#atlastuck

Karkat would be a firebender, no qualms about it- hell, with a temper like that I figure that he’s got that entire fire breathing thing down like a pro! one idea that comes to mind is that he’s a fire nation spy in the earth kingdom but he learns through dealing with customers and other cultures that he really hates how the fire nation does things and instead decides to continue living in the earth kingdom as an unassuming traveling salesman with a cart of books, sending false reports back and struggling with his loyalty to the empire or the want of helping the rest of the world.

Vriska is a waterbender, and hear me out- you figure firebender for her, right? While it makes sense, with her temper and the militaristic society of Alternia, the biggest problem I have with it is that firebending doesn’t really help control minds, and let’s face it, Vris couldn’t manipul8 her way out of a paper bag. So I figure bloodbending would be the closest for her, forcing people’s bodies to move instead. As a Light player, she’s able to manipulate something good, but unlike Rose’s god tier which would allow her to assist others (thus embodying the lesser known, good side of firebending), Vriska uses her powers, for the most part, for her own selfish needs, embodying the lesser known, sadistic side of waterbending. She likely happens to be hiding out in the Northern Water tribe, biding her time…. getting irons in the fire……

Nepeta is also a waterbender, embodying the general go with the flow attitude of water, but she’s totally from the Swamp Tribe. Like, there’s no better place to have her be than among people who are basically the backwater hunters of the woods, and she grows up in the Spirit Forest with her fellow benders as a feral wild child, seeing things occasionally and rolling with it. Eventually she’d leave, probably to go help her tribe in some way by making sure Ba Sing Se doesn’t hurt the forest, and goes to the center of the Earth kingdom where we have

Equius, an earthbender. STRONG is in the description for this type of bender, and with his metal working it would be a goddamn sin for me not to add him on as one. I imagine that he’s always lived and grew up in Ba Sing Se, trying to one day fulfill his dream as an archer by trying to become as strong as possible and competing in those underground tournaments. This is actually where I imagine he’d meet Nepeta, who immediately traps him by bending his sweat into ice crystals. “This is gross,” She complains as her fingers wiggle a bit. “This is indecent,” Equius hisses as he turns away from the girl clad only in leaves and some cloth. Friendship.

Terezi is a firebender, specifically a Sun Warrior who was chosen as the next high priestess by the dragons. She communicates with them regularly and keeps any unlucky visitors on their toes with her unpredictable antics- in one fell swoop she can destroy or create, and to have her judgement passed is to have been blessed or cursed. Even if the curse is a custard hitting the left side of your face because she’s still blind as hell and senses vague sources of heat around herself.

Aradia would be an earthbender who uses her expertise to go on archaeological digs. Mostly she just runs everywhere all over the world, staying with the locals and eating all of their food and leaving them precious jewels while she takes the only interesting things to her- the artifacts and bones. She finds treasure, and leaves it to the poor while she makes off with the really interesting texts. Because of all the information she holds, she’s both an untrackable source of secrets and a target for any militaristic nation. With the artifacts she’s uncovered, she’s slowly gained the ability to enter the spirit realm, a secret she keeps more guarded than anything else

Tavros would be an airbender- with that general calm demeanor, I feel as if he would adore the pacifist ways of the nomads, and his deep connection with animals means that he would fit right in. I figure that his home would be in the Western Air Temple if this world hasn’t been attacked by the fire nation yet, or in Ba Sing Se. I figure that he communicates most readily with spirits, and can help calm them down if agitated. Then of course he’s accompanied by his best friend

Gamzee, who is also an airbender, and the best reason why can be summed up with the word ‘airhead’. Also because, as a fairly spiritual person with his faith in the messiahs, I can see spirit projection being his big skill in life, helping Tavros along with the spirits. Of course, being the stronger bender of the two, he takes on the more malicious ones, which doesn’t really do wonders for the mental state…

Sollux would be an airbender, and here’s why; his outlook on life in and of itself is pretty damn unique to air nomads, and he’s been left embittered by all the strife and bullshit in the world. He also would generally be connected to the spirits, particularly those of more malicious intent and origins that used to be human, approximating the souls of the imminently deceased. Trying to cut himself off from his temple, he travels to try and escape his heritage and the damnable ways they tried to impart on him.

Eridan is a firebender through and through. There’s no other way to describe it- the rampant militarism, the want of genocide, the temper and want of power means that he’s probably stationed in the fire nation, calling the shots for some part of the army or another and climbing the ranks, training, ever training, so that one day he’ll be able to do things no one else had ever done before, like say take over the water tribes.

Kanaya is an earthbender, steadfast as she is- she embodies the elegance that can come with earthbending, being able to turn jewels and stone into delicate works of art and jewelry to be weaved in the margins of silks and clothes, but ultimately is a very powerful person. She chopped a man in half and applied his blood to her goddamn lips- that’s brutal right there, and the thing about Kanaya is that she’s brutally elegant, a contradiction you don’t think would work but somehow *does*! I figure that she lives as a seamstress in Omashu, taking the rides to work and sewing to her heart’s content.

And last but not least, Feferi would be a waterbender, both because of her love of the sea and all its creatures but because of her kind, willing to compromise nature and her tendency not to take any bullshit. She’s as strong as a massive glacier, but pliable, and focuses on the life giving aspects of waterbending. I figure she ran away from the North to the Southern Water Tribe to learn how to properly fight