#Vaatu Headcanons
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Can I talk about Avatar for a second?? Lemme talk about ATLA/ALoK for a second.
Like, so, I have many, many...many....grievances and hangups about A:LoK. I have tried to watch it twice, and while the first season is okay, the second season made me so mad that I dropped it. Twice. I have not watched the third season or got to see Gays In Action in 4k, because I was that disappointed.
I remember a hell of a lot about ATLA...but I can barely remember anything about Korra. That’s mostly due to my disappointment, but the fact remains that I barely remember the show, after watching it twice, and it’s the latest installment. That being said, I remember one thing that stuck out to me most....
Vaatu.
I am so, SO disappointed that they really just!! Made up this AMAZING concept of an Avatar counter-spirit, and they were just like!! “Oh yeah, his concepts are chaos and darkness, he’s EVIL, dudes.”
The one thing in the world that could possibly rival one as strong as the Avatar, would have been Another Avatar. They could’ve done something amazing with that!! They could finally have a balancing act!! A great leadup to this bigger enemy, with a twist at the end - like how ATLA did it with Ozai, with Aang refusing to kill him and instead taking away his bending!! The outcome wasn’t expected, but it still led to the same ending, with a better meaning behind it because it didn’t force Aang outside of his boundaries!! But...LoK didn’t have that. It was “Here’s this sketchy guy, we all Know he’s sketchy, but LOOK, THE TWIST IS THAT HE’S SKETCHY!! BUT ON A MORE EXTREME LEVEL!! Haha!!”
The only thing that LoK managed to twist was the lore of the world, by expanding on the Avatar, how it came to be, and by introducing a spirit of EQUAL POWER to the Avatar. I love Wan’s and Raava’s story, that isn’t my problem with this twist. My problem lies in the fact that Vaatu was merely made to be the Evil Avatar Spirit, in a world where balance and equality mean everything. I think Vaatu being the spirit of Chaos and Darkness would’ve been so cool to explore, if the creators had time to explore him - because Chaos and Darkness aren’t evil, they’re nature. What is morality anyway to a spirit?? Why make an Evil Spirit?? Why not explore WHY Vaatu is the way he is rather than say he just is??
Does that mean that Tui and La are merely good and evil, then?? They’re supposed to represent Yin and Yang, quite literally. Is Tui, the moon, evil simply because they can only thrive in the darkness?? Is La evil, because the sea is unrestrained and takes innocent lives, being a chaotic force?? Shouldn’t Tui and La be CLOSE, or at least GRATEFUL to Vaatu for giving them the darkness they need to remain balanced?? I don’t know too much else about the spirit gods in Avatar, so idk if there’s a Spirit of the Night, but my point still stands - the moon can’t prosper without darkness, and the ocean needs the moon. How can that be constrained to an idea as simple as “evil”??
Was La in the wrong or the in the right for destroying those fire nation ships, for taking control of Aang, for taking Zuko’s crew away from him after their other half died??
I just think that the world of ATLA/ALoK would have been so much better if Vaatu wasn’t just...Evil Bad Guy Spirit. The balancing act would’ve been restored if there are two Avatars (and Raava should be seen as something that can become Too Much - too much light, too much serenity/complacency, too much order means that there’s no room for self-identity, chance, risk, and the ability to look inward. If Raava can go too far, but be held back by their Avatar, then why can’t the same be held for Vaatu??). For a world that says that balance and equality is the true guide to peace, it seems really, really desperate to keep only one Avatar.
Vaatu would have been an excellent twist, if he just wasn’t so one-sided, and if it was anyone else but goddamn Unalaq.
That being said, I think Tui, La, and Vaatu (and maybe Wan Shi Tong, that giant Owl bitch) would’ve been/should be Ride or Die.
#Vaatu#Avatar#avatar: the legend of korra#avatar: the last airbender#Vaatu Headcanons#Lamenting the fact that I dislike ALoK despite trying so hard to love it#FUCK THE MCU AND TONY STARK THIS IS NOW A MULTIFANDOM ACCOUNT#No shame in having 20+ fixations!!#This is mainly me complaining about the writing choices used for Korra but also#This is me pointing the potential in Vaatu#BITCH GIVEN THE CHANCE I WOULD BE A DARK AVATAR#MY EYES WOULD GLOW RED!!! THATS SICK AS FUCK!!#ATLA#ALoK#I read Avatar fics for 3 days straight and YES it was mainly Zukka
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Okay, credit to this video for the idea, but like, the Avatar as both Raava and Vaatu. The Avatar as both order and chaos. Not good and evil - the spirits in ATLA aren't ever really good or evil until LOK Book 2 - but just a being. A bridge between the spirits and humanity, neutral, fluid, if you will.
But then, like, the Avatar has these two voices in their mind, and one of them is like chaos chaos chaos and the other is order order order so, like, while Vaatu is like, free everyone, kill the Fire Lord and also the Earth King, leaders for no one, Raava is like, get these people a leader, establish society, get them order and structure. Like, they have memories and shit the Avatar can access but it's mostly just Vaatu and Raava talking about order vs chaos.
#atla#tlok#headcanons#headcanon#au#alternate universe#spirits#avatar#the last airbender#spirits are almost a venom situation#avatar the last airbender#raava#vaatu
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Aang: Hey guys. Zuko and I are gonna need Appa for a while. If anyone wants to come with us, by all means hop on.
Katara: Why? What’s going on.
Aang: Vaatu has Azula. We’re going to get her back.
Katara: You two are still trying to save her? Still trying to fix her? Even after everything she’s done?
Aang: First of all, I don’t like the term ‘fixing,’ she’s a person, not a wind-up toy. Secondly, what are we supposed to do? Just let her suffer and die?
Katara: (shrugs)
Aang: You don’t have to come along, ya know. We all know how much you don’t like her.
Katara: And why do you think that is? She took over Ba sing se, it was her idea to sentence the entire earth kingdom to suffer the same fate as the air nomads, she shot you and Zuko, she tried to shoot me, she attacked Suki, and held a bunch of kids hostage. She’s dangerous and insane. She had plenty of chances to change and rejected them.
Zuko: I won’t let her commit any more war crimes, but I won’t turn my back on her either. I owe her too much.
Katara: I get that she’s your sister, she helped save your life and overturned your banishment, Zuko, but she tried to kill you and corrupt you afterwards and has become viciously psychotic. (To Aang) Don’t you get it? She almost killed you! Another fire nation monster almost took someone else I care about the most away from me! I swore to myself I wasn’t gonna let that happen! Not again!
Aang: This isn’t like with your mom or with your dad, Katara.
Katara scoffed.
Aang: Your mom dying, Vaatu killing your dad, none of that was your fault. Don’t ever tell me that I don’t understand!
Katara: I’m sorry I dismissed your tragedy before. I just don’t get how you can be so easily forgiving. I once told you that I will never forgive Yon Rha, regardless, if Hama killed him or not. As for Vaatu, he’s proven to be the worst of the worst, I, personally, wanna do a lot more than just kill him. I want him to suffer as badly as possible, for everything that he’s done. And he’s going to. But I thought what I said about the southern raiders would teach you something.
Aang: Teach me what?
Katara: That some people don’t deserve to be forgiven. You don’t owe people who hurt you any forgiveness.
Aang: Look, I’m sorry I was demanding and forceful about forgiveness before. I realize that I wanted you to forgive for my sake rather than for your own. But forgiveness is not about deserve, it doesn’t make you weak, it doesn’t make you a doormat. You can still set up boundaries, you can still be concerned for your own safety. Yes, it is hard, but trust me, it’s worth it. Once the threat level of your enemies is neutralized than that’s the moment where it’s recommended to forgive them, not for them but for yourself, if you don’t then they take power over you. Forgive them for your OWN sake.
Katara: You think rescuing her will reduce her threat level and it’ll persuade her to be on our side? Even when she’s good enough of a liar to fool even Toph? You found out that the air nomad philosophy was flawed and sometimes hypocritical. You’ve broken your no kill rule many times and you’ve never even noticed but learned to be ok with it. I bet that means you understand that some people deserve to die.
Aang: Are you saying I should kill her when I get the chance? I don’t need to kill her. I’ve said before, ever since I reopened all my chakras, Azula and I have become more connected than ever. I can see past her lies better than Toph can. Yes, I’ve broken the oath, as did the other monks in a desperate attempt to survive, even when that meant going against their own lessons. It all still haunts me, but it shows that things aren’t as clear cut as I used to believe, and a certain amount of inner darkness is needed for internal balance. My culture’s a part of me but it doesn’t define me, and as the avatar, I’m required to embrace all ideologies, even some completely opposite of my own, I don’t need to trade one for the other.
Zuko: Can we hurry this along? Azula still needs us.
Aang: Clocks ticking guys, anyone who wants to come needs to head on Appa now.
Sokka: We’ll likely run into Vaatu again. You’re gonna need all the help you can get.
Sokka, Suki, Toph, Mai, Ty Lee, Aang and Zuko hopped on Appa. Zuko saw Katara standing there.
Zuko: Katara, please.
Katara clutched his fists, sighed and climbed aboard.
Aang: Yip-Yip.
Appa than launched off.
#atla#atla au#atla headcanons#aang#azula#zuko#katara#sokka#toph#ty lee#suki#mai#this is supposed to be a parallel to the southern raiders#ozai#vaatu#atla book 4 air#ozai is vaatu
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1, 6 and 7 for the choose violence ask game
1. the character everyone gets wrong
I was going to say Raava and Vaatu, but unfortunately I think that doesn’t count because I’m comparing to my own convoluted headcanons, not canon. Although I think they’d be far more interesting if Raava was treated as an unreliable narrator and LoK explored more on Vaatu’s impact on the seasons past 2.
As far as fandom vs canon, I’d say Azula. I find the two popular stances on her are either that she’s inherently evil and deserves the awful ending she had, or that she’s an innocent cinnamon roll who did nothing wrong. I find both stances to be pretty ableist-because one demonizes her, especially with the kind of language and arguments those fans use, and the other infantilizes her. I think she’s a far more complex character than that.
6. which ship fans are the most annoying?
I have to say that most popular ships in the AtLA fandom have really insufferable fanbases (except sukka, which I find to be really chill), but Zutara fans bother me the most.
7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because of how the fandom acts about them?
Hmmm I must say Zuko, unfortunately </3. I do love him still but his fanon self is incredibly out of character-I fear he suffers HARDCORE infantilization from his fans. Either that, or people treat him like he’s an irredeemable shitbag and redemption arcs are Bad actually in retaliation to the first fans. So I guess I don’t hate Zuko, but I dread all conversation about him.
#atla#avatar the last airbender#atla fandom salt#I guess you could say#vaatu#legend of korra#raava#zuko#azula#choose violence ask game
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Some angsty headcanons I’ve come up with about Korra’s PTSD:
Korra still has nightmares. They’re mostly about her fight with Zaheer, but occasionally Unalaq/Vaatu and Amon make appearances too. The sound of chains rattling gives her flashbacks to the day she fought Zaheer, and reminds her of the spectral version of herself that used to haunt her. Being choked/suffocated also sends her right back to that day as well.
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Hey can you please do yandere Korra's reaction to her darling commiting suicide due to depression from being held captive by her?
I wrote the story then I realized, ‘maybe..they’re asking for the immediate reaction?’
Either way you get both headcanons and story you lucky son’ve a bitch
Immediate reaction
Very distressed.
She only wanted the best for you and now you’re dead.
Her safe space is dead
She’s in shock for a while. Just, lost. She doesn’t know what to do as you’re taken away and her friends friends try to comfort her.
She disappears for a bit and people worry that she’ll be gone for years again, but after a week she returns. Seemingly calm.
What she was doing was letting out her anger, grief, sorrow, and regrets into the empty and deserted sand dunes of the desert. You might find large patches of glass if you go out there.
Afterwards she’s the same. Acts the same, talks the same.
But if you look closely and if you know her well, everything she says is a lie. She doesn’t care about the crisis, she doesn’t care about training, she doesn’t care that she got the wrong order, she doesn’t care that the kids made a mess.
She cares that her love is gone, and now there’s no one but her and her thoughts to keep her company.
Story time
What's Wrong?
Why...why did it have to end like this. She tried for so long. She tried for everyone but it wasn't enough for them. It never will be.
"Why can't the Avatar just do this"
"The Avatar can't do whatever she wants"
"Just do your job Avatar"
"You don't have the authority to do that Avatar"
"She can't keep a level head"
"Korra you need to fix your attitude"
"Korra you need to find him"
"Korra you need to help"
"Korra you need to go"
"Korra you need to fight"
"Korra you can't fight them"
"Korra"
"Korra"
"Korra"
"Korra"
“Korra you need to let me go.”
She’s been asked for so much. You were supposed to be her reprieve from the world, her safe place, her happy place, hers. But in the end she guessed she was asking for too much from you.
“I’m sorry to hear about what happened to Y/n...I know you...loved them.” Mako told to Korra as they watched the grave being filled in.
She did love them, but it still wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough to keep you with her. It wasn’t enough to keep you alive. If only she had listened once more. If only she was there. If only she wasn’t demanded of so much. If only she wasn’t the Avatar, then maybe, maybe she could’ve been with you right now. No Amon, no red lotus, no Vaatu, no paranoia, no kidnapping, no depression, no worries, and most importantly, no funeral.
The worst is her is that they’re still asking. Still demanding. As if she didn’t lose the love of her life. The world is still turning, but hers is gone. It goes as if nothing was wrong.
@samarill
Reblog but don’t repost or steal! :D
#yandere korra x reader#yandere females#yandere legend of korra#yandere avatar the last airbender#My writing
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this is my old Gravity Falls OC, Lir Daemon. He may look and act intimidating, but other demons make fun of him for trying to act tough. Really, he's the Robbie of the demon world. I headcanon him to be voiced by Jonathan Adams (voice of Vaatu from "The Legend of Korra").
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Headcanon time!
To understand ones song is to become of it, to become one with it in essence in perfect understanding.
The Valar’s song is the light of idea, Melkor’s unthinkable knowing, it returns all the actualized song of the world back into the abyss of uncreated harmony
Melkor is like Vaatu and the Valar like Raava. They are both reflections of one underlying hymn: Erus song, which represents the wholeness and totality of all creation. The Valar can only comprehend their part of his song, and cannot understand Melkor, their opposite counterpart, at all. But they, chaos and order, destruction and peace, are both needed to complete Erus theme. They manifest different powers of the world, and are forces of nature, neither more wrong than the other, just unable to understand the others song at all. Melkor is raw destructive energy, and annihilates all he touches- but he, woefully, returns through destruction everything back to pure song, unadulterated by name or actuality. He cleans up the mess of the cosmos, and purifies it with a ravenous, insatiable hunger and then love so concentrated it dissolves all boundary and self existence. But none of the Valar can comprehend him, his side of the hymn, especially the fact that he dose it all out of an overwhelming love for creation, because the Valr only know how to create, and he only knows how to destroy and render all things undone. He is the end of all things, and none can escape his grasp. He dissolves name and place , identity and actuality. His song is ever ravenous, never ceasing in its desire, always hungry, cleansing and devouring the whole world. But no one gives themselves to him willingly- except Mairon, who despite being a neat freak, willingly seeks to be consumed by Melkor. He alone can comprehend the entirety of Melkor’s aria, and Melkor vice verse. They twine their songs and embody each other. They understand each other so deeply that Eventually there is no differentiation between them, and their songs have become one-
#melkor#silmarillion#tolkien meta#headcanons#angbang#sauron#mairon#tolkien#the silmarillion#morgoth#melkor x mairon
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I've had this headcannon of a dark avatar Ozai (or Ozaatu) who is a one man team avatar, team azula, white lotus and red lotus, along with abilities of sky bison, coy fish, badger moles and dragons, and he and Vaatu are one and the same person. In contrast to Aang who's a jack of all stats/traits, relies on a team and he and Raava are two different entities.
The southern raiders is probably the angriest we see Katara, I wanna see that again but doubled and aimed right at Ozai. Like, if she found out Vaatu was the one who influenced Sozin into waging his war, How Zuko got his scar, Ozai gave the order to Yon Rah to kill her mother, and he killed Hakoda himself right in front of her and Sokka.
Katara and Zuko go into their painted lady and blue spirit alter egoes and hunt down Ozai like in TSR.
But unlike with before, Ozai won't be weak and cowardly like Yon Rah, he's confident and overpowers them, he uses bloodbending to sever Zuko and Katara's bending and even crushes her neckless into pieces. A direct opposite parallel to what went down in TSR.
As the two lay on the floor, helpless and defeated, the reach others hands and held tightly.
This is the lowest we see of Katara and it's Sokka helps her reignite her faith in herself and humanity, and even teaches her how to manage without bending, but it's Zuko who comforts her the most, he understands a thing or two about scars and his life being ruined, there for he was barely phased that his bending is severed and is wasn't as reliant on it as Katara was thanks to Piandao's lessons. Katara feels calmer and safer around Zuko and they grow closer to each than before. Like the beginning of them being "more than friends" type of close.
The two eventually get their bending back but Katara is now forever scarred and hardened from her experiences and she's not as conflicted in wanting to kill Ozai as she was Yon Rah, as long as he lives, she'll always want to strangle the life out of him and put his head on a pike, or at least wants somebody to finish him off.
Hello!
That’s an interesting headcanon! I totally read a fanfic about that.
Thanks for sharing this with me!
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https://www.tumblr.com/thatoneguy56fanfic/722786036703477760/choose-violence-asks-3-6-16-19-and-23
“yellowsalt3 asked:
Choose violence asks: 3, 6, 16, 19, and 23
Thanks for the ask!
3. Screenshot or description of the worst take you’re seen on Tumblr.
Easily the anti-Mako discussion I was part of a few weeks ago. I can’t find the thread because I blocked the OP, but they were basically calling Mako a horrible character because he wasn’t as trusting of Korra as Asami was. Which completely undermines his entire character.
6. Which ship fans are the most annoying?
I’m probably gonna get shit for this, but for the sake of honesty: Korrasami. I’ve gotten more shit from Korrasami stans than any other ship in the LOK fandom.
16. You can’t understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon etc)
Probably the trope that villains are always totally evil and completely incapable of redemption. Sure, some characters definitely are irredeemably evil: Vaatu for example. But not all of them are.
19. You’re mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like…
The only thing I’m mildly ashamed of liking is probably Omegaverse, lol. I don’t even know why I like it so much, but I do.
23. Ship you’ve unwillingly come around to
Amon/Korra and Tarrlok/Korra. I really didn’t want to like either of those ships when I first started exploring LOK fanfiction. But I’ve been slowly coming around to liking them over time, and have even been thinking of writing something for them both.
#legend of korra#ask me stuff”
My indirect response to some of your answers:
“3. Screenshot or description of the worst take you’re seen on Tumblr.
Easily the anti-Mako discussion I was part of a few weeks ago. I can’t find the thread because I blocked the OP, but they were basically calling Mako a horrible character because he wasn’t as trusting of Korra as Asami was. Which completely undermines his entire character.”
Huh, it seems that I really made an impression when you still refer to this discussion with me @thatoneguy56fanfic:
https://www.tumblr.com/i-am-extremely-mad/718231423892455424/i-am-extremely-mad-thatoneguy56fanfic
I mostly defended Korra, who is still constantly demonized in fandom and hatedom. There's still the fact that you had no problem demonizing Korra to make Mako the good guy here.
“6. Which ship fans are the most annoying?
I’m probably gonna get shit for this, but for the sake of honesty: Korrasami. I’ve gotten more shit from Korrasami stans than any other ship in the LOK fandom.”
Maybe we like to defend an important canon wlw ship that literally opened the door for other more openly portrayed queer relationships on screens in other TV shows for younger audiences? But people like you like to treat this as just an annoying shipping war, and not how important some ships are to queer/LGBTQ representation.
“23. Ship you’ve unwillingly come around to
Amon/Korra and Tarrlok/Korra. I really didn’t want to like either of those ships when I first started exploring LOK fanfiction. But I’ve been slowly coming around to liking them over time, and have even been thinking of writing something for them both.”
“Amon/Korra and Tarrlok/Korra.” Here are my honest reactions when I remember that these ships exist:
#r/ant#personal r/ant#some people are just disgusting#this fandom is sometimes just... ugh#some people are just... ugh#text#text post#pathetic
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tlok villains: how divorced are they?
Amon: to be divorced you need to be married, and this man is repugnant. he doesn't even care about this. i put him at maybe a 1, sliigghhtly divorced.
Tarrlok: ah! now we have arrived at divorcedville. this guy has four children from three ex-wives and they all feel a mixture of pity and hate. easy 9 on the divorced scale
Unalaq: this is the most divorced man on the fucking planet. on the divorce papers it says "grounds: husband is a loser". you know his ex is THRIVING in the northern Earth Kingdom with a guy whose name is the Mongolian equivalent of Trent. 10/10 peak divorce
Varrick: two ex wives he doesn't talk to, or think about, nor do they really think about him. 4, his heart isn't in it.
Zaheer and P'li: they fuck. -10 anti divorced
Ming-Hua: impatient. agitated. single mom energy. other than that, no indicators. 3
Ghazan: dad jokes feel. -9 undivorced but something about him
Kuvira: heavily strained relationship with her fiancé? 7/10
does Raiko count? anyway he has two exes and a trophy wife, prolly like an 8
#scales should go from negative to positive with 0 neutral#like in general#not doing vaatu because i dont think about him ever. hes boring#divorce#the legend of korra#amon#noatak#tarrlok#unalaq#varrick#red lotus#zaheer#p'li#min hua#ghazan#mingzan shippers might have something to say about these two's ratings.#your headcanons have no powers over me <3#kuvira#president raiko
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that swamp tribe korra au idea sounds g e n i u s
JSAIDOJSAJIODAS THANK YOU ANON!! YOU JUST MADE MY NIGHT!! here, have some more of my thoughts since I've been thinking of this AU non-stop and have been researching a LOT:
Korra's animal guide is still Naga, but I'm changing her species to fit Korra and the Swamp Tribe more! Here's a sketch I made a few days ago of Naga, the Wolverine-Deer!!
+ Some other sketches of animal guide ideas!
Naga's deer side is more inspired by the Sika Deer, since their adults tend to keep their spots! I chose the wolverine rather than the badger because wolverines are typically loner animals that can take down both predators and prey DOUBLE the size of them, which I think fits Korra's character more!
I've also been doodling around with Korra's design a little bit, since I don't think it would be a 1-to-1 copy of her canon design. Still, I haven't been able to settle down on anything just yet - especially since I've been trying to give the Foggy Swamp Tribe more of a culture rather than just being the Water Tribe's hillbilly cousins. I'm trying to combine both Native American tribes that lived in Florida and other wetlands with the obvious Vietnamese inspiration their tribe has! It's...taking me a bit, though, since I am researching multiple things at once while also being A Responsible Adult, skldjaldaja
So far, I'm settling down on these facts for my fic (cause I WILL BE WRITING THIS - SOMEDAY!!):
Senna is from the Foggy Swamp Tribe. Tonraq is still from the NWT. After his banishment, his ship veered off course and ran into the Swamp Tribe's delta, where he met Senna and decided to stay! He's not the chief, however, as I'm thinking that the most enlightened elders of the tribe are the elected leaders (maybe one has to meditate at the Banyan-Grove tree first before leading the FST?), and it is someone else at this current moment in time.
Sokka isn't dead! I headcanon that he died due to injuries in the Red Lotus attack, and..well...I don't think that goes exactly as planned in this AU, sjadkajdlade. Due to this, and thanks to him figuring out first that the water avatar was most likely Swamp Tribe, he has a bit of influence in Korra's life!
(Zukka will be in this btw, since I Love Them, but they won't take priority.)
Korra wasn't taken by the White Lotus when they discovered who she is. The Foggy Swamp Tribe is very protective of their own and who they see as family, loyal down to the bone, and when the White Lotus says that Korra has to go to their Southern Water Tribe facilities to be taught bending, they REFUSED it. I like to think that the family unit and community is INSANELY important to the Foggy Swamp Tribe, and just because Korra is the avatar doesn't mean that she needs to be taken away from her home.
So, basically, Korra grew up with her community and has childhood friends rather than being isolated like in canon! This changes a bit in how she approaches Mako, Bolin, and Asami when she meets up with them eventually. (AKA, fuck the romance triangle, I ain't doing that)
The entire plot of Korra has changed - due to Sokka being alive, Korra's stance on non-benders is different. Due to growing up in the Foggy Swamp Tribe, who teaches the ideals of everything and everyone is connected and that connection is important, Korra also goes about defeating Vaatu differently. Due to Tonraq never making it to the SWT, almost everyone thinks he's dead (mail can't exactly get through tall trees or extremely vicious animals), so Korra never even met Unalaq either...
That's all that I have thought of for now! Thank you for the ask, Im so SO HAPPY that you like my silly lil FST Korra AU!!!!
#The Legend of Korra#The Last Airbender#ATLA#ATLOK#Foggy Swamp Tribe Korra AU#My Art#Anon#I can't help it. Theyre gay and in love.#Like u are MORE than allowed to not envision Zukka in this AU#I dont claim FST Korra as my own#I just like Zukka!! And they'd be elderly in this fic!! It's a win-win!!#But this AU has completely rotted my brain it is all I think about#I have 23 saved Wiki pags and articles to research + 2 books I checked out from the public library#I want to go all in on this#Zukka (mentioned)
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The foil between Avatar Aang and Dark Avatar Ozai
The obvious ones are that Vaatu is the source of all darkness, chaos, and all aspects of Yin. Raava is the source of all light, peace, and all aspects of Yang.
Roku and Sozin had connections to Raava and Vaatu. Roku was the host of Raava enforcing peace. Vaatu was trapped in the tree of time separate from Sozin but takes advantage of the winter/summer solstices and the energies from the tree of time and the giant swamp tree to project dreams of ambition and world dominance, which leads Sozin to be the instigator of the great war.
Raava permanently fuses with a human host after growing to appreciate humans and viewing them as equals. Vaatu views humanity as an inferior but useful tool for his own ends. He contacts Iroh's spiritually attuned mother, Ilah, and manipulates her into setting him free. Ilah astral projects into the tree, Vaatu fuses with her and when they warp back into her body, Vaatu's dark powers/status are lost until Harmonic Convergence. Ilah shortly becomes pregnant with a second child and dies birthing the child.
Over the course of 10,000 years, the avatar was more human than spirit. Instead of Ozai fusing Vaatu, Ozai IS Vaatu, making it the other way around.
How they gain and master bending differ: The lion turtle willingly gave Wan and later Aang all forms of bending, whereas Vaatu resorts to taking bending by consuming/collecting souls like a grim reaper. The first soul he absorbs is the last lion turtle Aang met and it was during Sozin's comet. He consumes all sources of all bending which drives the original benders to extinction and all of their souls fall under Vaatu's control. He eventually absorbs the fog of lost souls along with all of its soul prisoners.
Each avatar spent years mastering their bending, needing a lot of effort to use their abilities to the fullest, and they often struggle and suffer for their power. But when Vaatu takes a soul, he gains all of its memories and experiences and he puts up with little to no downside to his powers.
The avatar cycle for Aang's time is air, water, earth, and fire, whereas the dark avatar, it's fire, earth, water, and air. Aang was born an airbender who gets energybending last, Vaatu was reborn as a firebender who gets energybending first.
Aang is mostly a jack-of-all-trades and has the strongest friendship with Team Avatar. The dark avatar is a superior master of all and a one-man team avatar. He's also the archnemesis/antithesis to each member of Aang's Team Avatar as a whole.
Both understand that dark cannot exist without light and vice versa and both have common goals to achieve true balance but their methods differ greatly:
Vaatu's manipulation of Sozin and Ilah and becoming a dark avatar were all part of his plan to steal Raava's power over light/peace/yang for himself, evolving into the spirit of balance and bending themselves. But not until after 10,000 years of pure/eternal darkness, chaos, death, and destruction after Raava's death. With his bending, Vaatu makes sure that he gets stronger as the aspects of Yang regrow instead of weaker, which, in turn, makes Raava keep getting weaker.
Upon learning this plan and understanding that the light side of spiritbending restores the internal balance of spirits and possibly humans, Azula and Aang hatch a counterplan to use spiritbending on Vaatu and Raava at the same time. Vaatu and the fog will be purified into nothingness while Raava becomes the spirit of bending and balance, saving the world and setting all souls free in the process and without even having to wait 10,000 years.
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Vaatu and the Kiddos
I really want to talk about how Vaatu interacts with any of the kids in my AU as a parent or mentor or adult figure and how this Ancient Grumpy spirit learns to be a good adult figure SO. Please leave asks suggesting any of the kids or scenarios! There’s of course the main six: Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Azula, but you can suggest anyone else too such as Yue, Suki, Mai, Ty Lee, Jet, etc.
I’ll do lists of headcanons or if you suggest a specific scenario I’ll try to write a short scene for it! I’ll also turn anon asks on my blog (if I get anon hate for some reason, I just won’t respond.)
#avatar the last airbender#vaatu#please ask me about them#I really want to talk about it#and it’ll help me develop better ideas for my fic#chaos avatar zuko#chaosavatarzuko
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Choose violence asks: 3, 6, 16, 19, and 23
Thanks for the ask!
3. Screenshot or description of the worst take you’re seen on Tumblr.
Easily the anti-Mako discussion I was part of a few weeks ago. I can’t find the thread because I blocked the OP, but they were basically calling Mako a horrible character because he wasn’t as trusting of Korra as Asami was. Which completely undermines his entire character.
6. Which ship fans are the most annoying?
I’m probably gonna get shit for this, but for the sake of honesty: Korrasami. I’ve gotten more shit from Korrasami stans than any other ship in the LOK fandom.
16. You can’t understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon etc)
Probably the trope that villains are always totally evil and completely incapable of redemption. Sure, some characters definitely are irredeemably evil: Vaatu for example. But not all of them are.
19. You’re mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like…
The only thing I’m mildly ashamed of liking is probably Omegaverse, lol. I don’t even know why I like it so much, but I do.
23. Ship you’ve unwillingly come around to
Amon/Korra and Tarrlok/Korra. I really didn’t want to like either of those ships when I first started exploring LOK fanfiction. But I’ve been slowly coming around to liking them over time, and have even been thinking of writing something for them both.
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5 Headcanons where Aang never wakes up from his coma after Azula's lightning attack
So I have a couple of I guess red headed stepchild AUs, AUs that I don't talk about very much, that are just ways to make my id happy, and one of these is a demented little offshoot of my fanfic "Yesterday's Flame": [Link] (in which Jet is a secret firebender and survives). In this AU of an AU, Aang dies, and since the Spirit Oasis water was used on Jet, he stays dead. Raava is separated from Aang's spirit, and just leaped into the closest not-terrible person, who happened to be Zuko: [Link] and [Link].
1. Once they land in the Fire Nation capital, a decision has to be made with regards to what to do with Jet. Is he a prisoner? Is he a traitor? Zuko convinces the court that he is a poor lost soul, and keeps him as a companion. Ozai, Azula, and Jet all have to choose how to react to this. Ozai, at least for the moment indulgent of his son who he thinks killed the Avatar, allows him his halfbreed companion, while Azula does little more than taunt him for it for her own amusement. Jet... Jet is torn. He hates the pity and fame he gets from the court, and the nobles who, moved by his sad plight, or wanting an in with the prince's friend, who want to foster him and see him taken care of. Yet at the same time, what is he supposed to to against the Fire Nation here?
2. Zuko meanwhile has only one person in his life who knows his secret, both his secrets, and this person neither likes nor trusts him. He spends much of his time glued to Jet's side, trying to keep him from revealing what he knows, and what's left, he spends skulking around spying on the Dai Li and their earthbending. Ty Lee catches him imitating them, and making the rocks in his mother's garden move.
3. Ty Lee of course is well versed in keeping secrets. She will tell no one what she saw, not even Zuko.
4. With Aang dead and the Avatar reincarnation cycle shattered, the invasion on the Day of Black Sun becomes that much more vital, that much more of a desperate stand. The Avatar's companions are coming with an invasion fleet.
5. Zuko's ongoing moral crisis is further complicated by Raava speaking to him in his dreams, speaking to him of the history of the previous Avatars, of the world, and of his duty. But underneath all of that is his own guilt, and his own experiences in the Earth Kingdom. When he hears his father's plan to burn the Earth Kingdom with Sozin's Comet, Zuko makes his decision. And as the Avatar, he knows there is no one else to shoulder the responsibility.
#avatar the last airbender#Zuko#atla jet#Ty Lee#Azula#five headcanons#posts i created#do you want to ask a question it doesn't have to be a question#zuko is a dweeby little turtleduck#circus freak is a compliment#jet and his freedom fighters fighting freedom#ra ra raava and vaatu#azula needs her own warning#noodle lord ozai
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