Tempting Fate

ITT: pitch me Avatar series #3

Yes I remember all that cringey shit right after Korra ended.

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Fuck that, reboot the franchise from the end of ATLA Book 2 (and reanimate both of those in HD).

Whatever happened to all that stuff about Sup Forums's "third" avatar series. I remember seeing all the threads but I never saw an outcome if anything was made.

Is there an archive or something?

>implying Sup Forums can make anything

>implying Sup Forums can make anything that isn't an excuse to beat his meat
fixed

good point

Honestly this. Reboot Book 3, fire and LoK while fixing the major issues.

Stop making this thread. We already tried making Earth Avatar, it's not gonna happen again.
If you want another avatar so bad, make a spiritual successor Yooka Laylee style.

The OP already has the name right there

I meant fixing Book 2's ending as well, as that's what started the downward spiral.

Was this Earth Avatar male or female?

Not against it, but whats the problem with book 2s ending? Assuming you're talking about Atla Book 2 here.

The spirits stopped that avatar shit and stopped feeding humans with bending power because it never work so they create one special Avatar 2.0 instead from scratch. They go away and 5000 year later Voltron plot starts.

Zuko joining Azula was deeply OOC after everything he went through and apparently a last-minute script change to break Zutara. It was also never explained why Azula needed him in the first place, or why she would make such an offer to a supposed traitor even if she thought she did. This one "twist" wreaked havoc all across Book 3, though it wasn't the only problem of course.

>Takes place in the late 1960's equivalent in the Avatar Universe
>There is a cold war between white and red lotus and a hot war to claim all the spirit vines for more Spirited Away themed WMDs.
>Whoever finds and reverse engineers the avatar will be at a huge advantage.

>The next avatar is a short, angsty, teenaged, farm boy, earth bender and has kept his bending abilities secret everyone, including his strict single father.
>He gets run over by a group group of hippies in a Sato-van on a road trip across the former Earth Kingdom
>In consolation for his broken ribs, the new avatar is offered a free ride to republic city which he accepts
>the group of counter culture youth and their pet sentient magnetic tape computer become the new team avatar
>they are chased across the continent by various factions and try, poorly, to keep a low profile while politics happens in the background

Interquel about what happened after Book 3 OR alternate timeline where the avatar world didn't become so vastly developed so quickly.

Twins are born in the next avatar cycle, one twin bends earth and water, the other fire and air.
backstory is the red lotus created a nuke or some shit. I don't fuckin know.

>that character that was unashamedly a thiccer, milfier korra

>the next avatar will be a black, lesbian genderqueer asian transgender woman who fights against King Drumpf and his lackeys that just happen to look like nazis

>Fuck that, reboot the franchise from the end of ATLA Book 2 (and reanimate both of those in HD).

Completely agree, the only way to save the series would be to erase all the bullshit retconning

The only idea I have is to make it post-apocalytic (but far enough past the event to make the setting more akin to ATLA, with some few dispersed technologically advanced places in between). The apocalyptic event came from the subsequent earth kingdom born Avatar (already realized and a master of the four elements) has Vaatu reawaken within him and destroy/remove Raava from him and then making him rampage and destroy a good portion of civilization. Some many years after, the Avatar is reborn in the fire nation and through some means decides or is coerced to travel the world and help rebuild what he or she can while pursuing the dark avatar, who no one has seen for many years. That's all I got.

Pitch you an Avatar series 3? Easy. Go backwards. Don't move forwards with Korra in mind, take it all the way back.

If it's not Avatar In Space then why even bother?

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I've thought about this for way too long.

>It's the Avatar 70's, aka basically as far as you can go with the timeline before the whole concept of bending becomes useless for all intents and purposes
>Regardless bending gets a slight degree of power creep in the show, because Korra's spirit dickering fucked everything up

>Avatar Korra was assassinated 14 years ago by anarchist revolutionaries, at the young age of 60
>The world has been in a state of mourning and fear, as the next Avatar is now part of the People's Earth Republic, because Korra did everything wrong, and basically everything she fought for has taken twenty steps back
>In the aftermath of a brief hot war between the United Alliance of the Fire Nation, Water States, and Air Nation against the Earth-Commies, an unstable Cold War has developed
>The age of spies and secret agents has fallen

So that's the setting.

>The PER government announces that they have the next Avatar
>The other governments of the world are freaking the fuck out
>Where will their alliances lie
>In a massive televised press conference/treaty between the nations the next Avatar is announced
>It's a young stoic studious Earthbender girl
>Think Rei from Evangelion but more human
>Under a complex set of treaties she is set to stay in Republic City for several months while peace talks to end the Cold War are in order
>While there she stays with the current Earth ambassador's daughter, a plucky young nonbender, under the watchful eye of her overseer, a confident social butterfly who happens to be the Avatar's older sister


Book 1 would feature a very decentralized plot. Early on we would meet with a local street gang led by a laidback airbending badass and his adopted younger brother, a popular street racer. It would involve the Avatar and her friends exploring this new Republic City, most importantly the Spirit District (which is very similar to a lot of Chinese urban legends mixed with folklore).

(Continued)

(Cont.)

The Antagonist
>A popular talkshow host, incredibly young at around 22, world renounced celebrity and comedian firebender
>Takes a deep interest in the Avatar, almost too deep
>Revealed early on to be part of the Neo Red Lotus, who in the Avatar 60's were a hyper competent spy ring a la COBRA, who now are much weaker and underground
>Very proud, charismatic, think David Bowie playing Patrick Batman
>The embodiment of 70's and 80's American influence, all the good and bad

His attempts to get a hold of the Avatar and other shady dealings drive much of the midseason plot, up til the HUGE TWIST that he isn't actually a firebender at all.

He's the Dark Avatar. Bear with me here. It's retarded, but bear with me.

His backstory is actually one of the more interesting parts of the show, playing a lot of dualism off the protagonist

>Orphaned at young age by Red Lotus
>Taken in by mysterious woman working for NRL, back when it's still top dog
>Works up from the bottom to become incredibly famous, but always burdened w/ knowledge
>Takes current leader of Red Lotus as father figure
>Riddled with self-doubt, his story is mostly about gradually becoming the overall villain of the plot

As Season 1 progresses, the gang learns of this, but lack the means to expose him. This comes together in the finale, where he corners nonbending friends together, forcing Airbending badass to kick this guy's inexperienced ass, but face the legal and social consequences, i.e. prison.

Meanwhile, the Avatar's older sister begins a flirtation and courtship with the DA, and eventually they go public with their relationship, which sets the media in a storm.

That's about it for Season 1, Season 2 is much more plot focused.

(Cont)

>Book 2
>Open with the final press conference between Avatar and DA
>It's all super tense and shit
>The Avatar is struggling with her spiritual side
>She's more sensible and logical than Korra, but it's also made her more skeptical, and less receptive to spirit shit
>While struggling to meditate with her mentor, and older, stiff asshole airbender who is nowhere near as helpful as Cool Older Brother, she suddenly clicks for a brief second into her Avatar state and gets a vision of the President of the Fire Nation's daughter being shot
>The Fire Officials take this very seriously, forcing the Avatar to travel over to the Fire Nation under the guise of a series of press conferences
>Meanwhile, in Republic City...
>DA is in hot water with the higher ups for acting so recklessly
>Meanwhile, Younger Brother's dealings with the dark side of racing have put him in trouble with the Triads, which have become basically the Yakuza in their reach and influence
>Red Lotus operations are being thwarted by the Traids, who are now more active in the area because of Younger Brother
>With nowhere else to turn, DA is forced to team up with Older Brother (greasing the wheels for his early release) to get to the bottom of this shit
>While Younger Brother's life becomes threatened by all this bullshit, making Plucky Friend more and more worried
>In the Fire Nation, we meet the President's Daughter and her gang of friends, who are very much similar to the original Gaang, if not in exact makeup then in general dynamics
>The Avatar, now 16, has to keep her head straight and get her spirituality shit right with Stern Jackass Mentor to master the elements
>Apparently the President and the Triad Head go way, way back
>Solving their personal issues helps keep the President's Daughter safe, for a time
>Meanwhile in Republic City all out war is being waged, with the DA and Older Bro in the middle of everything
>In the skirmishing, Older Bro dies

(Cont.)

What the fuck is this fanfiction shit

>Zuko joining Azula was deeply OOC
debatable, as Zuko's entire persona was indecisive up to that point.

But even still, we needed him to join Azula so we could have all those dank scenes in the Fire Nation with Zuko as prince.

the avatar is born as twins and can only bend two elements each,
one goes bad and the other has to save him because yin-yang shit mount is pig-panda (white with black spots) and reverse pig-pandas (black with white spots) moral is that balance is needed and neither side is perfect alone.

>twins
>they have to fuse to go into the avatar state

would be dank

But most of those scenes were awful teen angsting

Oh definitely.

But we needed to see Zuko get everything he always thought he wanted and then be dissatisfied with it.

>Settling the events in the Fire Nation carry back over to Republic City
>With this much chaos in play, Plucky's Mother runs for governor of Republic City, pledging to put a much harder stance on law enforcement
>Read: Security over Freedom
>DA comes out with his secrets to Avatar's sister
>She's in on the plan now, and madly in love
>The Red Lotus Plans are finally coming together
>However, when DA tries to get away this time, Plucky Friend isn't a retard, and forces DA to use his other bending strengths in public
>Exposing his secret to the world
>And forcing him out of Republic City

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An entire series of this.

>Earth avatar discovers he's the avatar at a young age
>Due to Korra's decision to allow the spirits to roam the earth, tons of shit has happened and the majority of people hate the avatar
>Earth Avatar kid isn't stupid, keeps it a secret
>His best friend finds out (they're a bender of a different type) they decide that they're friends so it doesn't matter what people say about the avatar
>The kid teaches the Young avatar his/her element
>Eventually, since he wants to learn all of them and fix the mess of a world, he and his friend go on a journey to find teachers for the other two

I don't have a story but I do have an antagonist.

>In preparation of seizing absolute power, a would be king goes deep into the spirit world to make unholy pacts with malevolent entities. This greatly empowers him and enables him to display terrifying powers never before seen by the world.

Basically my villain for a future Avatar series is daemon prince.

Hundred more years or whatever. World hasn't really changed much from Korra because a society like that has no reason to improve their technology if they can already fling lightning from their wrists like a Black Spiderman since childhood. So instead, the point of this show is going to be about a carefree Earthbender who knows his true destiny of being god damn avatar but has an inability to really step up and be the diplomat/warrior/religious leader that he's told by everyone he's ever known he is going to be. It's a show about accepting who you are and your limits and that your life cannot be predicted. Sure, you can be born with something that makes you different, but nobody can know how their entire life is going to pan out from birth. The world's stopped moving, he's not really needed anymore, and every major source of conflict from the world is really more or less a bunch of old traditionalists who think every generation's avatar needs to fight against their own army of nazis to properly keep the cycle moving. The world's slowed down a lot from the sudden boom of science and technology because it doesn't need to go fast. And that's not a bad thing. It's not a good thing either. It's just a part of your life and the world you happen to live in

Random compilation of shitty ideas that I've spent way too much time thinking about. It couldn't possibly be worse than Korra


Season 3 is honestly probably where the story actually starts coming together, to the point where Season 1 and 2 are better left being smushed together. (The whole show would be a 5 book affair, playing with the 3>4>5 progression)

>Book 3
>In the wake of this reveal, Republic City is basically on lockdown
>Hearing about Avatar's issues w/ spirit stuff has come a request by legendary mythic airbender and spiritualist, Kai
>Unfortunately, no one knows where he is
>And the Red Lotus are more pressing of a concern
>Plucky arranges the whole gang to go on a roadtrip across the Northern Water Tribe into the Independent Earth States in the North, just outside of the PER's reach. Lots of classic TLA style adventure
>Meanwhile the relationship between DA and Avatar sister is getting complicated, now that Avatar sister is under constant surveillance and DA is the most wanted man in the world
>The gang travels too far however, and the PER steps its foot down
>Avatar is now forbidden from leaving Republic City, and is at risk of being sent back to PER
>However, she and Plucky sneak out one last time, hearing of an undercover decomissioned Lotus base
>After nearly dying, they discover some real shady shit
>Including knowledge of Plucky's father, who actually used to be a former Alliance Spy who was killed by the RL
>And a secret plot to assassinate the Prime Minister of the Northern Water State
>This is found out, but it's a Boy Who Cried Wolf scenario, there is no plot
>Girls are sent back home

To put a long story short, the plan was a decoy, it was to destroy the Republic City UN embassy, the plan is half thwarted. Younger Bro dies, Plucky looses an arm, and Avatar is left broken. Kai shows up near the end, hearing whispers of the tragedy on the wind, taking the Avatar to train and study for 6 years. Timeskip

I remember a doujin like that, it was both hilarious and fucked up.

What was it about? Plz no ntr, i hate that shit.

Seasons 4/5 are so similar honestly they probably are just one long Book

>Book 4
>Timeskip years into the future
>The Avatar, no longer bound to the PER, is back in Republic city
>Plucky's still alive, and with cool new arms
>The brothers are still dead though
>Avatar is bitter, and more importantly pissed
>DA and Sis are now head of Lotus, which has rised out of the ashes to become a global terrorist organization
>The Boss ever present yet still mysterious
>President's Daughter gets kidnapped
>Are our heroes bad enough dudes to save her?

Cue the Nuclear. Basically if the first half was a riff on old school Kung Fu films this part is Metal Gear Solid.

Most of the season(s) revolves around the crew searching for the origins and trails of RL. We discover the story behind Plucky's father, who was partners in the Allied Spy forces with and eventually betrayed by the woman who would go on to raise the DA as her own son. We meet her out in the desert, a sad wreck of a woman.

Meanwhile, political tensions get hotter, and we get the feeling that this Cold War is going to end with one of the nations in flames.

We also meet some other characters (most notably Bolin, who now is an 80 year old former movie star, director, and adventurer) along the way, and there are one off stories that help flesh out the world, but the bigger focus is around the chase for RL.

We discover that the Boss is actually dead, and this is actually all his post-mortem plan to cleanse the world and start fresh from nothing. And DA and Sis are so deep into this shit that, after a bit of indecision, they decide to go through with this, taking over several flying command stations and loading them with nukes. Cue climactic showdown, DA looses hope and kill himself mid-Avatar state in a brief moment of lucidity, killing the cycle, while Avatar is left to pick up the pieces of the world.

Avatar Earth AU project

After Vaatu smashed all the past Avatars out of Korra, their spirits were left to wander and have now reincarnated. Some kind of story-line involving a ton of Avatars upseting the balance.

Remember when it was just supposed to be Dune?

Good times.

>The leg of Korra
What about it?

The technological progression was terrible and bad for the world, go back in the time.

Wind the clock back so far that it's almost unrecognisable, have a Romance of the Three Earth Kingdoms civil war raging for decades; have a bunch of dickhead city states made of ice propel themselves round the world raiding, warring and taking tribute; take the nationalism out of the Fire Nation and make them a fractious archipelago of princes and priests and cover the land in isolated Air Temples with wildly varying schools of thought about how to reach enlightenment.

Just run screaming into the past and away from the failures of the future.

Clearly it needs to be about Avatar Wan discovering the Avatar state for the very first time. His backstory about gradually gaining all the skills and co-existing with spirits is interesting. That way, no goddamn predecessor Avatar spirits, but a setting that's much more mystical with spirits in general and the core concept is basically how the discovery of the Avatar state changes things for the world entirely.

A spirits vs humans type thing and discussions on whether humans can be trusted to not abuse bending would probably also ensue.

>Avatar spirits split into 4 groups, the Fire, Water, Earth, and Air (With some variation depending on the personalities of the avatars, they go into the group their personality goes best with)
>Each group decides to start there own, new avatar lineage with there philosophy as the core
>These avatars are always born into the main element of the line (I.e. The one from the fire line is always born to fire benders, the one from the water line is always born to water benders, etc)
>Korra's, the original, is the only line that follows the original cycle
>Korra's successor has to try bring balance with 4 other, equally powerful Avatars doing there own thing
>They all can call on multiple avatars for advice, he can only ask Korra

I'd watch it.

The Legend of Korra 2.

Mostly focusing on how Korra fixed the world and her relationship with Asami.

Spirit energy/spirits themselves are used to power a technological dystopia, and bending is acquired through stones that are imbued with these magical energies.

>ever wanting more Korra

It doesn't work any longer, but before Korra I wanted to see Firebender: The Last Avatar.

The basic idea was that after Aang's death the babies who would become the Water and Earth-cycle Avatar were tracked down and killed by folks before they could become a problem, with the idea being that if they could kill the Avatars as kids it would eventually cycle round to Air again and with no Airbenders left the cycle would be broken.

So basically all of the Airbenders were gone and there was this kid who was a firebender trying to figure out a way to restore airbending to the world before the guys trying to kill him could do so.

But it was pretty obvious Aang was gonna have kids even in ATLA...

Takes place sometime between Wan and Raava (WHICH IS NEVER FUCKING MENTIONED) and Aang.

Basically KOTOR.

So, what, we're asking for fan-fiction? Okay.

-level technology. Plains, trains, and automobiles.
>>Things are pretty good, all-around.
>>The new Avatar, an earthbender called....I dunno.....Ji Yeon, thinks that there's no real need for an Avatar anymore, and never reveals herself, using her bending to be a mid-tier character in cheesy pro-wrestling shows. She lives in a tiny apartment, but if comfy.
>>Since Korra broke the cycle, she's the only past avatar Ji Yeon has access to. While Aang and especially Korra had trouble accessing their past lives, Ji does it almost by accident.
>>Ji and Korra fucking hate each other, since Korra wants Ji to avenge her murder, and Ji can't be bothered.
>>Another Avatar appears, let's call him Sung. He's using his clout for political gain. This turn of events infuriates Korra to no end. It will later be revealed that Sung's using tech to fake being a bender.
>>Ji happens to walk by a Sung rally, and Korra's ghost is so pissed she assumes direct control, putting Ji into the Avatar State and making a huge mess of everything.
>>Political groups split between those who support Ji, and those who support Sung, and war becomes more likely as gang violence breaks out and police take sides.
>>Ji wants nothing to do with any of this, and needs to figure out a way to end the violence, bring peace, and shut Korra up.
>>Along the way valuable lessons are learned, and Ji's biggest backer ends up being connected to Korra's murder

That's what I got, anyway

I ran an RPG set after Legend of Korra. The short version is it was set in a Cold War conflict (because that seems to be the popular thing to do) between the Earth Federation and the Fire Nation. The four PCs (a bender of each type) were sent on a mission to find the Avatar to end the conflict. Turns out, between Aang dying in the Avatar State and Raava being ripped out of Korra and beaten, the Avatar Spirit was really damn weak, possibly too weak to make a proper Avatar. So Raava split into four parts so she could reside in a bender of each type and regrow her connection to the elements. So the PCs were each 1/4th of the Avatar. In the end, the PCs fight an evil Void spirit that some asshole unleashed as part of a plan to Ozymandius the world into peace.

I'm not saying that is a GOOD idea for a third series, but it's what I did.

>Female avatar

>Twins

One boy, one girl?

I tried Sup Forums

In an alternate continuity.

The Avatar is born as an earth bender following the adventures of Aang and an unknown water bender who didn't do anything for the world except be a peace mediator/mouth peace.

After what Aang did, Avatars must now go on journies of self-discovery and spirituality across the nations to reach their individual masters of the elements. Basically seeing the world and experiencing it on their own.

While going on his adventure to meet his masters and acquire new friends, a new state has appeared in the world filled with non-benders created by the advancement of technology on the shores of the Earth Kingdom.

The new nation is lead by a mysterious leader known only as Order who wishes to expand the influence of the non-bending kingdom and begins a war against benders claiming the Spirits had sent him to return humans to their natural state of being benderless and the Avatar has failed.

This leads Order to bumping heads with the Avatar who is suppose to uphold the balance of the world.

The most terrifying thing about the mysterious leader known as Order is that not only are they able of take away someone's bending, they are also capable of using what appears to be the 4 Elements in combat similar to the Avatar.

The big reveal: Order is an energy bender simply bending the energy in others to take away their bending, and energy bends nature to create the Element they want to use in combat making them look like the Avatar.

>1980s Republic city
>Cold War under way between Earth and Fire
>Sozins Comet is about to return
>Peace talks are failing
>Nuclear war could break out at anytime
>Only the Avatar can stop the annihilation of the world, but will he?
>The avatar has become detached from the mortal world and is spending increasing amounts of time in the spirit world
>Can our heroes brave the spirit world and convince the Avatar that humanity is worth saving

>60 years since the end of the Legend of Korra. The Avatar has been gone for the last 30 years
>No Avatar has been found among the earthbenders, leading most to believe Korra might still be alive or that the Avatar cycle simply ended as it was no longer needed
>Technologically the world has moved up to the point where it is a mixture of 1960s and 1940s technology
>Future Industries is now the largest multi national corporation in the world, and is the sole participant in the space race
>Meanwhile the Fire Nation and Water Tribe remains isolationist while Ba Sing Se and Republic City is waging a cold war and competing for influence over the dozen independent earth states
>The new Avatar is a teen aged orphan living in the poor district of Ba Sing Se, never having learned of his powers as he lacks the stubborn and forceful ways of most earthbenders
> Instead learns he can firebend when put in a moment of great duress

>What follows is a story of the Avatar exploring this new world, and getting engulfed in a massive international conspiracy threatening to plunge the world into conflict
>In the former earth kingdom warlords are running rampant, with dreams of building empires
>Future Industries goals in space might have less than altruistic goals
>And ultimately from a faction seeking to create the second earth empire comes someone willing to challenge the Avatar in power

There's no Black or White people in the Avatar universe, only Asians.

I like this idea a lot.

Glad there were at least a few actual replies to OPs question.

I'd watch one about a parrelel universe

I'd watch our dicks being parallel

I think i'd try rebooting LoK as a hero story where Korra overcomes the obstacles through guts and willpower. Running into walls and going beyond what she used to be to defeat the bad guy in the end.

>another time skip to around 70s/80s point
>the world is incredibly modernized now
>the Air Nation has grown large enough that they can patrol the entire world easily
>democracy spread to all four nations
>there's no real need for an Avatar anymore so they spurned the new one
>so the new Avatar is a lazy earthbender who spends most of his time just travelling and drinking
>misuses his Avatar powers for convienence and profit
>some shit goes down, only the Avatar can save the day
>the new plucky younger cast are tasked with tracking down the Avatar and convincing him to do his job
>shenanigans ensue

>can only ask Korra

poor kid

Sounds like a chance for a Koh-related villain that the fanbase has been speculating about for years.

>Avatar Wan discovering the Avatar state for the very first time

Should Wan even be able to use the Avatar State? He has no predecessor's powers to draw upon.

Although, that being said, I think Korra used the Avatar state plenty after killing off the old avatars.

Never made sense how she could do that.

It functions differently in LoK since it's just a powerup provided by Raava (or Vaatu in Unalaqs case).

>Avatar Korra suddenly appears while he is meditating
>he didn't even try to get in contact, she just kind of decided she should help him
>"hey, you should probably do X"
>what? why? that's stupid
>C'mon, i'm older. I know what i'm talking about blabla
>o-okay, whatever.
*he does X*
>WTF it didn't work!
>it will eventually.

>The Avatar has been gone for the last 30 years
>Korra, living 50 years
No. Already wrong.

How would you handle Zuko, user?

My idea before LoK came along was that the antagonists were a splintered group of warrior tribes who had been ripped apart by Fire Nation and Earth Tribe military forces hundreds of years before.

The Yokuji felt that Bending was a dishonorable advantage in combat and basically became trained assassins hunting down and killing any Benders that they could, through chi-blocking and other methods.

They were known as the Yokuji Clans and had Koh the Faceless as their chosen spiritual deity, aiming to prevent the consolidation of power into Bender circles. Now they're fighting the Long War to eradicate bending completely.

I think it could be cool to talk about a post-imperial collapse in the Fire Nation, where it goes from the biggest swinging dick to some impoverished rainy little island no one gives a fuck about.

I don't know much series lore, so this might not work.

Prequel about an early avatar, from before the avatar was widely known about. This guy is an ordinary peasant from a fairly remote village. There are benders around, obviously of only one element. But he stumbles in his learning and finds he can bend another. Then later, a story from returning hunters gives him a hint as to another element.

I don't know where the story would go from there. But yeah I think that would be cool.

Sorry folks, but there will never be another Avatar series. LoK accomplished the impressive feat of ruining the past, present and future of the Avatarverse and turned the producers away from the franchise forever.

Give the avatar spot to a guy who literally can't bend anything. Ever. Make it a political/war drama about this guy who is surrounded by people with the power but he himself has none. Make the earth kingdom the agressor because they need the resources, have the fire nation on the brink of extinction. This guy and 4 of his buddies from the nations have to get all their sides to stop the conflict and heal the world.

The next avatar series needs to have the premise of non benders vs benders.

They had the perfect shit going with Amon and the non-benders and would actually have some fun conflict with real viewers since they are humans, they'll choose to side with non-benders over their heroes who possess better skills and powers (jealousy) but they fucked it up.

>The biggest loss to them was losing their bending
>why is that so bad? " asked by a civilian
>from there the fire rises

I just want a scene where the Earthbending Avatar blows up on ghost Korra for ruining being the Avatar. All the history, all the importance about spirituality and balance, and she shat on all of it. Shat on tradition, shat on the past, shat on it all because she had something to prove, and in doing that, cursed the future for her arrogance.

In some ways I'd love a female character to do it too, that way nobody can use 'muh patriarchy' as a way to criticize the new bender. Highly traditional, highly spiritual, wants to be a better example in the world and be the avatar to look up to for those who follow her than her absolute fuck up of a predecessor.

The thing about the whole benders/non-benders thing (which already paints the non-benders as a have-not) is that the actual issues were never fixed (they can't be) or addressed. The thing about Benders is that their power is so far above non-benders that they have a right to live in fear. Any Earth Bender in the world can easily just make a whole in the ground, and suck someone in (even heroic characters do this) and close up the hole. Fire-benders are walking flame-throwers, and while you could argue that the Equalists had their shock-gloves, you can take that away from them with a pat-down. You can't do that with a bender.

It's the same with Mutants in the Marvel setting. Sorry, I will never accept them as poor and oppressed minorities. When they can read minds and change the weather then the normals have a right to be terrified of them.

This is a level of power and privilege that even the most insane college professor doesn't think actually exists in our world.

>dropbox.com/sh/vvw91y144y5dzom/AAATOgALnIbA9n088qUI2QLUa?dl=0

This is cool as hell! when did Sup Forums make all this?

Pretending Korra never existed as well as the Wan backstory, a new Avatar is born into an era of incredible, overwhelming peace, and as the avatar is supposed to be the personification of balance the avatar is somehow inspired to stir unrest and conflict in an age of too much good.

Sounds kinda edgy though

Do people actually not like the Wan backstory? What was the issue with it, exactly?

It completely demystified and added background to the origins of the Avatar in the worst way possible.

Well sure, it de-mystified it, but if you're dealing with the spirits and going right back I dunno how you could have avoided it.

I'm not sure what people wanted from an Avatar backstory.

How about nothing?

They didn't want an Avatar backstory. Being a mystical, timeless personification of elemental balance and order on the planet was enough.

Not how it works, peace and harmony between the people of the world is balance, what you are suggesting is the flawed ideology of the Red Lotus

>They didn't want an Avatar backstory
Who are "they"?

The Avatar Wan episodes are still some of the most highly rated episodes in the series on IMDB

Well now they gotta suck it up and work with it. Ignore it and not delve into that era, fine. But if your proposal means contradicting shit that's happened then I disagree.

As unfortunate as it is, Korra happened. The Avatar Cycle was broken and now there's consequences to that.

>On IMDB

That's presuming Korra would die immediately after vanishing from the public eye, remember that it was stated that the new Avatar would be in his teens.

Also both Korra and Aang will have not lived too long as in a way to prevent the world from realistically not move too slowly ahead technologically. But if there was a fourth Avatar it probably wouldn't be a problem to make it a 100 years later and have it in a sort of cyberpunk like setting.

Not the guy you replied to but they could always have a plot where Aang winds up dying young for whatever reason or the organisation trying to end the Avatar cycle murdered his children/grandchildren.

I personally like the Avatar Wan episodes. I don't take the back story too literally, and I realize that's probably headcanon.

The way I see it is that the Avatar Wan episodes can be seen as a myth in and of themselves. Who is to say that Korra's memories of those experiences aren't tainted?

It's just a larger-than-life origin story like real-life accounts of individuals like Hercules or the Monkey King.

Everything about Avatar Wan should be taken with a grain of salt because its 10,000 years separated from the events of Korra and Korra's perspective of events (even if they're somehow perfectly preserved by Raava) is simply one view of how things really went down in the beginning.

I imagine the writers intended for it to be the definitive explanation of the Avatar origin, but I much prefer to interpret the story as a myth-come-to-life. Look at the humans living in the Spirit Wilds as early man's explanation of unnatural phenomena IRL.

>This is a level of power and privilege that even the most insane college professor doesn't think actually exists in our world.
You would be fucking astonished at some of the professors that exist.

Not an argument

Dude, Korra casually chats it up with Rava after being dipped in that water and having the flashback, there really is no doubt to Wan being completely canon. As much as I'd love not for it to be, it undeniably is the way it is.