#unalaq

[hereticluther]

Unalaq lover moots 👀👀👀👀👀

Unalaq in the big 2026 😭😭 idgaf anymore but I love him so anyway

[av-potatogun]

and another thing ! (about Korra, sorry i obsess like i'm paid to)

neither Tenzin nor Tonraq thought Unalaq was shady, neither of them believed he was dark. they didn't like him, but they also did not think he was evil.

Tonraq, specifically, is Unalaq's brother. i don't know if anyone here has ever had a parent that has a bad relationship with their siblings because of past choices on either end, but the annoyance and upfront dislike is normal. despite this Tonraq asks Korra to talk to Unalaq about the optics of using such a strong military prescence, because Tonraq sees his brother as reasonable enough to listen to genuine concern about how he rules.

the way Tonraq treats Unalaq is in fact so similar to how i've personally seen strained relationships between my parents' siblings, that if it weren't for the show handing us the "he's evil" subtext, i would have accepted him as a new mentor for the season. like strained relationships between two people does not mean that you have to automatically take a side, and Korra training with her uncle despite her dad not liking him would have been more than fine if her uncle hadn't secretly been evil.

on the other side, Tenzin's main complaint is Korra's personal training itinerary. when she does go to him to get help stopping Unalaq, he states that while he knew Unalaq was power-hungry, he didn't imagine he would go this far over it. he genuinely thought Korra would be fine training with Unalaq.

the real issue is that the show wanted the viewers to read the subtext of "Unalaq is secretly evil" so it told us he was evil. that combined with two characters separately disliking him made it seem like it was not a secret that he was evil. giving the audience a certain perception of a character changes how they view the tones of scenes about said character, so what was supposed to be read as "familial annoyance aimed at a strained relationship,' read as 'untrusting and suspicious' to a lot of people. and what read as 'politely annoyed at his personality' read as 'suspicious of motives' to those same people.

so no, no one warns Korra not to trust Unalaq before she starts catching onto his motives herself, because no one knew his true motives. just because the audience was told he was evil doesn't mean the internal cast of characters got told.

[hachiwarebluecamera]

People don’t hate Wan for trusting Vaatu like how they hate Korra for trusting Unalaq

[bigboobshaunt]

Been rewatching LoK on my spare time and I legitimately forgot how frequently in Book 2 Korra and Unalaq were trying to Pokémon Ranger each other.

[megashadowdragon]

another good point brought up in the comments section of this tiktok is how “stranger over her father” argument doesn’t work cuz unalaq says good to see you AGAIN. also her cousins her twins and she could immediately tell them apart like

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I rewatched the TLOK because of that fucker and I realised that Tenzin and Tonraq never even made a single statement about being suspicious about Unalaq. Nothing. Because Unalaq and Tonraq kept arguing about Korra and Unalaq kept exposing him while Tenzin said not a single word.

[em0tionallymotionsick]

KORRA 👏 WAS 👏 GROOMED 👏

KORRA WAS GROOMED BY UNALAQ

THE VICTIM BLAMING THAT HAPPENS IN THIS FANDOM IS APPALLING

[tarrlokandazulanumber1fan]

I cannot stress enough that I find almost every man real and fictional extremely ugly

Why does Unalaq not apply to this for me

Why HIM why couldn’t it have been a reasonable pick like. Mako

[dyukiii]

this little stinky boy looks like an unalak