it would’ve been interesting to have korra be raised by that band of freaks from season 3 but a season about deprogramming the avatar wouldn’t have been huge with the intended audience of 10 year olds

walk with me the abduction is successful the red lotus raises her for years but she gets to 13 so obviously she sneaks out and sees the Real World her uncle intercepts her and gets her back to them so they can do the chaos spirit plan she kills her uncle the rest get arrested etc etc and it’s deprogramming time TIMESKIP she’s still scarred from the only loving family and doting father she remembers being absurdly evil and she’s being introduced into society but the avatar is obsolete by now kind of and the public doesn’t trust her bc of the chaos spirit shit the equalist stuff happens she suspects asami’s dad bc of the aforementioned loving dad to villain pipeline so now those two have common ground and the adults don’t know how to comfort them bc they’re 40 and had the opposite growing up of heroes being terrible dysfunctional parents then a season of whatever then the poisoning and healing then a final season of whatever

it was butterflies the whole time. george you rascal