#okay never mind I guess I have my shipping angle alright x'D

[seyaryminamoto]

Hello seyary, hope you're doing good. I wanted to ask, have you ever read or played the DC injustice AU? If not, definitely recommend, but if you have what do you think of an ATLA AU with such a premise? What charecters would be on who's side, etc?

I haven’t played or read it, sorry about that, you have great suggestions and I often am very ignorant on the topics xD

But anyways, I’ve looked it up on Wikipedia and from what I understand, this would be a universe in DC where things went very, very wrong. Right?

The only part about it that I don’t know how to incorporate to Avatar is the alternate-universe matter. That sort of thing doesn’t really happen in the Avatarverse, so I guess it’d feel weird adding it in a serious story (whereas in DC comics there’s so many alternate universes that it fits just fine). I know some people do it, but it’d feel out of place to me. I’d rather keep it in a single universe.

But alas, let’s forget about that briefly while I try to lay down the situation:

First off, we’re told the Joker destroys Metropolis and kills Lois Lane and Superman’s unborn child. In our case, Superman would obviously be Aang, and I guess our casualties would be Katara and Bumi. Oops ._. 

Metropolis should be Republic City, especially since it’s Aang’s special place and all that. So I guess someone with a spirit vine-powered robot causes an ecological disaster or something in Republic City, turning it into a ghost city, and this somehow kills Katara and unborn Bumi in the process :’D

… Okay, okay, I’m kidding. I need to stop mocking LOK so much.

Alright, so, who would suit the role of the psycho terrorist? I’m beyond resistant to say Azula, I know a lot of people have the tendency to link her to Joker but I don’t really like that interpretation. I don’t see what she’d gain from destroying Republic City, and as I’ve talked in many recent asks and posts, she doesn’t do things unless she has something to gain from it. She’s not into gratuitous violence. Aang is not a personal enemy for her, not as much as her brother is, so I doubt Azula would be behind something like this.

But I guess the Republic City #1 Public Enemy is Yakone, huh? So I guess it could be him. Forget the spiritual stuff, I really just said that to throw shade at LOK, but Yakone could indeed set up a plan where he destroys most the city, maybe because Toph’s after him and he’s sick and tired of being bothered. Makes a grand and terrifying display of bravado or so, tries to drive Aang mad so that Toph has to deal with him instead, and this way he can go about his illicit business without a hitch, probably in another city that hasn’t been damaged.

So… this might be strange, but Toph kind of becomes the Batman of the story? She’d probably be the one trying the hardest to put a stop to Aang, surely recruits the help of the rest of the Gaang, BUT…

… If you kill Katara, Sokka will see red. That’s for certain. He’s not going to be very coherent after that, regardless of how he stayed rational after his mother’s death. His younger sister should have been safe, and he would never forgive Aang, and even himself, for the fate that befell his little sister.

So strangely, I see Aang and Sokka becoming antagonists to other characters who will try to put a stop to them. Sokka is bound to be out to kill Yakone first of all, probably out to kill Aang too after that if his raging grief runs that deep. Aang wants to deliver justice, I imagine, to Yakone and to everyone who might dare be like Yakone, and his new concept of justice after losing the love of his life so horribly would be… well… it would make Kyoshi’s look cute, is all I’ll say.

So, Zuko would surely side with Toph, Suki might as well (tries to get through to Sokka but fails). Azula in this setting might start as a single agent, slightly amused by how Aang is becoming a raging tyrant and by how his best friends are his dissenters. She’s partly enjoying the fun, but I imagine that once Aang tries to unify the world under his rule she would resist him too. If the Fire Nation wasn’t allowed to do that, what makes this psycho Avatar think he has any right to rule everyone?

Basically… it’s everyone vs. Aang the way I see it xD everyone vs. Sokka too because he won’t join Aang but won’t join the rest of the group either. He’d be too miserable and depressed to know what to do with his life. This is probably one of the most straightforward ways to turn Sokka “dark”, actually. Odd that I’d never thought of it…

Anyhow, this is the way I see it without the Alternate Universes complication. I figure things would end with everyone fighting Aang, probably locking him up the way Tyrant Superman was, and Sokka either dies (*sobs*) or has the same fate. Chances are that some people from Toph’s team would die too, because Aang’s not likely to pull his punches, so a few casualties from all sides…

Basically, I see this idea as a very messed up and sad tragedy :( then again, the premise is so awful already that it’s hard for it to end in any other way. But alas, it would be interesting to see Aang losing his mind this way. I’ve heard of “Avatar goes corrupt” AUs, but this is the first time I see a solid way to make that happen. And it’s a very solid way to drive Sokka mad with grief, too. Interesting suggestion, my friend!