I Fucking Hate Him Loll

One of my favourite ship specific dynamics is when Mai is broken up with/aloof or mean towards Zuko and he's just there teasing her/being vaguely flirty

I've been reading novels lately and have just started to get to know this couple, and I was thinking about one thing: why are they so attractive ！！！！！

I'm technically immature so I'm stuck with this one for now, hope you don't mind

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.

We LOVE a mad 🔥 queen

When Unalaq referred to himself as a “Dark Avatar” this is all I could think of.

Mai really said "I stand with my cancelled husband"

Talking about LoK: I liked the show overall but it had some pretty intense low points. It really shows how hard the studio tried to sabotage it, but I think it still turned out pretty well regardless

Talking about LoK when I hear a man complain about it: The Legend of Korra is actually one of the greatest, if not THE greatest show ever produced, and is superior to ATLA in every way actually. I can't think of a single episode that didn't have me on the edge of my seat. Korra has literally never done anything wrong in her life. Sorry you don't have taste.

[ Surrounded by Ozai Loyalists. ] Sokka: We need to do something to scare them off. Zuko: Good idea! Azula! Go down there and ask them on a date!

like zuko was in the southern water tribe in s1e1/2 in his regular armor and didn’t need extra layers. and in e2 when aang airbent snow to cover the fire nation soldiers and zuko was covered in snow it started evaporating 😭

hypothermia scared of bro

Everyone loves Azula/Zuko freezing in the water tribe because they've never seen snow before and wear 8 layers of thick clothing, but I think what's equal funny is the idea of them sunbathing in swimwear in the snow because they're able to heat their bodies up so much that the snow doesn't bother them.