Bryke – Kate's FanCave

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The whole ordeal over Korra not being able to Airbend until much later gives me a lot more emotions than I thought it would.

Airbending basically demands freedom. The ability to no longer feel constrained, and move without limitations.

Tenzin says in Book 1 that the Avatar’s most difficult element to learn is the one opposite to their personality. For Aang it was Earthbending, and for Korra it was Airbending.

I think this is mainly because Korra was immediately trained to be the Avatar, whereas Aang was at least given a chance to be normal. He even earned his tattoos before he was informed of this huge responsibility. He was allowed to be free, which is why Earthbending was such a struggle for him: he had to be grounded (lol) for once.

For better or worse (perhaps more the latter), Korra was told the “good” news when she was only a baby.

There was a post I saw on Tumblr a while ago, which said that A:TLA is about a human learning to be the Avatar. And TLOK is about the Avatar learning to be human. This is definitely the case. While I won’t compare the two Avatars, Korra went through so much shit when she was a teenager, up until she was in her twenties, and I do think this stems from the fact she was brought up as this weapon, not really as a normal person.

Not to mention the only real friend she had was Naga, until she followed Tenzin to Republic City. I mean, this kid has lived her life under protection, with barely anybody to socialise with, and has had it rammed into her head that she is the Avatar from a frighteningly early age. She has been disciplined harshly, been trained thoroughly, and has had many limitations set on her. It’s no surprise Airbending (the ability to be free) is so foreign to her.

To say Korra is the worst Avatar makes no sense to me. I think it’s pretty fucking remarkable she survived, mentally especially, after everything that has been thrusted at her. It gives the ending of Book 3 a much sweeter note. Korra walks into another world, another life, holding onto a girl who has never once shown her limits. Who literally makes her free.

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The fact that the ATLA writers were originally making the Southern Raiders episode “too shippy” for Bryke and Bryke had to constantly tell them to make it more and more toxic to prevent any sort of shipping moments makes me almost as happy as the fact that Bryke’s attempts still backfired

Wow. Is this true?

Yep. Look up the Ehasz couple. Everyone thinks Bryke wrote ATLA but these people literally came up with all of the great ideas (i.e.: Feminist Katara moments, Zuko’s redemption, etc) in spite of Bryke and wrote more Episodes than Bryke. They and other writers who wrote Zuko and Katara scenes were told by Bryke “make it look really bad and make our ship look better” a lot

Oh wow. That’s…

And all the kataangers thought us crazy.

I always knew there was no romance on Katara’s end.

Nope. Ehasz originally planned for four seasons but the rights were given away by the third season to do a movie because ~money~

Check out these blogs, these people worked on the show and / or are in contact with people like Gene Yang (who doesn’t know what the hell Bryke are doing or why they’re making him write the way they are, saying they’re making him write OOC and bad plots).

@zephyrita @kataraandzuko

You can track “avatar info” for zephyrita’s blog too:

http://zephyrita.tumblr.com/tagged/avatar-info

http://zephyrita.tumblr.com/post/140790775333/kataraandzuko-zuzusexytiems-kataraandzuko

http://zephyrita.tumblr.com/post/141187440283/honxrable-whyd-gene-yang-say-wed-find-out

http://zephyrita.tumblr.com/post/141008302193/deathatintervals-zephyrita-kaf-kaf-kaf-i-dont

http://zephyrita.tumblr.com/post/141074982223/aaron-ehasz-katara-might-have-used-bloodbending

These are just a few links, there are many more. Basically you will find out that the fandom is greatly mistaken for believing that Bryke are the reason for ATLA’s quality, that they’re feminists, that they even came up with the iconic ideas, etc., and see how much of it others were really responsible for and what direction things originally would have gone

It’s been 100 years and I will always rise from the fire like a phoenix for a good Bryke Receipt Drag

remember when @jhenne-bean and we got the “there was supposed to be a season four where zuko and katara’s friendship would be explored” and he gave that WHOLE TALK TO YOU and also how they were told they had to “think of the six year olds” and also everything planned for s4 was AMAZING???

remember when the animation team gave us a zuko and katara epic HAIR BLOWING IN THE WIND STYLE POSTER

remember how bryke’s sense of “humor” about this whole thing was to tell young girls they were emotionally damaged for liking this ship and then to take people’s fanworks and mock them ruthlessly?

i hate feeling like a bitter tinhat conspiracy nut but given that i KNOW ehasz has said stuff about bryke DISCOURAGING zuko/katara and i know that he wanted to continue writing their friendship and develop that and see where it could go – i’m glad i at least have that awareness that bryke is garbage forever in my heart. :,) truly the most bitter of sweet victories

Aaron also was the one who guided Iroh’s character away from Zuko’s rigid trainer who turned out to be EVIL and in cahoots with Ozai all along ™ that Bryke had originally intended, because he thought it would be “too black and white” in terms of characterization and villainy. Thank goodness for that.

He also told us that execs ruined/stifled the merch, and that there was an Appa plush planned from the beginning, but it was shot down because “only girls would have wanted it.”

But yeah, cosigning all those Bryke receipts.

He also made Katara the feminist character she was.

Katara’s fight against Northern Water Tribe patriarchy? Originally Bryke wanted it to be for Aang, Aaron wanted it to be Katara fighting for herself as opposed to her entire existence constantly revolving around Aang.

He’s also the one that said to make Toph a revolutionary female character as opposed to the jock Bryke had originally in mind in competition for Katara to reinforce the Nice Guy™ trope, the one who made Azul into Azula, and with that the making of Mai and Ty Lee. The list goes on, but of course Bryke gets the credit for these feminist ideas even though they were completely opposite to what they originally had in mind

That’s why things like Katara’s treatment in the comics goes back to the one dimensional trophy in the comics. Originally she was the only girl, put in fulfill the Nice Guy Gets the Girl trope (originally many of her actions didn’t exist or revolved only around Aang, and originally Aang’s reason to save the world wasn’t because it was right, but to win Katara over), and it’s clear in her portrayal in the comics and LOK when it’s just Bryke in charge of the writing (even Gene Yang, who is forced to write what Bryke wants, expressed a dislike in the direction they’re telling him to take the comics for reasons like this). Same goes for Toph, another character Aaron Ehasz was responsible for and another whose end portrayal he isn’t happy with

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Ok but is no one considering that maybe one of the reasons they didn’t wanna make Zutara canon was because it’d be giving Katara a relationship with someone who’s benefited from the genocide of her people? No, Zuko wasn’t directly responsible, but he still benefited

Except

1) That’s not even close to the reason why it didn’t happen

2) Even if it were, which it’s not, Mai literally got mad at Zuko for turning against the Fire Nation and its attempt at oppressing and demolishing the Earth Kingdom and Bryke did a last second Maiko – but a redeemed Zuko who sees that and all of the other things the Fire Nation did as bad isn’t a choice for Katara just because. With this logic, don’t ship Zuko with Aang, Sokka, Suki, Jin, or anyone else because of what his nation did, even after he learns his country was wrong and actively works against it to help the world.

3) The point of this entire post is now Bryke < Ehasz couple if you wanna stay relevant to the convo how about talking about how no one is considering that Bryke didn’t write anything worth while or the Ehasz couple need recognition for actually writing the show or something similar

Holy crap, this actually makes heaps of sense now. I was wondering why katara’s portrayal was so weak in LOK, I was so mad because I really liked how she grew in ATLA… and for suddenly her to be like fodder … Omg he wanted a season 4!!! We could’ve had it alllllllll