Avatar:TLA Miscellaneous Ideas Thread

Darmani

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zeebee1 said:
It doesn't matter if there would be people gunning to take over or not. If Aang hanged around the South Pole too long the comet would come and the Fire nation would win before they were ready.
He wouldn't have stayed that long he was banished before Zuko arrived and likely going to make his way to the temple (they head there on his initiative) Zuko's a diversion from this trip. The moment he finds out the airbenders are gone (lets say he doesn't find the skeleton) he'll spend all his time trying to hook up with his folks and check Fire Nation outposts and areas if they know anything (fines the fire nation helmet). Now he may likely get caught. But Aang wasn't one to stay still or leave well enough alone its a trait he and Katara share (he at the least would want to stop by Omashu and there meet Bumi who will light a fire under his ass). For all his reluctance to be the Avatar his natural inclination is to find adventure or resolve conflicts if he can help (though he's reluctant about complex matters, The Great Divide). By Winter Solstice he feels responsible for the burnt forest and at threat to himself volunteers to help with the spirit rampage.
 

zeebee1

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The closest air temple at that point was floating. Zuko had no way to reach it. The closest air temple that he could reach was quite a distance away.
 

Darmani

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Why would Aang worry about Zuko, I thought the scenario was what if Zuko hadn't found the village.
 
Zuko is still wandering around, looking for an Avatar. Makes sense that he would show up sooner or later.
 

zeebee1

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Someone else brought up Zuko, and the claim that Zuko would search the airbender temple Aang came from. Which is impossible.
 
zeebee1 said:
Someone else brought up Zuko, and the claim that Zuko would search the airbender temple Aang came from. Which is impossible.
No, Aang *thought* and claimed it was impossible. But clearly he was wrong because the Fire Nation got to all four with technology decades behind what they have at the close of the war.
 

zeebee1

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We have an idea how the firebenders got there the first time. They had dragons, and the comet could make some of them fly. Neither of those options are available to Zuko. mechanical flight was developed near the end of the series.
 

Rabe

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zeebee1 said:
We have an idea how the firebenders got there the first time. They had dragons, and the comet could make some of them fly. Neither of those options are available to Zuko. mechanical flight was developed near the end of the series.
Actually doesn't the Fire nation of advanced climbing gear that Aang didn't see till he thawed?

I think we saw saw gear when the Gaang holed up in the Northern Air temple.
 

grant

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Yep, those grappling hooks.
Besides that it was clear that common soldiers made their way up to the temples based on the bodies around Gyatso.
 

zeebee1

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How did they get the hooks so high. It seems to me they put the hooks there by the firebenders who got there through other means. Either way Zuko has a boat, he doesn't have an elite mountain climbing squad.
 

Rabe

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zeebee1 said:
How did they get the hooks so high. It seems to me they put the hooks there by the firebenders who got there through other means. Either way Zuko has a boat, he doesn't have an elite mountain climbing squad.
Cannons that fire hook with ropes attached to tanks with winching tackle

I think it worked like this
1)Cannons that fire hook with ropes into hill
2)Drive tank up the hill while reeling in line.
3)find shelf or tie down.
4)Repeat.

As for the Royal brats, Azula has some really fast monitor lizard mounts that can climb pretty damn fast, Zuko is more likely to have just climb the cliff face in total contradiction to all ideas of personal safety like he does with most of his plans.

"Cannons!" I know, I agree even but I think we are running into the kid tv filter again more then a technical problem that could not be duplicated or countered.

Season 3 has a Cannon on a Air ship that fires a bomb at the western Air temple but we the audience never see it fire, only its effects.

So I'm saying were looking at a kid filter
 

zeebee1

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I thought it had more to do with the Air Nomad traitor hiding ropes for them to climb. People tend to forget about him.
 

Rabe

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zeebee1 said:
I thought it had more to do with the Air Nomad traitor hiding ropes for them to climb. People tend to forget about him.
I had heard of him but from what I know his existence is an artifact of the card game, and has not been touched on by the creators outside of that.
 

zerohour

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What if Jet followed Iroh when he went to visit his son's grave? Do you think that Jet would give up on exposing him, confront him about his own losses to the war, or try and kill him? This could lead to an interesting story if done right, depending on which way the writer has it play out.
 

zeebee1

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Jet is a fanatic. Why would he care about the death of a soldier of the opposing army who happened to be the son of the general who nearly killed them all?
 

foesjoe

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He would suddenly realise "O God, the Fire Nation soldiers are people too! I've been wrong all along!" and become a pacifist monk.
 

tigros40208

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foesjoe said:
He would suddenly realise "O God, the Fire Nation soldiers are people too! I've been wrong all along!" and become a pacifist monk.
With the tone that the series had I could really see this happening.
 

WAR

Active Member
I always thought that the whole one sided bit were the Sounthern Water Tribe's is raided into near extintion by the Fire Nation. Hard to swallow what with the Northern Tribe able to hold out aginst the Fire Nation, so why not the Southern Tribe be able do the same some what. So here is my Idea.

The War has gone some what like in the Show, the Air Nomads either dead or in Fire Nation Pirson Camps. The Earth Kingdom has been invaded and being pushed back by the Fire Nation Army. The Northern Water Tribe has with drawn form the whole conflict to hide behind their walls of Ice. And the Southern Tribe and the Fire Nation constantly raiding each other. Taking Food, War Supplies, Benders and Nonbenders. Then selling the Benders and Nonbenders back to each other.

Azulon having grown tired of the back and forth raids with the Southern Water Tribe. And with Iroh having returnded form the Earth Kingdom leaving his Army in the field, to bring the body of his only son home. Azulon looks to find a way to end the raids and free up Troops for the fighting in the Earth Kingdom. When Usra, Azulon's second son Ozai's wife suggest a union between Fire and Water through her and Ozai's son Zuko and the Southern Water Tribe's Cheif Hakoda's young daugther.

Zuko and Katara are soon married as kids with Katara to grow up mainly in the Fire Nation with trips to the South Pole to see Family. The Years go by seeing the Death of Fire Lord Azulon and the crowning of Fire Lord Iroh. While Ozai plots to see him self on the Thrown. From there it is any ones guess as to how things would go. By just having Iroh become Fire Lord and Ursa staying Zuko and Azula's lives. Wuold Anag still befound traped in Ice. Would Toph escape her overbearing parents? Would Sokka be the ladies man he thinks he is? So many things that can happen.
 

Jorlem

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I'm not sure if this is canon or fanon, but I remember reading somewhere that the Fire Nation knew that the next Avatar would be born into the Southern Water Tribe. I think it had something to do with the previous WT Avatar having been from the Northern tribe. Anyway, I think this is why the Fire Nation focused on capturing waterbenders from the south. For all they knew, Aang was dead and the Avatar had reincarnated, so best case scenario, the Avatar would be locked up for decades without even knowing who he or she was, and worst case, the Avatar would need to travel to the opposite side of the world for training, to a location they know about, across seas that they control.

You know, that could be an interesting start for a previous generation fic, with or without Aang, so long as air travel isn't an option.
 

daniel_gudman

KING (In Land of Blind)
Staff member
There is only ONE MAN who can FISTBUMP with WANG FIRE and not instantly break ALL OF HIS FINGERS. That man is DONG LEE.
A spectrum, from "Zuko gets dragged into Sokka's shenanigans" to "memetic badass has memetic rival".

I'm just not sure where to go with this.
 

crazyfoxdemon

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I've seen stories before where Aang dies in the iceberg and someone else becomes the Avatar. Usually its an OC, Katara, Toph, or some other minor character...

What if it was Sokka?
 
crazyfoxdemon said:
I've seen stories before where Aang dies in the iceberg and someone else becomes the Avatar. Usually its an OC, Katara, Toph, or some other minor character...

What if it was Sokka?
Due to the avatar cycle it has to be female and a wather bender.

Idea: Azula decides to help the Gaang so she can have them try to kill her father so she can be empress.
 

crazyfoxdemon

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Master of Squirrel-Fu said:
Due to the avatar cycle it has to be female and a wather bender.
Where does it say it has to be female? I never read that before? And on the bender aspect, I've seen fics were non bender characters were made into the Avatar?
 
crazyfoxdemon said:
Master of Squirrel-Fu said:
Due to the avatar cycle it has to be female and a wather bender.
Where does it say it has to be female? I never read that before? And on the bender aspect, I've seen fics were non bender characters were made into the Avatar?
Check the first post, nothing but a fan theory but still pretty solid.
 
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