#lok meelo

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

Tbh I personally felt that Aangs grandchildren had too much screen time in the Legend of Korra.

Like they were nice to see in the beginning it was like "Aww kiddos" but we definitely missed out on seeing Aangs and Katara actual children, like I would have loved to see more of their oldest Bumi and Kya such a missed opportunity.

Fucking stuck with Tenzin and his family for 4 seasons.

[bumirang]

wait rohans a waterbender? since when?????

Since I made it up? I dunno, I like the idea. I doubt they'll go that direction in canon (unless they HIRE ME to make some damn COMICS)

Rohan being an airbender is boring to me. It's totally expected, practically makes the kid a non-entity. It's much more interesting to make him something else and explore what that means for the family dynamic. That (likely) means non-bender or waterbender, though earthbender is a possibility since Pema's from the Earth Kingdom. I'm just going to assume that Katara wasn't bullshitting when she touched Pema's preggo belly in the very first episode and said the baby would be a bender. She just got the element wrong. It was a safe bet!

First off, it'd raise some questions about how bending is passed down. Based on what we've seen in canon, it's easy to assume that a bender only passes down their own element to their offspring, with it either manifesting or staying dormant, possibly for multiple generations. But what if it's more complicated than that? Tenzin may style himself as Mr. #1 Air Nomad, but his mother's element and culture are part of him, too, right? With the different nations intermarrying more than ever before, it creates the potential for any type of bending to pop up in any part of the world, which has many fun worldbuilding implications. It'd also make a lot of sense, considering how the new airbenders pop up the way they do. They may all have had airbenders somewhere in their ancestry, with that potential lying dormant for centuries or even millennia until it was finally activated by Harmonic Convergence. I know this isn't a groundbreaking fan theory, but whatever.

Anyway, back to Rohan.

The discovery that Rohan's a waterbender would be a surprise, maybe even a shock, and it'd give the Kataang clan a new point of conflict and introspection, particularly for Tenzin. He'd have to grapple with his kneejerk reaction being denial, followed by disappointment. Then comes the doubt...

Why does he suddenly feel more distant from Rohan? He reviews his own interactions with the boy, both before and after the discovery. Does he treat him differently now? Should he? Of course he doesn't love his son any less, but it changes their relationship, or seems like it must. Is it fair to bring him up like an Air Nomad, the way his siblings were raised? Would it be better to introduce him to more Water Tribe traditions? He realizes how little he valued his mother's culture compared to his father's. It's not that he doesn't care, but...

Is this how Aang felt about Bumi and Kya, before he was born? How did he come to terms with that? Did he feel this same ache? And knowing now how alienated Bumi and Kya felt from their Air Nomad heritage for so long, how can he stop himself from making the same mistakes? What does this mean for the future of his people? Can Rohan be an Air Nomad but not a member of the Air Nation? Is such a thing possible?

He sees himself reflected in his son's innocent, trusting eyes, his own expression one of confusion and fear. He's lost again. Nothing in his readings of Air Nomad wisdom or his memories of Aang tell him what he should do, and he's too ashamed to admit his conflicted feelings.

Finally, Tenzin's head explodes.

Plus, hey, it's a great excuse to bring Auntie Kya around for lots of fun waterbending lessons! Both she and Bumi get to say "toldja so" to Tenzin once he admits his struggle over his relationship with Rohan and what that made him finally truly understand about their childhoods, about what it meant for all three of them to be children of the last airbender.

Meanwhile, Rohan's just being this precocious kid—a lot like his sister Jinora—inventing whole new ways of bending water like it's no big deal, and all the adults are too tied up in knots to even notice. His siblings notice, though, and help him figure himself out. He's a true Cloudbaby, a perfect cinnamon roll.

In the end, they do work it all out, and the whole family is closer than ever before... until Meelo announces he's joining the United Forces and all hell breaks loose.

[sketchysketchiness]

Meelo!

[whatifitookalilnap]

Korra with the airbending kids: I swear if any of you gremlins say ANYTHING to Asami when she picks me up for our date I will use my earthbending to chuck you suckers into the sun!

Literally anyone: *does something to make the airbending kids upset*

Korra, cracking her knuckles: so I guess tonight is the night bitches die.

[lying-on-floors]

TLOK as text posts

[persnickety-doodles]

Big Sis Korra ☺️

[dollvix]

Bumi: so this is the one who didn't want children...

Lin: look, I don't know how I ended up here

Suyin: don’t forget about your nephews

Lin: …

[fuzzykidney]

Aang was a good dad I swear

Bumi talks about his Dad,Aang. My baby Aang was a Good Daddy.

[wilcze-kudly]

[hersterical]

(some point late season 2 - mid season 3)

Korra: Yeah, looking back on it the whole weird love triangle thing between me Mako and Asami should’ve been a major red flag

Korra: Like, who in their right mind would choose me over Asami? She’s literally perfect!

Korra: I’d choose her over me

Korra: I’d definitely choose her over Mako at this point

Korra: In fact, I’m having a hard time thinking of anyone I’d choose over Asami if given the chance but I literally can’t think of anyone. She’s just so pretty, and smart, and funny, and passionate, and brave, and just generally the best

Korra: So yeah, someone having the opportunity to date Asami but then choosing to date someone else instead? MAJOR red flag there

Korra: Sorry, what were we talking about again?

Meelo: *Got bored of the bug he was playing with and fell asleep

Jinora: *Resting her face in her hands and wondering how the most powerful and (supposedly) wise person in the world could be so stupid

Ikkki: *Visibly shaking in excitement and squealing at a pitch only Naga can hear

[thinky-think-brainblast]

Am I the only one that really, really , really, HATES how mixed kids are portrayed in LOK.

Like why is their so much waisted potential, and it makes me so mad because I would really love to see one person embrace both of their parents nations therefore, by inheritance, ALSO THEIR OWN NATIONS. Like don’t just embrace the nation were their bending comes from or the nation of which they look like the most. *cough cough* Mako and Bolin.

Like we all know this is about Bumi, Kya, and Tenzin,

And like I know that Aang was the last of his people so it only made sense for Tenzin to take on more of his air nomad or air nation side, and I know it could be the parents fault that children don’t embrace both cultures, and I could get into the whole argument of *why didn’t Aang teach Kya and Bumi* and all of that, but one you have already heard that like a billion times, and two yes Aang SHOULD have helped them embrace their air nomad side more after all they are part of the few people who still carry air nation genes. And lets leave Aang bieng a better father at that (which by the way am still very mad that they wrote him like that.)

Let’s get back to the kids becuase it is the little things they could have done and didn’t do, as an example why did Tenzin not give Pema a bethroval necklace, like in my mind he did and Pema wears it but we can’t see it cause her robes hide it OR why didn’t we see Tenzin wear a Parka (I know airbenders don’t get cold just hear me out) when he was in the South Pole just because its his culture and he can embrace it down there. Or why doesn’t Kya carry around the necklace that Yang Chen, Gyatso, and Aang have, correct me if am wrong but I believe that they are used by air nomads to meditate, and she enjoys meditation even taught some of the knew air nation. I imagine she wouldn’t wear it around her neck but have it wrapped around her wrist or wear it on her hip like if it was hanging from a utility belt and then when she meditates she would USE IT. Imagine it is the necklace Aang used to wear so it would become parallel to katara wearing her moms necklace. And this are small details because I know Tenzin is the last airbender for a while and Kya is one of the few waterbenders who originally come from the southern water tribe, so they wouldn’t be able to embrace both their cultures so much. But lets talk about the other one… BUMI, in my mind he doesn’t only dress in water tribe clothes but his outfits are the perfect mix between both his cultures, he is a non-bender he doesn’t owe anyone anything, but the writers are cowards. And for me thats the bare minimum anyway, if it were really up to ME THEY WOULD ALL EMBRACE THEIR CULTURES.

Then again there is also the issue that whatever traditions or customs Tenzin does or practices will probably be copied or passed down to the air acolytes and the new air nation. We see this in LOK in one aspect, the nuclear family’s, Tenzin was raised by Aang and Katara in a reasonably big family ,water tribe style, this is something him himself carried on to do. This is not the traditional way to raise or procreate as airnomads, but it would have also been very hard to to due to there only being one airbender. Air nomads get raised in air temples with several other people they aren’t or don’t know if they are related too. So Aang and Tenzin did have to have a nuclear family, but the way Tenzin family is is very much representing of how he was raised. In the water tribes I ca imagine is more common to have big family’s and a little detail that is a clea water tribe family aspect I noticed in LOK is when Tenzin and Pema are sleeping in bed and we see Meelo right in the middle also sleeping until he answers the phone. I imagine this is something Tenzin learned from his own childhood, to have little kids sleep between both their parents while they are still toddlers or very young children, we can’t be sure but it will probably happen that this would be seen in Meelo, Jinora, Ikki, and Rohan, when they are older in their own families, if they have kids. Either way when we think about the air nation having a mixed of aspects of the water tribe culture we can’t ignore the fact that the new air nation will most likely also bring Earth Nation traditions into the air nomad culture, I mean Opal isn’t going to completely leave the traditions she was raised in and she is still pretty young imagine an older person having to cut off the traditions they have known all their lives. So at the end how much effort does Tenzin need to put into keeping air nomad culture as alive as it can when the changes that are going to happen to it are so clearly going to continue. I mean am sure Aang knew for a fact that air nomad culture was never going to be the same again. It wouldn’t make a difference in the world if the culture wasn’t the exact same, it would be a great loss in history and extremely saddening for a entire culture that was so different to others be changed(one of the reasons I don’t want to read Yangchens books is to not see how much of this culture was really lost), but it is not crucial to the balance of the world. What was crucial was for their to be airbenders, how this people go on about bieng airbenders doesn’t really matter to the safety of the world.

So yeah I got a bit side tracked, cause airbender culture is a whole other topic

[bolin-and-pabu]

[lok-repository]

Storyboard from LOK B1 Ep 2 with deleted scene/dialogue

From LeSean Thomas who at the time worked from Studio Mir:

"During my stay at STUDIO MIR in Seoul, South Korea, i was working as part of the core story team on Nickelodeon's hit series "The Legend of Korra." Above are a couple collections of ROUGH STORYBOARDS i did from my ACT 1 section from episode 2 " A LEAF IN THE WIND... As part of Story team 2, It was our first epsiode to work on( i handled from the beginning of act 1 all the way until Korra sneaks out from airtemple island, when she jumps in the water) and we hadn't gotten all the final model/costume materials just yet, but as you can tell some of the energy and shots still remained in the final (the bit where Tenzin tenderly fixes Korra's Air Temple Uniform was added by Joaquim and executed by RYU KIHYUN in the final animatic). There's also dialogue/scene that was deleted in the final animatic edit."

From what I can tell the deleted scene/dialogue was: Korra: "I have classmates?" Tenzin/Jinora/Meelo?: "Walking the circle teaches us how to evade an opponent"

[atla-confessions]

The Beach Wars comic is SO GOOD.

Katara and Toph still being childish and affectionately competitive with each other like always. Toph's favorite grandchild being Opal being basically confirmed. Also confirming that the kataang grandkids inherited Katara's sense for pranks, especially Meelo. Katara spending cute quality time with the kataang grandbabies in general, they're so so cute all huddled up in a hug like the gaang used to do!

All the while, korrasami is trying to just have a nice date in the background and Korra, trying to play peacemaker, accidentally elevates the pranks to an all-out war while Asami tries to wave the white flag already.

It always makes me smile!

source: https://digital.darkhorse.com/read/dc56e953045046d1b50ed208c5a22805

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[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

[hotgirlkorra]

Does anyone remember this really old LOK fanart from before LOK ever aired (circa 2010-11) of Korra, Mako, and Bolin wearing 1920s gangsta inspired suits and fedoras?