#Legend of Korra AU

[nikolaiar]

Back in my Avatar AU bag. We should probably talk about how sandbenders were portrayed.

Anyways meet Iften, he don’t wanna be the Avatar! He’s too busy being a dad and trying not to think about he past it’s always there anyways.

Also all Avatars have a spirit guide, and his is a sandstork. They are basically huge storks that live in the Si Wong Desert. They’re kinda like a mix of ostrich I guess? I imagine the sandbenders would’ve rode them instead of camels before they invented sand sailors or whatever the fuck the boat things are called.

[wilcze-kudly]

I enjoy Mako because on one hand he's like

But mostly he's like

[dynamic8ball]

"The Girl in the Iceberg" synopsis/trailer

Before I introduce to the world of Tumblr and possibly beyond of what I'm about to write, I just wanna say what this "synopsis/trailer" thing is. You all know what a movie or TV show trailer is, right? Well I'm about to (sort of, maybe?) do it for a fanfic that I've been adoring for the past several months. A Legend of Korra fic titled "The Girl in the Iceberg" by RainbowRosieS (I'm not them by the way. I'm just promoting it because I love it so much as a reader) on AO3. Here's a link to it if you just want to skip my ramblings, but I just want to get this out because 1) I love this ongoing fic to death and 2) I could use the exercise for writing 3) I want to do it for fun. https://archiveofourown.org/works/44664853/chapters/112368748

Republic City, present day.

The hustle and bustle of Republic City is alive and well. Motor vehicles deafen the streets and boulevards; brands such as Satomobile and Cabbage Car making up the majority of the automobile market. Airships float high above the metropolis overseeing the urban landscape. The inner-city's ship yards teem with union dockworkers mooring ships to shore, lifting and transporting crates by hand off incoming ships, evaluating inventory and inspecting ships that prepare for yet another journey.

All this with the ever-growing city skyline sitting still yet tall in the background, unsuspecting of what a mere anthropology major has brought to these shores. She was no ordinary anthropology student: for one she was regarded as an outlier to the profession. Many regard Asami Sato with wariness and skepticism as an up and coming anthropologist, a field, like many others during this time, dominated by the male demographic. Many already know who she is - or better yet, who she is related to. The daughter to automobile magnate, Hiroshi Sato, Asami has grown to develop a passion for the field she studies at Republic City University. A passion, like many other things, she shares with her late mother, Yasuko.

It was unfortunate - tragic, Asami thought - that her mother couldn't be here to share this breakthrough with her. Asami, reservedly, has never been much of a religious person; her beliefs more or less relied on the laws of physics and what has been proven to be possible. But she could only pray that her mother could somehow see this. Her biggest discovery thus far in her young career and still in university.

On the surface, it just looked like a giant iceberg had been dragged all the way from one of the poles from the ship's stern. Asami's calculations proved to have been mostly accurate with how much the ice would melt over the course of their month-long voyage back home from the Southern Water Tribe without losing any precious cargo still frozen within the ice. This trek had been a long time coming; adversity from her skeptical colleagues and university staff, along with many sleepless nights studying numerous sites and artifacts for her expedition as the basis for her master's thesis had all been worth it thus far.

More work was to be done, for sure. The iceberg was to be craned and shipped to a nearby warehouse that her father owned by the docks. Then it would be a matter of time before her team chipped away at the melting ice and discovered more of what lay inside. Back at the South Pole, Asami could already tell roughly what sat inside was a woman in heavy furs surrounded by clubs and spears suspended within the ice along with a canoe and some unidentifiable white form that lay next to the woman.

Asami kept her excitement in check and expectations tempered as she should show respect for the dead and expect mild results and let the subjects of her studies surprise her. Little did Asami know that she was in for a surprise the likes of which hadn't been seen in recorded history and was long forgotten by the world at large. A generational being frozen for millennia and more, lost to time and history. The myth that turned true.

The girl in the iceberg had waited long enough.

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The Avatar is a myth. A tale of bygone eras where people possessed the power to control and bend the elements around them like it was an extension of themselves. The Avatar, born with the power to bend the four elements, was thought of as the bridging spirit between the material world and the spirit world.

Today, spirits are nowhere to be found. Bending has become extinct. The Avatar has long since disappeared.

History roughly remembers who some of the few Avatars were, or at least just by name. The last of these Avatars mysteriously vanished off the face of the Earth over 9,000 years ago, leading many through the annals of time to speculate: Was the Avatar cycle broken? Where could they might've gone? Did the Avatar even exist at all?

Bending and the spirits, too, are questioned to have existed. Throughout the centuries, humans have relied more on practical tools instead of hokey superstition. Evolving technology from stone tools to eventually reaching the industrial age. Beliefs and religion have shifted significantly as well through millennia. The most notable religion, the Church of Raava, has followers spanning the globe in millions. Believing Raava is an all seeing and knowing deity, he supposedly grants access to the after life in the spirit world to those who were devout in the church's beliefs, escaping the cycle of reincarnation.

The world itself is mostly the same geographically. New nations have risen and fallen with varying connections to one of each of the four elements. Bloody wars have been waged with clubs, spears, swords up until the invention of the firearm, shaping combat to be more distanced and deadly. The most recent Great War saw the introduction of the machine gun along with chemical weaponry when the world's powers collided in ruthless trench warfare.

Even with that war over, conflict still ravages the Earth Empire in a gruesome civil war. While the United Republic is experiencing relative prosperity since their arms ceased, trouble looms for immigrants fleeing from the Earth Empire civil war as living conditions worsen in Republic City. Aid groups such as the Red Lotus try and offer help to those in need, even when faced with the threat of Amon's separatists. The separatists' focus is forcing anyone who's not a United Republican out, dismantling the concept of the UR as a melting pot of cultures to establish isolationist peace and prosperity between cultures.

Problems and conflicts continue to mount for Republic City and the rest of the world. Resolutions seem to be growing scarcer by the day as millions still suffer. Perhaps the Avatar, master of all four elements, could save them. So much time had past, though, that the world almost looked unrecognizable to Korra. Without an Avatar for the time she was frozen, the world fell out of balance. And though this brave new world looks very bleak, she hasn't lost hope. Especially when her new hope had discovered her frozen in the iceberg and set her free.

Asami Sato didn't know it yet, but the ancient Water Tribe girl she had released was more than a capable warrior, she held the last hope for balance to be restored. And although her bending skills were great, Korra has a lot more to learn about this world before she should reveal herself to anyone. When the time comes, those that have come to know her will believe that Korra can save the world.

Again, here's the link to the story. https://archiveofourown.org/works/44664853/chapters/112368748

20 chapters are already out with 166,284 words already typed. Updates have been steadily published every Tuesday. If you got an account on AO3, please read it and if you like it, give it a Kudos and leave a comment to the proper author. If no AO3 account, Kudos and comment anyways.

I might do another for other fanfics that I like and enjoy. I've read enough in over a year's time that I could probably rank them in tiers or something that people do, right? Got a ton of LoK fanfic recommendations so go ahead and ask if you want my opinion or whatever.

See yall whenever!

[witch-craft-works]

I didn't put Malleus and Leona in the pole because the MC is 16 in the fic, I'm a bit on the fence with Vil and Iida

[bellmanbessa]

Hercules Korrasami

[crimsonscloud]

give me a fandom i'm in and let me put them in the atla/tlok universe. please.

[asiriyep]

Fire Lord Izumi Week 2024.

Day 3: Childhood.

@firelordizumiweek

[sorryiwasasleep]

This could be PEAK

And in a tangent of semi-headcanons that I will be immediately searching for a fic about:

In another world this was absolutely 100% Eska and Desna, who are in fact the best of friends and definitely their ‘season 1’ villain would then be Unalaq, constantly and insanely jealous of the better connection his children possess to the spirit world than he can ever hope to gain, working to sow seeds of discontent and bitterness into the twin who doesn’t have the bending abilities. This is assuming one of them does NOT do what Korra does and firebend at like 6 and instead their story starts on their 16th birthday with the sages and that reveal turns Unalaq against them. OR if they DID get revealed early, then their experience in the ‘chapter 1’ episode could be similar to that of Adora in the first episode of She Ra: the Princess of Power. They have been influenced and manipulated by Unalaq their entire lives for his goals, believing in their truth, and then something happens that makes them AWARE of it all being lies or otherwise inherently fucked up (maybe they overhear him saying some murderous or hateful shit about one or both, maybe it’s through an event that introduces them to the people who will eventually become THEIR Team Avatar) that leads to Eska and Desna fleeing the Northern Water Tribe to unlearn his abusive shit.

could be a legendary redemption arc if it was done right.

[richimii]

Anyone want some, Zuko's moving Castle AU? (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠) Young and old Katara from both ATLA seasons as Sophie?

[unpersoniverse]

the many faces of Asami Sato

[lovelooksgudonu]

asami doodles

i will color them when I'm free :)

[nikolaiar]

Au stuff- something something Iften: the last avatar

Anyways these are the air acolytes (minus a few oc’s). Uh Jinora and Meelo have beef cause he’s dating a fire bender uh Rohan has a vow of silence uh also Jinora and Kai might get divorced uhhhhh lotta shit

[wilcze-kudly]

I don't know how much water the 'Baatar Sr is a Sukka kid' theory holds, but the possibilities for his kids it opens is incredible.

I mean Opal and the twins with FANS AND SWORDS?! COMBINING THE LEGACY OF THE GREATEST EARTHBENDER IN THE WORLD, THE CHIEF OF THE SOUTHERN WATER TRIBE AND THE LEADER OF THE KYOSHI WARRIORS?!

Metal fans? METAL FANS?!

Also give Opal a sword the woman deserves it! And a boomerang she can throw at Kuvira.

Huan incorporating traditional Southern Water Tribe motifs into his art?!

The Beifong kids ice dodging?! With Kuvira, who is not even marginally prepared for this?And Kuvira getting the mark of the trusted (like aang did in the atla episode)?! The irony! The foreshadowing!

Katara seeing different iterations of her dead brother in them, especially the boys?! Tragic and beautiful.

[vita-divata]

Fun fact, I love them more than my life

[madlad-link]

sits down

[snazzy-korra]

Cruisin’ 🏍️

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HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY TO OUR BI QUEENS!! 🩷💜💙 These girls will be forever iconic and loved by so many, including myself