🌻(1/2) I was thinking about the technological progression from ATLA to Korra (which really isn't that drastic or impossibly fast compared to actual history, especially considering bending) and I thought about what kinds of inventions would probably be invented in the Gaang's lifetime. By the time they hit old age they'd probably see the very beginnings of electricity-based power and maybe rudimentary telecommunications.
🌻 (2/2) They also probably have phonographs, and that realization immediately hit me over the head with 'Izumi asks her dad record the songs and stories he sang and read to her as a kid so she won't lose his voice after he's gone' and now I'm dead.
That is such a sweet image
But
This means the gaang are going to be those adults who are baffled by technology. Some of them would be on top of it - like Sokka probably had a hand in said technology, but he’d definitely go on long “back in MY day rants.” Though said rants would be wild.
“Back in my day, we didn’t have cars! We flew around on a sky bison, even though the Fire Nation kept launching flaming catapults at us. And when he got kidnapped, we walked through the desert all the way to Ba Sing Se, hopped up on cactus juice.”
“Okay, Uncle Sokka.”
Just. All of zuko's alarming facts. No context. Just the fact. What led up to this, what happened, the conclusion?
What did you get up to zuko? Its all the weird facts that he did while chasing the avatar, when he was with the avatar, THEIR versions of what happened, the locals versions of what happened.
Also his alarming childhood facts that still alarm his uncle to this day.
Everyone is piling and comparing random zuko facts bc how did he live and still be a moral and honorable person who lived in his family and became fire lord?