replying to both of y'alljade_sabre_301June 10 2009, 16:37:41 UTC
1. Um yes I am in love with this. It's...shifting the argument from "the Avatar has to be alone" to "the Avatar has to be able to balance personal concerns with worldly ones" (which is a duh statement), but like Kyoshi was all worried about her little island and Roku about his family and Kurik about his dead girlfriend and...
it's like, knowing what the rules and immersing yourself in them in order to know when and how to break them. As in, the rule would be to err on the side of caution and not have a family unless you can handle it, but over the years the rule gets really obscured, and Aang doesn't get the training so he doesn't even see what he's doing as being maybe harmful to his particular role as this particular Avatar.
Like, in the past, there are people that train the Avatar, right? So now I see this whole thing where--for example, Kurik. Let's say for the past few cycles it had been okay for the Avatars to have/the Avatars had been able to handle relationships. We don't actually know what happened to the world under him, but let's just say something really horrible happened. Now, the people in charge of training benders and stuff go, hey, this happened because the Avatar was obsessed with his face-stolen girlfriend. So when Kurik dies, the people who raise the next Avatar impress upon him or her that personal relationships are forbidden, because they're afraid of making Kurik's mistake again. Then that becomes the norm for several cycles, and then like you could end up with an Avatar who maybe would be able to handle it if they had been trained to be open to all possibilities, but instead they've been cut off and so when this Avatar does fall in love it's like Anakin Skywalker only better handled dark and forbidden and angsty and then terrible things happen and I think I ended up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay offtopic here but I suppose the point is that the evolution of the Avatar's personal relationships would be fascinating to study?
The other point is yes, this whole thing is awesome.
it's like, knowing what the rules and immersing yourself in them in order to know when and how to break them. As in, the rule would be to err on the side of caution and not have a family unless you can handle it, but over the years the rule gets really obscured, and Aang doesn't get the training so he doesn't even see what he's doing as being maybe harmful to his particular role as this particular Avatar.
Like, in the past, there are people that train the Avatar, right? So now I see this whole thing where--for example, Kurik. Let's say for the past few cycles it had been okay for the Avatars to have/the Avatars had been able to handle relationships. We don't actually know what happened to the world under him, but let's just say something really horrible happened. Now, the people in charge of training benders and stuff go, hey, this happened because the Avatar was obsessed with his face-stolen girlfriend. So when Kurik dies, the people who raise the next Avatar impress upon him or her that personal relationships are forbidden, because they're afraid of making Kurik's mistake again. Then that becomes the norm for several cycles, and then like you could end up with an Avatar who maybe would be able to handle it if they had been trained to be open to all possibilities, but instead they've been cut off and so when this Avatar does fall in love it's like Anakin Skywalker only better handled dark and forbidden and angsty and then terrible things happen and I think I ended up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay offtopic here but I suppose the point is that the evolution of the Avatar's personal relationships would be fascinating to study?
The other point is yes, this whole thing is awesome.
Reply
Leave a comment