#unalaq

[quartings]

With the new Avatar series being post apocalyptic, I had to draw this up:

I'm not the most hyped about the new premise either, but I'm going to wait until we get actual footage to form my opinions!

[akiizayoi4869]

Sigh

[ozais-lobotomist]

contender for worst post

atla

[colortheparacosmist]

Korra losing her connection to her past lives, right? It was awful for a lot of people (especially Korra), but there’s someone I’ve never seen talked about regarding this whole event:

I wanna know how Katara felt.

Katara, who’s been the best friend -> girlfriend -> wife of the avatar for many, many years.

Katara, who’s known Aang since the beginning.

Katara, who made sacrifices with grace on the regular, knowing and accepting the life she chose in being with Aang.

Katara, who in the eyes of many was Aang’s second.

Katara, who probably accepted Aang’s “early” death knowing he’d already escaped it once (and that this was the only reason she ever got to love him at all).

Katara, who probably found solace in it knowing that he still lived in the little girl she helped to train and raise.

I want to know how Katara felt when she found out that Korra had been brutally attacked and beaten (by her own uncle!) and had the avatar spirit literally ripped out of her and murdered in front of her eyes.

Katara may do what she does for Korra now. I believe that she does; she really does love Korra, and we see it in nearly all her screentime in tlok. But to everyone else, she trained the avatar. And in tlok, that may be Korra, but she wouldn’t have ever met her if not for Aang.

It was always Aang.

I want to know how Katara felt when she realized that Aang was truly, finally dead.

[the13thh0ur]

Everyone hates on Korra for losing the connection to the past avatars when you should be hating Unalaq, but have you considered the upside that when Katara eventually passed away Aang's spirit was free to enjoy afterlife with his wife in peace?

[ozaitheestallion]

I think Ozai and Unalaq have a lot of little similarities, like they’re both jealous petty bitches who hate their older brothers and treat their children as disposable, so what if they flirted-

[beifong-brainrot]

[moondustgleam]

The shitty writing of TLOK season 2 is even more tragic when you consider what a GOLDMINE of personal drama could've been contained in there completely unrelated to the love triangle. Unalaq is Korra's uncle! Eska and Desna are her cousins whom she interacted with as a child! That's her family!!! They knew each other before season 1!!!!!

Imagine you are the supreme being of your world, but you care deeply about your homeland and your people. Your uncle brings a colonizing force to steal the resources of your home, calling it "spiritual guidance." You plead with him to end the occupation. Your people are suffering. You have been told you must remain neutral. Someone tries to assassinate him. You stop them. After all, he's still your uncle. He's still family.

He accuses your father. You knew they had a strained relationship, but this is pushing it.

The trial is a sham. You find out the judge was a corrupt puppet. You go to free your father. Your uncle is there. He tells you that you are failing your sacred position. He tells you only he can help your people. Your cousins chase you down and try to kill you. Your uncle puts a little girl in a coma. He says he wants to put an end to your era. He uses you to advance the apocalypse.

You and your friends face the end of the world together. Your cousins join your side. He attacks your new home with vengeance.

He tries to kill you.

You are forced to kill your uncle. For the good of the world.

Everyone talks about how he was an evil man. You remember the festivals you attended together as a child. You have to tell your cousins after. How will they tell their mother?

Do you mourn the man you lost? Or wonder at the man you never really knew?

Not even to MENTION the red lotus connection, which I always thought was a real wasted opportunity.

UGHHHH THERES SO MUCH POTENTIAL WHYYYY NICKELODEON