>>86362412>Because Asami is more important then spiritsAsami is a tragedy, but she's only one character that the narrative never really pretends actually matters.
Spirits were...fuck, they're half the job description for the Avatar. They may not have come up very often but they're in the fucking definition as "bridge between spiritual and physical worlds."
In TLA, in a world where animals were crazy hybrids and whacked out, spirits were normal fucking animals. We got a panda, a baboon, a centipede, an owl, some foxes, koi and one human. There was an almost alien simplicity to them. The spirits were mostly docile and segregated from humanity, except when their domains were threatened. Heibai rampaged when his forest was destroyed, Wan Shi Tong rampaged when his library was defiled, the ocean spirit rampaged when its sibling was killed, and only the Painted Lady was stopped from rampage because pollution was corrupting her domain and prevented her from manifesting.
Then, according to Beginnings, no actually spirits are Miyazaki knock-offs, in enormous supply, and are directly affected by emotions around them, so a negative influence. Also waterbending calms them because shut up. Also the Avatar Spirit is literally the spirit of good and order and balance because her brother, Vaatu, is Satan and they fight. Apparently the Avatar isn't the world spirit incarnate in human form, reincarnating in a cycle to preserve balance spiritually as the body serves a physical role for balance. It's a soul with a parasite spirit on it that gives it every power and reincarnates in a cycle because shut up. The Avatar State's consequence now makes no sense when there's a separate spirit involved.
And hey, here's a thought. The moon spirit gave a portion of its life to Yue. By Beginnings' standard, shouldn't that mean Yue was a waterbender? She had a spirit with bending power use her as a vessel. Why couldn't she waterbend?
