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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 21:52:09 2018 No.98761006 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>98761310 >>98762116 >>98762790 >>98762791 >>98763505 >>98763885 >>98767721 >>98768295 >>98768524

So I've been thinking about Avatar the Last Airbender, since I've been rewatching the original series. I got to the episode where we see the swamp waterbenders, and it really got me thinking. Imagine the shitstorm if Korra was born as a swampdwelling waterbender Avatar instead of a normal one. Would they even find her, or would the avatar be "missing"?

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 21:55:49 No.98761082 Report

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yeah

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 22:08:28 No.98761310 Report

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>>98761006
>she bends fire first and is treated like a demon child
>her mom is accused of cheating with firebenders or witchcraft

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 22:15:12 No.98761444 Report

Quoted By: >>98761467 >>98766573

The writers were too prejudiced against white southerners to make Korra a hick redneck bumpkin.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 22:16:08 No.98761467 Report

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>>98761444
Honestly I prefer a buff brownie and you should too.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 22:44:41 No.98762045 Report

Quoted By: >>98762681 >>98763080 >>98767721

Can we all just agree that Toph is best girl?

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 22:47:55 No.98762116 Report

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>>98761006
>Would they even find her, or would the avatar be "missing"?
That's actually a pretty interesting idea OP. Good on you. It'd actually justify a lot more of Korra's behavior (but not all of it) in season 1.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 22:52:17 No.98762203 Report

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>>98761310
I'm pretty sure Korra would have already learned to waterbend by the time she'd also start firebending, earthbending, or airbending. And the swampbenders would know about the Avatar.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 23:16:44 No.98762681 Report

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>>98762045
She is

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 23:21:33 No.98762790 Report

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>>98761006
>burns swamplands
>is found by white lotus
easy, OP.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 23:21:34 No.98762791 Report

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>>98761006
Good job, OP. You actually put more thought into LoK than the actual show writers.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 23:22:25 No.98762807 Report

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>>98762791
Wait for Four Elements Trainer book 4, I'm sure it will be better than the actual show

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 23:35:42 No.98763080 Report

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>>98762045
She's an awesome character and a powerful bender with a cool gimmick, I like her but I cannot consider her "the best". There's another character I like too much.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 23:44:01 No.98763254 Report

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>>98763080
Crazy Azula is my fetish

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 23:56:25 No.98763505 Report

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>>98761006
It seems like the universe conveniently makes the Avatar easy to find. i.e. Roku just so happens to be best friends with the Fire Lord's son. Aang just so happens to be the student of the past Avatar's friend. Korra just so happens to be related to the Northern and Southern Water Tribe leaders.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 00:15:19 No.98763885 Report

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>>98761006

Say that Korra was raised by the Swampbenders instead and had been enlightened by Guru Huu. How much more effective would she have been operating as an Avatar with inner peace?

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 00:25:21 No.98764102 Report

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>>98763885
Yeah but she wouldnt be whoring around like she probably would, and that's just boring.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 01:05:05 No.98764966 Report

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>>98763885
>How much more effective would she have been operating as an Avatar with inner peace?
Considering that she was found at three years old and nothing is wrong with the Fire Nation, Su had her perfect city, and Tenzin is okay with having his family live next to the powder keg that was Republic City, there is no reason why she shouldn't have been effective as she would have people like that zen swampbender teaching her with their number in the White Lotus plus Su, whoever Izumi would pair her with, and Tenzin since she would be immersed in the new airbender lifestyle for a time.
It's just a case of bad and convenient writing that they tailored the plot to be the shitty things that we ended up getting.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 01:59:12 No.98766066 Report

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>>98762203
the swampbenders would know... but would they share their secrets? They already keep secrets like vine-bending, if they had the Avatar they might just sort of hide the concept from the kid until they are already old enough to figure it out on their own (if they ever do).

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 02:00:28 No.98766101 Report

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>>98762790
>burns swamplands
You mean the extremely moist place filled with water and inhabited by waterbenders? I don't know how easy it would be to burn it down even with some pretty OP firebending.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 02:00:44 No.98766109 Report

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>>98763080
>>98763254
>azulafags

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 02:17:27 No.98766451 Report

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>>98763885
Well for one she'd know that "pants are an illusion"
So at least she'd be bottomless for the whole show, that'd be pretty great.
Imagine Korra (assume she ends up looking pretty much the same) going around in what the swamp bender is wearing in OPs photo.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 02:23:07 No.98766573 Report

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>>98761444
It's too bad. The American South is a rich well to draw concepts from, yet most shows and movies simply refuse to use it except for the occasional mean spirited joke.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 03:06:46 No.98767430 Report

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>>98761310
wasnt toph on that tree thing? she would find her and call the cops so she can be alone again.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 03:09:30 No.98767480 Report

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>>98766573
This is straight up untrue. Especially in film, the American South gets a ton of circlejerk, it is the center of mythical Americana (albeit mixed in with parts of the Midwest as well).

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 03:23:02 No.98767708 Report

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>Rewatching this shit with my little brother.

Why doesn't this little mother fucker immediately begin starting an army? All he has to do is explain who he is and amass allies.
He could have beaten the fire lord a long ass time ago.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 03:23:52 No.98767721 Report

Quoted By: >>98768481

>>98761006
>>98762045
I want Toph dressed as a jungle water bender.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 03:25:06 No.98767739 Report

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>>98767708
he's 12

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 03:35:09 No.98767904 Report

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>>98767708
Same reason why Azula or other Fire Nation higher ups didn't hold towns hostage and threaten to kill everyone in the town unless the Avatar gave himself up to the Fire Nation. It was not the story they wanted to tell.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:01:11 No.98768295 Report

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>>98761006
What does a female swamp bender even look like?

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:04:21 No.98768341 Report

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>>98763254
Azula is not crazy

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:09:25 No.98768403 Report

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>>98767708
Because that would have been a shitty story. The series did fantastic at holding a core group of characters with many characters dropping in and out of focus on the side. Changing the story to account for an entire army of good guys requires the screentime be spread out far thinner between characters and basically guarantees that there are tons of worthless characters or tons of nobodies.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:15:36 No.98768481 Report

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>>98768295
less showy than you would think.

>>98767721
topless and loincloth or like the image

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:18:14 No.98768512 Report

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>>98768341
t. zuko

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:19:07 No.98768524 Report

Quoted By: >>98768857 >>98769316 >>98771326 >>98771506

>>98761006
This actually sounds like a pretty cool concept. It'd be interesting if she just kind of fucked around with bending as a kid (like only being able to turn her finger into a makeshift lighter, and maybe using her airbending as a way to fan herself at night) not really mastering it or understanding her role as avatar until something happens to the swamp land and after some defendin' muh swamp shit she goes off to figure shit out around the world just like aang

>Korra, why aren't you wearing pants... or a shirt?
>Pants are merely an illusion.
>O-kay.
>Besides, why would you wear something like a shirt, it soaks up all your sweat and you have to wash it and crap just to use it again!
>Wacky hijinx ensue as the crew tries to convince Korra the usefulness of clothes

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:23:40 No.98768569 Report

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>>98768295
dark brown or black hair, green eyes, slightly light skin.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:43:50 No.98768857 Report

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>>98768524
It would also make it much more impactful when Kuvira starts destroying the swamp to harvest its spirit-energy

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:51:44 No.98768980 Report

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WHAT ARE YE DOIN’ IN MAH SWAMP!?

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 05:13:18 No.98769316 Report

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>>98768524

Imagine Tenzin and other white lotus members been task with find the avatar after 17 unsuccessful years, basically registering all descendants of the water tribe (both north and south), each day that passes increase the likelihood of a nation becoming hostile and that cannot happened again.

After looking the old record of Sokka they have a lead, they completely forgot that the Foggy Swamp is home to tribesmen that are descendants of individuals who migrated from the South Pole.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 07:51:09 No.98771326 Report

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>>98768524
>why would you wear something like a shirt, it soaks up all your sweat
>topless sweating Korra
Hnnnnnng

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 08:09:02 No.98771506 Report

Quoted By: >>98772071

>>98768481
>>98768524
A naive, unworldly swamp cutey with phenomenal bending powers and practical outdoorsmanship knowledge would have been more interesting than what we got.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 08:19:23 No.98771596 Report

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>>98766109
Beaten down, depressed and ready to be redeem Azula is the best. Especially if the redemption is at Zuko's hands

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 09:24:06 No.98772071 Report

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>>98771506
Aw man, when you put it that way, it sounds way more interesting.

>Swamp Benders didn't even know that there was ice at the South Pole.
>White lotus only checked on claims from the Northern and Southern Tribe.

Imagine a series where it took the White Lotus forever to find the next avatar so she had to start her training much later than previous avatars. Imagine what kind of shenanigans would take place from Swamp Korra learning about other cultures for the first time.

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