#vaatu/wan

[shadelorde]

Okay chat so. Initially I was going to keep Vaatu and Wan from getting particularly close, only silently pining for the duration of the fic. But I have reconsidered, and I'm wondering if I should actually (still slowburn) make them become extremely close by the time that the end twist arrives.

@rokurookajima @katkastrofa @cuteniarose trashfire gang come see

[beifong-brainrot]

Im sick and delirious with fever so i unleash these upon ye

[aangarchy]

After rewatching tlok i'm still holding on to my theory that Omashu either was a lion turtle city in the past or still is a lion turtle city and the turtle is just dormant (or dead, which is more morbid but still possible)

If you compare the design of Omashu to the design of multiple lion turtle cities, they both appear to be very stacked cities, with buildings across all different heights. They're both circular cities as well.

The origin tale of Omashu dates from around the conception of earthbending, which we now know to be about 10.000 years prior to Korra's time (aka Wan's time). Oma, the woman from the story, is said to be the first earthbender. Lion turtles granted people the ability to bend, which both Oma and Shu used to make the secret tunnel leading to and away from the city. The difference is, Oma and Shu learned the technique from badgermoles, which is why they were considered so powerful. (Just like Wan, who learned from the dragon during his time away from the city).

There's a very real possibility that there was a war within the turtle city (we saw all the class problems in Wan's city, and humans are gonna human) and in order to escape the war, Oma and Shu asked the turtle for earthbending so they could escape and be together safely.

On the avatar wiki, it also explains that after the era of the spirits, during the era of the Avatar, the lion turtles got hunted into near extinction. Some turtles chose to hide, like the turtle Aang came across in the show who chose to pose as an island. Earth lion turtles are able to bury themselves into the ground. Omashu could very well be an earth turtle that's buried underground to hide from society, and because so much time has passed history turned into myth.

I know it's a loose theory but i just can't get over the fact that the history of earthbending near Omashu and then the history of lion turtles seems to contradict but also align so well. It makes sense that the two lovers were granted the ability of earthbending from their own turtle and then learned how to use it from the badgermoles.

[chipified]

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Avatar vs Antagonist switch up pt 4

Follow up from this

Korra: We were talking about chi blockers, not combustion benders, Yangchen. Yangchen: So there's no more combustion benders for me to fight? :( Aang: Well I have sparky sparky boom man- Yangchen: Splendid! I'll take him on. :) Aang, trying to stop her: Yangchen no! Yangchen, pushing past: Out of my way child! Do not test me! Aang: Why did I say that? He's going to die. Kyoshi: Yeah that's on you, you dumped a whole vat of blood in that tiger shark infested water. Roku, looking at the list: Who's going to take Zuko and Azula? Kuruk: Who are they again? Roku: Ozai's kid- Kyoshi: Mine. Roku: Please Kyoshi, they are my grandchildren. ;w; Kyoshi: Too bad. Roku: Azula shoots lightning. Kyoshi: All the more reason. Wan, back, still alive: Careful Kyoshi, Azula kinda looks a lot like Rangi. Might wear on you mentally if you fight. ;) Kyoshi: How about you keep my wife's name out of your mouth, and I let you keep your internal organs intact? Aang: Please go easy on Zuko, Kyoshi. He's my sifu. Kyoshi: Should've gotten a better sifu, like Rangi. Aang: Kyoshi, Rangi was dead for hundreds of years before I was born! Kyoshi: Skill issue on your end tbh. Wan: God how much of a dickrider is she for her girl? Kuruk: We're all dickriders for our women, Wan. Wan: Oh... well... I.....wouldn't know. Kyoshi: And neither would Yangchen, anyway who is this "Zhao" person? Korra: I think he's the guy who invaded the Norther Water Tribe and killed Tui the Moon Spirit. Kuruk: Oh. .......Yeah he's mine. Kyoshi: Huh? I thought you didn't want to deal with humans if you didn't want to. Kuruk: He basically invaded my home and killed my dog, Kyoshi. I'm 'Kuruk Wick' for the next five minutes.

[rokurookajima]

wan why does your pianist call you baby girl ???

(i got lazy on wan’s hands hehe)

[zeno-zero]

TLOK RE-WRITE : RAAVA AND VAATU ☯️

My take on Raava and Vaatu ^-^ !!

Raava and Vaatu are Yin and Yang. They were each other's complementary forces, until they eventually opposed each other. They were divine, and enternal beings who was there when Earth started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting the young sun. They were there for Earth when it used to be called "Terra". They were both morally ambiguous/grey until the two decided to spilt and roam across the world.

Raava is a blinding light towards the mankind, their eyes sore from too much exposure from such a terrifying warmth from Raava.

Vaatu is a dim that humanity feared to live in a world of darkness; darkness that prevents them to do anything but to cower and pray for light to come in.

But the discovery they found? They both have different perspectives on it.

Raava never thought that mankind can be a "feeling" she never thought she could feel. It allows Raava to achieve empathy, closure and a sense of longing - as if her place as a divine being, is to be with these people. ; what it means to live? what it means to find a purpose? what does it mean to dream?

Vaatu could not understand his other half, as he faced cruelty, destruction, and devastion coming from the same mankind that he and Raava are meeting. He feel from what the people feel are hatred, disgust, and perturbation.

The two were each other's adversary. Raava begs, and fight for what she thinks it's right. Vaatu screamed, and attack for what he thinks it's wrong. They circle each other, they dance with one and another. They trap each other in an endless struggle because of their consciences.

Wan's punishment for seperating them both is to suffer in a cycle of agony and tears. A cycle that Wan broke and created a new one out of it - this causes Raava to finally understood her brother, her other half ; that humanity can be barbaric, and wicked as she saw through the eyes of many avatars after Wan.

Season 4 should be about Raava and Vaatu coming in terms to be become one instead of detachments. Peace can still be found while Passion remains. Raava is about giving up the fight, and to settle - Vaatu drives for improvement, aiming for ideals, and meeting up to his expectations.

But then again, this is all for fun. My brain can be quite a tipsy. Judging by the fact that both of these gods are not even on pure evil and good really says it a lot - Vaatu's nature can be the fact he only learned "evilness" from humanity and vice versa for Raava as well except replace "evilness" with "goodness".

[impossiblycolorfulpanda]

ATLA - Counterplan

Aang: Zules, I've been thinking.

Azula: Intriguing, usually it's me or Sokka who are the primary thinkers of the team.

Aang: Vaatu's true endgame goal is to take Raava's natural abilities and state of being.

Azula: Yes, 10,000 years after he obliterates the concepts of peace, light, life, and existence.

Aang: That part of the plan aside, his goals are the same as ours. Restore true balance.

Azula: Out of pragmatism, not because he genuinely cares for balance, but maybe that would change after his goals have succeeded.

Aang: Wan thought he could restore balance by imprisoning Vaatu forever, but it didn't work, he managed to find another way out while casually orchestrating the great war through Sozin.

Azula: And, through my grandparents, finding a way to disguise himself as a human who would become my father. I will never forget that revelation. Is there a point to this?

Aang: What if we beat him at his own goal?

Azula: Meaning?

Aang: We extract Vaatu's natural abilities and state of being and fuse them with Raava, destroying Vaatu in the process once and for all, but it all happens immediately, not after 10,000 years.

Azula: How do you know that's gonna work?

Aang: I don't, but, one way or another, darkness and conflict will always return no matter what, they are essential to true balance. But I will not let Wan's work be for nothing and his legacy left in vain. I figured it'd be better if all of light and darkness fell under our control. Balance won't ever be disturbed again.

Azula: We should discuss this with the team, and think of a plan that's hopefully foolproof.

Aang: Right.

[cuteniarose]

I know I said it as a joke before but I’m gonna make it Canon

Suiren and Vaatu have each other saved as “Light Yagami looking ass” and “Wednesday Addams rip-off” in their phones

And it seems obvious at first given how they dress currently, but those contact names were actually made all the way back in freshman year when Vaatu’s dad made him wear a shirt and tie to his first day of high school while Suiren was going through her minimum-blue-maximum-black + twin braids every day phase

The names are now permanent, I’m afraid :’)

[shadelorde]

“To hate me is to give me breath. To fight me is to give me strength.” Is actually like one of the gayest lines spoken in Legend of Korra and yall sleep on it WAY too much

[beifong-brainrot]

[atla-confessions]

If I was Vaatu I would have been tweaking if my baddie Raava left me for a scrawny human boy and fused with him not me

X

[thejourneyofwan-fanproject]

I went back to the original cover I had made years ago and used my iPad for a new and improved version, and I honestly am much more proud of this one. Also an updated version of the title.

And I started a separate ig for this fan fiction project: @thejourneyofwanofficial for more future updates! It is a written story, but will feature some illustrations.

So if you’ve been interested in the idea of a project/show/movie/comic/book/etc about Wan’s life after Harmonic Convergence, feel free to like, follow, reblog, and share!

[rokurookajima]

for the character ask game!!

Raava:

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

26. What's something the character has done you can't get over? Be it something funny, bad, good, serious, whatever?

Vaatu:

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

23. Favorite picture of this character?

Wan:

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

27. FREEBIE QUESTION!!

THANK U!! obv u knew who i wanted to talk about lmaooo

read more bc it’s yap city under here

raava !!!’

19. hmmm ok so many things hard to say about characters who got SO little screen time lmaoo. so i mean .. that would be the only thing i could dislike about any relationships she had - they didn’t get enough time. i would obv watch 1000 hours of just .. wan and raava existing, doing anything at all. but still ofc being their relationship to each other for the most development of any then .. that’s beside the point

i wish we got more of her relationships with vaatu and korra. i’d love to have seen more in depth exploration of her dynamic and existence with vaatu before they were separated, and also post-fusion, how his existence still affected her going forward. with korra, i love the few interactions we got to see between them but again i just wish we got MORE!!

25. ok the way i honestly don’t remember my FIRST first impression seeing her, but ofc i was uh. how do you say. deeply obsessed forever from the moment beginnings part 2 ended i knew that was something i was never gonna move on from (could’ve never expected the impact it would have on my literal whole entire life but that’s a whole other story lmaoo).

now? that is my fucking GIRL. my woman. i love her so much. i love the way her character has evolved for me over time (as i said in my OTHER ask answer also for her lol, with the small amount of canon time we got there was just always so much room for us to expand on that and i love all the ways that’s grown and changed and expanded in that time)

26. uhhhhh everything. i’ll never get over anything she’s ever done. she exists and i’m like holy shit are you guys seeing this??

vaatu!!! gay boy…..

5. ok agreeing with you that nightwish is absolutely his vibe. but otherwise not really any particular songs come to mind, but y’know… i should look into that more

18. so ofc.. ofc. again with the lack of screen time striking but 😮‍💨 i think all his relationships in canon are compelling in some way. with raava, there is so much narrative potential there to be unpacked

then ofc i’ve slept on this specific thought way too long, but nightmare as you posed in your tags the other day: considering how he must have felt about wan is SO good. the being that set him free later coming back to be the one that imprisoned him. that’s soooo 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

i also think his relationship with unalaq is fascinating but exclusively through the lense that vaatu is the (for lack of better word) innocent one here; he is the victim of unalaq directly, the manipulated one, the one literally backed into a corner with no other way out. that’s juicy as hell

23. can i say my own fucking drawing lmaoo it’s the panel of him alone in the hvac comic…..

wan :’)

3. i’m going to speak my truth. i hate his fucking dumb ass goatee……

i would never draw him without it tho lmaoo it’s too much a staple of his character design it cannot be removed but it doesn’t mean i LIKE IT

(i hate like. most of the facial hair in all of avatar why did the mustache-less beards have such a grip on the character design.. the pointy ones and aang’s weird chinstrap it just all.. it doesn’t work for me IM SORRY)

25. i actually DO remember the very first image i saw of him and what i thought!! the summer before book 2 dropped when they first released some images from it (i think at comic con or something), that was when they announced they were going to address the avatar origin and showed a single imagine of wan (a screen cap from the air nomad village scene lmao yes i know that) and his name and i was like hm … not sure about this.

absolutely no way i expected him to be my specialest boy ever ESPECIALLY all these years later 😭😭😭 and now yes that just. is what he is to me. he’s the specialest boy ever. i love him an unfair amount he’s like a son to me

27. freebie!!! so i’m gonna say first song that comes to mind when i think about him

i have three (3) variations of waava playlists bc i’m insane (and it’s been 11 years come on) so ofc there are many but the number 1 wan specific song to me is king by lauren aquilina and YES i heard it for the first time in 2013 in a beginnings amv lmaoo so it just. from the start was associated with him but also just fits so well imo

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Some ideas for projects that Avatar Studios can do to expand the Avatar universe:

1) Earth Avatar series that’s 1980s/1990s-themed (Aang’s world was early Industrial Revolution, Korra was the 1920s).

2) Fire Avatar series that’s cyberpunk/futuristic-themed (if the previous series was set in the 1980s/1990s, the next Avatar would be in the future).

3) Zaheer, R-rated spinoff series. Something along the lines of Netflix’s “The Punisher”.

4) Sokka and Suki spin-off series, but set when they’re in their 40s (so about two decades after the main series ended). For their show, I was thinking a spy/political thriller in which they’re trying to stop a conspiracy to destroy the Southern Water Tribe. Something like “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” or “The Bourne Identity”.

5) The Forgotten Avatar/The Avatar Who Must Not Be Named. Set long before Avatar Yangchen’s time, the series follows an Avatar who abused their powers to the point that they’ve been erased from the history books.

6) The Dark Avatar. Taking place simultaneously as the Earth Avatar series, this series focuses on Vaatu’s return and the start of the Dark Avatar lineage.

7) Series about an Earth Kingdom spy sent to infiltrate the Fire Nation royal court in order to assassinate the Fire Lord. This show is set during the middle of the Hundred Year War (literally, 50 years after it started).

8) The First Avatar. An expansion on Avatar Wan’s life, going beyond what we saw in Korra. Something like how the “Andor” show expanded on “Rogue One”.

9) Series centered around a Fire Nation unit during the Hundred Year War. The point of the show isn’t to justify the Fire Nation’s side, but to humanize the soldiers.

10) June the Bounty Hunter movie in which she accepts a job to capture a high-profile Fire Nation general for the Earth Kingdom. For the feel of the movie, think “Atomic Blonde” or “John Wick”.

11) Young Iroh series that features Lu Ten as the deuteragonist.

12) Toph Bei Fong series about her founding the Metalbending Police Force, as well as how she met Lin and Suyin’s fathers.

13) General Iroh II spin-off series.

14) Agents of Republic City series. Centered on a group of agents trying to prevent the four nations from going to war with each other. Think of this show as the Avatar version of “24” or “Homeland”.

15) Young Gran Gran series, showing her life in the Northern Water Tribe and how she fled to the South. Also features young Master Pakku.