
Made this after this weekend’s episode of The Legend of Korra! Truly a doozy! Poor Naga, waiting like Fry’s dog for Korra to come back…
(Also, referenced the lettering for the graffiti from this neat blog!)
I think the visions Aang is giving Korra will play an essential role to her being capable of airbending.
Okay, okay; I know. Of course they are. She’s probably going to become more spiritual so she can learn what they mean and become capable of airbending, then connect with Aang/go to the spirit world, the visions will be explained in full detail, and eventually she’ll get spiritual enough to airbend.
But what I mean is this:
Airbending focuses on imagination, spiritually, and intuition.
We saw this with Aang all the time, he almost always relied on some creative way to fix his problems, and relied on his gut feelings and interpreted the meaning behind certain messages (such as in The Avatar and the Firelord, when he says “No, that’s wrong. I don’t think that was the point of what Roku showed me at all… Roku was just as much Fire Nation as Sozin was, right? If anything, their story proves anyone’s capable of great good and great evil. Everyone, even the Fire Lord, and the Fire Nation have to be treated like they’re worth giving a chance. And I also think it was about friendships.”)
He was intuitive, like when he pieced right away that Jet was going to blow up the dam.
That’s the reason why it’s so hard for Korra to understand airbending. She doesn’t stop to think if maybe there’s another way to do things, she doesn’t trust her gut feelings, and she doesn’t see the meaning behind certain things people say or do.
This is where I think the visions will help.
Aang was trying to tell Korra something with the visions he gave her, and it seems to me that he was trying to warn her Tarrlok is a bloodbender.
He didn’t outright tell her this, and I don’t even think Korra has yet realized this is what he was trying to tell her.
But as she keeps getting more and more of these visions, she’s going to have to interpret what he’s trying to communicate. She’s going to have to ask herself “What is Aang trying to tell me?” and analyze them for herself and she won’t be able to double check with Aang if she’s right or not since she can’t connect with the spirit world; she’s going to have to trust her intuitive understanding of the visions.
And that’s how I think the visions he’s giving her are going to help develop her intuition, and ultimately her airbending.
Korra pchat doodles shaded in Sai… Korra with a more “republic city” look was kinda fun to do.







