Nickelodeon has released the first look at the upcoming animated series “Avatar: Seven Havens,” the sequel series to the popular shows “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra.”

The artwork was revealed at San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, where “Avatar” celebrated its 20th anniversary.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    I was also hoping the show would have dual avatars as the twins, each with two elements.

    spoiler

    It does. Allegedly they are seperated, one is ‘picked,’ wealthy and trained with a more Korra-like personality, the other is poor and ‘lost’ with a more Aang-like personality. But we don’t know much beyond that.

    I really liked this too, but someone talked me out of this idea for a fic, actually. The reasoning being that this is the Earth Avatar Cycle, so it would be almost canon breaking for one to not have earthbending. They wouldn’t go through the stages of learning each element, it would kinda throw out the “four elements” synergy and fights and lore. They reminded me that the trope of twins being very close and “two parts of a whole” actually irritates many RL twins (hence’s Ty Lee’s character).

    So my take is twins that each have four elements, but inclinations to two each, as well as yin yang kind of personality conflicts.

    • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
      1·
      23 hours ago

      I don’t think you can really get away from the tropes when you pick twins, given their situation. There’s plenty of “evil twin cases” as well in media. If anything I would assumed twins not getting along would be more prominent. I’ve started to see some instances where twins exist in a medium, and they are just there and not the main focus as well.

      As for lore breaking, I think the show breaking their lore would be fine. Having a third show that follows the rules strictly would get boring. For the franchise to work it would have to keep evolving and growing. We already had Korra break and restart the avatar cycle, so no one can connect directly with the lives before her anymore.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      But two people can’t have four elements. Where is the second spirit coming from?

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        17 hours ago

        it feels perfectly sensible to me for them to just share a spirit or something, even if they’re not identical twins since it doesn’t have to strictly follow irl logic. Their whole thing could be that it’s weird how they’re connected despite just being ordinary twins.

        i mean hey, what if they have to take turns with raava? mom said it’s my turn on the bending