesn't like being vulnerable, probably due to the fact that she was treated as weak and helpless when she was growing up. People with higher empathy or sensitivity tend to be percieved as weaker or more delicate, which is something Toph desperately wants to avoid. Toph also carried her parents' emotions and expectations of her for a very long time and it could stand to reason that she doesn't wnat to do that with anyone else.

I think I may make a longer post on Toph and her trauma surrounding her parents and how that affects her relationships and behaviours lol.

Lin

So... Lin is very similar to her mother in many ways. She also puts up a prickly wall of "tough love" to deal with her high sensitivity. However, she seems to absorb and internalise things that hurt her much more than Toph does.

Lin's emotional maturity is heavily stunted, most likely due to her difficulty with bonding with people. She never really allowed herself to grow past a certain point. She didn't grow into her empathy, therefore she feels things, but doesn't exactly know how to handle them. Repressing these feelings is a band aid solution, and we do see how dangerous them overflowing is.

However, on rare occasions we do see Lin allow herself to empathise with others. We see this particularly with Opal and Mako. However, with most people, Lin's guard is always up.

Lin is the textbook example of someone very sensitive who pushes people away out of the fear of getting hurt.

Suyin

I can see some people arguing that Suyin has pretty low empathy. Looking at her treatment of Lin, Kuvira and Baatar Jr. I think it's true that in her younger years, Suyin struggled with her feelings. I'd argue it is due to very high empathy actually. In the flashbacks, Su seems to mirror Lin's emotions back at her, perhaps unable to distinguish them from her own.

However, unlike Lin, Su grows as a person in her time away from Republic City. When we see her as an adult, she is very in tune with her emotions and also able to deal with other people's outbursts without internalising their feelings.

She has a very gentle way of speaking to people and is able to quickly pinpoint what they need to hear, as she does with a young Kuvira and with Bolin. She can make other's feel comfortable and safe. Perhaps due to her own turbulent upbringing.

However, Suyin is also heacily driven by her emotions. Her impulsivity can cloud her judgement, such as when she flew into a fit of rage at the idea of a guard betraying her city, or when she risked not only her own life, but that of her sons, and tried to impulsively save Zaofu feom Kuvira. She also still holds a shocking degree of sympathy for Kuvira, despite her initial anger at her ans her children's visible discomfort with Kuvira's presence.

Suyin feels things very strongly, and, despite getting better at managing her feelings, they still often overtake her.

Baatar Jr

It's interesting when a character who is characterised as a more "intellectual" type is driven primarily by their emotions. Despite being a man of science, Baatar Jr has a habit of disregarding logic completely.

He prioritises his relationship with Kuvira, he has a weird lil rivalry with Varrick, he's incredibly bitter when it comes to his relationship with his family. Baatar Jr is such an underrated character.

Huan

I think most artists are inherently sensitive people. And we very much like to express the things we feel.

Huan seems to use his art to process certain experiences, for example Harmonic Convergence. He's quite sensitive when it comes to his creations. He also values other people's art too and perfers "raw emotional power" over quality.

Opal

I think a lot of people pick up on Opal's empathy on the first watch, especially when you see her interact with Lin. Opal is also very quick to notice that Su still has a soft spot for Kuvira. She also sets boundaries with Bolin very quickly and efficiently and I would credit this to Suyin's parenting.

But Opal is very much like her mother in the sense of having her judgement clouded by her emotions. Especially when it comes to the Kuvira situation. Her strong emotions often act to her detriment, as she almost gets baited into attacking Kuvira and her unchecked anger at Bolin arguably made him retract further into Kuvira's army. This is hardly a new thing for Opal, as we see her lashing out even as a child.

Wei and Wing

Splitting what little screentime the twins have between them yields scarce, but interesting characterisation. Wing seems to be more outwardly emotional, throwing a tantrum when he loses a game and cheering when excited about sparring Korra. While Wei, much like Lin and Toph before him, seems to put up a bit of a prickly wall, for example when he's antagonising Bolin.

The twins are very closely tied to their mother and it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to say that they internalise her emotions. Like when Wei yells at Kuvira during the negotiations.

The twins are also very open about their upset at Opal leaving. It's honestly sweet to se that Suyin raised her children to be able to express their emotions rather healthily.

Uh. Anyway. This post was mainly meant to toss a pattern I've noticed out into the open. I might make some more posts elaborating on particular aspects of it (i also wanna make one on kuvira and how she's quite the opposite of the Beifongs). So uh. If you have any suggestions of topics i should start with,just shoot lol.

#beifong brainrot #toph beifong #toph #lin beifong #suyin beifong #baatar #baatar jr #huan beifong #opal beifong #wei beifong #wing beifong #legend of korra #avatar #tlok #the legend of korra #avatar the legend of korra #atlok #lok #atla #avatar: the last airbender #the last airbender #avatar the last airbender

[kuvira-protege]

BAAVIRA WEEK 2023

Day 5: Flower Field

#baavira #the legend of korra #kuvira #baatar jr #baatar #baavira week #baaviraweek #baaviraweek2023

[beifongswh0re]

im thinking angsty Kuvira thoughts

some of it is canon, some is not

Since Vira became a big character in my fic, ive been thinking about her a lot and her story is already sad but my brain makes it even worse.

So I feel like all Kuvira wanted from Suyin was to be loved by her, just like she saw her love the rest of her children. She started creating the Earth Empire only to try to prove to her that she could do something meaningfull. She got eaten up by all that power in the end but at the same time, she felt she wouldn't do well enough if she didn't finish "uniting" the Earth Kingdom.

Because nobody ever made Kuvira feel like she was good enough.

Suyin's kids didn't consider her their sister;

Su didn't quite treat her like her daughter;

Toph took some interest with her when she saw her being a talented bender but at some point just dissapeared;

Her parents just left her in Zaofu and she never heard from them again;

Just think about how traumatized she was. She wanted a family, parents, somebody to take care of her when she wad a child but nobody did that. What proves it more is the fact that she got with Baatar Jr. Like, IF THEY CONSIDERED EACH OTHER SIBLINGS THAT WOULD NOT HAPPEN (im still angry at bryke that it happened, tho)

And then, Korra gave her a chance to redeem herself, to prove she only wanted to do good. Even then she was the type to get to the goal no matter what but Suyin kept her from doing stupid shit that would have bad concequences later. She also listened to Su pretty easily, she still trusted her after all that happened. She was so happy when Suyin offered to take her back home, too.

I think that being in Zaofu would still be hard for her. She'd train with Wing and Wei, spend some time with Baatar Sr. but it wouldn't be enough. It still wouldn't feel like home because her relationship with the Beifong family was still fucked up.

The guilt kept eating at her because she almost killed them all yet they still managed to be kind to her. Not to mention that if she hurt Wing or Wei by accident she'd go into full panic mode because she was afraid to hurt any one of them ever again.

Idk, she's a really sad character and I can't keep my mind off of it.

#beifong family #kuvira #lok suyin #suyin beifong #wing beifong #wei beifong #baatar #toph beifong #avatar the legend of korra #legend of korra #the legend of korra #tlok

[kyalinappreciationacct]

There's a story behind Suyin hiring a personal chef.

For @catra-taj

#wei #wing #baatar jr #baatar #auying #lin #opal #toph #haun #beifong #alignment chart meme #alignment chart #legend of korra #lok

[teasfanfics]

Kuvira under house arrest taking care of the Beifongs greenhouse 🌼🌿 thank you @kuvira-protege for drawing the background 💚

#kuvira #baatar #baavira #avatar #baatarjr #tlok #art #korra #legend of korra

[rainbabbles]

Some North bg chars! A couple of normal soldiers and an idea for a Yakut sea dragon princess (that Altantsetseg likes hehee)

These soldiers would know each other. Hohan is experienced, Shahlo really wants to prove herself, Vinevyt is chaos gremlin, and Baatar is a cool wife guy

#doodles #the sea king's mermaid #vinevyt #hohan #shahlo #baatar #bg chars

[atla-suki]

what’s ur opinion on suyin being sokka’s daughter?? (🤮🤮🤮)

oh my god i love this questionnnnnnnn😁😁😁😁😁😁 bc i get to argue against everyone’s silly little theory🤭🤭

my opinion is that that statement is WRONG! and that every reason people use to justify said theory that suyin is sokka’s kid is weak bc it can ALSO be used to justify the theory that BAATAR is sokka’s kid. (or varrick but i don’t like that one so i’m gonna #ignore it 😌)

“her kids look like sokka!” no. they look like their father. and HE looks like sokka.

“when we first meet suyin, she’s wearing armwraps like they do in the water tribe” literally what ru even talking about 💀her entire dance team wears them too - does that mean they’re all sokka’s kids???

also like in what world would SOKKA of all people be an absent father?? even if it was a fling or whatever idgaf he wouldn’t be completely absent from his child(ren)’s lives. not only because he’s loyal and caring and a beautiful man and i love him so so much, but also because he comes from the SWT and family and community are so so so important to them. ESPECIALLY to sokka, as someone who was entrusted with such care of his people and of his sister and so on. we see TIME AND TIME AGAIN how protective he is and how much he cares for those he loves. these are not traits of an absent father.

back on that baatar thing, it makes like 90x more sense for HIM to be sokka’s kid (and suki’s bc i love sukka and i am deciding that they stayed together forever bc it’s my blog and i make the rules).

an architect non-bender with darker skin who literally LOOKS like he’s related to sokka?

an architect. non-bender. who literally. looks. like. sokka.

based on pretty much no info of either suyin’s or baatar’s parentage (except toph), isn’t it more tangible that the metal clan get their supposed water tribe heritage from their father’s side?

anyway slay the boots house down baatar is a sokka kid #not suyin😌

#ask #atla #lok #sokka #suyin #baatar #godsamn this was a long ass post #anyway #suyin’s dad is probably that guy from that one comic #that toph meets #SATORU #i knew i remembered his name lmao #anyway yeah #ur welcome anon😙😙😙😙 #analysis

[dollvix]

To quote yourself, since I know you love the Bei Fongs as much as I do, do you realize that poor Baatar had to ask Lao and Poppy for their 'permission' to marry Suyin??? (we know it wasn't necessary but, alas, I bet Baatar didn't)

Just trying to picturing Old And Tired!Loppy being like 'omg someone in this family will ACTUALLY marry' with poor nervous Baatar in the background. Baatar being sure they'll reject him. *Cut to Poppy yelling at Suyin to she better marry ASAP before Baatar changes his mind*

So imagine that they have no idea why the architect that their granddaughter hired (with their money obviously) requested a meeting but they still receive him in the hall even though they can barely climb due to age but they would never admit that and Baatar never felt so much like a small boy before them (smaller than Toph here) but he still asks for Suyin's hand hoping that his guards will not kill him.

Lao's order to his guards is to bring drinks to celebrate, Suyin laughs because she had no idea why he wanted to talk to her grandparents until she heard it and mocks how unnecessary it was while Poppy scolds her and almost orders to bring a judge right then while Baatar looks at his new family in disbelief.

Lao: well at least we no longer have to pay him for his services in the new city Poppy: no but now we have to pay him for keeping Suyin

#beifong family #poppy beifong #lao beifong #avatar #atla #avatar the last airbender #suyin beifong #baatar

[bluepeachstudios]

Inktober 2020

Day 23 - Rip

A mess of characters. Tybalt and a broken-armed Nicolas holding Baatar back from tearing more than this guy's jacket. :)

#art #ame art #inktober #Inktober 2020 #ocs #Woof Town #Baatar #Tybalt #Nicolas

[thatonepersonimobsessedwith]

„Or what, darling?“

She didn’t need to turn her head to know that a smirk has occupied his features along with a twinkle in his slightly glassy eyes. It’s probably better she didn’t look or she might have tossed away her last shred of sanity this instant.

a short oneshot inspired by the prompt list of @korras-christmas 

#lok #legend of korra #suyin beifong #baatar #sutar #i have zero regrets

[wilcze-kudly]

Anyway, something, something almost all the Beifongs we see in atla and tlok seeming to be very sensitive and highly emotional (all dealing with it with varying degrees of success) . Something something seismic sense.

Remind me to make a post breaking down this aspect of Toph, Lin, Su and Su's kids. Fucked up lil family of superfeelers.

#beifong brainrot #toph #toph beifong #lin beifong #suyin beifong #baatar #baatar jr #huan beifong #opal beifong #wei beifong #wing beifong #legend of korra #avatar #tlok #the legend of korra #avatar the legend of korra #atlok #lok #atla #avatar: the last airbender #the last airbender #avatar the last airbender

[kuvira-protege]

BAAVIRA WEEK 2023

Day 1: Summer Night

Here we go!

#the legend of korra #kuvira #baatar #baavira #baavira week #fanart #baaviraweek #baaviraweek2023 #baatar jr #beifong

[nyamadermont]

*boquet of roses*

Pasta, for you, the story I'm just waiting for the right time to post. But that is going to be a while longer, so you get a longer quote:

He snorted to himself as he opened his pouch of brushes and pencils. Did he really need a reason? They looked nice. And he had enjoyed the ten pages of drawings it took to work through the machinery required to close it every night and open it every morning.  The hand on his shoulder gave him a fright.  The voice, though… “How intriguing. Would you tell me about your drawings?” As startled as he was, when he looked up into her piercing green eyes, he just knew his life had changed forever.

#sutar #suyin beifong #baatar #nyama's answered asks

[baatarjrweek]

BAATAR JR APPRECIATION WEEK IS BACK FOR ONE FINAL ROUND!!!

It's been a while but we are back in business Baatar Jr Fam!!

It's unfortunate that we must announce this, but due to the amount of waning support we've had with the last set of submissions, this will be the final baatarjrweek that we will be hosting.

So, if you would like to be a part of this last-ditch effort to give Baatar Jr some love in the TLOK fandom, please consider sending in submissions from April 23rd thru April 29th :}

You can post work early or late, all submissions are accepted > be sure to use #baatarjrweek in your tags. Late submissions will be accepted until May 5th.

Here are the topics:

Day 1: New Beginnings

Day 2: Patience

Day 3: Regret

Day 4: Family Ties

Day 5: Five Years Later...

Day 6: Puppy Love

Day 7: One Last Time

*As always, NFSW content is allowed (just be sure not to tag the work as NFSW)

Can't wait to see all the submissions!!

#tlok #legend of korra #baatarjrweek #baatar jr #baatar #baavira #kuvira #the beifongs #suyin beifong #the legend of korra #beifong family #beifong

[teasfanfics]

Years after Ruins of the Empire, Kuvira and Baatar are fighting deamons of their past under house arrest. But one day, everything changes when a spark of their love sets passionate fire between them again. How there can still be love after everything that happened? Can things be how they used to be in the past? Let's have a look to Kuvira's and Baatar's life.

#kuvira #baatar #baavira #avatar #tlok #baatarjr #korra #archive of our own #ao3 fanfic

[cold-neon-ocean]

Brain refuses to shut up about Kuvira, Baatar, and Bolin being actual genuine friends like you don't understand how badly I want that sobs

#LoK #Kuvira #Baatar #Bolin #[ you don't understand how much I love the three of them #they're all I wanna talk about rn I'm sick ]