[ SECRET POST #2021 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2021 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 110 secrets from Secret Submission Post #289.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Aang's final showdown with Ozai is a classic story arc - the hero confronts their weaknesses and defeats the baddie themselves (and by confronting the baddie they confront themselves). That's what it seemed Korra was building up to with her final showdown with Amon. But, no, Mako had to be there carrying Korra off and having Amon tell him that he had never seen such a prodigious firebender. Is was like, what the hell, where did that even come from?

[rmg]

it's not like mako beat amon alone-- he caught amon off-guard for like a second before amon adapted and subdued him, before korra blazed in with an element she'd never bent before and barely undestood to beat him.

what's with this fixation about how the protagonist has to defeat the villain alone, anyway? even if we're just comparing stuff to the ATLA finale, i've seen a lot of people argue-- and frankly, i agree-- that the confrontation with azula was way more memorable than aang's fight with ozai, and that was zuko and katara fighting her together-- and it's katara who ended up beating azula after zuko got his ass kicked. nobody says that zuko's arc didn't go anywhere because of that.

and you know what? even though aang did end up confronting ozai alone, that's not really what that arc was about. for a while it did play on aang's fears and anxieties about that, in the run-up to the invasion, but aang finds the courage to conquer his fear and face ozai-- before everything goes horribly wrong because azula's the smartest and the best. in the second half of season 3, aang's arc isn't really about confronting his weaknesses by facing ozai alone, it was about the moral quandary of how to defeat him without compromising his spiritual well-being and deeply held moral beliefs. like, in the old masters, when he was talking to all of the previous avatars about what to do with ozai, it wasn't really about how to beat him in the first place-- they all kind of took it for granted that if he wanted to, he could just fucking murder the shit out of ozai. (i still love the scene with yangchen, since hearing that from an airbender is pretty shocking)

korra's arc with amon (as opposed to her arc as a whole, since this is just season 1 of a show that we now know is going to have four seasons) mostly dealt with her fear of amon. and when she goes rushing in to try to fight amon, even though-- as far as she knew at that point-- she didn't have any bending at all! like, she wasn't really expecting to just suddenly start airbending. but she ran in any way, because her desire to save her friend trumped her fear.

from the way the fandom talks about it, you'd think that korra just spent the whole fight crying while mako just single-handedly beat amon, when all he did was buy korra some time to recover a bit from getting fucking debended.