#taiso

[zeno-zero]

Roku killing Sozin will still lead to war.

No matter the decisions that Roku possibly makes, whether it is to kill or to be killed, he and the world will still suffer under the wrath of his blood nation. How, and why killing Sozin still leads to war? Let's consider Sozin's speech in Book 3, Episode 6:

“How dare you, a citizen of the Fire Nation, address your Fire Lord this way. Your loyalty is to our nation first. Anything less makes you a traitor.”

Even though Roku is the Avatar (specifically a diplomatic Avatar), who has to keep balance among the four nations of the world, he can't argue with already established laws and politics. It doesn't help the fact that being called a traitor is also a synonym to commit treason. After getting into an argument with him and almost getting burned alive by Sozin's fury of fire, Roku gets into the Avatar state and destroys a large portion of the royal palace, a home of many past generations before Sozin and serves as the seat of the Fire Nation government.

So, Roku not only committed treason against his country but also massive government property damage. Killing the predominant leader of his blood nation and has an influential position in their government and state, a bounty will surely set right on top of his head or is expected to be executed by tomorrow. Even without Sozin's rule, other relatives will take his throne and follow through Sozin's nefarious plans. However, I will acknowledge that Zeisan did attempt to try to overthrow Sozin, and canonically can take his place as the righteous Fire Lord but sadly it is proved to be a failure along with the previous Fire Lord, Taiso, who strongly believes that the Fire Nation's elites would not accept a nonbender as their monarch.

I do think the only difference is that while Sozin only started war on the day of the Comet's Arrival, tension will rise once more not only between the Avatar and his nation, but to all nations involved: since it is the Avatar's duty to maintain harmony among the four nations and that same harmony will go up in smoke till there's nothing but leaving ashes and destruction. It doesn't help the fact that his era is also recovering from most of the nations becoming increasingly selfish and aggressive, causing numerous small-scale conflicts & diplomatic incidents in which that's where Dark spirits comes into the picture, and horrible natural disasters that almost escalated into a huge (armed) confrontation between the Earth Kingdom & the Watertribe due to pointing fingers at one and the another out of accusations.

Something important to note: I was hesitating to post this so I kinda sent them first in multiple servers before feeling confident enough to post it here, lol! I love Avatar Roku with all my heart.

[kibutsulove]

someone take fire lord taiso away from me before i add him to my blog banner

[keyblack]

"Damn you...! NO! It can't end like this! Our rivalry will not conclude as a side note to something else!" "...Sorry?"

(you can buy this as a sticker (and other stuff) here)

[azuzula]

funny friends

[xinu1941-1966]

Yellow Magic Orchestra 1982 single jacket

体操 Taiso

design：yukimasa OKUMURA 奥村 靫正

#yukimasa OKUMURA #奥村靫正 #design #japan #art

#Yellow Magic Orchestra #YMO #体操 #Taiso

[muskming]

YMO / Yellow Magic Orchestra - “ 体操 / Taiso” music video (1982)

[d1rthaus]

TAISO - Yellow Magic Orchestra 1981

[internationalemeteorologie]

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Taiso)

Dawn moon of the Shinto rites (Shinji no zangetsu - oyama no matsuri), from One Hundred Aspects of the Moon series. 1886

[the-cricket-chirps]

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Flute Player Triptych (left panel)

Originally in 1883, this one is re-carved edition in late 20th century

[myself-85]

ALFA MUSIC YouTube Channel

[thebeefant]

sign up for the sticker and print club!

[zeno-zero]

I think he hates his father, I don't know.

[kibutsulove]

@rokuweek , day 6: Fire Lord

You thought it was gonna be sozin ⁉️ NO!!! FIRE LORD TAISO (Sozin’s father) RAAHHHGG!!!! 🐺🐺🐺

lil roku extra cuz I don’t rlly enjoy my entry all that much. a treat

[gachael]

YMONHK / Yellow Magic Orchestra

Seoul Music

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - "Radio gymnastics"

[onmyowntwohands]

Yellow Magic Orchestra – “TAISO“ (Official Music Video)