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Well⌠since a thread blew up on twitter about me being a lesbian I thought Iâd officially just reintroduce myself to those of you who donât know. My nameâs Becky. I created this blog when I was 13 with the help of a few girls. Honestly, it was a joke that kind of blew up. Somehow I brought joy to girls and boys all across the world (âjustgirlythingsâ but literally any man or woman could laugh/relate to this blog) and thatâs all I really couldâve asked for when creating this. The above picture is me and my fiancĂŠe Chelsi.Â
Iâd like to thank you all for coming along on this journey with me for the past decade.Â
January 20, 2021
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Complex villains: ATLA and ALoK
So, I was trying to convince my friend Alex to watch Avatar: Legend of Korra and I was talking about the four main villains of the show and how they represent extreme policial ideologies and how this is different from Avatar: The Last Airbender where thereâs only one villain, but another difference struck me.
The villains from ALoK are way more human than the villain from ATLA. And that humanity adds complexity.
In ATLA, we have Fire Lord Ozai.
Heâs ruthless. He is power hungry. He also represents an ideology, and that is imperialism. Ozai follows his fatherâs footsteps by fighting a war against all the other nations and by gaining power. He is the ultimate bad guy. There is no damn good thing about this man. He is absolutely horrible, and the whole plot of this show is âletâs take down this dude!â
Then we have ALoK. Like I said, like Ozai they all represent ideologies, but you also learn their intentions and you learn that their intentions actually arenât that bad. In fact, you can easily agree with their motivations, but they took it too far.
First, we get Amon.
He stands for communism. He saw the increasing inequality between benders and non-benders (and donât say that he was lying) and he was against it. Yes, heâs kind of biased since he was secretly a bender as well, but initially he just wanted to see equality between people.
But his way to equality was a quite violent revolution and hurting innocent benders, non-benders, and just everyone who didnât agree with his glorious revolution. Thatâs messed up.
Then, we have Unalaq, who stands for theocracy.
Unalaq just wanted people, especially Korra, to get more in touch with their spiritual side. Only Korra is the bridge between two wonderful worlds, since sheâs the Avatar, and he wanted it to be more accessible to others. He wants spiritual freedom and balance.
Doesnât sound that bad, amiright? I mean, why is Korra the only bridge between those two worlds? But Unalaq wanted to unite those two worlds so that he could rule over this new united harmonic world as a God (more as Satan), completely undermining the current state of both worlds.
Korra defeats him. But thereâs new danger: Zaheer and the Red Lotus.
The Red Lotus is anarchy. They are a group of skilled benders and they see the current state of the world and they disagree with all the oppression, especially in the Earth Kingdom. The queen misuses her power to oppress the lower classes. Well, she oppresses everyone, actually. The Red Lotus wants a world without oppression from authorities and institutions, which is understandable. Oppression isnât good.
But they straight up murder the queen and they plan on taking out other figures and they think chaos is the only way to have a society. That does not work out, obviously, because it is fucking chaos.
Korra also defeats these guys and apart from Zaheer, no one survives. It takes a huge toll on Korra and the Earth Kingdom is still torn apart now that the queen has been murdered.
So Kuvira sees her chance.
Kuvira represents facism. Kuvira saw how her people had to suffer now that thereâs chaos in the Earth Kingdom and she wants peace and order. She wants to show the world that the Earth Kingdom can come back from disaster and she wants to provide protection towards her people.
Make the Earth Kingdom great again.
And yes, when you see the sorry state of the Earth Kingdom, you can understand it. When Kuvira talks more about it in the last episode when theyâre in the spirit world, it is kind of relatable.Â
But as Korra says, acting as a dictator isnât good. Forcing people to join and oppressing the outsiders isnât good. Her arrogance towards the other nations and her supriority complexâŚ. those things arenât good. âEarth Kingdorm first, Earth Kingdom firstâ eh?
These villains stand for equality, balance, freedom, and unity. And those things arenât necessarily bad. This edit is the best way to show how twisted their ideas have gotten:
(I found this one on Google, but I tracked down the source, so please also reblog it from the original artist).
This isnât new. It is quite common knowledge that these guys represent communism, theocracy, anarchy and facism. But like I said, this makes them all more human than Ozai. In book 4, Toph basically says it herself:
âYou ever considered you could learn something from them? The problem was those guys were totally out of balance and they took their ideologies too far!â - Toph.
You have to take them down from this âvillain teerâ and see that you can actually learn something from them BUT that doesnât justify their actions. Learning from these villains is part of the plot and it is part of Korraâs character development.
And you can say that by the end of the show, they have all achieved their original goals in some way. Non-benders got a bigger and stronger voice in the world and they elected a president to represent them in the United Republic Council (Amon). The spirit world is more accessible and humans and spirits live together in harmony (Unalaq). The Earth Kingdom got rid of the monarchy and they are starting democracy in the hopes that oppression from authorities wonât happen again (Red Lotus). There is a new stronger Earth Kingdom that has risen from the ashes of the failed monarchy and thereâs peace and order in the world (Kuvira). This once again highlights the fact that their original intentions and motivations werenât that bad.
This humanises them even more, but that makes it also kind of more tragic. Ozai is purely evil, or at least, he is presented as that. These people are not. You get reminded by the fact that human beings with great intentions are capable of awful things. Despite everything, you still feel bad for them. You feel a pang of sadness when Tarrlok kills himself and takes Noatak with him. You feel as helpless as Kuvira when she tells Korra why she did everything and how she is hurting. And so on.
Ozai isnât like that. Ozaiâs defeat was so damn satisfactory. Even when it comes to Ozaiâs (or Sozinâs) intention, there isnât anything good. They justify their actions and they spread their ideas towards the Fire Nation, but that is all propoganda. When Zuko gets banished, and he gets out of the Fire Nation, he can actually see that heâs been lied to for all of his life.Â
âGrowing up, we were taught that the Fire Nation was the greatest civilization in history and somehow the war was our way of sharing our greatness with the rest of the world. What an amazing lie that was! The people of the world are terrified by the Fire Nation. They donât see our greatness. They hate us. And we deserve it. Weâve created an era of fear in the worldâŚâ - Zuko, being fucking awesome.
You cannot say anything good about imperialism. All of this, and the fact that he is so far away from our heroes, make him nothing more than the âpure evil villainâ. That is why our heroes are so shocked to see his baby painting. It is the only time in the story where they get hit by his humanity so directly.Â
(Aang was already aware of it, because of his own personal dilemma about killing the Fire Lord).Â
Ozai is also âless humanâ because he sees positive traits as a sign of weakness. Aang sparing him makes Aang less of a person. Love is for the weak, which makes Iroh an idiot. Emotion is for the weak.
But when Korra shows Kuvira compassion, Kuvira is inspired to step down. When Tarrlok âreunitesâ with his brother, Amon is actually hopeful about life again. Zaheer and Pâli are in love. These ALoK villians are human, intelligent, and full of life. Ozai⌠isnât.
So, all of the villains from ALoK have some sense of humanity and complexity and Ozai lacks both of that. Does that mean that the writing of ATLA is the perfect example of the one-dimensional uncomplex villain?
BOY YOUâRE WRONG.
You can say that the complexity of the villain is still there for the entire Fire Nation and its ideals. Namely, Azula still exists.
Azula represents her nationâs ideology as much as her father, but she also represents the complexity and the humanity.
And yes, we know that not all Fire Nation citizens are bad and obviously, Zuko was the villain in book 1, but for the full picture, we will count Zuko and Iroh as the heroes in this story.Â
Whereas Ozai is seen as the uncomplex all-bad far away villain, you have Azula and her gang hunting down Aang and his friends. And you get to know her a little bit. You know her fears and her wants. You realise that her Nation has fucked her up beyond ârepairâ if you can call it that. Especially in book 3, you see a different side of her. Sheâs saddened by the fact that her mother never loved her (or at least, sheâs convinced herself that her mother never loved her) and sheâs afraid of failure now that sheâs seen what Zukoâs been through. She has two best friends who betray her, because that friendship was built on fear instead of love. You donât see a far away villain. You see an unbalanced little girl who has feelings. You see a person.
Azula slowly slips into madness.
We get to the final battle between Zuko and Azula and itâs a long time coming. The moment Azula got introduced at the end of book 1, you know that thereâs a showdown between these two waiting to happen. Azulaâs entire storyline has been building up to this exact moment. But during that time, youâve got to know Azula. Yes, sheâs awful and sheâs done unspeakable and unforgiveable things, but youâve seen her humanity.
Zuko and Azula (and Katara) have their final battle. The music is great and the closer it comes to the climax of the battle, the more exhilarating it becomes. The animation and the fighting are well done. It is all ready for the epic showdown, just like the defeat of Ozai. And fuck yeah, Zuko wins. Aang wins. Azula and Ozai are defeated.Â
But when you watch Ozaiâs defeat with a satisfied grin on your face, you watch Azulaâs defeat and your heart just breaks.
This is one of the biggest achievements of the show. They have finally taken down Azula, the huge threat. But it isnât a happy moment. There is no celebration. Thereâs no joyful and upbeat music. Instead you watch a girl, a human person, cry her eyes out and the heroes watch her with a sad look on their faces. You realise once again that Azula is a person and just like Zuko, you feel pity instead of triumph.
And that is what makes ATLA and ALoK so special and complex and also extraordinary. Iâve said it before: so many kids shows deal with good ole âgood vs. badâ, the âright vs. wrongâ, but Avatar has always been more complex. It is about balance. I am not saying that the classic âgood vs. badâ is always bad storytelling or boring or predictable, but the whole story of balance adds a whole new layer of complexity and the humanisation of these bad people adds another layer of complexity.
It makes these damn shows so amazing.
I have been... rewatching đđ
i think spending years on tumblr surrounded by the most critically unhinged minds on earth has impacted me in ways i dont even want to acknowledge. but on the plus side its all really funny
nearah, pharah, where-ever-you-are-ah~~~
Korra nervously blurted out the question and Asami agreed without hesitation - but each thought the other was joking, simply a curious lover's daydream or very diligent planning. Ultimately, the idea was dismissed as quickly as it came up. Then the Avatar asked again, this time months later with a betrothal necklace in hand. Asami laughed at the irony and smiled, "I already said yes! I'll marry you!"
(I finished the drawing from my last post! Based on how Korra finally said 'I love you' in Turf Wars)

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Kyoshi was an amazing (/ly terrifying) teacher and you can't change my mind đ¤đ
Friendly reminder that Kyoshi was Rokuâs avatar guide (just like Roku was Aangâs guide). Queen-of-Getting-Shit-Done Kyoshi was bland milquetoast Rokuâs main advisor. Like can you imagine, poor Kyoshi had to spend her entire life making up for that useless thot Kuruk who had the audacity to croak in his 30s, only to have a wishy-washy weak bitch successor. You bet your ass she told Roku to murder the shit outta Sozin as soon as he so much breathed in colonizer, but of course he spared him, because of ~*friendship*~ or some shit smh. The force of Kyoshiâs MASSIVE face palm after this happened actually created the Great Divide (this is canon). Yâall just know after Roku finally kicked the bucket, Kyoshi was waiting for him in the Spirit World, size 18 chancla in hand, ready to whoop his ass.