(no subject)

[meganbmoore]

Looking at tumblr and following conversations on twitter:  Never have I been so happy that, only watching Avatar: The Last Airbender once whole seasons were on DVD, most of my exposure to the shipwars was secondhand, because Legend of Korra shippers are exceptionally scary.  Then again, I understand the Korra shipwars started once character designs were out.  (I suspect the fact that Suki/Sokka and Mai/Zuko were the only pairings that ever interested me at all would have made paying attention to ATLA fandom exceptionally frustrating.)
 

(All I care about is whether or not we have to wait until the second season to get another girl Korra's age for more than one episode without her dying, and that if we do, these aren't the kind of writers who think girls have to be rivals.)

*wanders off to make icons of baby!Korra's itty potbelly*

ETA:  Comments will likely have spoilers for leaked episode 4 stuff.


 

Comments

[branewurms]

I strongly suspect that when Asami shows up, she and Korra won't get along at first, but then will become bff.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, I'm assuming that there will be a couple episodes of sniping and personalities clashing (particularly if we have Korra, only just exposed to people her own age on any regular basis getting the Real World culture shock potentially compounded by her first crush liking the first girl her age she spends much time with-she's bonding with Tenzen's daughters, but they're both much younger, if better versed in the world) and then an episode of them going off and Doing Stuff and bonding.

[the_sun_is_up]

Legend of Korra shippers are exceptionally scary

Haha that's because they're just the original Avatar: the Last Airbender shippers back for round 2. And yes, the shipwars started as soon as the character designs were leaked. *headdesk*

[meganbmoore]

You would have though more would have grown up...

[bigbrasskey]

Ship wars for Korra started (restarted?) the instant fans learned that Aang and Katara had actually had children.

[meganbmoore]

I remember the "babymaking machine" comments based on a whole 3 kids. Which is a fairly common number of kids today with umpteen forms of birth control and surgeries to see to it that one or both spouses can't have more kids. At best, Avatar's world has herbal remedies and sponges and possibly some waterbending techniques for birth control, and much more limited medical assistance when it comes to childbirth. Assuming there were few or no miscarriages and that Katara and Aang had a long and healthy sex life (probably starting 5-10 years post-series) 3 is actually fairly conservative.