#pema the homewrecker

[hotpinkrathian]

The legend of korra subreddit kind of popping off recently.

Like the amount of posts I've seen where people have just been like "Lin deserved better"... shit is eating.

Flock to tumblr, people. Lin is happy here. We treat her better than Tenzin ever could 💅

#legend of korra #kyalin #lin beifong #korrasami #atla #kuvira #lok #beifong #toph beifong #linzin #pema the homewrecker #but its okay because it worked out because Lin and Kya are just too cute #lin is a babe #suyin owed lin an apology and still does

[the-badger-mole]

why don't you like pema?

I don't like homewreckers who encourage others to be homewreckers. Also, she's boring. Aside from give Korra really, REALLY bad advice and be Tenzin's perfect breed mare, what did she really add to the show?

I'm not letting Tenzin off for his part in what happened, btw. But Pema was just so smug about it. I have no respect.

#lok #anti pema

[unbeifonged]

as much as i’d love to believe that all of tenzin’s need to rebuild the air nation is self inflicted, i don’t see a universe where aang wouldn’t have, possibly subconsciously, created or fed into that need.

rebuilding the air nation was the most important thing to aang, that was clear to everyone who knew him, especially his son, the only person who could actually help aang realise that dream. while it might never have been said explicitly, tenzin knew from a young age the only way he could have anyone like him other than his father in this world was to have children.

i do not think, in any way, aang (or katara) would have ever told tenzin he had to have children. but, i do think it was in some ways expected from him since he was young.

after tenzin and lin had been together for a while, assuming lin’s aversion to motherhood was known already, i do think aang would have changed his expectations and come to peace with tenzin being potentially the last ever airbender, but that process would have come with a lot of grief. tenzin would have already been two decades deep in the loneliness of being an airbender, and aware his father won’t live forever, and so would likely have always wanted children of his own throughout his relationship with lin.

on a related note, demonising pema for her relationship with tenzin is completely and utterly ridiculous. tenzin was probably telling the truth when he said he and lin’s relationship was spiralling downhill. of course he would find companionship and friendship with an acolyte engrossed in his culture (that he is now the last member of), and find himself drifting from someone he cares deeply for but is not after the same things in life as him. when pema talks to korra about her relationship with tenzin starting, of course she’s not going to bring up lin’s obsession with career, or aangs passing and the grief associated, or tenzin’s unending loneliness in the world, just that she saw tenzin’s relationship was going to end horribly no matter what and she cared about him. (EVERYONE WHO SPENT ANY TIME AROUND LIN AND TENZIN PROBABLY KNEW THEIR TIME WAS UP. THEY ARE BOTH EMOTIONAL PEOPLE. A STRAGGLING RELATIONSHIP AND MUTUAL UNHAPPINESS IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO SPOT).

anyways. it does not make aang a bad parent for hoping tenzin will bring more airbenders into the world. it does not make pema a homewrecker for dating a man after a messy (& very public) breakup.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

ps. read inheriting the wind by acommondator on ao3 it is beautiful!!!!

#is this comprehensable?? idk #pema defender for life #lin defender for life #tenzin defender for life #i love tjem all!!!!! #tenzin #tenzin tlok #lin beifong #aang #avatar aang #katara #the legend of korra #tlok #avatar the last airbender #tlok meta #atla meta

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Tenzin is How Old!?

I recently discovered that Tenzin got together with Pema in his thirties while scrolling through the Lin Beifong and Tenzin tags. And there is a 16-year age gap between him and Pema. I was like, this must be a mistake. Tenzin and Lin dated and broke up as teenagers right? Tenzin is in his thirties, going on to his forties right???!

Never knew LOK could make me feel even more nauseous than it already does. I have some issues:

If Lin and Tenzin broke up as adults, then Lin destroying Air Temple Island on her way out makes her look even worse. I know female violent behavior is supposed to be funny but I don't find it funny. A grown-ass woman acting like a hormonal teenager. Get a grip, Lin!

Pemzin is now icky. The age gap is not a total dealbreaker...but wasn't Pema an air acolyte? Considering Tenzin was basically deemed the saviour of the air nomads and the only kid recognized by the acolytes, I am not liking this dynamic. Especially when you remember how those first-gen acolyte girls worshipped Aang in the comics. I am sure any acolyte would be honoured to mother the next airbender generation. A similar sentiment to Mary accepting to get pregnant with Jesus. Just eww. And when you factor in Pema's homewrecker advice to Korra...ugh. It's the same kind of vibe as the CEO divorcing his nagging wife to get frisky with the young, adoring, just-out-of-college secretary :(

I swear LOK gets worse and worse every day. Tenzin is still one of my favourite characters from the series (not that the bar is very high) but I am reconsidering my view of this guy. And of his wife.

#anti pemzin #anti pemaxtenzin #air acolytes #tenzin critical #lin beifong critical #anti lok #avatar the legend of korra #tenzin #lin beifong #anti pema #pema critical

[yourlocalnetizen]

Pema from legend of Korra is disgusting!

She's a homewrecker AND SHE'S PROUD OF IT!

She encourages Korra to do the same thing and sets a horrible example to her.

I'm not saying Lin & Tenzin were a good couple, Lin is WAY TOO GOOD for that ugly bald elitist prick, but Pema ACTIVLY TRYING TO BREAK THEM UP IS SO WRONG!!!

#anti pema #anti tenzin #legend of korra #korra #lin beifong

[tachiha3]

for shipping bingo:

maiko, bumizumi, ty lee/teo and tenzin/pema

Thanks for the ask!

Maiko

Current obsession. I LOVE the childhood sweethearts aspect of this. And Mai's love for Zuko? Purely uncondotional. And the way he lights up at the mere mention of her? My heart!!!! We don't talk about Mai's love for him enough like "I love Zuko more than I fear you"? Chills, I tell you!

PS they'd totally be the type of couple to call kataang cringe/inappropriate for being all lovey dovey and spoon feeding each other in public meanwhile they themselves just randomly make out for no reason whatsover. 😂

Bumizumi

Honestly, I'm just not that on board with the idea of kids of the main cast ending up together 😅. (BoruSara is the only exception) I honestly don't focus on tlok romance much. I LOVE exploring Bumi & Izumi, but differently. (Though they SO played together as toddlers whenever their parents needed an outing so they just drop them off to the other's home.)

TyLee/Teo

I was not aware that this existed. But I can definitely see it. They'd be really cute together. Just a bundle of adorableness. Like a basket of bunnies. 😍😍😍

PemaZin

Fandom sleeps on them too much. They are such a sweet married couple and I hate that Pema gets sidelined so much because of LinZin shipping. She is such a girlboss honestly. And I've heard people calling her a homewrecker??? I thought we only used this term in shitty soap operas. Honestly, they are cutesy happily married couple who'd DEFINITELY have the airbabies embarassed all the time. 😂

#atla #avatar the last airbender #my post #ask #my first ask! #maiko #pemazin #bumizumi not really #teolee not really

[transtenzin]

this close to unfollowing the tenzin tag just because this one person keeps posting the worst takes in there and it keeps showing up on my dash 😭 if i were on desk top i would have filtered them out by now

#like you have to be soo far gone when you confuse fanon for canon #pema is not a homewrecker 😭 touch grass #it was tenzin by himself who dumped lin and then later started dating pema... like normal people do when they move on #mae dot txt

[carbootsoul]

also ☕️ + pemzin ♥

honestly i like them. i didn’t care much at all the first time i watched the show but mae’s headcanons made me warm to them a lot!! also.. parental figures... 

#leo.ask #theres a lot of people on tiktok who are like ew pema's a homewrecker aksjfslkdj i hate her #and like.. u know that people break up? and get with other people?? #like people don't date the same person their whole life

[boahancock-hebihime]

I’m really worried because of the upcoming Avatar series because of the wasted potential that was TLOK

I really respect Bryke for coming up with Atla but I think they are better at creating a fictional world instead of actually writing episodes and storylines. In Atla they had a lot of talented writers, that knew how to write an interesting storyline. In the Atla Comics and tlok Bryke had more input into the storyline which is why the comics often fall flat and Legend of Korra disappointed a lot of fans with high expectations. I know that Bryke and a lot of Tlok fans say it was Nickelodeon’s fault but it wasn’t.

I’m going to name a few things that bothered me about Tlok that were mistakes by Bryke and not Nickelodeon:

Korras Tream Avatar

Korras Team always had the same problem. They all don’t have any goals, dream values or aspirations. I think it’s really weird that Mako, Asami and Bolin lived their whole live in a big city and don’t have any friends. Imagine how cool it would have been if Mako and Bolin had street friends or even friends from and orphanage to actually show what the life is like living on the streets compared to her sheltered live. Imagine if we had seen the drastic contrast to Asamis rich life with shallow friends. I always imagine what their storylines could have been.

If Bryke removed Pro bending and gave Korras team Avatar friends and a back story I would have been much more invested in their characters.

Asami had almost no emotions. The only time she actually had emotions was when she felt sorry for Korra and not even for herself which is really weird. In season one she had no reason to join the team Avatar. If I summarize the relationship she had with the team was everybody besides Bolin lied to her and cheated on her. It’s not realistic for her to join them especially because she had a great relationship with her father. It would have been better if she joined her father and turned away from him after he went to far and then join the team after they build up a heathy relationship.

Korras team Avatar didn’t really seem like friends. They behaved like work colleagues that have to put up with each other. Every single character is replaceable and it wouldn’t make a difference to the story. If you replaced mako with jinora the story would still be the same. The same goes if you replace Bolin and Asami with any character from Tlok it wouldn’t change the story. If you compare this to the gaang you would notice that they would have been dead if any character was missing. They needed each other. Every single character had their purpose. In Tlok it wouldn’t make a difference if Korra had a completely other team.

Bryke doing too much

Sometimes less is more. Bending is such a cool unique power system which was nowhere to be found in any other storytelling form besides Shounen Anime’s like Naruto, One Piece and HxH. It’s really understandable and relatable to the real world. There was no need for laser shooting and sky beams like every other Marvel or DC movie we’ve seen it already dozens of times. And there was no need for giant robots like dozens of mecha anime. If I wanted to see that I would watch that instead of something which takes place in the world of Avatar.

Tlok really needed younger writers

I thought it was weird that Bryke thought in season one that the biggest problem in a girls live who’s literally the Avatar would be “how do I get the guy that I just met a few days ago even though he has a girlfriend”. The whole plot line with homewrecking someone ok as long as you think you fit better with the person and the talk with pema seemed more like one of the writers got through a divorce and added that to the story to feel better about replacing his wife with someone who’s 20 years younger. Like who in their right mind would think getting the characters in relationships before they even spend time together and got to know each other was a good idea. It seemed really shallow that’s it. If they really thought that this is what teenagers wanted to see they were definitely wrong.

Unnecessary plot lines that didn’t help the plot

Pro bending was used in the first season after that they never mentioned it again. They wasted 5 episodes on something that could have been replaced with establishing the characters and republic city more. Avatar Wan was unnecessary. I know a lot of people wanted to know how the first Avatar came about but tbh that was a bad idea and only pissed a lid of people of because it was contradicting. A whole episode on learning metal bending. Bryke literally just did it to call her the first metal bending avatar. It didn’t help Korra. She didn’t need it. There was no reason for it. Those aren’t the only examples but to get to the point sometimes it looked like Bryke had no idea what they were doing. They started a storyline mid season they changed their mind and did something completely different which made zero sense. Especially in season one and two.

Too much focus on the original team Avatar

I think they probably did it because of fan service but they completely forgot about the established new team avatar and kept focusing on the old team avatar and their kids. How come tenzin and Lin have more character development then Korras whole team avatar together. This show was targeted at teenagers but kept focusing on 40 year olds and their daddy and mommy issues.

Tbh Before I watched Tlok I liked it a lot more because the fandom gave the characters what they deserved and what Bryke didn’t give them. I went in with such high expectations and I was really disappointed because the fans made it look much better then it actually was.

I really hope Bryke will hire a lot of talented writers to make the next series better. And I also hope that the comics aren’t all cannon. Especially the ones with Zuko and Azula in it. The fans wanted their relationship fixed and not a Scar/Mufassa moment.

#avatar #atla #avatar the last airbender #the legend of korra #avatar: tlok #tlok #korra #asami soto #Asami #mako #Bolin #Azula #Zuko #Katara #Aang #Sokka #toph beiphong #toph #lin beifong #tenzin #Jinora

[shewhotellsstories]

i really wanted to like tenzin and pema but i agree with you about them. thoughtless is exactly the right word for how they treated lin and the way that pema encouraged korra to be a homewrecker was just bad. she didn't care that the way that she got with tenzin hurt lin at all. then she had the nerve to dump meelo on lin. i wanted to scream!!! pema she's not a babysitter or youre friend and you know why. it wasn't funny at all.

Generally speaking I dislike the term homewrecker. No one can be “stolen” if they're truly committed and all that. That being said someone really ought to have told Pema how you got em is how you lose em. No one should ever aspire to be the other woman (or man or person). It's hurtful and you'd think that a grown woman with four kids would get that. And just have the maturity to say, "hey Korra you could be setting yourself up for heartbreak, ruin your friendship, and contribute to hurting someone who doesn't deserve it." It irks me that she doesn't see Lin as a real person but as the "wrong woman" who was just an inconvenient footnote in her love story with Tenzin.

One of the things that allowed me to keep rooting for Jackson and April on Grey's Anatomy is that they knew the way they got back together was messy. They get that although they were in love the two of them running off together in the middle of April's wedding hurt and humiliated two people who just didn't deserve being treated that way. They get it when Matthew and Stephanie's friends are pissed at them and have the sense to try not to flaunt their relationship in front of Stephanie because they know they really hurt her. If that'd been the attitude we saw on the show, I'd be less bothered.

And yeah that scene with Meelo. I guess Bryke thought it'd be hilarious but given the context it just made Pema seem like not the greatest human.

#asked and answered #lin beifong #tenzin salt #pema salt #lok salt #tlok salt

[the-badger-mole]

Out of curiosity why do you hate Pema so much?

Old girl is just so casually disrespectful of other people's relationships, and she encourages Korra to be the same. I know that what went down with Tenzin and Lin was ultimately on Tenzin, but I can't respect any one who knowingly breaks up a relationship and then encourages others to do the same. I bet if it was another girl trying to steal her daughter's boyfriend, she'd feel different. Aside from being the shadiest hefier, Pema doesn't have much to do with the story except for breeding more air benders. I can't think of any reason to like her, tbh. If it wasn't for her being a proud homewrecker, I'd feel bad for her, tbh.

#lok #lok salt #anti pema #pema is awful #not the worst thing about lok

[burst-of-iridescent]

The Women of LoK (and how they get butchered)

so i’m watching the legend of korra now and my many, many problems with the story aside, I’d say it’s at least entertaining and fun to watch - except that, the more I see, the more I get irritated at how the women in the series (with the exception of Korra and Asami) are treated. they are reduced to feminine stereotypes, with most of them taking on gendered roles such as female-oriented jobs (healer), or just becoming wives and mothers. they are not allowed to be multi-faceted individuals, defined solely by these traditionally feminine-coded roles, and the rare female characters who don’t conform are usually treated more critically by the narrative and/or punished for it.

Pen - Tenzin’s wife and babymaker and nothing else. seriously. nothing else. her entire life is built around popping out Airbenders and being the perfect Air Nomad wife. she’s also a homewrecker so...that’s fun. 

Suyin - while Suyin does have something to her other than being just a wife and mother, she states herself that what she desired most of all was a family, thus setting up her position as a wife and mother as the most important thing in her life (not — oh, idk, being the ruler of Zaofu? a master metalbender?) Suyin herself is also a pretty terrible character, and is treated with barely a slap on the wrist for all the shit she pulls, so no LoK is not getting a gold star from me on this one.

Lin - Lin, in contrast, is treated so critically by the narrative that I was genuinely shocked. the narrative never criticizes Tenzin or Pema for literally emotionally cheating on Lin, and in fact almost seems to suggest that it was Lin’s fault for spending too much time on her career instead of??? idk being Tenzin’s airbender babymaking machine??? in book three, it’s her fault for not making things up with Suyin despite the fact that she had a very justified grievance against Suyin, one that Suyin never apologized for, and in fact does not apologize for until Lin reaches out first. Lin is also called “bitter” and “angry” and “lonely” multiple times, and it’s not until she becomes softer and nicer (i.e more feminine) that the narrative stops repeatedly condemning her. the hell? like seriously, the hell?

speaking of the Beifongs, let’s look at the OG - so Toph actually does get some achievements in life as the founder of metalbending and police chief of Republic City. besides the fact that this job is exceedingly out of character for her, at least she does something, and a traditionally masculine-coded job at that. so far, pretty good. but then... Toph compromises her honesty, one of her core values, for her child, and subsequently quits her job because of it. she cannot have both her career and motherhood, and so she sacrifices the first as a result of the second. and then spends the rest of her life alone in the Foggy Swamp, despite the fact that her arc in ATLA was about learning that you could form new families, that it was okay to rely on others, that you didn’t have to be on your own to be happy. but no, fuck all that i guess. she gets to be a sad, lonely old woman and die alone, without her family or her friends. hooray!

Katara - oh, my girl Katara. i could write full essays on how badly she alone was done in LoK but to summarize: she becomes the Avatar’s trophy wife and babymaking machine, has barely any relevance to the story and no impact on the world outside of banning bloodbending (which in and of itself is a questionable decision. why is waterbending the only element that gets its sub-bending form banned? why can’t Katara use bloodbending to heal? why does the only achievement of her whole life come in the form of curtailing her power?). she is lonely and sad and alone in the SWT and 2/3 of her children barely seem to know anything about their SWT heritage. she is reduced to “the greatest healer in the world” despite the fact that it was never a motivation or source of interest for her in ATLA, and despite the lip service paid to this alleged role, doesn’t heal a single damn thing. (seriously, she can’t heal Jinora, she can’t heal Amon’s bloodbending victims, she can’t heal Korra. so much for being the best healer in the world.) Zuko’s zipping around on a dragon and fighting the Red Lotus just fine but Katara’s apparently struggling too much with her aching bones and creaky joints. poor, poor, sad, lonely Katara. (and fuck the LoK writers for what they did to my girl)

Asami - now Asami doesn’t get shafted into a traditionally feminine role. good for her. but unfortunately, Asami also doesn’t really do...anything. she gets some vague storylines about her struggle to keep her company afloat and her daddy issues but they come and go in brief flashes and have no serious impact on the story - or Asami - at all. her entire character revolves around being part of Team Avatar, and the god-awful love triangle in the first two seasons. the writers didn’t do anything really bad with her because they just didn’t...do anything with her other than make her a love interest. Asami’s character had real potential, but was squandered on being Mako’s love interest in the first two seasons, and then Korra’s in the last two. she has no real identity of her own. love that for her <3 (but yknow what neither do Mako or Bolin really so i’ll give Asami a pass on this one).

Korra - of all the women in LOK, Korra gets perhaps the best treatment. she is allowed to be unfeminine, to take on typically masculine traits like arrogance and recklessness and brashness. she is also the subject of some serious near-torture porn. the amount of times she gets beaten down and abused and battered, over and over again, made me so uncomfortable to watch. especially her torture at the hands of the Red Lotus...the viewers are allowed to skip the violence inflicted on Tenzin, but forced to watch Korra’s in gory detail? why? 

the women of LOK are cardboard, stripped of all complexity and depth. they either conform to the ideal of the perfect woman, being love interests, wives or mothers or they are punished by the narrative in some way. of course, being a wife or mother isn’t bad, but it shouldn’t be the only or defining feature of a female character, and the fact that so many female character arcs in LOK revolve around it is just...sad. and let’s not even get started on the fact that so many of the powerful women of ATLA are simply gone in LOK (what happened to Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, Suki...?). Honestly, the only one not done dirty by the show was probably Jinora. 

here’s to hoping that someday men will figure out how to write women.

#anti LOK #anti Bry/ke #seriously what they did to my girl Katara makes me want to murder someone #Katara deserved so much better #healer my ass let her fight Bry/ke

[autisticyue]

Everyone: NOOOO YOU CAN’T LIKE PEMA! SHE’S A HOMEWRECKER AND RUINED LINZIN!

Me: haha pretty pregnant woman go brr

#pro pema #pema defense squad #pema tlok #pemzin #not an edit

[fannishcodex]

Related to my other AU art [x] and after seeing this video theory [x], I’m also up for an AU where Eclipsa is the mother of Toffee and Fesitivia, and Toffee and Festivia are half-siblings. (Eclipsa had fallen in love with a Septarian monster.)

Not saying the above happened literally in my AU, was more thinking of a symbolic representation of character and relationship dynamics (but also thinking maybe it did happen in the most tense attempt at diplomacy/negotiation before everything went to hell): Read way more headcanons about this under the cut!:

-A teenaged Festivia outwardly trying to smile, but internally extremely angry on the inside with those she’s falsely smiling at: her freak homewrecker half-brother Toffee, her faithless and blood-traitor mother Eclipsa, and Eclipsa’s homewrecker Monster boytoy. Festivia often covers up everything--including her vitriol and racism against monsters that’s in line with the majority of her kingdom--with a smile, and eventually a lot of drinking and partying, taking after her father more. The horns on her headband are real horns she harvested from a monster she hunted, taking them for a trophy she can wear whenever she wants.

-Eclispa with a hand on Festivia’s shoulder, but more interested in her youngest and the child she had with someone she truly loved, and was not made to wed in an arranged marriage. Eclipsa is not perfect and has her own issues, she /does/ care more for Toffee, because she very willingly had him with someone she absolutely loved. It’s not only because Toffee is her youngest and is more vulnerable/more of a target on Mewni because of his mixed race heritage /and/ Butterfly heritage. (It also doesn’t help that Festivia is actually more in line with mewman supremacy, taking after her father and the rest of the Butterfly family more, while Eclipsa resists that.)

-Toffee is too young to completely understand what’s going on right now, he’s just happily telling Eclipsa something funny that happened back home at the monster temple where he lives with his parents.

-Eclipsa’s Septarian Monster Love/Toffee’s Father/Just Call him Pema for now with a protective arm around Toffee and Eclipsa, and giving Eclipsa’s ex a warning glare. Pema doesn’t trust mewmans to be automatically peaceful despite his love for one, and is less trusting of his mewman love’s ex around his mixed race child. Also just generally bad blood between the races given the wider history on Mewni; and the personal history of just disliking the man his mewman love had been made to wed before, and knowing that he’s rather terrible himself. Also Pema noticed the staff with the monster skull the mewman king has, and absolutely detests that unsubtle prop of aggression.

-Eclipsa’s Ex/Festivia’s father glaring back at the monster Eclipsa left him for, while holding a staff topped with a monster’s skull in an unsubtle emphasis of aggression. Though Festivia got her dark hair from her mother, she takes after her father more--he was always a fervent partygoer himself and a heavy drinker, even before he married Eclipsa for her royal power and to gain the title and rank of king, and the benefits that would give him. He was also known for his recklessly hedonistic and promiscuous nature with the ladies, and marriage to the queen of Mewni did not actually deter him from continuing his affairs with numerous other women while he partied heavily. It was more wounded pride rather than spurned love behind his anger with Eclipsa’s own affair and abandonment, given that he never loved her either, just as she had never loved him. (Nor does it matter to him that he cheated himself, and actually did it before Eclipsa.) Also his pride was injured even more and he was even angrier over the fact that she left him for some lowly monster. The fact that he had shared in the mewman majority’s disdain for monsters and was also staunchly supportive of the status quo that held mewmans in power, along with being deemed charming and attractive and popular enough with the kingdom, and being of the appropriate high class, had been enough for the royal court to select him as an appropriate match for Eclipsa. Though the mewman king is ultimately selfish and doesn’t have much genuine affection for others, he grew to truly love his daughter, and that was another reason for his anger with Eclipsa’s affair and departure.

-Eclipsa and the mewman king had marked their marriage with a lot of arguing. Eclipsa had tried to shield Festivia from it, but she still saw it.

-When she was the princess, Eclipsa and Monster Love/Pema met first, and fell in love first, before she had ever met the mewman who would be betrothed to her in an arranged engagement. Eclipsa and ML/Pema met, and through their ups and downs, while they grew to understand each other, they became friends and allies, Eclipsa growing to share in ML/Pema’s goal for improving the lives of monsters and weakening the mewman stranglehold on the world; she would spy on Butterfly castle and other mewman strongholds for monster rebellions, and ML/Pema was her point of contact, and he shared intelligence with her too. Eventually they fell in love. But a lot of issues in their society disrupted their relationship, and even kept them apart. Things like: Eclipsa before was extremely afraid of her family/kingdom trying to kill her Monster Love/Pema if they knew the truth. Things like: though there was a lot of extreme control over the matter, Eclipsa did not take the slim chance/risk to run away with Monster Love/Pema, and went along with the arranged marriage to a mewman because she hoped to make changes within the system, and thought an entirely political marriage to a mewman king would assist with that, would help appease the kingdom enough, and make them open to her plans for change. As a younger queen, she thought she had to do some give and take for the greater good. That ultimately did not work out, and part of Eclipsa finally running involved turning to extreme external actions to force change in the mewman kingdom, and also being pretty much forced out by the kingdom she had grown very unpopular with because of her beliefs and challenge against the status quo that favored total mewman power--and also because she had become pregnant with ML/Pema’s half-monster child (whom would be named Toffee later), and the extreme fear and pressure of the situation drove her to flee to protect her unborn child.

-Eclipsa and ML/Pema had tried to break things off when Eclipsa finally went through her arranged marriage, and tried to keep their relationship strictly professional--they continued their secret correspondence, with Eclipsa continuing to spy for monster rebellions and ML/Pema being her point of contact, and sharing his own intelligence with her. But after a few years of marriage with the mewman king, Eclipsa and her Monster Love could not tolerate their separation anymore, and resumed seeing each other romantically in secret, which now included going behind a mewman husband’s back. They tried to break it off again when Eclipsa became pregnant; but a few years after Festivia was born, Eclipsa and her Monster Love resumed their relationship once more, and never tried to break things off again, they remained with each other until ML/Pema was killed by the Butterfly army.

-Festivia had turned fourteen and received the wand before Eclipsa realized she had become pregnant. Eclipsa convinced herself that Festivia was at least old enough now to handle this--but Eclipsa still had conflicted feelings and knows this is another thing she has screwed up (other things Eclipsa feels she’s screwed up: failed to change the Butterfly kingdom from within and failed to significantly help monsters while she was the reigning and accepted queen of Mewni; failed to raise Festivia to be better, Festivia ended up as racist as her father and the mewman kingdom, Eclipsa failed to stop that).

-Also headcanon that Eclipsa does eventually behead her ex and uses his skull as the lock for her chapter in the Book of Spells, after the Butterfly army kills her monster love.

#svtfoe #toffee of septarsis #eclipsa butterfly #festivia the fun #svtfoe toffee #my fanart

[seyaryminamoto]

Hey! Forgive me if you've been asked this before, but if you were to write LoK characters, who would be your first choice? And Gladiator? Fucking MASTERPIECE!!!

:D thank you very much for the nice comment on my crazy fic, hehe xD I’m flattered and honored!

I haven’t been asked, I think? O_o if I have I guess I forgot x’D

Truth is I have a complicated relationship with LOK, which is why I never wrote anything for it. I’ve written a few stories about ATLA characters pre-LOK, but I never focused on LOK or its cast, if anything the only ones from LOK to show up were the Gaang’s children once in a while.

But… what most people don’t know, is that I actually did consider writing an LOK story back when only Book 1 had aired, and I was innocent and blissfully happy without my awareness xD

The fic was actually supposed to be about Pema, strange as it may be. A crazy story, probably a little too farfetched, where she discovered at a young age that she was an airbender, kind of a spontaneous one. The story was meant to develop her relationship with Tenzin in a way to… explain, as harmlessly as possible, how Tenzin ended things with Lin and how he ended up falling for Pema. In short, an attempt to make it a little less dramatic and homewrecking than it sounded in canon, but tbh with how LOK dealt with romance, I realize that was very wishful on my part and it probably was exactly as Pema said it was.

As I said, I was innocent and naïve. Tbh I didn’t have the drive or emotional investment required for it, but it wouldn’t have been such a bad story, I think. I planned on having young Pema coming across a Noatak who had barely just developed his bending-stealing powers, and he blocks her airbending which is why she can’t bend by the time the show begins. Crazy stuff, huh? But I liked the idea at the time. I was going to have her being very close with Aang too, he would have been her master, so she would have been heartbroken by his death. I barely ever spare any thoughts for that crazy idea of mine, gotta say… 

So by now, with the full show having aired already, I guess my better choice for an LOK project would be Kuvira. Possibly post-finale, maybe Baavira dealing with their problems and getting back on track. Maybe. Another possibility would be Naga getting justice, as in, being petted all day and night and treated like the beautiful polar bear-dog queen she is (?) I’m sorry, I’m still salty that Lin tore up her ball and that Korra gave her no treats, like, just, NO. #JusticeForNaga2K17

Lin as well isn’t a bad option for a writing subject. How would I use her? I dunno, but she’s not bad. Would be great to give her a storyline that isn’t about her deposing deserved grudges against people who have wronged her… Another possibility, maybe a sibling fic about Eska and Desna. Those two had potential and could have been used in many ways, really. It’s too bad they were mostly comic relief. So I could go for them, too.

Anyways, I really can’t say I’d write a lot for LOK because as I said, I need further emotional investment ^^U But yep, I guess those are my choices :) sorry I took forever answering this ask, and thanks again for the sweet comment on Gladiator!

#squarehere #I am slowly but surely working through that inbox #if I still owe you an answer it hopefully will arrive... relatively soon

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oooh my god

I remember people calling Pema a homewrecker because she confessed to Tenzin while he was dating someone else and said he was “with the wrong woman.”

#thats....a really shitty thing to do???? why is it being painted as a good thing??? #rue watches tlok