These look awesome

These look actually quite accurate ngl

Korra gets way too much hate from the fandom. Her journey to overcome her PTSD in season 4 was what motivated me to finally secure a PTSD diagnosis ten years ago and seek out treatment. For all her flaws, she's easily one of the most human characters in the entire franchise.

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Chocolatebear978, thank you. I've always believed that a healthy relationship with fiction is essential to mental health. Non-fiction is learning through information while fiction is learning through imagination. Can't really make good use of cold hard facts to solve complex problems without some creativity. And that's what Avatar has always been about: constantly growing and learning. And that true growth can only come from applying yourself honestly through very bitter work.

Oh wow! this is sick! ive always liked TLOK, i never understood the hate of it

ChrisSHS5170, people are often blinded by nostalgia and refuse to look at what they love through a critical lens. Being analytical and offering criticism doesn't make a person less of a fan of what they love, though many will make such accusations without putting any real thought into it. I enjoy video essays and lengthy deconstructive discussions about the things I love to better understand what draws me to specific subjects, practices, and people.

Korra is a distinct departure from Aang. She was kept sequestered from the world while Aang traveled practically unimpeded. Korra was brazen about who she was while Aang often had to use disguises. Korra was direct in embracing being the Avatar while Aang struggled to overcome his doubts and embrace his duty to the world. Yet, people assumed that they'd be getting the exact same kind of experience with Korra that they had with Aang.

And people forget: plenty of fans hated Aang. Many accused him of being too wishy-washy, too passive, and don't even get me started on how they still bellyache about how his using energybending was some kind of deus ex ass-pull to get out of growing up by taking Ozai's bending away instead of killing him. That would not have been character development, but character assassination.

Life is not about remaining static and stagnant, yet many people desire the comforts of familiarity even though what is now familiar was once new and different. A lack of honest introspection and deconstructive analysis is critical to the development of a hateful and ignorant personality. But if one remembers why they enjoyed something and then applies the broader scope of that experience to something new by looking for the familiar within the unfamiliar, they will find a world of new adventures and stories open up before them.

Korra's story was about her continuous growth against a multitude of different kinds of adversaries. And that led up to a confrontation with Kuvira, who was very much a dark mirror to Korra's personality, as Kuvira was who Korra would have likely become if she had not been humbled by life, by her enemies, and by her own journey of self-discovery. Korra's journey tested her sense of identity and ability to handle her own self-image, which I feel is a very human story to tell. She gets far too much hate from the fanbase due to not being enough like a character that they also criticized for years and years. And that's the beauty of the Avatar: every journey is unique. There's no getting the same story twice. In that way, it's a perfect formula for a franchise: a different story for the same chain of incarnations of the same spirit in every lifetime.

Sorry if that turned into a bit of a tangent.

@UnchainedDragon25 Absolutely. Her PTSD and her journey in overcoming it make her more relatable and human. I don't understand why people use that as an excuse or reason to undermine her. She's easily the most relatable character in TLoK, at least for me, and I can empathize with her a lot because my friends suffer from PTSD and Anxiety, so seeing her just reminds me how real these issues are. I absolutely adore her journey as an Avatar, and people who don't see her growth either refuse to or are blinded by nostalgia. I don't understand the hate towards her. Some people think liking Korra means hating Aang, which isn't true. I love both. Did people really think Korra was going to be a cut-and-paste of Aang?

^bruh korra is literally aangs polar opposite

Awaeluvr, their only point of reference was Aang despite all the evidence in the original series that each Avatar is their own person.