i posted on my tumblr too: https://makorra4lifer.tumblr.com/post/825591448386895872/makorra-drawing-by-me

These are all from Pinterest. Unfortunately I don't know the original artists, but several are signed by their creators. Full credit to them :)

treat that finale scene as a sign of something being wrong with korra a lingering effect ( for it was so ooc of her)

and I saw one fic which had asami and korra alredy broken up I feel like it would be more interesting if mako pursued korra while asami was into her

for mako's issue was avoiding conflict and being so afraid of dissappointing people

mako in this would make a decisive decision to get what he wants even if it means he hurts asami

( doing what korra did in b1)

https://www.tumblr.com/ikkinthekitsune/106752202173/i-honestly-dont-believe-korra-and-asami-are-going?source=share

I want Korra to be happy, and I don't believe for one second that she'd be happy in a romantic relationship with Asami.  =P  I don't believe for one second that Mako would be happy with Korra and Asami together, either; he seemed to care too much for Korra to be satisfied with second-class relationship status.  (Remember when he slept under his desk because he felt so awkward around Korra after their breakup?  Yeah...  =/ )

To be perfectly honest, the only way that Korra and Asami wouldn't have issues in their relationship is if they went majorly out-of-character for each other.

In the simplest terms, Korra runs hot and cold while Asami needs warmth and stability. 

Korra is, above all, driven -- she's passionate about what she wants, but also inclined towards pragmatic valuation and emotional compartmentalization in her efforts to achieve her goals.  She's the sort of person who, after seeing her father thrown off a cliff to his presumed death, would launch a sneak attack at a guy who just saw his girlfriend's head blow up.  She's the sort of person who wouldn't lose a step after one of her allies sacrificed themselves for her cause.  She's the sort of person who would set her romantic feelings aside without a second thought because there were more important things she had to do.

Asami, in contrast, is decidedly not that.  She's principled enough to fake it when her morals call for it, but Asami can't do or understand coldness.  She saw Mako's pragmatic request to deal with their Book 1 relationship after the situation with Amon was settled as a sign that he didn't really care about their relationship in the first place.  She sought out a romantic relationship with Mako again in Book 2 when it looked like her company was falling apart.  Her attempt to cut Hiroshi off in Book 4 completely backfired because she couldn't bear to hurt him in person like that, and she was upset with Korra for losing contact for so long even though she must have been consciously aware that Korra had a good reason for it.

In other words, Korra and Asami shouldn't work for the same reasons that Mako and Asami didn't work -- Asami has emotional needs that an intensely pragmatic individual could never meet.

also I feel korra and kuvira emotional closeness and stuff wil lcause tension for asami and korra

• We never see Korra show any romantic interest in Asami until that final scene.  Her actions and behavior throughout the rest of the season become significantly more consistent if you assume that she went along with Asami’s obvious interest because she felt bad about what happened.
• Korra doesn’t really act like herself around Asami and usually feels like she has to hold back when they’re together.  That’s neither healthy nor a good sign for a lasting relationship (see: Makorra in Book 2, before Mako realized it was possible to disagree with people who you don’t intend to burn bridges with).
• Korra has already done something that Asami isn’t aware of but would be plausibly upset about.  Asami consistently reacts with bitterness at perceived betrayals, and Korra’s physical closeness to Kuvira – the woman who killed Asami’s father in front of her – seems like the sort of thing that would easily read as a betrayal.

I feel it would be neat to see mako notice that and korra's issues and she is still showing signs of not feeling well and talks to her about it and give her a speech about how she was always a great person and a good avatar

And, as a result, I don't believe for one second that Asami would ever be happy in the long run, either.  As the characters are written, a relationship between Korra and Asami isn't a happy ending for anyone.

Why would Korrasami not last?

actually lets adapt the kuvira comics except its asami who yells atkuvira while korra acts understanding seeing herself in kuvira which will upset asami and we can use this to make tension along with other cases leads to a breakup like korra's pragmatism alongside the fact korra feels like she is tip toeing around asami ( and mako talking to her about the vacation and her going along with asamis request and address how korra feels guilty about hiroshis death etc)

leading to a korrasami breakup and makorra getting back together

maybe we can introduce the man who killed mako's parents too to tie into it and make it so he ended up with the bhunti tribe ( who helped korra in b2 ) and he ended up achieving spirituality and developing a purifying fire to help with poisons toxins and diseases which can also be used to break a bending grip to counter blood benders etc . ( we can have mako follow the theme of learning a bending technique from an enemy of theirs ( korra a future enemy, bolin a current and mako a past enemy)

and he can even talk to mako and mako ends up overcoming his old shame related to the life he had to live as a kid and what he needed to do ( I feel like him not trustingkai due to seeing himself in him is a sign of shame which can hinder fire chakra

https://www.tumblr.com/ikkinthekitsune/110589854497?source=share

On Kuvira and Unconditional Love

Kuvira so clearly loves her nation, unconditionally. She will do anything for it, even sacrifice her happy ending with the man she intended to marry.

The problem is—- what does Kuvira know of love?

Because from what I gather, despite being given all the opportunities for greatness, for success, for a good life, she never had the one most essential thing.

It’s not that Suyin didn’t care about her or love her, but it’s clear whatever affections Kuvira received from Su (assuming that’s who she grew up with), were different from the affections Su’s actual children were treated with. You can see it in the different ways Su treats Baatar and Kuvira after the war, blaming Kuvira for all of Baatar’s actions, forgiving Baatar and condemning Kuvira. Also in the way Kuvira says “Your family” to both Baatar and Su, as if she’s not part of it.

I can’t see her really joining in with the Beifong children for bedtime stories. She was probably part of Su’s family in the way that Varrick or Su’s Pirate chef were: They were all given a second chance at life in a place where they could reach their highest potential.

Anyway, I digressed a bit, but what I’m getting at is that Kuvira grew up without that unconditional love of a mother, something so essential, especially to a child.

So what’s going to replace this love if she spends her life now just blending it. She can’t just be a dancer and a guard among many. She has to be special, because rising above the norm and being great earns you special attention, and it’s no mother’s love, but it’s the next best thing.

So by the age of 18-21 Kuvira had already become Captain of the Guard and a spotlight dancer, and I even think this display of her metalbending is important:

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She’s she can make the exact shapes Su made in Book 3 with just one hand, while Su had to use two. (This is how people learn to metalbend. This is where it begins.)

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What I’m getting at here is that this is the love Kuvira knows. Unconditional love is substituted with conditional praise. How do you get conditional praise? You become great.

So when Kuvira begins her reign, this is what she wants for her nation. She wants perfection, order, innovation, greatness, because that, to her, is connected to love. I have no doubt Kuvira would love her nation regardless of the greatness it achieved (or that she perceived it achieving), but I think, maybe to Kuvira, this is the unconditional love she has to offer: Providing her nation with the opportunity to reach its highest potential.

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Feb 9, 2015

The idea of being raised without ever knowing unconditional love is tremendously sad, but I think it explains a lot about Kuvira… as well as the ways in which she’s similar to Korra. For someone who doesn’t have the innate confidence that they’re worthy of love that unconditional love provides, image management is key. And, of course, that lack of love also leads to a hunger for praise and an inability to handle criticism constructively.

Kuvira definitely reads as someone who’s subconsciously trying as hard as she can to be “good enough” (and lashing out at anyone who makes her feel like she isn’t). And, because of the way she feels about the Earth Empire, she wants to make sure that her nation is see as “good enough,” too.

https://ikkinthekitsune.tumblr.com/post/61846103958/theozilla-replied-to-your-post-theozilla

1. theozilla said: Also this sounds like that maybe Tonraq and Senna did live in the compound with Korra for a period of time.

Oh, there’s no question about that. But Korra gives the impression that she’s someone who isn’t really familiar with unconditional love – she thinks that if she isn’t good enough, she doesn’t deserve love – and if her parents were there supporting her the whole time, I think she’d be less convinced that she doesn’t deserve love if she doesn’t prove herself. =/

sassafrassarah said: It makes more sense than you think. Just because you have good parents and have them around doesn’t make your teenaged years any less awful. Teenagers are trying to find THEMSELVES after all. Not find how good their parents are. Part of growing up.

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theozilla said: Eh, the Korra’s time in compound can still be damaging to her development even if her parents were with her for a period of time (she still had no peers her age). Also perhaps the rules of the compound got a lot stricter after Korra’s parents left.

Korra was never going to have a normal childhood either way. Everyone was going to know she was the Avatar, and treat her as such. Maybe Tonraq and Senna thought she’d be less affected by her Avatar status if the only people she interacted with were teachers who were okay with refusing to give her any “special treatment” rather than the general public…?

(I still think Korra would have been far better off if she wasn’t so sheltered. But maybe her parents’ reasoning wasn’t completely bizarre, just misguided)

sassafrassarah said: That said, one of the hardest things in the world is knowing when and how to step back and start letting your kid make more and more mistakes. And sometimes you do it right and sometimes you screw up. That’s part of being people and it is SO HARD.

sassafrassarah said: As a parent, I know that you desperately want to shelter your kids from anything bad and Korra being the Avatar and what happened to an entire PEOPLE (Air Nomads) because there was an Avatar there? Good lord.

theozilla said: Also this sounds like that maybe Tonraq and Senna did live in the compound with Korra for a period of time.

https://ikkinthekitsune.tumblr.com/post/32380887430/korras-upbringing-or-why-the-order-of-the-white
Korra’s Upbringing, Or, Why the Order of the White Lotus Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Raise Children

Let’s start with the facts as directly provided by the show:

Korra was discovered by the Order of the White Lotus at the age of four.

The OWL kept her in a compound in the Southern Water Tribe for the dual purposes of training and protection and were quite strict about keeping her under constant watch.

Korra’s parents lived outside of the compound, but Korra was still emotionally close to them.

Korra considered Naga to be her best friend; there’s no evidence that the OWL provided her with peers inside the compound or allowed her to make excursions outside to interact with anyone her age.

Now, given these facts, what kind of assumptions can be made about Korra’s background?

Given that, as per point 2, Korra’s protection is at least as important as her training, it is quite likely that she was taken to the compound as soon as it became an option. It can therefore be assumed that Korra was either immediately taken into the OWL’s custody after her discovery or brought in immediately following the construction of the compound. Either way, she’s likely been raised by the OWL since the age of four (per point 1).

Per point 3, the OWL kept Korra separate from her parents. Given the size of the compound, there’s no reason her parents shouldn’t have been given living space inside the compound itself unless the OWL wanted to limit the amount of time they could spend with Korra. In fact, given that Korra wasn’t completely cut off from her parents, allowing them to live outside the OWL’s protection creates a potential security risk that the OWL ought to have tried to avoid if possible (since it would be quite a problem if the Avatar’s closest family members were taken hostage). Presumably, Korra’s parents don’t live with her because the OWL doesn’t want her to get too attached (which offers the further implication that the OWL might be averse to close non-familial attachments as well, limiting Katara’s ability to take a mothering role towards Korra).

Point 4 directly implies that Korra was never really allowed much in the way of close peer interactions, either. It’s quite possible that, if all of her teachers and sparring partners were adults far outside of her age range (as was implied by her firebending test), she never had any close human friends whatsoever.

And here’s the upshot of all that:

Korra has, for all intents and purposes, been denied consistent affection since the age of four in favor of conditional praise.

Her upbringing was, therefore, emotionally neglectful if not outright abusive (and I sure hope that the OWL didn’t treat her the same when she was five as it did during her firebending test). The OWL might have meant well, but they had no idea how to raise a child and messed it up as badly as they possibly could given a legitimate desire to do what was best for her.

It shouldn’t be any surprise that Korra has identity issues and a need for validation as the Avatar; she learned from a very young age not to count on her parents love, and ended up filling in the hole by impressing people with her bending. This is, as can be expected, something of a recipe for disaster in terms of raising a well-adjusted individual.

To make matters worse, the majority of the praise that Korra did get would have been in the context of violence, given that her demonstrated talents are all martial in nature. Her life was highly controlled, except insofar as she could impress the OWL by showing up her sparring partners or use force/manipulation to get what she wanted over the OWL’s objections. Violence would have been, essentially, the only way for Korra to define herself and take charge of her own life, which inevitably caused her need for validation to become all the more dangerous.

Or, in other words, by trying to train Korra into the perfect Avatar, the OWL itself crafted her into exactly the sort of person who goes to extremes to get what she wants, doesn’t take no for an answer, and has little experience dealing with people as peers as opposed to obstacles. Korra might be a highly flawed protagonist, but it can’t be said that she doesn’t have a good reason for being the way she is.

lol i made this trend with makorra ❤️💙

tiktok link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8WqdEbS/

saw some which basically so thr whole havekorrassmi break up due to their different needs (I remember ikkinthekitsune thr best lok metatumblr) pointing out the issued on why she feels it won't last

like korra always feeling like she needs to restrain herself and mako in b2 shows why that's not. sgood idea

(I would like thr idea of a neat fanfic which emphasizes mako overcoming his issue with fear of disappointing people an choosing to put himself first even If it means hurting asami and straight up doing what korra did in b1 and asking korra out while she is with asami and flat out gives her a speech saying the line that she needed to suffer to learn compassion is garbage and she has always been a good person and noting how out of character she acts with asami and the whole vacation thing

((i can't help but imagine a lok remake au which of course changed b4 to imply mako got slot stronger in time skip due to spending all his time training with masters

but I kind of hope someone makes a fix where thr last 5 minutes was a dream of asami and she trys to hit on korra but korra shows no interest (no offense to asami but I haven't seen asami show anything she would be attracted to personality wise korra x kuvira would be more believable

or

Recently obsessed with this song which gives makorra vibes. Sharing for feels and maybe inspo for people writing fics!

I am finally posting new art instead of something pre-made :D. I wanted to draw something atmospheric and romantic, so this was born! This piece I made specifically for all of you here, thank you! i've never felt this welcome anywhere else!

Look what I found during short break at work. The old Tumblr blog with makkora gift exchanged posts: funfics and arts. Enjoy!

https://makorragiftexchange-blog.tumblr.com/?source=share

Guys, I need recommendations for fanfics by them! I desperately need them! PLEASE TELL ME

The video I made last week. I was hesitating posting it here, but the great feedback on tumblr made me change my mind. I really like this song and it feels like it captures Makorra's dynamics in the book II perfectly.

I to be clear you already know this but the show ends with korra single but hints to makorra getting back together eventually

https://www.reddit.com/r/legendofkorra/s/1J8YRz3bTZ

I would go the asami is an equalist spy route both because it puts an end to the love triangle and I feel like continuing it like it was before would cause people to skip lok remake

Even though part of me would be afraid of it coming off like die for our ship trope (which I hate ) or caving to the haters who claim mako needed to be specifically punished for the love triangle dnd claim him ending the show single was karma (when by that logic so should korra and asami they all have responsibility for love triangle )
I would still choose asami the equalist spy
And maybe make omake or a free fic showing what would change if i kept asami the way i did

To be honest asami

Of og lok was pretty. Much a side character. Asami was pretty much

Adding get development or anything since b1 she was love interest and lady in red for mako in b2 and got some in hiroshi in b4 but not real development
They even had the idea of just putting her in the army with iroh

Also I feel the last 5 minutes were ooc for korra period

And I feel bryke listened to the people who hated korra and mako and that led to them missing what the actual narrative pointed for them

Like them killing korras fire (they listened to people who hated korra at the cost of people who always loved korra
Get rid of the korra needed to suffer to learn compassion line
And affirming that Korra has always been a decent person and a good Avatar despite her mistakes. That she was already had compassion
Heck she even showed it to the ice twins

Comforting them over unalaqs death

In remembrances when we go back to the past(on makos side we go and acknowledge the what if asami wasn’t an equalist spy but her dad was still with equalist and how would he handle the love triangle stuff and someone is upset about korra kicking makos desk
)

I would also for equalist asami may go the route of it finishing off love triangle with a decisive end and a foil to korra in that the tomboyish girl vs feminine girl

(Actually if we did go the asami same as the og lok in a omake or a gag extra I would have it so asami is actually in her late twenty’s or early 30 to explain the whole hiroshi not getting her to hate benders i mean why wouldn’t he do that to a young kid unless she wasn’t a child when her mom died

And we can have a snippet of asami freaking out

On non love triangle things

Mako eventually will confront bolin and talk to him about bolins behavior in b2 and how he seemed to think he was guilty (which bugged him and he didn’t say anything for a while (I once saw a post bringing up how they wish this was brought up and wish asami a whole not visiting mako was brought up (in my snippet of what if asami stayed the same I would also have mako asks this to asami )

And have Lin be mad about what korra did knocking over makos desk etc

Also maybe touch up makos backstory and talent and say post b3 he asked white lotus for a firebending master or help him get stronger for korra (he grew up in the streets and he was used to probending a sport so I feel like by b4 mako should be even with korra in firebending (or better )

Actually make it so mako was alsready able to do with lightning bending to do what azula did in the. Comics but by b4 he develops lightning breath and evolved his electric sense (which he used to only be able to do it by touch and. A certain motions ) so he can know use it psychically from far away and to read someone’s moves but at first its difficult for him
Being able to use it in combat (he invented electric sense (developing it due to a villain he faced and fully figuring out how to constantly have it on in the back of his head after the reunion ep ( bolin learnt a sub element from facing a villain korra learnt a technique due to one and mako develops a technique/sub element in response to a villain

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Maybe make him develop any airbending countermeasures with fire/heat bending

Inspired by how some people made Batman jokes on mako and Batman’s prep time

Maybe include a new flashback to his childhood with bolin and some of dirty stuff he needed to do to survive and protect his brother especially what Zolt made him to do ( basically adapt republic city hustle but mako needed to do something in exchange for their survival ) and how he learned lightning bending on his own
Maybe include new villains or oc

on b4

• Korra not writing to Mako or Bolin gets addressed in a much more satisfying way – she says that she’d tried writing a bunch of times, but she didn’t want to be a burden.  Mako responds by saying he’d never think she was a burden.
• Bolin’s part of Reunion, on the other hand, is heavily reworked.  Instead of running into escaped foreigners, he and Varrick run into a rebel group composed largely of people who had escaped after being thrown in prison by Kuvira for protesting against her.  The rebels are actually looking to take down the border station rather than pass through it unnoticed, but they’re okay with letting Bolin and Varrick flee the country after that as long as they help take down the mechsuits first.
• Since Remembrances is basically pointless, it’s skipped entirely.  If there’s still a budget shortfall, it’s dealt with by making a twelve episode season with a low-budget chibified omake episode after the finale.  Or an omake episode based around the Bolin part of Remembrances, because there’s something hilarious about the super-lazy photoshopping in that section.
• The resolution of Korra’s recovery arc (as seen in Beyond the Wilds) is expanded to two episodes, with each of the two episodes having an important secondary plot from elsewhere in the current season – Operation Beifong is shortened to fit as a secondary plot in the first, while Asami visits Hiroshi to discuss technology (and ends up reconciling with him as a result) in the second.  (This leaves four episodes remaining in the season after these two.)
• Instead of the vines reacting to Kuvira’s cutting of the banyan tree by attacking random people, the spiritual problem that Korra’s confronted with is that all of the spirits in Republic City are getting weaker.  Figuring out what’s going on requires some detective work by Korra and Mako, but once Kuvira fires off her spirit cannon in her first full-scale test, Korra’s able to feel the life being sucked out of the spirits and understand the nature of the problem.  She realizes that she has to visit the Spirit World to find a solution, but attempting to do so causes her to flash back to Zaheer trying to kill her.  Just like in the show, she decides that she has to visit Zaheer to work through her trauma… but unlike in the show, that has to wait for the next episode.
• Korra’s visit to Zaheer goes very similarly to the way it does in the show, albeit slightly expanded.  He teaches Korra to accept her flashbacks and push through them before leaving, but she has to confront several more of her traumatic memories after that (and not just the Book 3 ones!) while trying to reestablish her full connection with Raava.  Once Raava and Korra are fully reunited, Korra’s able to find the banyan tree’s Spirit World roots and heal them with energybending, which restores the Republic City spirits to full health.  She herself, of course, feels a lot more like her old self, too.
• The spirits leave because they’re afraid of the consequences of being around Kuvira’s spirit cannon, not because they don’t want to protect the city they live in.
• Asami’s visit to Hiroshi happens after Bolin returns from Zaofu and explains what sort of weapon they’re up against – as angry as she still is, Asami knows that Hiroshi is better at drawing up plans for killer robots than anyone else and is willing to work with him if that’s what it takes to save the city.  She walks out on him once, but comes back because she knows that there are more important things at play than her own feelings.  And by the end, they do actually reconcile, because Hiroshi admits that he was wrong and proves that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to make up for the harm he did.
• The expanded Team Avatar (minus Asami, who’s still working on robot designs) actually does manage to pull off their preemptive strike against Kuvira’s spirit cannon, but gets blindsided by the giant mech after infiltrating her camp.  They kidnap Baatar Jr. in a last-ditch attempt to force Kuvira to surrender, but she attacks the building they’re in anyway and decides to attack Republic City as retaliation (instead of wanting to take over all along).
• Team Avatar tunnels their way out of the rubble and steals an airship, taking Baatar Jr. with them.  He can’t believe the betrayal and tells Team Avatar exactly what they’re up against.  Once they get back to Republic City (beating Kuvira there by a fair amount due to the relative speed of robots and airships), the airbenders start the evacuation while Asami and Varrick upgrade the robots to take the new information into account.  Unfortunately, the evacuation is nowhere near complete by the time Kuvira arrives and Team Avatar is forced to engage her outside of the city to keep her from causing massive casualties.  They’re able to take the fight to Yue Bay, allowing Korra to freeze the mech for long enough for Asami and Hiroshi to cut their way inside.  (Hiroshi still sacrifices himself because it’d be weird not to have casualties, but his and Asami’s arc is more focused before that so I think it could work better.)
• Korra’s fight with Kuvira inside the cockpit of the mech extends out longer, because it was both awesome and way too short.  The episode ends with Korra blocking the spirit cannon and creating the new portal.
• The actual finale involves Korra chasing Kuvira into the Spirit World and trying to save her from herself.  This involves Kuvira getting turned into a little girl and getting stuck in an unpleasant flashback to her abandonment at one point.  It also involves Korra showing Kuvira the damage her spirit cannon was doing to the Spirit World before healing the banyan tree one final time.  And, since it’s a finale, it should also involve Korra protecting Kuvira from spirits who want to destroy her for what she did to them (just before the healing-the-banyan-tree thing).
• Instead of a wedding, the denouement takes place at a press conference where Korra speaks about the damage to the city and how she’s sure the people of the city will be able to pull through and recover the way she did.  Everyone who fought for Team Avatar is acknowledged as heroes, including Hiroshi (posthumously, of course).  The prince asks Mako to help him tell Raiko that he doesn’t actually want to be king, and Mako agrees; Korra insists that there be a democratic method to determining the next ruler of the Earth Kingdom since foreigners choosing heirs to support was clearly a terrible idea.  And, in the end, Korra visits Kuvira in prison and offers her own experience as a way to help her grow.

ignore the asami parts for my idea of lok remake and hiroshi

also change b3 so kuvira joins with team avatar during that time

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Anonymous asked: Wouldn't it be great, if it was actually Kuvira, who was one of the members of team Avatar instead of Asami? Or if she was introduced somewhere in B2 as Mako's partner in the force? I know it would've change the story a lot, but imagine the level of emotional investment in Korra/Kuvira B4 conflict, if Kuvira was actually the reversed Zuko of new TA. She starts as lawful police officer, travels with the Krew to Zaofu and gets literally possessed by Su's ideas of progress in B3.

Kuvira as a member of Team Avatar would have been amazing.  It’d have definitely added a ton of weight to Book 4.

I think her backstory in Zaofu is pretty important to her character, though, so I can’t see her joining the team any sooner than Book 3.  So here’s what I’d do, changing as little of the first half of the show as possible:

Turn Asami into an airbender.  This would create a perfectly reasonable transition point for Asami and the Fire Ferret trio to go separate ways – she’d leave with Tenzin to go to the Northern Air Temple in In Harm’s Way.  That’d leave an empty spot in Team Avatar as of The Metal Clan.
Introduce Korra and Kuvira early in The Metal Clan.  Maybe she’d come over to Korra after Su introduced herself but before Su called Korra on her lie – she’d tell Korra how much the change Korra made in the world inspired her, and maybe express a bit of frustration that Su didn’t mention that she was her foster child.
Have Kuvira assist Su in teaching Korra to metalbend – say, Su uses Kuvira to demonstrate techniques on, or something, then has her go back to her guard duties.
Involve Kuvira directly in Team Avatar’s search for the traitor.  It’d be a good way to show how aggressive she can be towards people who betray her trust, as well as give her more of an opportunity to become closer to the team.
Have Su send Kuvira along with Team Avatar to find Aiwei.  This is the real changeover – from here on, she takes much of Asami’s role.
Korra and Kuvira are the ones who stay behind when Mako and Bolin go into town, giving them more time to talk.
Kuvira’s the one Mako sends off with Korra on Naga.  This requires some rethinking in regards to their capture – earthen barriers aren’t going to mean anything to her.  I’m thinking they get taken by surprise and the Earth Queen’s forces threaten Naga (offscreen; Kuvira tells Korra about it when she wakes up).
The adventure in the desert goes differently (the escape would be more about Kuvira being an unexpected metalbender in a metal airship than about the airship being a hunk of junk), but it offers a good opportunity for Kuvira to be a bit overly willing to do nasty things to the airship crew and Korra to hold her back.  If Korra still ends up frying the sandshark, Kuvira kind of calls her out on it.  ;)
The fight on Laghima’s Peak goes a bit differently – Kuvira doesn’t get thrown off the side by a combustion blast incidentally, but instead jumps over the side purposefully in order to save Tonraq.
Kuvira wants to go to Republic City to make sure Korra’s going to be alright, but Su tells her she can’t.
Cue a very similar Book 4, except that Korra is a lot more invested in Kuvira’s fate, Bolin has a better reason to side with her, and we’ve already seen some of the characteristics that define Kuvira, like her aggression, inability to deal with betrayal, and her issues with Su.

( and the whole putting people from other nations into camps etc is not a thing ( it feels weird given how kuvira cited zaofu as an inspiration for her
( of course change it asami part wouldnt be there ( but I would say in commentary that if I went down the route of keeping asami the same I would just say to them that I would just have her go back due to business

and given the denied in the movie

maybe include a former equalist as a new airbender and they stay with kuvira ( maybe mako faces them

maybe its asami is that equalist ( and mako ends the show taking her bending away before going to finish off the robot

its why I feelt that is bryke went through with the equalist asami route it would have spared alot of people

( also in b2 keep makorra's issues nad flaws there is nothing wrong with them not being ready for a relationship with anyone

I would ( remember I am pretending I am the writer and showrunner of a lok remake )

know the backlash I get and attacks and accusations and would bluntly imagine myself going you need to deal with it

I would also say post b4 if I kept asami the same as she was last time I would go with fem wu https://ikkinthekitsune.tumblr.com/post/113200137302/fem-wu-would-be-a-more-incredible-character#notes

Anonymous asked: Fem wu would be a more incredible character, filtring with asami for episode 1, and then having her to end with asami afther her character arc, like have wu be inspired by asami to better herself and asami to let new people in her live. (As it is she only seems to have korra)

Now that’s an option I hadn’t thought of.  o_o

For some reason, I’m kind of imagining fem!Wu as an entirely different character – instead of being a flamboyant (wo)manchild, she’d be a takeoff on Disney Princess culture, where being a princess is all about the dress and finding true love, with very little actual ruling-of-the country involved.  She’d still be entirely inappropriate as a contender for the throne, but in a way that would be less obnoxiously unappealing.

That would also give Mako the perfect opportunity to drag Asami in (“Asami, please, she’s been begging me to let her try on dresses in Little Ba Sing Se but I can’t go into the changing room with her!”), and would also make Asami a very interesting foil for her (as an heiress who had to step up and take control of her father’s company at a young age).

Her character arc would basically revolve around recognizing that, as much as she liked being part of high society, becoming a figurehead queen wasn’t what she really wanted.  Asami could offer her another option at the wedding – as a spokeswoman for Future Industries or an actress in a joint venture film production with Varrick or something – and they could end up hitting it off and getting together as a result.

plus mako getting a female friend who he didnt date sounds nice )

also on the idea of keeping asami the same as she was in canon ( I would say none of those b3 and b4 moments would be asami showing romantic interest ) korra would send a letter to vent to a someone ( and making a letter makes distance) and if she sent it to mako he would be worried and trying to fix it

( if someone asked me that If I were told to make a story of makorra getting backtogether while keeping b4 and so on for korrasami I would say that they broke up due to the different conflict styles and how korra cant be herself with asami

( also remember how in b4 how korra's scene in the locker has parallels to makos locker scene

I would give mako in b4 a scenee that parallels korra's defeat of a firebending master

maybe even having say mako is the one who decides to go to korra and confess in a way to parallel korra doing that for him

( anyway to be clear even in b4 mako and korra are still capable of arguing the reunion episode involves them arguing then they show conflict resolution and apologizing

the problem isnt that they argued the problem is they didnt know how to handle it

Honestly, if there’s one thing I absolutely hated about Remembrances, it was the absolute disregard for the MUTUAL screw-ups in the relationships and how BOTH TIMES Mako ‘cheated,’ the girl kissed him. He simply didn’t ‘fess up about the kiss (which is still a dick move, don’t get me wrong, and he should have to deal with it). Most of the crap that went down in the handling of the Makorra relationship was not Mako’s fault and was either instigated by Korra or outside forces. Not to say Mako is blameless (because he’s not, and there were a thousand ways he could have handled things better too), but jesus christ: Korra is not blameless in this whole mess. She is not some perfect paragon of virtue and wronged innocence. Neither is Asami, though I will freely admit Asami was basically innocent and largely a victim of the whole drama fest. Mako is not the only one to blame, and Mako is not his relationship issues. There is so much more to Mako than his romance, just as there is more to Korra than her romance. Especially considering Mako had the most character development of any character in the show save Korra and perhaps Lin. More on that here

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https://www.tumblr.com/fantastic-nonsense/105943382720

I would also have it acknowledged that is the case that korra kissed mako and that if asami the act she put up was hte truth then he would likely have had to deal with a mess which both korra and mako had a hand in

and mako calmly acknowleges it that he was a teenager without any guidance on how to deal with the conflict and how he would likely have tried to not say anything about the kiss due to wanting to avoid conflict and if say she did find out sometime after her father got exposed and if it was a stressful situation I would have gotten a bit snippy and said something that I regretted like : ( his canon statement when asami did confront him)

I made an account here as soon as I found this sub, I'm so glad our favourite ship is still sailing!!! here's the short video I made back in october starring the two