#tlok equalists

[thingamabobus]

These are really fun to do so heres a few more

base images under the cut

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Equalist Chat by KasonSama

Important medical update for some injured Equalists, they got hurt doing something REALLY dumb.

Also, LMAO remember when I used to draw Legend of Korra stuff all the time???? I don't! but I felt the need, and wanted to do something a little more clean line wise, might go back and properly shade it, but for now It'd DONE.

[pedanticat]

Ah, yet another thing that could have been built up better. The equalits suddenly taking control of Republic City. Book 1 REALLY needed more episodes.

[alishatheninth]

Hello, friend. I'm hoping I can rely on your expertise in all things Equalist AU and ask for any headcanons you have about what might have changed in LOK if Hiroshi Sato hadn't funded the Equalists. What would that revolution look like (or not)? How good is Amon at fundraising?

Hello friend! Oh, wow, what a fun ask. The traditional way to fund revolutions is crime. So they could have sold drugs or started their own mafia. However none of that really synergises with Amon's core skill set (debending people), and while he's highly effective at fighting benders, I don't think he is enough to win a Triad war on his own. There must be a considerable pool of nonbenders who are disgruntled (some perfectly reasonably, others less so) with how benders get ahead in society even in ways not directly linked to bending. Hiroshi was a big fish level supporter, and his motives were more personal, but there must be plenty more nonbenders with some money or power who feel marginalised and would support an alternative. Maybe they set up a really effective moneylaundering operation because there are plenty of nonbender clerks and shopkeepers who aren't willing to train up as chi blockers but can definitely funnel some money to the cause at low personal risk. (Maybe recruitment could proceed by attacking specific benders). However if Amon had a wider pool of funders to please he *might* have had to have more of a cohesive policy than the "let's get the bastards" which Hiroshi was happy with.

Best case scenario for the Equalist cause: they take a lot longer than in canon but manage to build a coalition with military power and popular support, and launch a coup. Things are probably pretty bloody and awful (tens of thousands of people died in the French revolution, most of them not aristocrats, many while waiting for trial) but the political situation shakes down into something less bender-centric and inspires nonbenders in other nations to behave as a power bloc. Possibly Amon gets outed as a bender sometime at the end of this process, and executed. This triggers a period of general sheepishness and some of the more tyrannical anti-bending measures are softened. Worst case scenario for the Equalist cause: Amon gets bogged down forever courting different industrialists with different visions of what the future should look like. Being able to debend a few particularly unfair benders doesn't help that much. He marries the lieutenant and they eventually just become that old couple in the pub forever talking about the revolution they're going to do someday.