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#theres ways to have heavy robes (heian era japan) but they look like i make them out of fleece and velvet blankets
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sometimes researching for avatar redesigns has you 6 layers deep into the Japan's Meiji era allies wiki
#im trying to mess with some of the stuff that feels weird about the ways the fire nation is depicted idk
#like i do not feel optically it is good for like them to be so heavily based on japan's imperialist actions
#while dressed in clothes that come from places japan colonized
#but i dont want it to just be solely japanese though i did draw zuko and azula in hakama but its largely cause i wanted to draw hakama
#and like the only place with strong japanese influence being kiyoshi island and my own frustration with the modern day samurai depiction
#i think fundamentally it isnt a choice that had as much thought as i am putting in put into it but it does raise an eyebrow for me
#anyway i think keeping the thai influence is fine despite the brief invasion japan had into thailand due to thailand then allying with japa
#and further allying with the axis due to allying with japan
#ugh and ive been told not to think this much about it because its fiction but its also fiction so so so heavily based on real places
#and when you base fiction on real cultures you fall into some unintentional pitfalls
#i also fucking hate the royal fire nation robes they look so meh and the most costumey out of everything in the show
#they look like heavy blankets despite being a supposedly hot nation
#theres ways to have heavy robes (heian era japan) but they look like i make them out of fleece and velvet blankets
#back to kiyoshi island i think the really only aesthetically japanese reference in the show being an island of noble warriors is lame
#plus over done
#it feels like nowadays theres a lot of people who get all whiney about people saying fire nation is based off japan
#but like dude the creators in the comics and korra like go even more into the japanese influence and clearly it was the original intentions
#also i do think you could do some pretty interesting world building by having say there be an older cultural influence on kiyoshi island
#from the fire nation especially if the place is established as a central port area then you tie in some okinawan or even hawaiian reference
#and gives an explanation that makes sense to why kiyoshi stands out from the rest of the earth kingdom you have long term cultural trading
#and it establishes interesting relationships even pre kiyoshi time thereby drawing back onto some real historic references
#cause for awhile ryukyu china and japan used to be this trading triangle which could explain some of these various influences going on
#i think you can get a really interesting harmony when you create the fire nation out of a mix of japan and thailand
#i mean both have these floating buildings due to living on some pretty wet lands and theres harmony in that mix
#god i did see one person go like “fire nation is more based on china because theres a lot of red and red is important in china”
#my brother in christ red is also important in japan
#red is important in like many many asian cultures
#i mean of course a lot of that importance stems from china and cultural exchange with china but idk kinda silly to say with your whole ches
#like if you want to bring china in then the dragons are the biggest thing like sure some mythos has dragons in japan
#but a lot of those comes from china in some way
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