Avatar:TLA Miscellaneous Ideas Thread

[S J C]

Couple of idea's I've had for a while but never really bothered with untill I saw this and figured. What the hell.

Aang froze himself in the ice crystal, Thus cutting off the Avatar from the world. With the bridge between Spirits and Humans cut off the Spirits began to remove themselves from the mortal world. Thus causing bending to weaken and become less and less powerful over the occurring. Which in turn forces all the nations to develop more technology to replace the tasks that were previously done via bending.

Then when Aang is realised from the Ice the massive blast of light he released acted as a boast to begin restoring the bending powers to the people.

What kind of tech they developed would be up to the author Steampunk?, Real? etc. How would people feel about bending suddenly becoming more powerful again. What would happen to Zuko with fire bending being so weak?

 

[S J C]

Second idea is similar to the first however instead of retreating the spirits began coming out in more force in part to find out why the Avatar disappeared and in part to have some fun. And as is like to happen They start fighting, at first it's small and minor things but it builds up until all four nations are forced to accept that they need to work together to fight off the spirits. Thus when Aang awakens he finds himself not in a war with the Fire Nation but in the middle of the 80 year war against the spirits.

Some questions, What kind of defences have the people come up with against the spirits? How is bending seen as in is born from the spirits? What happened to Tui and La? And how will the Avatar a spirit born forth in a human body be seen? Will Aang be able to bring about peace? or will he be forced to chose a side in the war? And if so then Whose?

 

[drakensis]

Another idea:

After more than two years of searching for the Avatar, a despondent Zuko manages to get himself marooned on the southern ice cap. Fortunately he is rescued by Sokka and the two boys, stuck in a tent during a blizzard, reluctantly bond, exchanging life stories. The idea of being a prince, wandering the world on a neverending quest appeals to Sokka, while Zuko thinks that settling down as part of a family sounds far too tempting. They make a deal to switch places for a year.

Zuko's crew find their 'new prince' much easier to work for than the actual Zuko and Sokka's having a whale of a time. Meanwhile, Zuko finds that the simple struggle for survival of day to day life distracts him very well from brooding over his honor and Katara is a much nicer sister than Azula: she hasn't tried to kill him even once!

So the 'Irresponsible Prince' Sokka is wandering around the world with his trusty crew, all of whom think that this is a great improvement, 'searching for the Avatar' while incidentally wreaking havoc on Zhao's own plans and hiding his identity with the help of an increasingly nervous Iroh - particularly when Azula turns up and is completely fooled by Sokka's thin disguise. After all, she knows her idiot brother has been under Iroh's influence for years, so his changed personality isn't that surprising.

Meanwhile, Katara and her 'brother' Zuko are helping Aang (who is completely oblivious to Zuko's actual identity) on his way towards the North Pole, avoiding that angry Fire Nation commander and the somewhat dippy exiled Fire Nation Prince who are trying to catch them. And while Zuko knows that technically it's his duty to capture Aang, he's increasingly thinking that even being on the run perpetually is a lot more fun than he remembers his childhood being.

 

[zeebee1]

That has all the qualities of high quality crack.

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

Idea: The avatar isn't the only one who could bend more than one element, just the one that could bend them all. While most can only bend one element a speicial few, maybe about 10 or so percent, are atuned to more than one element. sure one would be stronger and the would have the same power or control of someone with only one element, but the could weild two simaltaniously or even a third if they could combine some elements. For combos I'd say Fire+Air=Lightning, Air+Water=Ice, Water+Earth=Trees, Earth+Fire=Metal. Plus a bunch of other random elements. Though it should be imposible for anyone but the Avatar to bend oposite elements at the same time.

 

[Hawk]

Idea: The avatar isn't the only one who could bend more than one element, just the one that could bend them all. While most can only bend one element a speicial few, maybe about 10 or so percent, are atuned to more than one element. sure one would be stronger and the would have the same power or control of someone with only one element, but the could weild two simaltaniously or even a third if they could combine some elements. For combos I'd say Fire+Air=Lightning, Air+Water=Ice, Water+Earth=Trees, Earth+Fire=Metal. Plus a bunch of other random elements. Though it should be imposible for anyone but the Avatar to bend oposite elements at the same time.

Stop applying Naruto terms to everything.

High-level firebenders can bend lightning, though it can be difficult for them, as firebending is all about passion, but lightning must be used without emotion. However lightning is considered the essence of fire, not some combination element. Iroh and Azula were both capable of bending lightning.

Many waterbenders can control ice. Most water benders shown in the series could use Ice.

Some waterbenders learned to control plants by manipulating the water within the plants. A tribe of waterbenders that lived in a swamp had learned to do this.

Toph learned to bend metal in the series. Of course immediately after doing so she went on about how she was the greatest earthbender... ever.

Did you even watch the series before coming up with an idea? The metal bending by Toph came about pretty late series, and lightning bending also was shown fairly late. However waterbenders using ice was shown a lot even in the first season, and I believe using water bending to control plants was shown in the second season.

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

Idea: The avatar isn't the only one who could bend more than one element, just the one that could bend them all. While most can only bend one element a speicial few, maybe about 10 or so percent, are atuned to more than one element. sure one would be stronger and the would have the same power or control of someone with only one element, but the could weild two simaltaniously or even a third if they could combine some elements. For combos I'd say Fire+Air=Lightning, Air+Water=Ice, Water+Earth=Trees, Earth+Fire=Metal. Plus a bunch of other random elements. Though it should be imposible for anyone but the Avatar to bend oposite elements at the same time.

Stop applying Naruto terms to everything.

High-level firebenders can bend lightning, though it can be difficult for them, as firebending is all about passion, but lightning must be used without emotion. However lightning is considered the essence of fire, not some combination element. Iroh and Azula were both capable of bending lightning.

Many waterbenders can control ice. Most water benders shown in the series could use Ice.

Some waterbenders learned to control plants by manipulating the water within the plants. A tribe of waterbenders that lived in a swamp had learned to do this.

Toph learned to bend metal in the series. Of course immediately after doing so she went on about how she was the greatest earthbender... ever.

Did you even watch the series before coming up with an idea? The metal bending by Toph came about pretty late series, and lightning bending also was shown fairly late. However waterbenders using ice was shown a lot even in the first season, and I believe using water bending to control plants was shown in the second season.

My knowledge ofAvatar is mostly second hand and I just wanted their to be more than 4 element and I wondered what desegnates a persons element and why only the avatar could bend all four. Mostly I was thinking that maybe some people might be able to bend more and thus that idea.

Actualy what You said on the lightning has me wondering on the higher orders of bending. Fire has lightning, Water has ice, trees and healing, Earth has metal and sand, what would Air have?

 

[biigoh]

My knowledge ofAvatar is mostly second hand and I just wanted their to be more than 4 element and I wondered what desegnates a persons element and why only the avatar could bend all four. Mostly I was thinking that maybe some people might be able to bend more and thus that idea.

Actualy what You said on the lightning has me wondering on the higher orders of bending. Fire has lightning, Water has ice, trees and healing, Earth has metal and sand, what would Air have?

In this case,I recommend watching the show as it's quite good. Air seems to only have 'air', down to freezing stuff with air.

Water bends water in plants, water in humans (blood bending is NASTY as hell and appears to be the high end), water in just about anything with water.

Earth bends earth, stone, and impurities in processed metal.

Fire bends fire, heat and lightning...

 

[zerohour]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that freezing is Waterbending. We see Katara freeze soem tanks towards the end of season one.

 

[Avider]

Vacuum powah?

Plasma? (Totally ripping off a certain manga here. [And that pun just totally lent itself] )

 

[Dementist]

Air seems to only have 'air'

They don't need anything else. They're bending freaking air. It's limitless, and it's the most versatile element in the Avatar!verse. Ya know all those crazy tricks Aang can pull with airbending? That's not just from being the Avatar. That just gives him baseline access to all four elements, not crazy god-like skill with them.

It's actually a good thing for the sake of the series that the Air Nomads were wiped out early on. If the Fire Nation had gone after, say...the Water Tribes instead, the Air Nomads probably would've militarized. And then once Aang thawed out sometime in the next century, ready to save the world from the war(with lot's of wacky hijinks along the way), there wouldn't be a Fire Nation left.

Imagine it. An army where every last mook can fly, run at wannabe-Flash speeds, leap an hundred feet in the air, and create a large variety of attacks and shields from scratch. This doesn't even include techniques that are actually deadly, such as blades of air and concussive bursts.

If the Air Nomads weren't pacifists, they would've been ruling Avatar world a loooooong time ago.

 

[zeebee1]

Firebending uses plasma. That's how they create lightning.

 

[biigoh]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that freezing is Waterbending. We see Katara freeze soem tanks towards the end of season one.

We've also seen Aang doing freezing in Omashu when he blew on chains to freeze them... ice forming from his breath and not oh say water... some overlap.

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that freezing is Waterbending.? We see Katara freeze soem tanks towards the end of season one.

We've also seen Aang doing freezing in Omashu when he blew on chains to freeze them... ice forming from his breath and not oh say water... some overlap.

I would think that some techniques would/could overlap to some extent.....

 

[zeebee1]

Things like ice or mud consist of a fusion of elements, but you don't need to be able to bend more than one element for it to work, you just have to apply the process a bit differently.

 

[drakensis]

The one overlap I'm sure of is mud, since Toph and Katara both handle it quite easily during their catfight in The Runaway. Thank you Book Fire for those skimpy fire nation outfits.

Ice I'm not so sure of: Aang certainly does it, but it's possible he was waterbending not airbending when he uses it.

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

The one overlap I'm sure of is mud, since Toph and Katara both handle it quite easily during their catfight in The Runaway. Thank you Book Fire for those skimpy fire nation outfits.

Ice I'm not so sure of: Aang certainly does it, but it's possible he was waterbending not airbending when he uses it.

I would think that Ice would work by lowering the temperature in the air....granted Air benders probably wouldn't have the same control as a water bender but a blast of sub zero air would stop a lot of people...

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

The one overlap I'm sure of is mud, since Toph and Katara both handle it quite easily during their catfight in The Runaway. Thank you Book Fire for those skimpy fire nation outfits.

Ice I'm not so sure of: Aang certainly does it, but it's possible he was waterbending not airbending when he uses it.

It could be he's chilling the air.

Anyway New Idea: what if we diversify the cultures in Avatar, and more spred out. Fire nation would be most europian nationalities, Earth kingdom would have some greek parts, some egyptian, and maybe some persian. Water tribes would be Inuit in the poles, Native american in some places, and aboriginese in others. Air nomads would be a combination of the asian cultures though mostly religious, or for the lolz they would be a nation of hippies.

 

[grant]

Idea: Aang slowly starts to meet other previous lives inside his head. Instead of granting him any helpful powers or information however, they basically make his life miserable. Example of constant arguing over girls (or guys depending), food, and the rules to pseudo-Asian games, all of which drives Aang far from happy kid to a very irate, trigger happy bender.

 

[nuclear death frog]

Idea: Aang slowly starts to meet other previous lives inside his head. Instead of granting him any helpful powers or information however, they basically make his life miserable. Example of constant arguing over girls (or guys depending), food, and the rules to pseudo-Asian games, all of which drives Aang far from happy kid to a very irate, trigger happy bender.

Aang can call the spirits of the past Avatars to him or send them away at will, so this wouldn't really work. It's only during the Avatar state that he'd be vulnerable to something like this, but he mastered that in the finale against Ozai. So this isn't really feasible once he's used to his powers at all.

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

Idea: Aang slowly starts to meet other previous lives inside his head. Instead of granting him any helpful powers or information however, they basically make his life miserable. Example of constant arguing over girls (or guys depending), food, and the rules to pseudo-Asian games, all of which drives Aang far from happy kid to a very irate, trigger happy bender.

Aang can call the spirits of the past Avatars to him or send them away at will, so this wouldn't really work. It's only during the Avatar state that he'd be vulnerable to something like this, but he mastered that in the finale against Ozai. So this isn't really feasible once he's used to his powers at all.

Accually I think Grant idea is about an AU. where the past lives are active from the begining even outside Avatar State no mater what. It woulod be even funnier if they could take over sometimes.

And New Idea: I was look for stuff on Avatar and I came across the Ember Island Players and a though struck me. What if Aang was a Trap! Weither reverse or normal it just that no one can tell if Aang is male or female.

Second Idea: What if the Air Benders were more militristic and over all bigger dicks than the Fire nation. Aang deserted after learning that they were going to go to war and froze himself like in cannon. The everyone else teamed up and put them all down and decided to never metion them again. while all the other nations were weak the fire nation decided that maybe the Ari heads were right and started the rule the world thing they did in cannon. later when Aang wakes up no one noes what an air bender is exept the oldest of the old and he has a WTF moment when he learns it's the fire nation fighting them

 

[zeebee1]

It wouldn't have been long enough for people to forget that air is an element.

 

[grant]

For the militant air one, I generally dislike alternate character interpretations like that because they're usually an excuse to go bashing, but this sounds interesting. You could use it to show why there are so many different levels of technology and government in Avatarverse. The Fire Nation united around a powerful leader and invested heavily in technology to reach the Air Nomads while the Earth Kingdom actually splintered and took different sides.

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

It wouldn't have been long enough for people to forget that air is an element.

It's been a hundred years and no one has spoken of it. so for all the children know, they either have no idea of it's existance, a legend, or an element that can't be bent.

 

[zeebee1]

If most people don't speak of something someone will. You need more than a century to erase something like air bending.