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shopcat · 7 months

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you know ☝️ a common criticism against korra is that she had natural talent for water fire and earth and was already "stacked" AND a common rebuttal for her i see in annoying comment sections is something along the lines of like "she was a flawed avatar but she did her best" and it just ?! like for the second well what a weird backhanded comment that is straight up not true and yet i see it EVERYWHERE. that she wasn't a "good" avatar. like i'm sorry but the avatar does not exist and it is a story. and she simply Is the avatar. and is a good one. and what would be the point of a narrative if there was no conflict. like how wasn't she good they can never answer either bc they don't even know what they're talking about 😭 "she left for three years" WHO GIVE A SHIT? aang left for A HUNDRED? she was 17 - 20 the entire series why would you weigh her against fully realised proper adult avatars like the BARE glimpses we see of the previous ones... in fact i'd say she was better than all her predecessors considering she was the first one to actually try treating spirits like they were you know ... beings ... and actually BEING the bridge between the worlds 😭 and the spirits being welcome to share the mortal world as it becomes more modern to enhance the magical setting is one of the most interesting cool things i've seen in the whole 'verse

and for the first it drives me a bit crazy bc like yeah i get it but that's bc we were used to the story aang gave us of a 3 act water earth fire mastery. but the thing about that is like... first of all... aang was not a Normal Avatar. he had a short time period to master all 4 elements AND master the avatar state and was literally only 12 years old. and he DIDN'T master fire or earth. and then similarly, it DID take korra until she was 17 to master fire and earth we literally see her taking an exam in her second ever scene. she was born a waterbender in the way aang was born an airbender so idr think that's an issue... i dunno after having finished tlok i just think back on every "criticism" i see against it and beyond any of the genuine criticism most of it is literally just straight up misogyny which is crazy. and obviously homophobia.

#🐾#like. people don't like korra's story bc its not an exact mirror of aang's... they don't want a new story they wanted atla 2 #and its driving me actually crazy bc the entire point is that like yeah she could naturally bend all 3 but that's not CRAZY #it wasn't any more or less of a talent than any other single element bender would naturally possess like we see with haru and katara #for example. or idk bumi #and the point wasn't to watch her master all 4 elements it was to focus on the political and spiritual side we didn't see as much in atla #and they were able to explore in a new setting with an older more elementally experienced avatar #PLUS she DID have a bending arc anyway we SAW it she had to master air and metal AND spirit bending #like i dunno i think people are just super unfair 😭#they also literally told us why too and if you think about it for more than one second it makes sense #the element that's the most opposite to the avatars personality is the hardest to master -> the opposite of air is earth #earth and fire are both similar in structure and personality and she is most like earth #and again would have a natural affinity for water ... but even then its like #the natural elements for the avatar ARE all four. them bending all four from childhood isn't crazy its normal

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