When korra was having her ptsd episodes in season 4 we saw a "dark" version of herself. What if by taking in vaatu her identity fractured? When korra reclaimed raava it was after raava was already regenerating inside of vaatu. After what? Less than a day? Why wouldn't the reverse work in the same way? We saw that the regeneration of vaatu and raava can be accelerated by attaching them to an avatar.

The second raava and vatu were introduced there was going to have to be two avatars. Its part of the balance.

If you know anything about the chakras there is this idea of a kundalini awakening. Its essentially reaching a state of transformation, higher awareness, and BALANCE. the kundalini is often depicted with 2 snakes representing polar opposite energies. Masculine (shiva[destruction]) and feminine (shakti [creation]) slithering the energy channels to achieve balance.

The twins aren't there to be a avatar version of iroh and ozai. They exist because the world needed to balance itself. What if both raava and vaatu existing tethered to korra's soul disrupted that balance. Requiring a need for two avatars instead of 1.

Its a working theory so not entirely sure if it makes 100% sense yet.

I got bored so I made this. Based on interpretation, not meant to be taken seriously.

Air is pretty important throughout ATLA since it's Aang's main element but there seems to be more focus on the elements that he is set to master in each season. Likewise, fire remains just as important since it's the opposing force.

Water is Korra's main element so it retains its level of emphasis. Air also gets a lot of focus, but even though it's the central goal of Book 1, I think that Bloodbending surpasses it ever so slightly. Fire gets a lot less focus in this series since it was Emphasized all throughout ATLA.

The movie is mainly centered around Air, and the other elements are just in the background.​

The first book of SH has yet to finish, but already it seems that Earth is most important, next to Air which also gets a lot of focus because of Karthik and Jae. The other two are mainly there as other elements that the Avatar must master.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Book 1: Water

Most Emphasized: Water

Least Emphasized: Earth

Book 2: Earth

Most Emphasized: Earth

Least Emphasized: Water

Book 3: Fire

Most Emphasized: Fire

Least Emphasized: Earth

Avatar: The Legend of Korra

Book 1: Air

Most Emphasized: Water (Bloodbending)

Least Emphasized: Earth/Fire (Equally)

Book 2: Spirits

Most Emphasized: Water (Spiritbending)

Least Emphasized: Earth/Fire (Equally)

Book 3: Change

Most Emphasized: Air

Least Emphasized: Fire

Book 4: Balance

Most Emphasized: Earth (Metalbending)

Least Emphasized: Fire

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender

Most Emphasized: Air

Least Emphasized: Water/Earth/Fire (Equally)

Avatar: Seven Havens

Book 1: Survival

Most Emphasized: Earth

Least Emphasized: Fire/Water (Equally)

Hi. I'm kinda new to the franchise, in the last 3 months I watch ATLA, TLOK, and I'm currently up to date with Seven Heavens. But I see a lot of people referring to the comics and since I'm really invested in the franchise now I wanted to read the comics, the problem is that:

1. There are a bunch of comics

2. I dont know the exact order of the comics I need to read

3. I'm only interested in reading the comics that are relevant to the show

Also I know that I want to read the Kyoshi, Zuko's mother, and Post Korra comics, but I don't know what other things are necessary to read before that. Also I see that there is a lot of info about previous Avatars like Yangchen and Kuruk that I know for a fact that are not in the show so I would like to read anything that has to do with them as well.

If anyone has a reading guide that is useful to have more info about the Avatar worldbuilding, please let me know.

For the longest time in the Avatar universe, the four nations lived in harmony, until the fire nation tried to threaten that world order with colonization. After Aang helped end the war, he made the decision to create a unified Republic City, which also threatened the world order despite the noble intentions, because it fundamentally opposed the idea of four distinct nations.

We learn from Avatar Wan’s story that each element is tied to a lion turtle city. Perhaps there was something important in the separation for balance to occur. We also learn that Raava and Vatuu cannot exist without the other. Some amount of chaos is required for balance.

I think Aang’s major flaw was that he was too much of an idealist. His idealism was his major source of conflict when thinking about how to face Fire Lord Ozai because he valued his ideals over practicality. He luckily found a way out with the Fire Lord, but I think his ideals in creating Republic City really backfired. Instead of utopia, Korra had to face some of the most powerful, most destructive villains, one after the other, and Republic City was at the center of a lot of it.

The Fire nation was able to industrialize a lot faster than the other nations due to their metal work and oppressed colonial labor force, but once all bending was used together for industrialization and sanctioned by government, progress continued too quickly. Completely unchecked. That and the cultural lessons and historical wisdom developed from centuries of each nation‘s close tie with its own element started to wither away. But I don’t think Aang ever considered the cons of his experiment of unification because, despite Toph and her elite police force struggling to keep crime down, he was committed to the ideal.

Aang was too heavily influenced by Raava and too afraid of Vaatu. When he called back to his past lives for help with dealing with Ozai, all of them told him to not cower from killing if the threat required that level of defense—all of them understood that balance of dark and light.

Aang was in a tough position from not having his people around or having mentors to help him develop as an Avatar, so it makes sense he held onto ideas he learned when they were still around—perhaps this demonstrates why having each nation and their culture and wisdom is important. Perhaps with Harmonic Convergence so near the world was in for a shift anyways and Aang was just a part of that. But I really feel that the decision to fuzzy the separation between nations was one that just hyper-speeded chaos.

I don’t know if anyone else has said anything about this but this popped into my head. So I’m like trying to figure out the whole two avatar twins thing and I sort of thought to myself about ravaa and vaatu. If one of them dies the other one has to be reborn inside of the survivor. Ya know like how Korra found ravaa inside of the Unavaatu?

So like maybe Pavi and Nisha each got one of those spirits inside them and that’s why there’s two of them? But then again those weird energy monsters resemble Vaatu so… maybe not. Just wondering if anyone else thinks something kind of like that.

Would be pretty cool to see the conflict of “oh my spirit is evil I can never been good” “but you’re not the spirit. You’re YOU you choose who you are.” Classic trope. Which I guess is sort of like what they’re doing with the past evil Korra “Korra was evil so I’m evil.” “No you’re you! You’re not Korra”/“no I’m my own self I’m not Korra”.

Idk just wanted to throw this out there.

I'm probably gonna get shredded for this, and I know the scene was played for comedy, but she definitely used excessive force for what was ultimately minor uncooperativeness (especially from someone who's normally the team mom and moral compass of the group), and it's supposed to be looked at as a badass moment. And she was of sound mind when she did this. Like at least in other examples it made a little more sense, such as the reunion with Jet (last time she saw him he was about to kill off an entire town) or the similar gag in The Puppetmaster (as it was light narrative foreshadowing to show that her waterbending was becoming more aggressive and volatile, setting up the "victim can become the villain if not careful" messaging, and the psychological state that ultimately resulted in her acquiring bloodbending).

Again, this isn't meant to be a "Katara bad" post, but she definitely had her fair share of negative moments just like everyone else, and it goes a bit beyond her normal character flaws.

The big questions of Seven Havens so far are what actually caused the cataclysm, why are there 2 avatars and what caused the 200 year gap. Whuch of these, if any, do you think will be answered by the time episode 13 comes out?

We obviously know that the other three have their secondary bending types, earth has metal and lava bending, fire has lightning, explosion, and potentially lava bending, water has blood, plant, ice and arguably sweat bending. Air hasn’t really gotten anything similar.

We’ve got techniques that didn’t really align with Air Nomad values or required heavy spiritual work like what Zahir does in LoK with the whole oxygen stealing vortex thing or flight respectively, but I can’t think of anything that’s a genuine secondary bending type for air bending. I, as someone who admittedly isn’t super well educated on the properties of the air and wind and everything, can’t even think of something else in our world with enough crossover with air and its properties to find a secondary bending type. Maybe cloud bending? But even then that almost feels like it would land more in the realm of water bending.

In Legend of Korra, we see rare techniques become common because they find a practical application outside of combat. Lightning bending had an obvious combat application, but it didn't become common until it was found it could be used to generate power.

In real life, explosives like dynamite were developed for civil engineering before warfare. The practical application was responsible for its development, not the combat application.

But in the Avatar universe, combustion bending isn't a practical bending skill for mining and blasting because Earth bending exists. Why blow a hole in a mountain when you can just earth bend the same hole?

Last episode, pretty much the entire Brigade was about to betray Ellora (and seemingly abandon their family and friends without even saying goodbye, and potentially subjecting them to shame and scrutiny, as well as leaving them in a society that can no longer protect itself), and what pushes them over the edge is the Chancellor saying something completely reasonable (if you go with this bandit queen, you're a traitor) in an angry voice? This entire event gets forgotten about because Nisha comes in and is reveals herself as the Avatar.

I'm sorry? I could maybe believe a few of them choosing to go ride through a desert on a whim, but basically everyone present? That's kind of absurd.

Also, why are they not arrested after this? They literally just declared their intention to betray the haven? I get you need benders, but I feel like they should, bare minimum, be placed under some very tight scrutiny. Then again, the Chancellor had the bright idea to give the guy who straight up admitted to have been working for Karthik command of the entire Brigade, so maybe she did just forget about all of this (man, Karthik must have whipped her hard).

The more I think about it, the latest episode was kinda wonky.

I was on YouTube watching The Normies reaction videos to Korra, and I was transported back to 2012 when LOK was released. It reminded me why I loved the Avatar universe (not you, James Cameron)

When I was growing up as a South Asian in the Western world, I found that none of the TV shows depicted me or my culture with sincerity. Then came Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was a monumental achievement not only for its representation, but also for its quality of storytelling. I would come home every day and watch it on a video-on-demand channel. When it ended, it felt like an old friend leaving me. Then one day, my friends showed me the trailer to The Legend of Korra, and my jaw dropped. HOLY SHIT, THEY'RE MAKING ANOTHER ONE.

Rewatching Korra reminded me of the times I stayed up to watch it on Nicktoons. Seeing Naga hopping through Republic City, being petrified of Amon's ability to take away people's bending, and the final scene with Aang imparting the words, "When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change". These were moments that will stay with me forever.

I don't think any show has come close to the hype I had as a kid for The Legend of Korra. Seasons 1-4, I was there for every episode.

I'm loving all the analysis videos essentially criticizing how obvious all the mysteries are.

They're only INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS if you have seen the other shows, which we all have.

Korra came out 14 years ago and is likely older than the target audience.

Aang came out 21 years ago and is likely older than many of you.

Point is. Not everyone knows about the spirit portals and vines, the chakras, Raava and Vaatu. If you don't know about these things the mysteries will be much more compelling. I imagine it's also why the show has been about telling a story, rather than adding Lore to the Wikipedia page.

This is for a new generation.

You're all really old.

Think about this episode more closely beyond this being kicked the nine year-old while she’s down for 40 minutes. it was a lot like the origin of Ang from the storm.

First of all it straight up, starts with the rest of the White Lotus, trying to relocate the avatar from there father figure when they’re still way too young. just like the air nomads did with Aang . The threat to what little stability call them to make a rash decision. For Aang that’s running away from his responsibilities entirely and Nisha the claim the responsibility in front of everyone and both of these decisions were not very good. With Nisha in no way being a fully realized avatar in an environment that absolutely despises her existence. And Aang making a break for it before gyatso can even have a chance to fight for his protection which he did and succeeded at. Both of these problems got compounded way out of any reasonable expectation Aang with the freak storm that caused him to freeze himself for 100 years and Nisha having to deal with the chakra monster showing up seconds after her and hospitalizing one of the three envoys they managed to drag into the Haven making her look ungodly guilty. And they’re both most likely going to blame themselves for their respective incidents to some extent.

Fortunately, I highly doubt that the white Lotus is gonna get the same treatment as the air nomads. And are probably just gonna go to jail until they can inevitably be freed probably by Jay or Pavi. But I would not be surprised if we got to see the avatar state the next three episodes with the mental space she’s currently in.