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xtoad on Tumblr asked:

Do you think that a natural progression for Bolin might be to straight-up join the Air Nomads ? It would fit his desire to help people, he's pretty much hitched to an Air Nomad already and it could be an interesting debut to a new policy of diversification for Tenzin & Co, perhaps followed by a similar movement in the other nations ?

I replied:

Hmm. The Air Nomads under Tenzin already had non-airbenders with the Air Acolytes, so it wouldn’t be at all strange for someone to join. I’m not sure Bolin really fits their mentality and practices, though—he could work with the Air Nomads without being one himself.

Tagged: #but also i'm not a fan of his so i might not be the best judge tbh

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I reblogged a gifset from callmekuvira of Korra and Kuvira being cool and powerful that separates the gifs into paralleling pairs by setting the words from Tenzin's description of Korra between the pairs of gifs: strong, unyielding, fearless.

I tagged it: #look i just need some of this quality korvira material in my life

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I’m watching LOK clips, as I do, and whatever my gripes about B1, I love the look on Katara’s face when she sees Korra enter the Avatar State to heal.

:’)

#to heal lin specifically which is even more :') #i also love tenzin's jaw drop but in a different way :P

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An anon asked:

Do you think part of the reason why Tarrlok antagonized Tenzin was envy because Tenzin still had his brother Bumi, while Noatak was (thought to be) dead?

I replied:

Hmm. On the one hand, I don’t imagine that Tarrlok typically went around antagonizing people for having living brothers (for other reasons! just probably not that), and I do think the personality/morality clash is probably sufficient to explain their general animosity.

BUT it’s also really hard for me to imagine that Tenzin’s family background wasn’t a factor for Tarrlok, given how tightly Yakone ties his abuse of Noatak and Tarrlok to Aang. I mean, he says outright that punishing Aang is the purpose to their existence, and he prepares them for doing it by making them torture animals for years until they snap, which results in the apparent death of Tarrlok’s teenage older brother. That is a LOT.

And, like … Aang’s children all live to adulthood (and are still alive!). Aang’s children had normal childhoods and are reasonably close. And Aang’s son is right there on the council lecturing people. I definitely imagine that Tarrlok’s needling of Tenzin is a tiny, tiny outlet for the nuclear rage he actually feels.

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An anon said:

AU where Mako and Bolin completely fuck up Amon and Tarrlok's plans before the escalations (they see Noatak practicing his waterbending one day, and Bolin recognizes his voice from "The Revelation;" they notice he looks like Tarrlok; Bolin blurts out "Councilman! Amon is your brother!" at a press meeting; they describe Noatak's appearance and voice; Tarrlok puts two and two together). How different would everything be?

I replied:

Hmm, it’s pretty hard for me to see Mako and Bolin putting the pieces together on that alone, or probably having that much access to Tarrlok. Even if they did, I think Tarrlok would be mind-meltingly enraged (on both the ‘dead brother’ and ‘nuclear hatred of Amon’ fronts) and instantly have them thrown out without actually being able to accept the conclusion himself. It probably wouldn’t change a whole lot in the long run.

Buuuut.

I could envision some scenario where Bolin associates Amon and Tarrlok (“they’re practically brothers if you think about it…”) and Aang sends his loudest YES! THEY’RE BROTHERS! SOMEONE LISTEN vibes to Korra, who’s like … yeah, Bolin, you’re right, lol, imagine if they were (Aang: AGHHHHH). But she has a ‘weird feeling’ about the whole idea, and she and Mako start to suspect that there’s some connection between Amon and Tarrlok that Aang is trying to communicate, even though of course they’re not literal brothers.

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I reblogged an old plotbunny post (from May 2013).

Ideas I didn’t end up writing but really wanted to:

(1) The revolution is successful, and Hiroshi and Amon move Asami and Tarrlok to a ~~gilded cage~~ luxurious private rooms. Tarrlok and Asami are initially hostile but are driven to band together against their infinitely more objectionable relations ~~and split ends~~; Hiroshi is as shitty a father as might be expected, which unsurprisingly alienates Noatak, who despite his many failings as a brother retains intense if twisted affection and absolutely zero inclination towards resolving Tarrlok’s recalcitrance with fratricide.

(2) Korra stays on the task force, is torn between “accomplishing things and beating people up” and “personal loyalty and ethics” as personified in Tarrlok and Tenzin.

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I reblogged a post I'd made for a Tarrlok Appreciation fest, back in Sep 2012. I still get nice comments on this one!

Ten Facts About Tarrlok

1

Tarrlok left home at seventeen. Although he missed his mother, he was glad to leave his dead-end village behind, and head to his tribe’s great city.

2

When he arrived, he was still more the boy who had begged his brother to stay than the man he would become. Even then, though, he took care to obscure his origins. He invented a completely different obscure village to call home, enough like his real one that any accidental slip would not reveal the truth. He invented completely different parents, but said, truthfully, that his father was a non-bender and his mother a healer.

Tarrlok never thought of himself as a liar, but he was accustomed to surviving in a position of vulnerability. His long years with Yakone and Noatak, learning to talk his away around more dangerous and volatile personalities than his own, had left him more than equipped to manage ordinary people. He knew exactly what to say, and when to say it, and the skill never left him.

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I reblogged a post from 2012, in which I was re-watching Episode 4 of B1:

I love that pretty much everybody makes valid points, no matter how misled they are. Korra’s fear leads her to say some pretty sensible things. Amon is horrifying, but his criticisms strike a chord with an apparently shocking number of people (I do not think they are just making their oppression up). And I love Tenzin, and he’s definitely right about not further antagonizing non-benders … but he’s kind of inept at politics and ineffective at getting anything done. Or even getting anything not done. And he doesn’t seem to have any plan for dealing with the Equalist threat himself, he just complains about Tarrlok’s.

Tarrlok is easy to dismiss as just out for power, and while he is definitely eking every scrap of authority he can out of the situation, he’s right that they have to deal with the Equalists, and I think he genuinely opposes them. Though invoking the specter of his own father, Yakone, who has haunted him all his life, while sitting on the council that condemned him, to the son of the man who set Yakone on his twisted path of revenge, while implicitly comparing himself to that man, is … wow. Tarrlok, that’s some commitment to your role. But then, this is the man who deliberately electrocuted himself to make his story more convincing. If he’d been Amon, he totally would have scarred his face for real.

Anyway, his task force is actually pretty effective (and those people were definitely Equalists and not random citizens, as I heard some fans arguing at the time). But it’s also pretty skeevy, especially how he brought Korra into it. (♫ Nobody uses innocent teenage girls like Tarrlok! ♫)

(I really, really wish Korra’s ominous agreement that they make a good team - what seemed to be her starting to fall under Tarrlok’s undoubtedly creeptastic influence - had gone ANYWHERE AT ALL. Are we ever given the slightest idea what happened to turn her completely against him?)

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