[ SECRET POST #1962 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1962 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]


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03.
[Community]


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04.
[Big Time Rush]


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05.
[Avengers]


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06.
[The Decemberists]


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07.
[Tim Minchin]


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08.
[The Lizzie Bennet Diaries]


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09.
[Community]


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10.
[The Hunger Games]


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11.
[Nell: The Day Before]


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12.
[Devil Survivor]


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13.
[Homeland]


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14.
[Pippin]


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15.
[Portal 2 & Left 4 Dead]


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16.
[The Avengers, 30 Rock, Psych]


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[FFX]


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18.
[Mad Men]


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19.
[Legend of Korra]


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20.
[Faust: Love of the Damned]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #280.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Comment OP

I see your point, but I still get the vibe that she was designed to fit the white cookie cutter mold of attractiveness which is small nose, light eyes, thin lips, straight hair and then they slapped on tan skin to make her exotic.

[insanenoodlyguy.livejournal.com]

Or maybe she was water tribe?

I mean, she was always going to be water tribe. That was set up by canon before Korra herself was ever drawn: next avatar in the cycle would be water.

Her options were Northern, Sothern or Foggy Swamp. Ironically, the latter actually would be more of a caucasion appearance. Though Foggy Swamp is actually supposed to be a distant offshoot of southern.

Lets not think too long or hard about exactly how this



Makes this.



I'm going with "alternate world with spirits" and leaving it there.

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest I know nothing about Avatar or Korra, so I'm just gonna guess the water tribe was modeled after the Inuit people? Well that explains some things about Korra's appearance for me. I have no idea what they where going for in that second picture though...

[(Anonymous)]

The bayou people of the Southeastern US?

[(Anonymous)]

Complete with stereotypical redneck idiots looking for food (see Princess and the Frog.)

[the-glow-worm.livejournal.com]

I always got a Indochinese vibe from it. Their names are very Vietnamese...

[(Anonymous)]

Why the Cajun accents, then?

[the-glow-worm.livejournal.com]

I mean, if you're going to get stuck on that, why the American cultural references? Why are they speaking English at all? I guess Aang and Katara and the rest have American accents, given they're voiced by American voice actors--are they supposed to represent Americans?

It's an Asian-inspired, Asian-set world. Yes, they have Cajun accents, but that doesn't make them Cajun or even based on Cajuns. The accent is shorthand for backcountry swamp-dwellers. Aside from being funny, it indicates their separation, culturally and linguistically, from the rest of the A:tlA world. If the show was made in China and everyone was being voiced in Chinese, they would have given the Swampbenders whatever accent is appropriate for rural swamp people (like I said, my guess is Vietnamese).

[xerxes92.livejournal.com]

Key word is "distant offshoot" the evolution of skin color has been found to take only about 100 generations for the tone to change completely. Also keep in mind they probably didn't exclusively breed with other water tribe members.

[insanenoodlyguy.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, but they are also lighter then the earth kingdom people they live around.

I just think it's funny, mind.

[fenm.livejournal.com]

llght eyes,

People in the Avatar-verse have eyes that match their element:
Water = Blue
Earth = Green or brown
Fire = Gold or gray (like smoke)
Air = Gray (like clouds?)

[(Anonymous)]

Many Fire Nationals have brown eyes, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, as an olive skinned person with dark hair and brown eyes...

I guess I'm Fire Nation.

Explains my temper.

[anarchicq.livejournal.com]

Tahno's eyes are reaaallly pale, almost white, I would say grey over blue, but he's a waterbender.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

I wonder if he's mixed-race? There are a lot of characters who have parents from two different nations - just look at Bolin and Mako (one parent is Earth Kingdom, one is Fire Nation). Tahno could have one Water Tribe parent, and maybe one Fire Nation parent?

(Or they could just be more of a really pale blue, that too.)

I suspect the same for Asami, actually, since she's of Fire Nation origin (here (http://www.nickpress-thelegendofkorra.com/characterdescriptions.html), the description for her father) but has green eyes.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, you're probably right about Asami. Even without reading about her history I think she just...looks very Fire Nation. Based on the features I sort of connect with Fire Nation from TLA, if that makes sense