I wonder about reincarnation in the Avatar universe beyond the Avatar – since effectively we assume that anyone who doesn’t transcend and become pure spirit (like Yue and Iroh did) reincarnates, but the Avatar is special because there’s the ability to know who’s the reincarnation (since that person is the Avatar), and there was the access to past lives the continuity of Raava provided (and will provide again for Korra’s future reincarnations). But everyone else reincarnates too.
It was a truth in the original series bible that never came up on screen, that Momo was the reincarnation of Monk Gyatso. I assume he spent the 100 years reincarnating into various animals at the Southern Temple to wait for Aang. My headcanon is that that soul, deeply tied to the element of Air, is now Jinora in Korra’s time.
A thought occurred to me on Azula, if she isn’t still alive somewhere in Korra’s time. What if what her soul needed above all else was a second chance? Not peace, not punishment, but a second chance to not go down the path she went down in her life as Azula. And so she was reincarnated into someone doted on by a father who would craft her into his weapon, just like before, but when her father’s darkness revealed itself, this time she could choose “No” and not follow him into the infliction of suffering on others – and that’s just what Asami did.
holy shit
Tag: avatar: the last airbender
“Lightning is a pure expression of firebending. It is without aggression. It is not fueled by rage, or emotion. Some call lightning the cold-blooded fire. It is precise and deadly, and it requires peace of mind.”
firebender setsuna bending lightning
my brain wouldn’t let me think about anything else until i did this first
never drawn lightning before that was a super challenge, i’m not crazy about how the highlights turned out, but this took 6 hours already.
Last night I started watching Legend of Korra (finally, I know). I’m only three episodes in, but it compelled me to start asking my friends if they were the avatar, what element would they have trouble with and what element would come most naturally.
And it was pretty fun to think about and discuss, so I’m opening up the question here!
If you were the avatar, what element would come most naturally and what element would you have trouble with?
On a scale from Sokka to Tuxedo Mask how well did your relationship with a moon princess gf turn out
“Did Jadeite just…die?”
“You know, it was really unclear.”
Every time a character says ‘Honor’ in A:tlA
i cant stop laughing
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These flowers are beautiful.
hey everyone! yo i’m super excited with how this turned out. RISD’s teaching me lots of stuff, it seems! anyway, this is based on a photo of i super awesome and gorgeous friend, who happens to look just like a real-life Sokka ❤
remember how katara saw her mother die and was deeply wounded by it but still pulled together the strength to be there for her family and lead them to the point where she replaced her mother’s face in sokka’s mind
remember how she lived at the bottom of the world in a tribe the fire nation had decimated almost beyond recognition and had no resources and no one to teach her but struggled to learn waterbending and spent months learning basic forms with no guidance and never gave up on her goal of becoming a waterbender
remember how she found a strange boy in an iceberg and would have been fully within her right to treat the phenomenon of a massive glowing chunk of ice spitting out a live boy w suspicion but instead went out of her way to free him and show him kindness and compassion
remember how at fourteen she went penguin sledding with a new friend and commented that she hadn’t gone penguin sledding since she was a kid even though as a fourteen year old she still was a kid but it had just been that long since she got to act like one
remember how she was determined to save a boy she just met even though she was up against the fire nation and all she had was herself and her brother but she didnt give a shit about that she was going to save him anyway
remember how she dropped everything and left home for the first time in her life to help a relative stranger get to the north pole to learn waterbending and start to fulfill his destiny
remember how she was so ready and eager to talk to new people
remember how it pained her to see what the fire nation did to others and how she was determined to pass on some of her courage to them and served them the means to take back their freedom themselves
remember how she followed her best friend through a storm and sat with him and learned that he did something that facilitated one hundred years of war, a war that tore her tribe and her family apart, and instead of getting mad she showed him love and forgiveness
remember how she had the chance to see her father again but chose to stay by her friend’s side because he was her family too and she knew that she and sokka were all he had
remember how she fought tooth and nail for the right to learn waterbending and showed what she was worth with moves she learned on her own and showed up all her peers by advancing faster than any of them
remember how she occasionally clashed with people — strangers, group members, friends — but still tried her best to get along with them and show them kindness
remember how she kept her wits about her and kept her group together in what looked like a hopeless situation, not giving up until they found a way out
remember how she saw her best friend at his lowest point and walked through a maelstrom of wind and sand and was not only not afraid of the most powerful bender in the world at his most dangerous but pulled him into her arms and offered him comfort when the last living connection he had to his past had been taken from him
remember how she showed compassion to people who had wronged her and gave them second chances
remember how she loved fiercely and hated fiercely and held grudges and unleashed her anger on those who wronged her but pulled back before she lost herself to that rage
remember how she stuck it out with her friends to the bitter end even through death and fear and loss and suffering
remember
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