#stop Korra hate

[nonspecificfandomblog]

I’m probably just yelling into the void at this point because I don’t actually have many followers, but nonetheless I feel compelled to say something after the announcement for the new Avatar series.

STOP JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS!

I was not always a Korra fan, it took me a long time to appreciate her for the good Avatar she was. When I first watched the series, I could not stand Korra—at all. She aggravated me beyond all reason and as such I didn’t judge her or treat her fairly.

But I am a fairly judgmental person and as such, sometimes I have to force myself to be more reasonable and realistic in my expectations of a person and giving them grace. So I did. And once I did, I really came to love Korra. She made many mistakes, just as Aang did, Roku, Kyoshi, Yangchen, and every Avatar before her. She learned and the world changed because of it, both for the better and the worse. But just as the world changed, so did she, and she grew as a person into a much better person and Avatar. Not only does the series show that, but so do the comics.

Although I used to be one of Korea’s biggest haters, I am now one of her fiercest defenders. I still have a couple of qualms with certain plot points in the series *cough* Aang would’ve been an amazing dad *cough* but none of them link back directly to Korra’s value as a person and/or an Avatar.

This announcement was meant to spark discourse and discussion, mainly to incite curiosity and excitement about the series! That much is obvious and there is no doubt in my mind the writers intended that with the announcement. I’m also certain they knew by how they were framing it that some discussion would link back to Korra and the state of the world at her passing. However, I do not believe the writers intended to start a hailstorm of hatred all directed at Korra, restarting the years old and tired discussion of her value as a person and/or an Avatar. Do I think they could’ve framed it differently to not restart that discussion while still inciting curiosity and excitement? I’m genuinely not certain. That said, it is still the responsibility of fans to use critical thinking skills when discussing and analyzing a series. To dislike a character is understandable, to completely dismiss one as useless and awful because of your own bias is not.

All this in mind, WE DO NOT KNOW THAT KORRA CAUSED THIS GREAT CATACLYSM DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. Let us use our critical thinking skills and NOT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS. Something happened, assumedly towards the end of Korra’s lifetime, though possibly even after her passing. Obviously there would probably have been some lead up during her lifetime to the cataclysm that left the world in the state it is in at the beginning of Seven Havens, but there’s no way to say it happened during or after her lifetime, at least not at this time. Either way though, I must repeat, WE DO NOT KNOW THAT KORRA CAUSED THIS GREAT CATACLYSM DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. She is a good Avatar, in spite of the many mistakes she’s made, and I have full confidence that she did a great wonderful, albeit imperfect, job of balancing the world in every way she could. And I believe that that rings true throughout her entire life, even the life we have not seen thus far.

Even with all this, whatever state the world was in at her passing, disrepair because crises insurmountable to her abilities arose, or a tentative peace with problems creeping along the edges, Korra cannot be entirely blamed for whatever happens when she dies. Just as Kuruk’s time in the spirit world left the earthly realm imbalanced for Yangchen to deal with, Roku’s failure to take down Sozin left Aang to take down the Fire Lord and end a hundred-year-long war, and Aang letting Yakone remain unfound for Korra to deal with his son, Korra may have left some issues unresolved, due to her own mistakes and her own inability to resolve every single problem the world throws at her. Wan was the first Avatar, using the powers for good, but even he died unable to leave the world completely at peace, beginning the cycle so each Avatar could do their best to maintain balance.

Korra shouldn’t need such fierce defending because, just as every Avatar before her, she made mistakes, but she also accomplished a lot of good. People are far too quick to unfairly dismiss and hate on her when she did exactly what every good Avatar before her did: use her powers to help guide the world, albeit imperfectly.

We know practically nothing about Seven Havens from the small synopsis blurb, let alone what part Korra may have had in it. Stop jumping to conclusions and stop unfairly hating on Korra, she deserves better.

[beifong-brainrot]

Everytime I hear these "The Krew were weak/ the Krew were bums" takes I lose a year of my lifespan.

Like this style of take that I've seen almost everywhere?

Im fucking tired, and I don't think it's a good way to defend Korra either. Like, ok, it's shifting the 'blame' from Korra's supposed weakness through the show onto other characters.

Like, I'm sorry but Asami's hand to hand combat skills, even without her glove, are at least on the level of a Kyoshi warrior. And she can do that shit in heels too.

Like she's hella flexible and smart about her combat, usually using her opponents momentum or weapons against them. She thinks well on the fly, and is highly adaptable, which is crucial for a nonbender going up against benders.

This is without even getting into how smart she is with engineering/tech and how she seems to be able to pilot literally any machine somehow.

Mako is also, just a ridiculously talented firebender, especially for someone raised on the streets. He can genrate lighting, something even Zuko was unable to. He's one of the precious few, and only non waterbender/bloodbendee or Avatar to break a bloodbendinh hold.

Like Amon himself spoke about how it was almost a shame to remove the bending of someone so talented. Mako has also been shown multuple times to be able to almost completely halt explosions in their track, even injured.

And Bolin. BOLIN.

I'm sorry but if you think Bolin isn't a fucking killing machine held back from mass murder by onky his golden retriever personality, you watched the show with horse blinders on.

Like the lavabending itself is so op thay the writers will actively nerf him by making him only use his lava disk, when, realistically, he should be yeeting lava around.

But Bolin is also insanely agile for an earthbender, literally going up against earth's steady and grounded movements. But, I'd say Bolin's earthbending resembles firebending in how he moves, particularly the speed and power.

Like, controversial opinion? Bolin at the end of tlok, could probably beat Toph at the end of atla. Or at least be evenly matched enough for me to not see a clear winner. Maybe he can even hold his own and beat out old lady Toph too, if he locks in.

Like I'm sorry. He's Fucking goated.

And honestly, it took me a while to figure out why this idea that the Krew were weak is so persistent, and I think I have a theory.

See, in atla, whenever a character achieves a new skillset, its a momentous moment, or we linger on it. Katara had a whole storyline around becoming a master waterbender, and she is given the accolades she rightfully deserves for it. The Blue Spirit was, essentially the "oh, look, Zuko's a super cool ninja too" episode. Sokka gets a whole episode to add swordsmanship to his skill tree. Toph's moment of discovering metalbending is incredibly framed and focused on, with it being a huge gamechanger against the Fire Nation. And of course, Aang mastering the elements is a centerpiece of the show.

In contrast, due to its faster pacing and bigger focus on plot, tlok has to kinda gloss over the big moments the characters have. They have to learn their skills quickly and without fanfare, and so we don't get the feeling of achievement or awe when they do display some exciting feat.

For example, let's contrast the moment Toph developed metalbending, to the moment Bolin discovered he was a lavabender.

Toph's discovery of metalbending is well prefaced with her storyline that episode being entwined with Aang's and Guru Pathik's lessons, taunts from her aggressors, deep family drama, the resolution of a b plot that has been going on since basically her introduction, as well as atrong focus on her mastering and understanding the technique.

After she gains the ability, she is boisterous and triumphant, singing her own accolades. Its a very compelling an uplifting moment that we can empathise with, and we're often reminded of it with how other characters (specifically Sokka) will often be "so glad they added her to the group".

In comparison, Bolin had a few little moments diplaying his personal issues surrounding metalbending, and some nice forshadowing with Wei's "trial by fire" comment, but it's nothing you will linger on, or get attached to as you would with Toph's storyline. You don't have time to get acquainted with this particular issue of Bolin's, so you don't exactly feel vindincated when he does prove himself by learning lavabending.

There is also no weight to the actual discovery. Sure, there's the lingering shot on his face, the implication that he's throwing himself into the inferno for only a sliver of hope of dabing his brother and friends. But when he does successfully become the third non Avatar lavabender known to history, he only gets a little joke to mark his status. Then the group immediately jumps into action, as the plot has to keep going again.

It's... depressing? And once again reminds me of what tlok could've maybe been if the show weren't so fucked over runtime wise. Because the building blocks are there. We just have to skim over them, and if you're expecting your characters' 'powerlevel' to be quantified into easily tangible storylines, weighty moments and character dialogue, you're not really gonna find anything remarkable.

Though I really wish we didn't put down characters just to elevate a broadly hated character. There is, in my opinion, very little rhyme or reason to the overwhelming wave of hate Korra gets. Trying to disperse it by blaming her supposed 'failures' on other characters won't work, because they are here fo hate Korra. They're just looking for an excuse to do so.

[saltykoalamusic]

If you like Korra and want to defend her DO NOT HATE ON THE OTHER AVATARS (apologies for screaming). For example, by hating Aang for getting frozen in ice you are not having a gotcha moment, you just look like you did not watch the series. If you use it as a way to show that Korra did not know something or that it was an accident or to point out hypocrisy then it's fine and encouraged. Otherwise you just come across weirdly

[rewritingcanon]

my sister and i just yapped for almost three hours and we were just talking about how genuinely weird people in fandom are surrounding characters who have explicit mental illness. like they can never ever be normal. there are characters who are romanticised and glamourised for their mental illness (eren. wanda. joker. kaneki. nico. almost any danganronpa/ddlc character). characters who are consistently ridiculed for their mental illness either because it simply isn’t getting taken seriously (reiner) or because no one takes the character seriously (armin). and there are the characters that get blatantly outright DESPISED for it (basil, harry potter, korra, gale, also eren etc etc). like yes im seeing a correlation but its still so astounding how selective people are about where they draw the line with mental illness and what traits they can accept.

[sukibenders]

Korra hate going up, Aang hate going up, Iroh hate/criticism still at an all time low. Ohhh, these new Avatar rumors need to stay far away from this fandom, please let them not be true!

[atla-suki]

i’m very unhappy with the new atla series announcement btw, if anyone was wondering. regardless of what the actual writing in the new series has done with korra (i'm hoping it again was not her fault and people just blame her for no reason), the announcement avatar studios made makes her seem like an incompetent, destructive avatar. WHICH SHE IS NOT.

of course i know one day she'd end up dying and someone would take her place, but to outright call her humanity's DESTROYER is foul. especially knowing how many people in the fandom love her. that's one quick way to lose a bunch of potential viewers. not a great move, avatar studios.

[fennekin38]

WHY DO THE WRITERS HATE KORRA SO MUCH???

chat i come out from under my rock every harvest year and the first thing i see is korra hate fuel 😥 WHY ARE PEOPLE ALREADY BLAMING HER FOR THE EVENT

also happy 20th atla!!!!! wow it has been a long time

[kg-day]

Controversial LOK opinion, but Mako >>>>> Bolin

Mako gets so much hate for a love triangle he didn't even start (and all the blame, even though Korra and Asami were the ones actively pursuing him) while Bolin was out here repeatedly kissing a woman who kept telling him no.

[hotgirlkorra]

Did Korrasami shippers collectively forget all the hate and nit-picking they spewed on Korra and the show when LOK was still airing?

[theaceupyourslave]

Wish I was a water bender just so I could free my sinuses

[zincbot]

i can't focus on any of the stuff i'm trying to do I NEED TO DO SMTH ACTIVE GRRRR

[ecohoes]

“Korra severed the connection to the past lives!!!!”

UNALAQ did that, while Korra fought tooth and nail to prevent it. like she lost the fight, but she fought to try and stop it????

“but Korra trusted Unalaq when everyone told her not to!!!”

“everyone” being the people who she had just found out had been lying to her her whole life. Unalaq was also her UNCLE and a leader of the Water Tribe. he also taught her spirit bending, and was seemingly able to solve problems with spirits, something Tenzin was jealous of since he was never able to have the connection to spirits he wanted. Korra also doesn’t have the benefit of hearing the spooky music that pops up every time Unalaq is on screen like we do. maybe being locked up your whole life and kept away from people makes you naive and unable to see manipulation tactics idk.

“Korra opening the spirit portals was a mistake!!” Korra opening the spirit portals BROUGHT BACK THE AIRBENDING NATION

“it was because of harmonic convergence!! it would’ve happening anyway”

Tenzin says it’s because the spirit portals were open DURING harmonic convergence

like I understand peoples problems with season 2, I also have issues with season 2. but most of the hate I see towards Korra, as a character/avatar, is from people who clearly did not watch the same show as me

[kyasohot]

Roku failed to stop Sozin, which enabled the Fire Nation to kill millions. Aang hid himself for 100 years, leading to the Air Nation genocide and widespread oppression. But Korra neither hid nor hesitated, always putting herself in danger. She was poisoned and paralyzed after saving humanity multiple times without past avatars' guidance for the most part. Being labeled as "humanity's destroyer" is pure hate!

[whatifitookalilnap]

“Oh Aang would hate Korra and would destroy her in a fight that they’d totally have”

Literally Aang: hello everyone, and welcome back to the Korra Fan Club. As the vice president, I decided that we will start this meeting by sharing our favorite Avatar Korra accomplishment. I’ll go first. My favorite Avatar Korra accomplishment is hard to choose because there’s just so many, but I’m gonna have to say reviving my entire culture by keeping those spirit portals open. That woman literally brought airbenders back into the world which was my greatest dream. Truly, who is doing it like her? Ground breaking, show stopping, absolutely marvelous. Asami, it’s your turn

“Oh Korra would just hate Aang she’d totally beat him up”

Canon Korra when she sees Aang in season 1: OH THANK THE SPIRITS YOU’RE HERE MAN!! HOW DID YOU DO IT? HOW DID YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE TESTING YOU ALL THE TIME? AANG, HELP ME PLEASE I NEED SOME SERIOUS GUIDANCE AND YOU’RE LIKE THE COOLEST PERSON EVER SO PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME HANGING

[agentoffangirling]

Tbh I don't get why, upon hearing that the Avatar is now hated in the new one's time, people immediately jumped to "omg what did Korra do??"

Maybe it's just a me thing, but when I saw the video on that, my first thought was "scapegoat"

Historically, the Avatar has been a scapegoat for a ton of shit. Anything bad happens, blame it on the Avatar for not stopping it (even if they weren't there to do so). What I imagine happened is that some cataclysmic event occurred, and Korra was likely unable to stop it from happening, but highly unlikely that she herself caused it in the first place. Leading to the "Avatar is a scourge!" behavior that we're gonna see

Idk, maybe I'm reaching, but the idea of such an event being Korra's fault feels rooted in a lot of misogyny and Korra-related hate. Feels weird that a lot of people would jump to her doing something wrong when I doubt those same people don't blame Aang for the Fire Nation colonizing everyone

[shadelorde]

Some points, because yalls bad takes are becoming exhausting to read

EVERY SINGLE AVATAR did the best they could with the time, resources, and knowledge that they had. Yes, even that one. Wan? Did the best he could with the time, resources, and knowledge that he had. Yangchen? Did the best she could with the time, resources, and knowledge that she had. Kuruk? The same. Kyoshi? The same. Roku? The same. Aang? The same. Korra? THE FUCKING SAME. Pavi and Nisha? THEM TOO.

For the most part, none of the avatars outright hate each other, especially not the ones y'all are claiming would. Wan would not REMOTELY hate Korra for opening the spirit portals. Korra did not hate Wan for closing them. Kyoshi stopped resenting Kuruk when she found out he dedicated his short life to fighting dark spirits after his love's face was stolen by one. Aang did not hate Roku for the mistakes he made. Korra didn't hate Aang for his. Pavi will not hate Korra for "ending" the avatar cycle, at least when she learns how it happened. You have got to stop pitting the avatars against each other, because they are all reincarnations of one person, and they all understand, or learn to understand, each others' struggles.

Sometimes, just sometimes, society is responsible for their own damn problems. Sometimes the Avatar cannot be an omniscient god who solves all of their problems with the snap of a finger. The Avatar is a person, bonded with (a non god, non omniscient spirit) who is TRYING THEIR BEST OUT OF CONVICTION. Sometimes, humanity cannot rely on a singular figure to solve all of their fucking problems.