I powered through the whole series this past weekend, watching it for the first time. During it, I wrote down some notes and disjointed ideas and stuff, and I thought a Miscellaneous Ideas thread for this series might be useful.
That pretty much counts as sort of notes, sort of an idea.
The next four are a group, pretty much.
Yeah, those four are linked.
Yeah, that idea is pretty blatantly sexist, I know. But... Aang + a sane Azula? Hmmm...
Anyway, go ahead and make use of this thread. That's what it's here for.
Avatar Cycle:
Air ? Water ? Earth ? Fire à (endless repeats)
Pre-series:
Avatar Yangchen (woman, Air) ? Avatar Kuruk (man, Water) ? Avatar Kyoshi (woman, Earth) ? Avatar Roku (man, Fire)
In-series:
Avatar Aang (man, Air)
Fact One: the Avatar to succeed Aang will be born into the Water Tribe
Fact Two: the Avatar does not switch genders every time a new one is born
Fact Three: of the two shown Avatars born to the Air Nomads, both genders were expressed
Fact Four: the Avatar is supposed to represent balance
Supposition: for balance to be achieved in the cycle of four, two should be men and two should be women
Supposition: balance is not achieved if the same elements are always filled by the same gender. It should flow back and forth.
Supposition from supposition: balance is achieved if the genders do always switch in every completed cycle. (endless) ... woman of Air ? man of Water ? woman of Earth ? man of Fire ? man of Air ? woman of Water ? man of Earth ? woman of Fire à (endless)
Known Cycle [completed]: woman of Air, man of Water, woman of Earth, man of Fire
Partial Cycle:? Aang (man) of Air, ___ of Water, ___ of Earth, ___ of Fire
Theorem: the Avatar to succeed Aang will be a girl born to the Water Tribe
Air ? Water ? Earth ? Fire à (endless repeats)
Pre-series:
Avatar Yangchen (woman, Air) ? Avatar Kuruk (man, Water) ? Avatar Kyoshi (woman, Earth) ? Avatar Roku (man, Fire)
In-series:
Avatar Aang (man, Air)
Fact One: the Avatar to succeed Aang will be born into the Water Tribe
Fact Two: the Avatar does not switch genders every time a new one is born
Fact Three: of the two shown Avatars born to the Air Nomads, both genders were expressed
Fact Four: the Avatar is supposed to represent balance
Supposition: for balance to be achieved in the cycle of four, two should be men and two should be women
Supposition: balance is not achieved if the same elements are always filled by the same gender. It should flow back and forth.
Supposition from supposition: balance is achieved if the genders do always switch in every completed cycle. (endless) ... woman of Air ? man of Water ? woman of Earth ? man of Fire ? man of Air ? woman of Water ? man of Earth ? woman of Fire à (endless)
Known Cycle [completed]: woman of Air, man of Water, woman of Earth, man of Fire
Partial Cycle:? Aang (man) of Air, ___ of Water, ___ of Earth, ___ of Fire
Theorem: the Avatar to succeed Aang will be a girl born to the Water Tribe
The next four are a group, pretty much.
A future or past Avatar is born as one of twin siblings. The other sibling has the potential to be a very powerful bender in their peoples' base element. The siblings grow up together and travel together.
A future or past Avatar is born as one of twin siblings; the other twin is born with the opposition element. If they were born in the Fire Nation, the twin sibling would waterbend, etc. etc.
A future or past Avatar is born as one of twin siblings; the other twin can bend one of the two elements that is not in their opposition pair. If they are born in the Water Tribe, the other twin could bend Air or Earth.
A future or past Avatar is born as one of twin siblings; the other twin has no potential for bending at all, but is an incredibly capable martial artist, easily able to learn the base styles of the other bending types but not able to bend.
A future or past Avatar is born as one of twin siblings; the other twin is born with the opposition element. If they were born in the Fire Nation, the twin sibling would waterbend, etc. etc.
A future or past Avatar is born as one of twin siblings; the other twin can bend one of the two elements that is not in their opposition pair. If they are born in the Water Tribe, the other twin could bend Air or Earth.
A future or past Avatar is born as one of twin siblings; the other twin has no potential for bending at all, but is an incredibly capable martial artist, easily able to learn the base styles of the other bending types but not able to bend.
Zuko is the crazy prodigy and Azula is the one who has to struggle. Ozai banishes his daughter not because she spoke out of turn and embarrassed him, but because he figures a powerful son is much more use than a lesser daughter. Then his daughter actually succeeds in finding the Avatar while his family had failed...
Anyway, go ahead and make use of this thread. That's what it's here for.