#anti kuvira

[buckybarnesss]

Thoughts on Kuvira's redemption ?

so i don't know what that particular side of fandom is like but i do see on the subreddit quite frequently that there's people unironically being apologists for kuvira because they think she's hot.

could not be me. war criminal kuvira getting house arrest after like 1 good deed just sends me. they really tried to say she didn't know what guan was up to. i don't buy it. not with how in control of everything kuvira was.

she takes responsibility as she deflects it at the same time. it's a weak ass move by the writers to make kuvira seem less evil. either she's taking culpability for all of the actions of the earth empire or she's not.

i do think she's an intriguing character even if i don't really think she was set up enough to truly be compared to korra.

i've made a post about it before but it's kuvira and mako that are far more interesting to compare to each other as well as wu to korra but i'm definitely an outlier on those thoughts probably. like i love the idea that kuvira is suyin's laissez faire attitude and enlightened modern ideals taken to the extreme.

it does really suck her backstory was cut from the show due to nickelodeon's bullshit but like oh no you had a rough childhood so you became a fascist isn't garnering any sympathy from me.

opal's resentment of kuvria and vice versa was a great addition that i wish could've been explored more because i found that really interesting too. the way it circles back to toph's bad parenting and the relationship suyin had with lin.

i very much get she didn't set out with bad intentions but in the end she became a dictator with ambiguous censor approved ethnic cleansing re-education camps because this aired on nickelodeon and nationalist ideologies.

cool motive still murder. learned 0 from the whole sozin bullshit nearly 200 years before like she's jared, 19.

#my blog #lok #anti kuvira #i suppose

[zuko-always-lies]

The apparent “point” of Bolin’s arc in Legend of Korra season four is “you can serve a clearly fascist regime and even hang around its corridors of power without being aware of it.” Bolin spent years aiding Kuvira in very close contact with her and apparently noticed nothing.

All I can I can say about this “theme” is that I think Albert Speer would approve of it.

#legend of korra critical #LoK critical #tlok critical #anti Kuvira

[shadelorde]

I’m gonna be real with yall Kuvira is my least favorite LoK villain by a long shot

#says the vaatu guy #but whatever #listen. #listen she is literally a fascist #out of ALL the villains her ass should not have gotten the redemption arc #I don’t CARE that she’s hot her personality is NASTY #and her backstory felt really cheap and like. a rushed way to make us feel sympathetic #like. the opposite of Zaheer where he went completely off the rails at the end so we’d hate him #and Korra’s ‘learning compassion’ arc that led to that? #she was beaten up and violated and tortured #and how dare the show imply that it was ‘necessary’ for her to learn compassion from #so yeah. I hate Kuvira and her role in the narrative #legend of korra #tlok #anti kuvira

[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

[balsa-margarita]

Still can't fully believe that both Kuvira and Azula's comics arcs involved absolutely zero reckoning with authoritarianism - which is a huge part of both their characters, if for different reasons - and instead settled for mommy issues. If that's not proof they aren't worth the read then I don't know what is.

#anti atla comics #some days I'm just annoyed and I have to mention these things #azula #kuvira #imperialist child soldier antagonist? mommy issues #fascist antagonist? guess what also mommy issues #also I will not debate which is which right now because it ought to be obvious

[faultlinesurfer]

Me everytime I watch Season 4 of Korra

#legend of korra #the south american anti authoritarianism evaporated from my self whenever Kuvira (my beloved) was on screen

[harleyification]

I gotta put my frustrations somewhere, but I still cannot BELIEVE that Legend of Korra put in the fact that Kuvira made "REEDUCATION CAMPS" for water and firebender people/ethnicities, and this fucking dictator only got a smack on the hand as well as a redemption arc in the fucking comics.

They literally said she did That. And I'm supposed to sit here and think that she was worthy of being given a second chance all because she ratted out her own people.

What. The fuck.

#avatar the last airbender #avatar the legend of korra #atla #tlok #Like. I know its a kids show and Nickelodeon probably said DONT KILL OFF POLITICAL LEADERS IN UR SHOW NO MATTER HOW YOU PORTRAYED THEM #But did the comics really have to Go There?? Couldnt we have just kept her in jail?? #I still cant fucking believe they DID THIS #I hate Kuvira so much. Her potential as a villain was wasted because we were forced to sympathise with her. #The only villain worse than her is Unalaq. #Im trying so hard to not be rabidly anti-tlok #It genuinely had some good moments in this and lots of good potential #But then I remember stuff like This and I just...I cant REDEEM it. #And it makes me sad

[yumnasfunblog]

One thing that endlessly fascinates me is how personal the bond between Korra and almost all her villains is. Like,

Amon and Tarrlok were pretty much raised to kill her. Kill her.

(That's pretty messed up.)

(Also, Amon and Korra are very similar in a way. Both raised to be weapons and both full-heartedly embraced the role they were given.)

(I dunno. I just think it's cool when the hero and villain parallel each other. Two different paths...)

Unalaq was her uncle. And he even trained her in skills she still uses in later seasons.

(Admittedly, Korra's student/teacher relationship with Unalaq was a lot healthier than Korra's student/teacher relationship with Tenzin until Unalaq turned evil.)

The Red Lotus wanted to raise her. Raise her.

(It's interesting that Korra thinks that the red lotus wants to brainwash her because that's pretty much what the white lotus has been doing to her her whole life.)

Kuvira...was Korra's friend before she turned evil.

(She was Suyin's daughter and saved Korra's dad. They were friends.)

These aren't just random villains. These are people with a personal connection to Korra. And I just thought that was cool.

#amon #korra #tarrlok #noatak #unalaq #the red lotus #kuvira #anti the white lotus

[irisbaggins]

Seething as I realise how much they did indeed copy Korrasami, both Dark Horse kiss and Spirit Portal ending. Seething as I realise it's ten years of that fucking colour show, and Korrasami happened before this managed to even be conceptualised. Seething.

#text_iris #eVEN THE COLOURS. FUCK #I am just. Mad #I imprinted on LoK and Zuko (I blame Blue and the Art of Burning for this) and seeing THIS is just aaaa #Like fuck! Colour show WISH they could have as complex and complicated villains as LoK! #Like! Amon Unalaq Zaheer and Kuvira are all complex and complicated villains! With their own ideals and goals! #Like fuck! Zaheer helping Korra in the fourth season is SO GOOD and Kuvira giving herself up! Colour show WISH they could write this good! #Like! Part of me is CONVINCED they saw Vatuu and based Salem off of him like Vatuu came first! #Just!! Aaaa!! Rage!!! #And thinking about that Hbomb video that opened my eyes to how much this how copies ATLA #Urghhhhh anger #Fuckkk you know what I realised #They wanted Ironwood to be a Kuvira. Without understanding why Kuvira WORKS and how she was ALWAYS set up to be like that #And Ironwood WASN'T. Kuvira was set out to fall into an Imperial control freak mindset. Having her Foster Mother be so Anti Monarchy #(And Suyin being SO passionate about her beliefs and Kuvira feeling SO MUCH sets it up so well!!) #But Ironwood WASN'T set up for it! He was a disabled man who wanted to protect people! He never in the first volumes showed a control freak- #-tendency. Kuvira DID and DOES. Her 'protecting' hinges on her having FULL control. To the point of sacrificing her one love #Like!! Seeing more and more of these similarities makes me pissed I ever once liked the colour show!! #Because it tricked me! It used things I was familiar with and loved to lure me in and theN DID EVERYTHING BAD #URGH I should use this energy for my bachelor's thesis instead I'm ranting about a stupid rt show #It's SO BAD and I am ANGRY and I wish this show to cease from my thoughts #Anyway go watch ATLA and LOK they're so much better

[comradekatara]

I'm writing a fanfic rewriting Legend of Korra to make Korra an anti-hero who eventually allies with Kuvira and betrays her friends. It's called "The Tragedy of Korra". Have you ever thought that Korra would have been more interesting if Korra herself was more morally grey? I feel like it would have tied together a bunch of elements that didn't work too well in canon Korra.

i mean korra already is morally grey (liberal). but i do think a narrative wherein korra attempts to undo the (supposed) work of aang & zuko to establish a neocolonial state on earth kingdom land (republic city) by allying with kuvira could be interesting in terms of what would need to change in the plot for her to reach that conclusion. lok pretty uniformly portrays republic city as a good thing that only fascist monsters would attempt to condemn, but kuvira is also just categorically right that republic city is essentially a fire nation colony in a coat of fresh globalist paint, she's just wrong in her conclusion that returning that land to the earth kingdom means returning that land to her specifically. but korra grappling with the ramifications of the darker aspects of her predecessor's legacy is a very "avatar" story (aang w/ roku, kyoshi w/ kuruk, kuruk w/ yangchen, even korra w/ wan in book 2 i guess), and was only really elided by the narrative because we're supposed to agree with the construction of republic city in the first place (ymmv).

we're supposed to buy that aang and zuko established republic city and that rc is an ontologically independent state with no vestiges of fire nation imperialism left in its functioning, but it takes many large leaps in logic to arrive at that conclusion (such as toph establishing a police force; katara being fine with neocolonialism, including in her home; etc.), that this was a largely positive decision and not a geopolitical blunder. but i think taking a more realistic approach, that aang was forced to make compromises and now korra must decide whether/how to rectify those decisions and with whom to ally to do so, was always the kind of dormant subtext of lok that i felt like needed to be teased out more for the show to work in the direction it had been taken (which, again, is not necessarily the only or best direction they could have taken it).

i do think you'd have to change kuvira's character considerably to make her less cartoonishly evil (she is a fascist ethnonationalist who crowns herself emperor, puts minorities in internment camps, and harvests the resources of a sacred swamp to construct a wmd that is launched from a giant robot...) if you want anyone to buy that korra would ally with her, but korra does also ally herself with some pretty questionable figures, so i hardly think her naïveté in that regard is out of character for her either. i think politically speaking, lok kind of already is a tragedy, so you'll probably find yourself with both an easier and harder job than you'd expect attempting to rewrite the narrative from this particular angle.

#mysticarcadehologram-blog #asks #lok crit #shows a fucking mess bro #they rly had kuvira use a giant robot to destroy republic city..... but then claimed this show was subtler than atla. ok #this is why i love the yangchen novels specifically tbh #bc so much of the political maneuvering is just ppl talking in rooms #and their politics actually feel coherent #unlike lok which does not make sense at all #like im not necessarily opposed to the avatar world arriving at global capitalism. but the way they explore it makes no sense

[wilcze-kudly]

I'd love to know more about the Beifongs navigating Earth Kingdom nobility.

What effect does Lin clearly placing Republic City over her homeland of the Earth Kingdom on the other Beifongs political power? Similairly, I assume Kuvira and Baatar Jr's escapade placed the family in hot water with the other nobles.

What is their relation with Wu? I assum3 they at least see him as a step up from the Earth Queen. Is Su still anti monarchy? How does that work with Su presumably having grown up with Izumi?

Just how independent is Zaofu allowed to be?

The Earth Kingdom noble sphere seems to be just a tad fucked up and I'd love to know more about it. I wanna see the Beifong family get into trouble with the Dai Li or smth.

#lin beifong #suyin beifong #legend of korra #avatar #tlok #the legend of korra #avatar the legend of korra #atlok #beifong brainrot #lok

[burst-of-iridescent]

so i just went through your entire anti-lok tag and everything you said in it was SO WELL WRITTEN. i wanted to ask if you might have any analyses or anything (or just good old rants! we love being bryke haters) - about something that i noticed, which is this sort of... ATLA/TLOK dichotomy between how all aang's villains seem to be focused on gaining power/dominating the world or whatever, but the villains in TLOK seem to revolve around very pointed targeting of korra and specifically stripping her of her agency/bodily autonomy, but i don't know how to expand on that point.

(idk just. TLOK has a whole list of scenes that make me VIOLENTLY uncomfortable in a way even the worst of ATLA doesn't? and i thought you might have some input to share about it, if you don't mind me asking)

thank you sm!! i'm glad you enjoy my lok and bryke salt <33

i know what you mean, because it's something that struck me when i was watching lok as well. korra's villains are far more personal to her (particularly in what they do to her, or want from her) than azula or ozai or even zhao ever were to aang, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing (in fact it can often be good to have a personal relationship between your hero and villain; just look at how much more impactful and meaningful zuko and azula's arc was compared to aang and ozai's), there is a way to do it right and that was... not what bryke did.

we didn't need to see korra brutally bloodbent and stripped of her bending, or brutally attacked by unalaq, or brutally tortured by the red lotus or - you got it - brutally beaten up by kuvira (over and over again, might i add). i'm not saying that violence never has its place in storytelling, but it needs to have an actual purpose that's not just shock value. atla, for instance, knew when and how to utilise violence: the sight of gyatso's skeleton in the southern air temple, aang's murder by azula, even katara bloodbending... the violence in all of those scenes was necessary either to communicate vital information to the audience, or drive home the emotive and narrative significance of the moment, or both.

in lok though, bryke hardly, if ever, achieved either of these objectives - especially because it was mainly only ever korra who got the brunt of the violence. no other character is repeatedly targeted and assaulted and violated even half as much as korra is, even when they're facing the same antagonists. tenzin's fight against the red lotus in book 3 gets a tasteful pan to black (one of the few times i think bryke did use violence purposefully; knowing what not to show is just as important as knowing what to show, and leaving the audience with the dread of tenzin's fate was actually sadder and more terrifying than letting us see what happened to him) but korra's agonizing torture at the hands of the red lotus is so long and drawn-out that it begins to veer into torture porn.

imo, this can probably be attributed to two things: 1) bry.ke thinking trauma = character development because they don't know how else to write a good character arc (and they still somehow fucked it up - i will never forgive them for making korra thank zaheer, of all people, for helping her overcome her trauma, like what the absolute fuck bry.ke), and 2) they wanted lok to be "more mature" than atla, which shows both that they fundamentally didn't understand atla, or what constitutes good storytelling, and also that someone desperately needs to tell them that simply upping the violence and hamfistedly handling "complex" topics does not maturity make.

(given the way bryke has written women, i also have to side-eye the fact that the strong-willed, independent, brown female protagonist is beaten and battered and torn down far more than the peaceful, affable light-skinned male protagonist ever is, even during an actual war.)

and of course, contrary to what our dear bryke probably expected, simply brutalizing korra season after season in the name of shock value and development did not, to anyone else's surprise, make lok the better show in the end.

#anti lok #anti bryke #apologies for how long it took me to get to this ask! thank you for being so patient <3 #as an aside i see your tags and comments on my posts a lot and i always love reading them #please feel free to let me know more of your thoughts anytime! <3

[zuko-always-lies]

I think I’m in the rare category of people who thinks that both Suyin and Kuvira are absolutely awful people coddled by the narrative.

#anti Kuvira #anti Suyin #one of them is a fascist dictator #the other just behaves awfully in general

[fantastic-nonsense]

☔

☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?

I had to browse through my 30+ WIPs to figure out if there was one I was willing to classify in this category, and...if there was a fic that fits it's a Legend of Korra fic concept I wrote up like 8 or 9 years ago in the immediate aftermath of the series finale. I genuinely don't think I'll ever get to it; not only because I've long since left the LOK fandom and have no real interest in finishing any of my fic ideas that aren't my "Justice for Asami Sato" WIP, but also because it would likely need a whole series of fics to properly explore everything I wanted to cover. I will, however, happily give a detailed outline of what I was planning on doing since I'm never going to get around to it.

Basically, the concept was to completely imagine LOK as the story might have been written if the creative team had known from the beginning that they would have 4 seasons to tell the story of Korra. I was looking at the disjointedness of plot, themes, and character arcs that happened because Bryke originally planned the show as a miniseries and then didn't know how many more seasons they would get...and thinking about how to connect everything together more coherently (within my own preferences and ideas of how things should have been told, of course).

The tl;dr of each fic is as follows:

Book 3′s plot would come first, as it should have in the show: Korra travels to Republic City to learn Airbending from Tenzin, only to find that some spiritual mumbo jumbo has created new Airbenders. Thus, she’ll learn airbending from Tenzin while they’re all on the search for the new airbenders. Meanwhile, the Red Lotus has escaped and is coming after Korra. Ends the same way, with Korra physically incapacitated and suffering from major PTSD

Book 4′s plot would be next: the fall of the Earth Kingdom creates a power vacuum that Kuvira fills. Meanwhile, we watch the season-long restoration of Korra’s physical/mental/spiritual wellbeing. We get the story of Wan and Raava this season, as part of Korra’s recovery arc (so she can discover and restore her bond with the Avatar Spirit).

Book 1 now becomes Book 3: also in the wake of the Red Lotus’s destruction and the tyranny of Kuvira’s Earth Empire, anti-bender sentiment has sprung up around the world. Amon takes advantage of this sentiment within Republic City. Korra, now residing in Republic City, has to deal with the anti-bender revolution as a fully realized Avatar (but one that is still struggling to fully recover from the Red Lotus and is now terrified of losing her bending because of the events of the first two seasons)

Book 2′s dual plot would end the series: Korra has to deal with the Water Tribe Civil War while Harmonic Convergence approaches, which would have had lore drops throughout the show after the ‘Avatar Orgins’ revelations back in the second fic. The series ends with a bang as Korra defeats the spiritual manifestation of darkness and chaos and pledges to lead the world into a new spiritual age. 

A fairly detailed explanation of how I'd planned out this reimagining is below the cut, if you like.

Ask me a question about one of my WIPs!

The first fic ("Air") was going to start out with the re-emergence of the airbenders due to a freak spiritual event; this was going to be the reason Tenzin wouldn't be able to train Korra in airbending at the South Pole compound, as he was focused heavily on recruiting and training new airbenders and wanted to put off training the Avatar for another year or two. Meanwhile, the Red Lotus breaks out of their prisons and starts readying themselves to go kill the Avatar.

Korra would make her way to Republic City to try and reason with Tenzin that he could just train her while looking/training the other airbenders, meet Lin while breaking up a robbery in progress, and escape from the RCPD with the help of Mako and Bolin, two pro-benders who just lost the finals this season (but they’re sure that they’ll come back next year even better). They introduce her to Asami Sato, their sponsor and Mako’s girlfriend. She explains who she is, what she’s doing in Republic City, and what’s going on….and they decide they want to help her. They all end up stowing away on Tenzin's ship along with Lin, who basically designates herself as the Air Family's bodyguard (because god forbid Tenzin go swanning off into the Earth Kingdom without any protection for his small children).

We'd spend most of the fic dealing with the three intersecting plots: 1) Korra struggling to learn Airbending and spiritual direction from Tenzin, 2) Tenzin finding and training the new airbenders+Korra, and 3) the Red Lotus political plot and their attempts to kill Korra (which both fall under the “no more world leaders” heading of their group goals).

Subplots would have been more or less the same subplots as the existing Book 3, with some of the Book 1 issues mixed in: resolving the Lin-Tenzin tension, Tenzin struggling to be a teacher and rebuild the Air Nation, korra struggling to figure out airbending, Mako and Bolin finding their family, and the romance issues (Korra-Mako-Asami with a season-long Masami breakup arc and the Bolin-Opal romance…the Mako-Bolin drama over Korra doesn’t happen because we meet Opal basically right off the bat). Korra still ends up hurt and traumatized at the end of the fic. Despite initiating the Avatar state for the first time while fighting Zaheer, she can no longer connect after the physical and spiritual trauma she suffered, so she stays behind at the South Pole to be healed and further mentored by Katara.

The second fic ("Restoration") would have picked up one year after the first fic ends and covered the basic plot of Book 4 with some of the character arcs that Book 2 dealt with (except better): The fall of the Earth Kingdom created a power vacuum that Kuvira fills. Korra's doing her season-long recovery/spiritual discovery arc while dealing with the threat of Kuvira; we also get the Wan-Raava story here, to properly sow the seeds for the Harmonic Convergence plot later down the road.

Mako and Bolin go back to pro-bending, but both find it unsatisfying after going globetrotting. Mako's single, and Bolin and Opal (who's moved to Air Temple Island to continue her training) are still dating. Asami, who's chafing under the restrictions of being back in Republic City and once again living with her father, joins an underground street racing group as a racer and part-time mechanic; she's super lonely, since Korra is still recovering from what the Red Lotus did to her and (from her father’s POV) she no longer has any ‘socially acceptable’ reason to interact with Bolin and Mako since they’re no longer dating. So all of that happens, culminating with Kuvira's attempted invasion of Republic City. The Krew would reunite to fight her off.

The third fic ("Equality") would have picked up about six months later and reinterpreted the Equalist plot. In the wake of the Red Lotus’s destruction of the Earth Kingdom, the chaos that unfolded afterwards, and Kuvira's attempted invasion of Republic City, anti-bender sentiment has sprung up around the world. Amon takes advantage of this sentiment within Republic City. Korra, now residing full-time in Republic City, has to deal with the anti-bender revolution as an Avatar who is now terrified of losing her bending after fully recovering from what the Red Lotus did to her.

Bolin took a long trip back to the Earth Kingdom with Opal to see Suyin+his family and help stabilize the country a bit, but they're both on their way back to Republic City in the first chapter. Mako has, after bonding with Lin in the first season, joined up with the RCPD to work under her and is working his way up the ladder (hoping to reach ‘detective’ status). He’s still having Issues adjusting, especially without Bolin around. He goes and hangs out on Air Temple Island with Korra when he’s off-duty because people actually seem to like having him around and there’s always something that he can do (and he likes feeling Useful). But lately he's been hearing some concerning stuff at his job about the Equalist movement, and he's got a bad feeling about what it means for Korra and for all benders in Republic City.

So Mako has his police corruption investigation arc. Bolin is trying to figure out what he actually wants to do with his life now that he's not a pro-bender anymore. Asami starts getting suspicious that her father is up to something and decides to take matters into her own hands. And Korra is dealing with the Equalists and how to balance the "you're our Avatar too" undercurrents amongst the non-bending population.

The final fic ("Spirits") would start up about six months after Amon's defeat. Book 2′s dual plot would end the series: Korra has to deal with the Water Tribe Civil War while Harmonic Convergence approaches, which would have had lore drops throughout the series after the ‘Avatar Orgins’ two-parter back in the second fic. The series ends with a bang as Korra defeats the spiritual manifestation of darkness and chaos and pledges to lead the world into a new spiritual age.

Unalaq still sets up and starts the Water Tribe Civil War to gain power, but it’s also in service to creating as chaotic of a world situation as he can before Harmonic Convergence (opening a pathway to Vaatu’s domination over Raava; because the world is a) in chaos and b) out of balance, Vaatu will have an easier time winning the fight against Raava). The Raava-Vaatu fight would also be more explicitly framed as order vs. chaos (not light vs. darkness), which would align it more with how ATLA previously handled the concepts of yin and yang.

I was still working on what everyones' character arcs and struggles would look like in that final fic apart from Korra (who was set up to have the same political figure+spiritual leader balancing act Book 2 tried to pull off), but I know that I was planning to give Asami a Tony Stark arc and let her see the direct consequences of Future Industries’ war profiteering, giving her a reason to completely change the company around to focus on energy, transportation, and entertainment instead of selling tanks and biplanes to the Water Tribes. So...yeah. Those are the basics.

....and all of that and more is sitting in a detailed outline in a doc that I will probably never touch again, so I hope this was a fun glimpse 😭

#ask game #asks #my writing #legend of korra #lok #also I do not say this but endgame ships would have been Makorra+Bopal+Asami/OC #(A girl named Yuki who's one of Mako's civilian friends and I was very dedicated to fleshing out in my notes lmao) #also they're all bi and messy teenagers about it but in like...a funny way and not the super cringe way we got in the show

[tamras-shieldmaiden]

Say idk if you've considered trying this but a "Young Kuvirasami" Prequel fic would be so charming and adorable.

I think it could work as them meeting as kids and not knowing it till adulthood, or them being lifelong friends❤️💚😚🥰

Interestingly enough, I have played around with the idea of Asami and Kuvira meeting before the events of Book 3 with a concept I had for a Fullmetal Alchemist inspired story. In this divergence, Hiroshi made a trip to Zaofu with his family to witness by himself the technological innovations developed by Baatar Sr. This was before the tragic incident that took Yasuko's life and before Hiroshi was radicalized in anti-bender sentiment. Little Asami met all the Beifong children, including newcomer Kuvira, who had been recently taken in by Suyin after being abandoned by her parents. In this version, Asami became Kuvira's first true friend, and they became pen pals after Asami returned to Republic City. Little did they know how important this friendship would be in the future as they faced life changing events that would alter the course of their lives.

I like this WIP a lot, but for now, it shall remain in the WIP drawer because the whole concept gets pretty complicated with what could be considered an alternate retelling of the series (sans Kuvira's rise to power and tyrannical regime) and it would require a lot of work for it to turn out as I would like 🥲, but that's basically the idea in a nutshell.

#the legend of korra #legend of korra #tlok #lok #asami sato #kuvira #kuvirasami #headcanons #ask

[wishingforatypewriter]

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

Thanks for the ask!

🍄 Baatar is actually more political than Kuvira. He went to university in Ba Sing Se and left an anti-monarchist with strong opinions about how inequality is built into the design and infrastructure of cities. And when the Earth Queen fell, he wanted to leave for Ba Sing Se far before Kuvira suggested it.

🍬 Though they both had their issues and the problems in their dynamic were all their parents' fault, Azula was a far better sibling to Zuko than he was to her (and I will die on this hill lol).

#baavira #kuvira #baatar jr #azula