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This was drawn in a fit of harried passion, so it's not nearly as neat as it could be. Please excuse the mess--
But I'm so confused!!! The season finale...it was just so weird! I don't understand!
Can ANYBODY turn into a big blue giant now just by meditating in the tree of time? Everyone can get to it now, since Korra left the portals open. I feel Meelo might enjoy taking advantage of this option. Or can only the avatar do it? Korra was, effectively, no longer the avatar when she was bending her own cosmic energy, since Raava was 'dead.' And it wasn't even clear if she could still bend all four elements. If all you need to do is meditate in the tree, why didn't everybody do that so they could all gang up on Unavaatu? Korra has been a self proclaimed 'spiritual flop' so I feel Tenzin might have been able to connect to his cosmic energy fairly easily, and everyone else could have stuck around to guard their bodies.Β
I don't even know what Jinora was doing, floating down from the sky in a ball of light...was she just bringing a light presence in order to maybe reawaken Raava?
And now that the spirit portals are open and spirits can run around between worlds, this means that a lot of stupid humans are going to make their way into the spirit world too, and probably get themselves killed, or in the fog of lost souls. And weren't some of the spirits still dark, even though Raava had returned? They were still trying to destroy Korra's body.
And does this mean Iroh can just waltz right back to the physical world and go live with Zuko again? And for that matter, ALL of the past Avatars can? So they can still guide Korra in person, rather than on an astral plain? Aang can babysit his grandkids now? How does anybody even end up in the spirit world? Do you have to be an avatar, or someone super special like Iroh to go there when you die? Or does everyone? So where do they go now? Nobody dies anymore, because they can just walk back out the portal? The earth is going to get really crowded really fast....
SO CONFUSING!!! And since Korra's past lives are severed, you would think that she wouldn't be able to bend anything but water now, assuming that her other bending abilities are dependant upon her past lives channeling through her. She also shouldn't be able to go into the avatar state anymore.
What was Raava thinking, choosing to possess Korra?? I don't hate her, I just think she messes up almost everything she does, and should have trusted Avatar Wan's decision to keep the two worlds separate. Everything had been fine for 10,000 years! She didn't need to go make a snap decision and change it all now, completely redefining the avatar, and the avatar's job and place in the world! I can only hope that, since spirits can walk around everywhere now, Aang will come back and talk (or slap) some sense into her. >
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...Yeah, little about the Spirit World makes coherent sense. 
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Wan's decision wasn't good. Book 4 showed it worked out. Jinora used the light to awaken the bit of raava within vaatu allowing korma to extract it. And no it isn't. She still has access to raava. If anything Wan's decision was dumb
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Shouldn't Wan be saying that she OPENED the spirit portals? Β Is that a typo?
Not that those seemed to work all the time anyway, we had spirits going in and out of the worlds even back in ATLA.
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Right, because you didn't accidentally indirectly start a 100 year war there Roku... Oh wait!
Admittedly, Aang and Roku both dropped the ball in some ways, but Korra has issues with authority, due to... Y'know, being locked up for a chunk of her life.
Still funny though.
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Well, even Roku never broke the Avatar spirit.
Even if they would never do this , especially Wan , this is hilarious.
Thanks for posting
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Have to say grumpy!Kyoshi and Moodswinging!Yangchen are the best things out of this.
And chibi Korra is adorable.
(Suffice to say, I consider anything in season 2 beyondΒ of Wan and Raava non-canon.Better for my sanity that way.
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Okay, to answer your questions...
Magic, magic, magic, magic, Iroh's dead, magic, corporate meddling, Korrasami, and 42.
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Well, Korra could still bend all 4 elements because she is the reincarnation of Wan himself without Raava, who bent the elementsΒ before the first permanent fusionΒ withΒ Raava.
Raava said she would be with Wan for all of his lifetimes so really Raava didn't pick Korra. Korra is technically Wan so Raava was stuck with her.
But everything else you say makes sense lol
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So, really all of the past Avatars are connected because they are Wan and that connection is even stronger because Raava 1 was fused with every single one of them, which is why they could communicate.
I mean, Wan was most likely a reincarnation of someone else, but since Raava fused with him first, the cycle started with him. So all of his future lives were connected by Raava as well, since she promised she would fight with him to bring balance with his future reincarnations.
But I could just be digging too deep here and running in circles :/ hahaha
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It's sad to say, but the defeated Chibi Korra is probably my favorite part of this picture.
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It's gender-swapped Avatar Aaang!
Also - it has never been clarified how the "past lives" exactly work. Are they separate entities or just sums of memories that manifest themselves in the Avatar's psyche? :/
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they are all separate entities but link together in some sort of wierd metaphysical way thanks to Raava. The past lives still exist in the Spirit World. But Korra can't summon them again as easily as before.
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Maybe the 3rd season will be about how Korra's decision proved catastrophic and she somehow needs to revert their consequences?
(still not as big fail as the end of season 1... The Equalists' story had a potential for all three season, why did they finish it after just one? 
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They didn't actually know they were getting more seasons / episodes until AFTER Book 1...that's why
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So true, you are so right. Korra you really screw it...
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Now we can never know what has happened to Aang'sΒ past and Zuko who has he married to , is it Mai or other else? All of the characters' past has been cut off~!!!! I can't believe it, now there wouldn't be any lore in the upcoming stories of Korra!!!!!
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Well, Zuko WAS in season 3 and season 4, but we never knew, who was his wife.
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If old Zuko can fire bend with his eyes, what can old Azula do? Lighting bend with her ass, just like William Wallace?Β
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Sorry this was meant to be on your old Zuko page.
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hm, didn't she _open_ the spirit portals?
funny though
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I meant that she was supposed to close them at first, and opened them/left them open instead. X)
But thank you!!
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This, this, ALL OF THIS.
I choose to interpret it as that the Spirit World is NOT the afterlife; it's just a separate plane of existence from the mortal world, and that's why you never see any humans there aside from living ones. I think Iroh's a special case, and even then, this theory's backed up by the fact that he spends all his time hanging around spirits and not, oh, I don't know HIS DECEASED FRIENDS AND FAMILY (Lu Ten, anyone?).
Though I agree, leaving the spirit portals open is a BAD, BAD idea. Hello, the spirits turned the world into the closest thing to Hell on Earth before Wan sent the vast majority of them back into the spirit world, and let's not forget that Vaatu was the one who tore the barriers between the dimensions apart in the first place. Do you really want to go along with THE SPIRIT OF CHAOS AND DARKNESS'S plan over what Avatar Wan did 10,000 years ago, Korra? How does that make any sense at all?
Ugh, ugh, ugh, and let's not go into the immense clusterf*** that was the Tree of Time fiasco. Logic? Internal consistency? Pshaw that's for OTHER shows, amirite?
I agree that if the other Avatars are still around (which I personally don't think they are; I think that Raava was the only thing still keeping their spirits around, and when she was destroyed, they were sent off to whatever afterlife awaits most humans) their reactions would be... yeah, pretty much exactly this. XD Though awww, Kuruk wasn't a lame Avatar.
Bottom line... yeah, not a fan of how this season went down on the whole. I'm not looking forward to Book 3 at all, and I think I'm just going to ignore the other seasons from here on out. Bryke's shown that they really do not care about this franchise anymore, and if they don't care, why should I? I'll just take TLA, the first season of LOK, and Beginnings, and be on my way, kthxbai.
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Uh if anything the barriers are open in a more even way. A little connection rather than complete separation is bad (Since shutting the portals is going full retard.) If anything Changes shows that since both ultimately went along with each other and coexist the limited coexistence was the right way
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This isn't even remotely fair. She had a much more horrific thing to face than any other Avatar ever and did it on her own without anyone else--not Raava, not the past Avatars. She is one tough cookie and probably the greatest Avatar ever, in that world.
....also, she's basically the new Wan for her new 10,000 year cycle. In 10,000 years, maybe that Avatar will be going back and looking at the First Avatar (ie, Korra) for the NEXT Harmonic Convergence.Β
That said, I can see how it would be confusing and it was a /wrench/ to watch the connection being severed. I definitely cried. But it was also nice seeing Korra make her way on her own, as Korra, without having the other Avatars bail her out. She is a tough tough cookie.
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The comic is just supposed to be satire!! Really. But I disagree that Korra can be called the greatest avatar. All of the avatars we know of (with the excpetion of Kuruk, who said the world was at peace when he was alive) have all had their challenges to face, and they've managed to fulfill their duties and keep the avatar cycle going. It's also true that they've all messed up. Wan should never have freed Vaatu in the first place, Roku should've just bumped off Sozin the first time he started showing signs of evil, and Aang should never have run away from the air temple. But they've still faced their mistakes and triumphed! Korra was the first one to drop the ball in 10,000 years. It's not all her fault, but neither was defeating Unavaatu all thanks to her. She had Tenzin to guide her, after telling him just 12 (or so) episodes ago, "this is as far as we go," and making her secretly evil uncle her new teacher instead. And not only that, but after seeing what Unalaq's philosophy did to him and the world, she decided that he was right after all, and Avatar Wan was wrong, and left the portals open. These don't seem to be very good decisions...but I guess we'll see in the next season if it turns out all right.
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unalaq was PART right. shutting off the human and spirit worlds completely is bad. Some form of coexistence is okay. What made Unalaq bad is that he wanted to rule rather than coexist.
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I don't think Korra can really be blamed for what happened.Β Unalaq and Vaatu, now they can be blamed.Β What they did was completely out of the blue.Β Very few people could have prepared for something like that, let alone fend it off.
Korra's connection may be severed to her past lives, but that doesn't say it can't be remade.Β And seeing as Raava was the one who carried the power of the multiple elements in her - she being the Avatar Spirit, after all - it makes sense that Korra has control over all four elements.
The Tree of Time was a one-time deal.Β It was during Harmonic Convergence, which was said to greatly amplify spiritual energy.
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Oh, definitely, the blame can always be spread around to multiple people in situations like this. And it was just Korra's bad luck that this season's antagonist was her uncle, and she was preconditioned to trust him. But you'd think her loyalty to her father and Tenzin would have kept her from making Unalaq her new teacher. I was so disappointed when that happened! Tenzin has always been one of my favorites.
I thought that Wan was given the power of the elements by various Lion Turtles, and then Raava brought that power with her from him to each successive avatar...is it really just Raava herself? I didn't think spirits could bend. But they weren't very clear about it. Korra definitely can't go into the avatar state anymore, though. Avatar Roku clearly told Aang that the Avatar state was the combined power of all of the past avatars, and they're gone now.
Ok...so not everyone can turn into a blue giant until the next harmonic convergence. That's reassuring.
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The entire elements deal was explained in "Beginnings".Β Humans are, in and of themselves, incapable of wielding more than one elemental power.Β Raava's presence was required to "carry" those extra powers.
Avatar Wan was able to go Avatar State, and he was the first of his era.Β Roku was probably teaching Aang what he himself had been taught.Β It stands to reason that not even he was truly aware of the Avatar's origin.Β Korra will still be able to use the Avatar State, but it probably won't be quite as powerful as Kyoshi shaping the Island or Aang bringing in the ocean.Β Well, not until she re-establishes the connection.
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You're awesome as always; but I do have some explanations for some of her decisions that I can't type out right now. It's REALLY late here
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Thanks!! 
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I understand it, but it takes some time to explain. I will explain as soon as I get the time 
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This will seriously bite her in the ass someday...
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I kind of feel there's almost no way it couldn't...but I guess we'll see in the next season. It'll probably deal with all the changes to the world, and Korra trying to deal with them, and then she'll figure it out eventually. Even if it's with a crazy improbable way like turning into a blue giant and flying around. XD
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And at least we got to see Aang talking to Tenzin during that crazy finale. X3 I cried.
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does this take place after Avatar the last airbender?
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Yes, it's about 70 years after, in the Legend of Korra series.
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First of all, the Avatars' reactions are hilarious! Love this!
AND YOUR IDEAS OMG, Aang visiting his grandkids and Iroh waltzing back into the human world would be so bizarre! I never even thought about that.....
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I know, it's just so weird...I can't wait to see what they do with this in the next season. I'd love to see Iroh and Zuko together again!!
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