#Baatar Jr

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

This is who comes to mind for me:

XD

Does Dr. Hemlock remind anyone else of another character? He does me. Not a specific character, but there's something at the tip of my brain that makes him seem really familiar and I can't place what it might be.

Honestly it might not even be a Star Wars character.

[kuvira-protege]

BAAVIRA WEEK 2023

Day 2: Moving in

[beifong-brainrot]

*throws this at you and runs away*

[wishingforatypewriter]

October 11: Giant + Seeing Double

This was written (late again) for Day 11 of Whumptloktober. This one is just a short Baavira snippet.

The sound of an explosion from the other side of the workshop startled Baatar out of the nap he hadn't realized he’d been taking. He glowered at Varrick, who was fanning smoke away from the remains of his mech cannon prototype, and tried to massage away the headache that had been inching its way towards unbearable all day. 

“What?” the other inventor asked, sensing his ire. 

“Would it kill you to fail more quietly, or in a different location?” 

“Well, excuse me for interrupting your beauty sleep,” Varrick replied. “Some of us have real work to do around here.”

“You call blowing up our resources with your half-baked gadgets working?” 

“What? You think you can do better?” Varrick scoffed. 

“Undoubtedly.”

“Then by all means, build your girlfriend's giant mechs yourself. Spirits know I don't get paid enough to.” Varrick turned to his assistant, who had been sweeping up the remains of the ill-fated cannon. “Zhu Li, get our coats. We're calling it a day. Boy genius here is gonna build the mechs.” 

Baatar was more than pleased to see them go, even if it meant he had double the work to deal with. But the longer he spent bent over his designs, the sharper his headache became and the more violent the chills running through him, despite his redesign of the palace heating system weeks ago.

By the time he uncovered the flaw in Varrick’s original blueprint, his vision was starting to blur the way it did when he had to go without his glasses. And when the door to the east wing workshop finally opened again, he was practically seeing double. 

“Go away, Varrick,” he said, his voice hoarse with disuse. “I've already fixed the design, no thanks to you.”

“It's not Varrick,” Kuvira said from the doorway. “And you sound awful.”

Baatar immediately looked up from his sketches. “When did you get back from the northern front?”  

“Just now.” Kuvira walked over to his desk in a few purposeful strides. “You weren't at the apartment, so I figured you’d still be here.”

“I should have been there to meet your airship.” He sighed, then had to turn away from her to cough. “Forgive me, love. I'm almost done here.”

Kuvira said nothing in response, but pulled off one of her gloves and then rested a hand against his cheek. “I think you're more than done,” she said quietly. “Baatar, you're burning.”

He leaned into the cool sensation of her fingertips, his eyes drawing closed. 

“How long have you been like this?” she asked, moving her hand up to his forehead and then sighing. 

Baatar shrugged, wincing as the movement irritated his sore muscles. “I woke up with a headache. Thought it was nothing.”

“A clear miscalculation on your part,” Kuvira replied, bending a paperclip to bind the blueprints on his desk. 

“Wait, I'm still working on those designs.”

“They'll be here after you've recovered from whatever this is.” Kuvira rubbed a soothing hand up and down his back. “Now, come on. Let's get you home.”

[beifongboars]

Thanks for tagging me, @beifong-brainrot!

This is me and my unfortunate blorbo, Baatar Junior. I debated making Kuvira instead, but my boy needs more love. Also, I HC that he was left with scars on his cheek when the warehouse exploded, and these are the closest ones I found.

As this is a new blog, I have no one to tag lol

But if you come across this and wanna do it: Create yourself and your current blorbo in this picrew.

[blackflash9]

People always say they want complex characters. They ask for nuance, for gray areas, for emotional depth and realistic growth. But when a character starts feeling too real, so much so that they stop acting like someone in a story and start feeling like someone you could actually meet – that's when the discomfort kicks in. That's when admiration often turns into criticism. And very few in The Legend of Korra walks that tightrope quite like Suyin Beifong.

Su doesn’t follow the typical “lesson of the week” formula. She doesn’t get handed a tidy moment of reckoning, followed by an instant transformation. Her arc isn’t flashy or obvious. It’s slow, subtle, and sometimes contradictory. Just like real people. Because the truth is, most of us don’t change overnight. We grow a little here, slip back there. We learn something, but that doesn’t mean we always apply it in every situation. That’s Suyin in a nutshell.

Look at how she changes as a mother. At first, she tries to micromanage Opal’s choices out of fear, mostly, and a need to protect her. But eventually, she lets Opal go and lets her live her life without trying to control her path. That’s a win. That’s real growth. But then Baatar Jr. betrays the family, and Su reacts by putting him under house arrest. It’s easy to point at that and call it hypocrisy, but that misses the bigger picture. Her deepest fears for her kids came true with Baatar, and so, of course, she tries to regain some kind of control in the aftermath. And yet, she doesn’t try to rope Opal back in. She lets her stay free. That shows her earlier growth wasn’t erased, just complicated by pain.

This is the part people tend to ignore. They rush to call her a hypocrite without stopping to think about what hypocrisy really is. People are full of contradictions. We want conflicting things. We act on emotion. We stumble. We grow unevenly. No one is morally consistent all the time. Su isn’t some moral failure she’s just human. And that’s what unsettles people. They want characters who get what’s coming to them or learn the “right” lesson. But Su doesn’t fit into that framework. She just keeps going, flaws and all.

That’s also what makes her so compelling. She’s not a straightforward hero or a satisfying villain. She’s a complicated woman trying to balance power, family, control, and identity in ways that are messy and real. When people critique her, it’s often not because she doesn’t make sense, but because she makes too much sense.

She’s too familiar. Too human.

Everyone says they want nuanced characters... until they’re faced with someone like Suyin. Someone who holds up a mirror. And when that reflection hits a little too close to home, people tend to look away. But it’s in that raw honesty where her character really shines.

[ao3statistics]

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[thena0315]

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LoK + tumblr posts

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[xdiana97x]

Well it's more my head canon but...

Tell me what you want but I still think that Suyin took Kuvira first in, in her family because she couldn't deal with the fact that her own daughter was (before S3) an Non-bender. I guess that Suyin already had a plan that she wanted a female leader for Zaofu who will lead it one day when she is to old. I also think that Su planned in the first that Kuvira should marry her oldest Baatar Junior to give her a better spotlight in the society. But Kuvira didn't wanted it, she wanted Suyin. Suyin who was still obsessed with her own plan's, toyed first arround with Kuvira in the first but fell also in love with her , gave her then the love she wanted but with a deal. The deal that Kuvira have to marry Junior. In the same time the Earth Kingdom felt more and more apart because of Korra's missing and Kuvira could not unseen it, she wanted to help because of her childhood trauma. She hoped for help from Su but she didn't. So Kuvira got mad and decided to piss of Suyin with took her away her oldest. Then the S4 event happened. After this Kuvira was in jail. But she wasn't the only who sufferd. Suyin still loves Kuvira and sufferd extremely with the fact that Kuvira not around her anymore. I believe that Suyin already have depressions since Kuvira left for Ba Sing Se. That's the reason why Su allowes in RotE to bring back Kuvira to Zaofu. She ignores Baatar Juniors words and the whole time Su is for me sad, tired of everything, just wanting Kuvira finally at home. She don't even answerd Opal's question why she still have a soft spot for Kuvira.

[beifong-brainrot]

Been a while. My life fell apart now

[wishingforatypewriter]

I know I've said this before, but I cannot get over the way we were robbed of a deeper exploration of the complex dynamics within the Metal Clan. Like give me Baatar Jr. with some slow simmering resentment for the twins for being the metalbending golden boys Suyin always wanted. Give me Opal jealous that Kuvira was regarded as formidable—a successor, a protege—and Kuvira jealous that Opal was regarded as precious—a loved one, a daughter. Give me Huan retreating into his art as a means of escaping the family legacy of excellence in combat. Give me the ever changing alliances between the siblings (plus Kuvira), and the profound love they all hold for one another despite all the messiness between them.

[beifongboars]

text posts, baavira edition

[blackflash9]

The Autonomous Flying Boars: Toph, Opal, and the Meaning of Freedom

I think there’s a more profound point as to why Toph likes Opal a bit more than her other grandchildren—Opal, in particular, is the most liberated from the Beifong legacy, both figuratively and literally.

Baatar Jr. was always weighed down by the expectations of his parents, Suyin and Baatar Sr., and that eventually pushed him into Kuvira’s arms as he sought purpose outside their influence. Huan, while eccentric, seems content to remain within Zaofu, and Wing and Wei, despite their mischievous streak, are still deeply tied to their mother, almost functioning as extensions of Su rather than striking out entirely on their own.

Opal, though, is different. Like Toph once was, Opal yearns for freedom—she loves her family but also wants to leave Zaofu and forge her own path. She didn’t stay behind in her mother’s city or bend to its structure; instead, she joined the Air Nation, embracing a life of travel and purpose beyond her Beifong name. And it’s important to remember that Toph sees everything through the spirit vines—she knows, even from a distance, that Opal longed to be "away." Even if they hadn’t seen each other since Opal was a little girl, Toph would have been aware of her struggles, frustrations, and desire to break free.

Bolin: "You know what? Maybe I am scared. But what about you? I know that you want to go to the Northern Air Temple to train with Tenzin, but you haven't done it, because you're afraid too!" Opal: "You know what? You're right. I don't want to leave my family and disappoint my mom."

This idea of independence is also why I think Toph identified with and got along better with Suyin than with Lin, despite Su arguably being more of a “problem child” in her youth. Toph has always valued freedom above all else—she ran away from her overbearing parents, rejected traditional roles, and carved out her own life on her own terms. Suyin, in her own way, did the same thing. She made mistakes but ultimately escaped Toph’s shadow and built a life for herself. Toph understands and respects that kind of independence, which is likely why she forgave and reconnected with Suyin much more quickly than she ever did with Lin.

It probably doesn’t hurt that the two Beifongs Toph gets along with most—Suyin and Opal—are the ones who finally broke the family’s cycle. Toph rejected her parents’ control but ended up raising her own kids with a whole new set of issues. Lin became the dutiful, law-abiding daughter, much like her grandparents, while Su rebelled just like Toph. Then there’s Opal—a Beifong who found balance. She didn’t have to fight against her family or live up to its legacy; she chose her path because it was what she wanted.

[xenaisnumber1]

People complained that LoK made the original gang bad parents that wasn't within their characters... I loved that they showed that they weren't perfect parents. Because no parent is perfect. It makes the characters more human.

Aang showed favoritism to Tenzin because he was the only airbender in the family. And he unknowingly excludes the two oldest. He might have been willing to include them in airbending activities with him and Tenzin but just based on the way Kya and Bumi talk, I'm assuming he showed no interests in their interests which caused resentment. I'm sure they know logically as adults that Aang loved them, but as children, you make the wrong assumptions that you carry with you into adulthood that ultimately impact the rest of your life. IE Bumi probably joined the United Forces to try to please his father. And it's wouldn't be surprising that Aang didn't realize this. He had no parents and no siblings, so he wouldn't have experienced favoritism.

And Toph. Well, her parents were controlling and emotionally closed off. So I'm not surprised she wasn't the best parent. She seemed to have been a very tough teacher, which probably led to her daughters not believing their mother was proud of them. Su comments that her mom wasn't proud of how either of her daughters turned out. And based on the comment Toph made about Su not being very good at metalbending and Lin's disdain when saying Toph was a sensitive instructor, I'm assuming she was overly critical of everything her daughters did which i can tell you, as a child, can be devastating.

And of course, Lin not knowing anything about her father... not surprising since Toph is emotionally closed off and doesn't seem to know how to communicate healthily with her children.

And even the original gang's children weren't perfect parents. Tenzin overlooked Jinora's abilities and was shocked when he learned she was communicating with spirits when he couldn't. And he was dismissive of Jinora when teaching the other airbenders.

And Su, who dispute trying to be the perfect parent, learned that she wasn't. She acknowledges that she didn't give Opal enough freedom growing up. And I'm sure Baatar Jr. felt resentment for not being a bender and felt overshadowed by his father.

So yeah, I love that we get to see all the characters have these very real, flawed relationships because it's more relatable to the viewers' own lives.

[thefollow-spot]

So I’m obsessed with Kuvira now. Imagine you’re cast off but taken in by a woman who gives you everything as long as all you are becomes hers. Your talents, your achievements, your friends, your life. You’re a prodigy but without her you would be nothing. So you have everything but only as long as you’re grateful. Always grateful. So fucking grateful for everything you are. But people are hurting, people like you, orphans who never even got the chance to be grateful, and it makes you sick to know you’re all of this (brilliant, and strong, and privileged) but you can’t share it because none of it is yours—none of you is yours—to begin with. And you meet this beautiful boy who you’ve known since you were a child and he gets you—like more than anyone ever has he sees you, he makes you laugh. And he looks at you and understands what it’s like to always be grateful, which really means always be in debt. And you know you’ve never belonged anywhere, but you belong with him. And he wants to help people, too. So you run away together, to help people. It’s helping people at first—it’s not dictatorship. It’s not. And at first it’s just helping people—making things better—but to do that you need respect, you need an army, you need people who will back you and build for you and lend to you on nothing but your promises and charisma. And the crazy thing is: you do it. You get people to lend to you and build for you and fight for you. And one day you look around, standing side by side with this beautiful boy—this genius boy who has become a brilliant man, who you made a man, and you realize that everything you’re surrounded with is something you earned, you built, you made, you fought for, you took. And you realize you never ever have to be fucking grateful, never have to feel indebted, to Suyin Beifong ever again.