Casstoons: On a Major Legend of Korra Spoiler

[espanolbot]

Spoilers

So from the footage leaked from the first episode of the new series, a member of the original team's survival was revealed and I instantly thought of how awkward her relationship with Korra could get in places.

So I riffed a joke from Friends. Because it amused me.

By Me


And thus I created the Kortara fanshipping! Mwhaha! Hm, would a OT3 with the AI from Halo make it a Kortarana?

Comments

[beoweasel]

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I am both amused...and horrified.

[salinea]

creepy!!

[sailorlibra]

Whoa, Katara's still alive when Korra's doing her thing? I just assumed her scenes were flashbacks or something. Weird.

[janegray]

Why do you find it weird? Katara was 14 in the original series, and Korra's series takes place 70 years later.

Even in RL it's not at all unusual for people to live past 84, and in the Avatarverse it's not unheard of for characters to live well past 100 (think Bumi, for example). Avatars in particulars can live for several centuries, and the canonical explanation for why Aang died at only around 65 (Aang's age 12 + 70 years - Korra's age 16) is that being frozen in ice for a century weakened him.

If anything, I'd find it very weird if Katara were the only member of the gang who is still alive.

[sailorlibra]

Yeah, that makes sense. For some reason, I was thinking it took place around one hundred years in the future, but seventy makes more sense.

[beoweasel]

Avatars can live for centuries? >_> I've never heard that before, where was that covered?

[espanolbot]

It's generally a theme in the series that those who are gifted benders generally live for over 100 years, providing they don't die of anything violent (such as getting volcanoed like Avatar Roku).

Bumi, for example, isn't an Avatar but he's around 111 when he's introduced into the series (being a childhood friend of Aang's prior to his freezing).

The Guru that showed up towards the end of season two is implictly either an energy bender or someone who has developed as much of an understanding of bending that he basically is one. He also was around in the 100 years prior to the show's setting, with some other sources saying that he was old then as well, though they might not be canon (still at least 100 though).

But in terms of Avatars that are long lived, the awesome Avatar Kyoshi is the longest lived in series, who (on top of making her own island and being around seven foot tall) lived to be 230 years old.

The creators said that it's the enhanced chi of being a bender (specifically by being the Avatar) that allowed Aang and Appa to survive their cryogenic sleep, though it burnt down his life considerably.

Basically they meant that the 100 years Aang sent frozen can be added to his life span as opposed to assuming that they didn't happen, he just didn't age, making him 112 or so at the start of the series with him dying at the age of 165 prior to Legend of Korra starting.

[espanolbot]

Not just alive, but a Grand Master of the Order of the White Lotus as well. :)

[sailorlibra]

Oh God, I hope that Zuko is a fellow member. I need more sneaky, old people secretly plotting in my Legend of Korra.

[aeolos_sakya]

I wound only accept it if Toph were there. Seriously, I wouldn't mind if Katara or Zuro aren't around, as long as Toph and her awesomness are still present.

[beoweasel]

She's not, sadly, the only character that's still alive from the first series seems to be Katara, everyone else is listed as deceased. Toph's daughter IS in the series, however, as the Chief of Police for Republic City (who are all trained Metal Benders). And while I assume Bei is a hard-ass, just like her mother, I'm willing to bet she's going to have a much different personality, much in the way that Tenzin is very different from his father, Aang.

And there is a certain irony that Toph, a girl who dislikes social customs and hate rules, ends up having a daughter that appears to be a straight-laced cop. :P

[aeka]

What the first two people said. :O

Also their icons.

[shadowpsykie]

I'm... torn.

it's damn funny...

and creepy....

but funny...

and creepy....

i don't know how i feel about it.

[eyz]

You are EVIL!
....
And a genius! :P