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Ok. But does anyone have a picture of Mayor Ailani???

Wow it's the first time I've heard of her and more in the extended canon of the roleplaying game.

From what I see Bolin has a lot to do as an assistant and on the other hand the streets of republic city will be safe thanks to Mako. My baby saving the day.

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Just made myself so so sad thinking about Aang's marble trick because from a physics perspective, keeping dense spherical objects afloat on an airstream is not trivial, and he's doing it in a tiny little space without moving his hands. Bending is usually very gestural. So. Everyone in the era of the show is, at best, impressed THAT it is airbending. But Aang's an incredibly young master airbender. He wouldn't be acting like this was the bestest trick ever if it didn't take at least some skill; he's a goofy kid but he's also a prodigy. I bet other airbenders were absolutely blown away (pun fully intended) at the level of precision and force and minimalism of movement on display and now there's no one who understands at all why he expects accolades.

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Today is Bopal Day! Thank you @spiritypowers for this beautiful addition to the other fanfic! Girl, you are awesome! Give me more :D (Only if you want of course ♥)

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Saw this frame on a different reblog by @thatssroughbuddy but why does it look like Iroh is using his phone to take a photo of his nephew at a landmark

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its so cute seeing a lot of art of mako and katara interacting and sokka and bolin interacting but I need more of it the other way round

Because like if these two duos interacted Mako and Sokka would be happily making colour coded schedules and reading over one another's joke lists

While Katara and Bolin would dissapear for a week straight, return having caused some manner of revolution and also having had an extensive spa day and gotten matching mani pedis

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rewatching Avatar is so weird because Sokka is literally the only thing keeping them alive and fed. He constantly is like,

'guys we're out of supplies/ we need to stop/ we're attracting too much attention with the flying bison we should walk' etc.

Like in the ´The Storm' when they're completely out of money and supplies the one to get a job in hopes of making money (he never actually gets paid, the world hates him) is Sokka.

In 'The Waterbending Scroll,' it's Sokka who's concerned about their lack of supplies when Aang sends them in a wave down the river, and is making sure they're careful with their spendibg when in town shopping.

He's also seen to catch fish and gather nuts (I know more often than not he fails to catch things on screen but it's implied he's the one that does most of the hunting and gathering)

It's like- Aang totally would have starved to death or gotten completely off track with often they're completely out of food and money

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Still a shame that they didn't even talk with each other during season 4. They had such a cute friendship going on and evolving. No drama between them, just mutual respect and support.

lok book 2 makes a lotttt of stumbles in how it writes the krew (sans korra) but one thing it did give us that i love is the bosami friendship. they should've done way more of this instead of whatever they thought they were doing bringing masami back for pointless romantic drama

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Bromotions Week: Heirloom

Mako got the scarf from their dad while Bolin, in Mako's opinion, got a much better heirloom from their mom.

My late entry for Bromotions Week! I’m really being tardy these days. I’m thinking if I wanna do a lot of these weeks I can only contribute either one day or a few prompts merged into one like last time. That’s not cheating hdu. 

Past weeks done so far: Zutara

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They did really make Bolin ones of the more interesting characters in the whole franchise and barely acknowledges it.

I do think it has something that the LOK writers doesn't know how to write characters like Bolin. They know the angsty and broody characters, but they just don't know.

Interesting what you put in the tags, that they shy away from digging deeper because of how the fandom reacted to katara bringing up her mothers death. Maybe that could be the reason. They have used LOK to do things they didn't do it ATLA.

I did like the comic well enough. Of course, it had plot holes and it was what I expected them to do. I did hope that we could get some more brotherly bonding between Mako and Bolin and them talking about the situation they found themselves in. It was never expected though, so I'm not surprised that they just didn't dig deeper into the boys trauma and complicated feelings. I still don't like the whole canon of the parents death being tied to something like that.

Maybe we do get some Bolin-centric works in the future, but we can only hope.

Grandma Yin: I love both my long lost grandsons equally, Mako and... uh *reads smudged writing on her hand* ...Bacon!

Idk why but Bolin thirwheeling the hug will always make me laugh so hard can he plese be included

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Bolin: Our bond as siblings is so strong, there is absolutely nothing that can dent it. Mako: I ate the last Oreo. Bolin: You’re dead to me.

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Interesting. I think this is something to be discovered. Especially after the army. It would have been so nice to see Yin and Bolin talk about his position in the army and her standpoint that her family home and homeland is ruined. It could have opened for growth for them both and theri connection growing strongers. But we just don't get that.

I still think it was done so weird. Because Yin is clearly seen wanting to meet San again and cried when she is informed that she died ten years ago. And we barely see her acknowledge Bolin. I know this is partly because Mako has always been the creator pet and favourite...but they at least could have given Yin one line acknowledging the resemblance. UGH!

I can get it after the three years he was in the army...especially since Mako brought wu over when he needed protection. But it still just upset me that they barely dig deep into Bolin's feelings and emotions about his parents murder, his lack of extended family members and then being able to meet them.

I do think the feeling of this being rushed and barely touched on, is the creators making half-seasons and then just not being able to really dig deep in important stuff for each character like this turning point for both of the boys. But UGH!! It's frustrating with LOK, because it had so much potential and different character they could have really dug deep into- but them trying to pack so many things from ATLA, trying new stuff with LOK and then kind of sucking at writing characters dynamics and making the characters then interact with each other through these changes. it just makes that scenes like these just lack so much.

Grandma Yin: I love both my long lost grandsons equally, Mako and... uh *reads smudged writing on her hand* ...Bacon!

Idk why but Bolin thirwheeling the hug will always make me laugh so hard can he plese be included

[aangtheairbender]

Grandma Yin: I love both my long lost grandsons equally, Mako and... uh *reads smudged writing on her hand* ...Bacon!

Idk why but Bolin thirwheeling the hug will always make me laugh so hard can he plese be included

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speedoodle. Bolin’s jumping off Naga because he’s cool like that

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I think about Azula shooters often and their common refrain of "if Azula hadn't had a mental breakdown, she would've won" and I'm here to tell you that no, she wouldn't have.

There is no universe in which Azula was winning that fight with Zuko (or Katara, for that matter).

Azula spent so much of Book 2 being built up as this deadly terrifying force against whom the heroes are badly outmatched that it can be difficult to catch exactly how quickly Zuko is advancing.

Back up a bit to Book One. For the fearsome exiled crown prince of the Fire Nation, Zuko's not that impressive a firebender. He's not bad by any stretch, and he's able to lay the untrained Sokka and Katara flat pretty easily. Then he gets in the ring with Aang, who is an airbending master, and the difference between a regular bender and a master becomes apparent when Aang literally puts his ass to bed:

People have attributed this to the fact that no one's fought an airbender in 100 years, but I think it's also worth noting that Aang (a 12 year old from a pacifist nation) has probably never fought anyone before. Like, ever. And yet the second Aang thinks "okay, I'll attack back", the fight's over.

Zuko's got the same genetic predisposition for firebending talent that Azula does, yet it never seems to manifest because of his mental blocks. At the beginning of the series, he's already so beat down that all he really has is conviction, pride, and anger, so even with training from Iroh (the firebending master, thank you very much), he struggles. Yet throughout Book 2, when he has no time to train because he's on the run, he actually seems to advance faster. The fact that his bending is literally tied to his character arc (as his morals become tangled and he has to fight off aforementioned mental blocks) is pretty brilliant. Like, by the time of the Crossroads of Destiny, Zuko getting his ass handed to him by Aang is a pretty consistent feature of the show--he just can't match wits with him.

Hell, at the beginning of the series, he and Iroh (again: the actual firebending master) launch a combined power surface-to-air attack...which Aang casually swats away into a nearby ice wall. Come the Crossroads of Destiny, however, and Zuko by himself launches this bigass fireball that blows through Aang's defenses.

Zuko advances so quickly that it's scary. That prodigious talent is in him even if it doesn't come through as cleanly as with Azula. Who, by the way, was busy about to get flattened by Katara some few dozen feet away, until Zuko took over and then effectively stalemated her himself.

All of this in retrospect makes it abundantly clear why Zuko's firebending seemed to skyrocket so much when he learned true firebending from the Sun Warriors: it was really the only thing left. He's hard a hard road learning how to fight waterbenders, earthbenders, and airbenders, and even if unconsciously, he's applying the philosophy Iroh taught him about augmenting his bending style with aspects of other styles (see also, the waterbending-like fire whips he uses in the above gif). Once he actually understands fire and how it works, he's got it mastered. Hence why any gap between him and Azula effectively disappears as soon as their next fight--before her friends have betrayed her and her stability goes out the window. There's no real sense of urgency to their fight at the Boiling Rock prison. True, Sokka's presence with the sword helps, but Zuko doesn't look remotely worried and he counters Azula's every attack perfectly.

All her life, Azula only ever learned fire. She was taught by the best people the fire nation can employ, so she knows all the cool tricks, but she's still poisoned by the corrupted firebending practiced in the modern ATLA timeline. Unlike Zuko, who managed to get the basics if nothing else from Iroh (fire comes from the breath, and can be used to survive as much as to kill), Azula has always used fire as a weapon and a means to hurt others. She has no true knowledge of the craft, meaning she's got the same weaknesses as Zhao, she's just better disciplined to the point she can make up for it.

Zuko's victory was a given considering Azula's complete loss of control by the time of Sozin's comet, but even had she been in a perfect mental state, she'd have lost, because in many ways Zuko is simply the better firebender.

And that's the truth of it.

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Ah, it's okay. I just shared my two cents on a topic that often comes up in social media. Sorry for going off and it was not ment as an attack on you or your post.

I think the problem with the comic is that it's not well thought out. i feel like they had a good idea, but they just more or less wanted to get it done and publish it.

That is why the boys are still in their clothes from S1, why we dont even see Opal and just get a glimpse of Korra and Asami. I think that is also why they just dropped Pabu out of the story. They just didn't want to make him a part of the plot- even when they have done that in other comics. Bolin didn't lava bend for one second in that comic and he is like a master in it. And that, with the combination of the missing scar. They could have made it longer, just so they could make more plot points and made all of the characters more dynamic.

I mean, the story was made because the fandom have since the beginning, begged to know what really happened to their parents. So i just thought the creators didn't really care about how the brothers life had unfolded after S4 and the comics. They just did short cuts to get to the main plot. It kind of felt like they couldn't be assed to do it like they had done it with the other comics. But that is kind of how the creators have run the Lok franchise. Always a little too short and a little too surface level, so not that surprised. Just wished it was different.

I still think the comic was ok. Predictable, but ok. Nice to see Mako and Bolin work together and be on the same page (mostly) and actually interact like siblings. But i felt like the creators could put in a little more effort into it.

I still liked that they are living together though, but that just me being a sucker for brotherly moments😗

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to reach out after you read my tags. Even though I might seem like I pop off at something; I do get happy when I can discuss Lok with someone else and more often than not- I'm just talking to myself in the tags haha. Thanks again!

How are Mako and Bolin in their mid twenties and STILL living together. The codependent brothersssss