@AuthorXoXiee The issue with these people is that they treat past lives as if they were “still alive” characters, almost like Avatar is based on Christianity or something. In reality, these are characters who are canonically dead; there’s no reason for them to come back...
@_eastOrb It's a cultural thing. In fact, The Awakening of Roku revealed that women in the Northern Water Tribe have traditional tattoos, so it's possible that a past Avatar from that culture had tattoos that glowed in the Avatar State, similar to Air Nomad tattoos.
@MattSketch@Lord_Hokage_PTS Honestly, I think a lot of Western fans react that way because they're unfamiliar with the philosophies and religions that inspired this universe...
@malikmagma23@KnightGambit And that’s why I mentioned the lore expansion, because the Chronicles of the Avatar books mention that there’s actually a lapse of time between an Avatar’s death and the birth of the next one, on top of what’s been said about Seven Havens.
@KnightGambit Wan’s story establishes that without a Harmonic Convergence, Raava can’t simply leave one human and fuse with another unrelated person, which is exactly why the Avatars are reincarnations in the first place. The Yue theory honestly makes no sense at all.
@DanHarmone The type of avatar represented here is basically a Shaktyavesha-avatara. People who are still stuck on this whole past lives debate honestly just don’t understand what the franchise is actually going for.