avatarluv
Jet
You don't like my singing?
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Post by avatarluv on Jul 22, 2010 12:18:07 GMT -5
I know we've just gotten the information, but an idea had already popped into my head about the series. Apparently, there is tension between benders and non-benders in Republic City. Though it supposedly isn't related to the Fire Nation, I was thinking...maybe this tension originates with their government? Perhaps Ozai spread a seed of dissension while he was alive about how benders should be segregated since he was bitter about having his own abilities taken away. Or Mai and Zuko were constantly arguing because one is a bender and one isn't. The former of course sounds more likely, but I'm just tossing the latter out there... Opinions? What do you guys think caused the rift?
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Post by MasterEcabob on Jul 22, 2010 12:44:38 GMT -5
I think its more of a nature vs technology thing, with so many non-benders seeing the bending arts as ancient and unnecessary.
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Post by xrxpapi on Jul 22, 2010 13:49:39 GMT -5
Mai, are you serious, Mai's whole attitude is quietly saying idgaf if you can manipulate some element.
With this story being 70 years in the future and taking place somewhere with a lot of steam punk tech, maybe non benders will have weapons that could hold their own against benders?
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Post by nymphadora on Jul 22, 2010 15:17:41 GMT -5
^^That sounds plausible. Like Syndrome in The Incredibles: those without powers are jealous of those with powers so they build devices to be better than the ones with powers.
"I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super, no one will be."
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Post by Paraiba Ocean on Jul 22, 2010 16:06:55 GMT -5
I think its more of a nature vs technology thing, with so many non-benders seeing the bending arts as ancient and unnecessary. That's the theory I posted in another thread just a few minutes ago. For the OP, I'd like to assume that while TLA and LoK are connected, TLA isn't a direct cause of LoK, if that makes any sense, so I'm going to guess that Ozai didn't really have any role to play in the rift. I mean, society itself can cause its own rifts really easily without any leading the helm, and jealousy can play a big role in that. I know if I lived in the Avatarverse, I'd be jealous if I couldn't bend an element. However, while I believe that Zuko and Mai didn't have any issues because one could bend and the other couldn't, I don't think it's unrealistic to think there become couples like that in LoK.
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Zidaneski
Yue
I will win in the end.
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Post by Zidaneski on Jul 22, 2010 17:10:42 GMT -5
Maybe we'll see the villain from the first A:TLA videogame.
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Korra
Aang
Let's just disappear into the atmosphere
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Post by Korra on Jul 22, 2010 17:17:53 GMT -5
I think technology caused the rift.
I also think that the revolt will start in the Republic and spread among other nations as the series progresses.
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dirtyyasuki
Iroh
Take it to the limit... then break it.
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Jul 22, 2010 20:16:23 GMT -5
Yup judging from speculation alone I think the evolution of tech was what might have started the rift between the benders and non-benders for the same reasons mentioned above.
This Republic city sounds like the result of the Gaangs efforts to restore balance to a world torn by a hundred years war. I can totally foresee Aang encouraging peace by mediating to all the nations to come together to resolve their differences from the last war. And the city that came from that became the melting pot that it is now.
On a further note about the OP's theory: It seems that some of the speculation that the Spirit world might be displayed more in LoK by coming into conflict with the Mortal world is likely. Since if we assume anti-benders are made up of non-benders who have embraced technology and abandoned the old traditional spiritual ways of benders who are spiritual-beings themselves with ties to spirits and the spirit world. You could have benders on one side defending the old ways and their connection to the Spirit world and non-benders on the other hand abandoning the old ways for new science.
It's a very interesting concept.
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dirtyyasuki
Iroh
Take it to the limit... then break it.
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Jul 22, 2010 20:26:21 GMT -5
I also think that the revolt will start in the Republic and spread among other nations as the series progresses. That certainly seems likely, even if RC is the first of its kind where the four nations live together in harmony and where steampunk flourished under the supposed descendants of the Mechanist and his colony. Such tech will be in high demand in the corners of the other nations who wish to be rid of their dependence and deference to benders.
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Post by Paraiba Ocean on Jul 22, 2010 21:19:38 GMT -5
Please just click edit and add onto your post instead of double posting. Thank you.
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Kataang101
Mai
100 years alone, Forever Together
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Post by Kataang101 on Jul 23, 2010 0:02:26 GMT -5
Please just click edit and add onto your post instead of double posting. Thank you. ooooh i havent heard that in a long while =) yay for new members ty TLK xD I think its more of a nature vs technology thing, with so many non-benders seeing the bending arts as ancient and unnecessary. ooh i very much like this idea. that would be a great reason for the rift between benders and non-benders. it seems like the most logical thing to happen at least. like what nymp said i really hope it is =)
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Post by teknomage on Jul 23, 2010 0:26:56 GMT -5
I think the advances in technology will be part of it, but I'm also wondering if the general public will be starting to think about the fact that after Avatar Aang, there will only likely be three more Avatars (starting with Korra)... even if it's possible one of Aang's descendants could become a new airbending Avatar, unless the Earth incarnate intends to start a dynasty every fourth Avatar, due to the limited Air Nomad genetic stock, there will within a few generations be no more Avatar at all, not ever again. And recent history has made it clear that an Avatar is essential for maintaining the balance... but may not be so essential if there are no benders at all. So the anti-bending movement could be a response to that, an attempt to put an end to the need for an Avatar before it's too late.
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Kataang101
Mai
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Post by Kataang101 on Jul 23, 2010 0:39:52 GMT -5
or maybe, since that there is still an airbender out there and assuming that Tenzin will/already has a son or daughter who would have a child who would have child etc, could it be that when the cycle reaches air again that like through some spirit power the next child to be born in Aang's line would be forced to be air?
does that make sense?
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Post by xrxpapi on Jul 23, 2010 0:47:51 GMT -5
or maybe, since that there is still an airbender out there and assuming that Tenzin will/already has a son or daughter who would have a child who would have child etc, could it be that when the cycle reaches air again that like through some spirit power the next child to be born in Aang's line would be forced to be air? does that make sense? i had to read it 3 times but i get it lol
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Post by Lady Juse on Jul 23, 2010 13:23:14 GMT -5
Technogoly does sound the most plausable, and it's intresting for me because I have had in the works some fanfiction involving racism between benders and non benders. But I don't know if it's for bending or against bending.
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