Aang recognized his favorite toys too.

<p>Don't take this the wrong way, but you have a tendency to way overthink things. Korra is Korra. Wan is Wan. Korra is the reincarnation of Wan. Korra is not Wan. Even in "IRL reincarnation," you are not generally believed to have the exact same memories & personality as your previous lives. </p>

<p>No one really implyed that. </p><p>A lot of the Avatars share similar traits, in that they start out not fully understanding what they are going up against, but in the end manage to resolve the situation decisively. </p><p>The memories can be accessed via the Avatar State or via meditation, I guess. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>Neo Bahamut wrote:
Korra is the reincarnation of Wan. Korra is not Wan.</i></div>
<p>dude. these statements are exact contradictions of each other.
</p><p>when you are reincarnated, you become a new person, buy you're still you. wan and korra have different personalities, yes, but they are the same soul. and while they can't consciously recall past lives, as seen with korra and the teacup, they can still remember some things sometimes, which is not something i'm saying happens irl. </p><p>"you have a tendency to way overthink things." </p><p>well duh. that's what we're here for. and going in depth about stuff is how stuff gets discovered or whatever. if people just thought on the surface about things, we'd still be in the stone age. (well...maybe not quite, but you get the idea.) </p>

<p>Overthinking is when you reject an answer because it's not complicated enough & end up making an explanation that's more awkward & less serviceable. The way we have the pages is fine, saying that we should change them to say that they're "the same person" just begs a question that's been debated for thousands of years with no clear answer. How can we say they're the same person if they don't have the same personality or memories? We can't. And we don't need to. We already know that the past lives are a thing that happens. </p>

<p>i wasn't saying we should merge all the individual avatar pages.......i was talking about the main "avatar" article  -_- </p>

<p>You are completely forgetting the existence of Raava in your explanation of how the Avatars all share the same soul. What all Avatar's share is a connection with Raava, which passes from one person to the next in the Avatar Cycle -as evidenced how she left Wan's body after he died. You also heard a baby crying after Raava passed on (or Roku for that matter), which implies that Raava passed on to a newborn. So unless we are going to go with the idea that there is a baby born without a soul until Raava comes to give it one, the Avatar has its own soul and the connection with Raava. </p><p>This theory is further supported when Korra was infected by the dark energy: it was solely attacking her Avatar Spirit, which the other Avatar acknowledged to be "them", thus saying that it is the Avatar Spirit, the connection with Raava, that makes an Avatar the Avatar, but it is not what makes the Avatar a human. So no change should be carried out to the main Avatar article as it is factually most correct when basing oneself on the facts given from the series and not from personal knowledge about Hindu reincarnation works. </p><p>As a "side note": this has really absolutely nothing to do with the main point of this thread. </p>

<p>Lady Lostris, I would compare the Dragon-Bird spirit to something like the Fenghuang, the Pheonix, Simurgh, or Ho-O. </p><p>Simurgh especially because in one legend, she helped Malik Muhammed travel to the Light World. </p><p>Also, there are 4 simurgh in the world at any given moment, and 4 dragon-bird spirits fused to become one. </p>

<p>@lostris </p><p>i'm not basing this off any personal hindu knowledge, as i have basically none, other than what little internet research i've done. i'm basing this solely off of facts that we've seen in the show. in fact, when i first got into it, i thought they were seperate, until i looked at the facts. as stated by iroh, raava and wan became one single soul, so i'm not forgetting her existence - that is the definition of avatar. korra recognized her teacup. roku said that he and aang are the same, and that he is a part of aang. raava said that she and wan would be together for all his lifetimes. (which means that raava didn't leave his body, but that their combined soul did). iroh said that korra was once avatar wan. (he <i>explicitly </i>stated this), and that she and raava became one being. there's loads of evidence to support this theory, and relatively little for yours, which does require much speculation. in the past (in the war room) we have chosen to ignore small evidence that doesn't make sense with the large majority of the rest of the evidence. and the "small evidence" can be explained by the "large evidence," so we really do know they are the same. </p><p>and as a small side note, yes, this would require that babies in avatar dont' have souls until they're born, or at least the avatar does not. however, this specifically is not brought up at all, so we dont' need to reflect this at all in the article. </p>

<p>The dragon-bird reminded me of Ho-Oh. </p>