- Ah, darn it. I was gonna say the same thing, but you beat me to the punch. Also, the world of Mother 3 consists of the Nowhere Islands. After thousands of years, Continental Drift would have changed the landscape a bit, but it the end, kinda resemble the Fire Nation land.
The "My watermelon!" woman and the "My cabbages!" guy for obvious reasons.
- Iroh is too smart to be Doof. What if he was Monogram?
- Ozai could be Doof, and Momo could be Pinky.
He was reincarnated as Zuko, who had a very harsh father, but also a loving mother and uncle, as per his wishes as well as karma for his noble death. He was born into a royal family because of Rufio's apparent thirst for power. Everything bad that happened to Zuko was karma for the wrong he'd done to Peter as Rufio, and Zuko's ultimate happy ending was because despite his demeanor, he was essentially a good soul.
Both boys appear to be deputy leaders for their respective groups, with Rufio taking the lead when Peter left, and Zuko doing the same in the final in Aang's absence. Both boys are rebellious and are the 'act now think later if I survive' type. Both also are hotheaded, born warriors, and proud to the point of arrogance. Most noticeably, they fill similar roles in their respective show/movie, as they start out being somewhat antagonistic, though never really villeins, but later become valuable allies to the hero.
Might be something of an inside joke that they are portrayed by the same actor.
- Who the heck is "Rufio"?
- Leader of the Lost Boys after Peter Pan goes to earth to grow up and marry Wendy's daughter in Hook.
- ... Who is also played by Dante Basco, in case you didn't catch that.
- Leader of the Lost Boys after Peter Pan goes to earth to grow up and marry Wendy's daughter in Hook.
- But while Peter is a good, though harsh, father, Ozai is a megalomaniacal psychopath who cares absolutely nothing for either of his children. There aren't really any simularities between the two other than "father".
- Everyone's Asian, there are various animal species with elemental powers (like the badgermoles and sky bison), and "regular" animals are known of but extremely rare. Give it a couple of thousand years and the high levels of mutation and metamorphosis Pokemon are so famous for, and for the populace to largely forget about the bending teachings, and you'll have the Pokemon world.
- Related theory: Ash is the current "modern-day" Avatar, although nobody is aware of this.
- So Pikachu is related to Appa and Momo? Well, Momo might be. But there are other examples, like the Hog Monkeys/Mankey, Komodo/Rhydon, Pentapus/Octillery, Unagi/Gyarados, etc.
- The only ones that didn't forget were the psyshics, that, somehow or another, have soulbending techniques... Sort of.
- Obviously, the creature from the Serpent's Pass◊ is Rayquaza◊.
- It would explain a whole lot
- It would definitely explain the giant magicarp that live near Kyoshi Island...
- I think Red is a much better equivalent for the Avatar. He catches all the Pokemon and is a Pokemon master, and actually defeats and disbands team Rocket.
- Let's take this further. At one point after the events of Naruto, a nuclear war devastated the world, leading to Fist of the North Star. Kenshiro and various others use knowledge of chakras and pressure points to kill their enemies with a few well-placed jabs. The radiation caused massive mutation, leading to all the Mix-and-Match Critters and weird animals seen in Avatar. Ty Lee practises a martial art descended from that used by Kenshiro, but either she prefers to use non-lethal attacks, or knowledge of hokuto shin ken has been lost.
- The Uchiha clan are the descendants of Aang. Previous generations, unique in their ability to manipulate the air, took the symbol of a fan (uchiwa) as their family emblem and name.
- Wouldn't it make more sense if the Land of Wind where Aang's descendants. One of the descendants just happened to be raised by Sandbenders. And also all of the named nations in Naruto could be traced back to one of the four elements. Water, Rain and Waves would obviously be Waterbenders, Fire and Lightning would be Firebenders, Wind and Sound would be Airbenders and Earth would be Earthbenders. Thus the Uchiha clan would be descendants of the Firebenders.
- But then how come Aang's removal of Ozai's chakra didn't leave him paralyzed like when Sarutobi did the same to Orochimaru? Kabuto would really like to know- after all he's the one who had to wipe Oro's butt for months.
- Whenever I think of fusing the settings I place Naruto's Japan as a forgotten tributary of the Earth Kingdom where the people who would become the ninja were driven to due to practicing heretical arts. With the reveal of the Finale they are justified and could be there but that doesn't, entirely, negate the distrust for the jutsumethods which disturb the spirit world and souls of their practicioners and is induced by drugs as to just a natural extension of birth and odd reversal of kekkai genkai prejudice..
- Have you seen Naruto's map? It looks nothing like Japan, has several dozen countries, islands and so forth on it. Short of the Avatar world being a Dyson Sphere, there's no way to add one to the other without some weird justification.
- The avatar world could be millions of year in the past of the naruto one. Continental drift is always an option.
- Please don't say that... the thought of Firebender Zentraedi is just too awesome and terrifying for mortal minds to handle.
- Or Avatar is the future. Jade Empire is set at the tail end of the transition between spirit bending and element bending mentioned by the Lion Turtle, with elements just beginning to come to the fore. Over the next few hundred years, the Jade Empire conquers the world, its culture washing away all others. However, elemental segregation eventually grows so strong that the Jade Empire splits into four elemental nations.
- Warren Peace from Sky High (2005) is descended from Firebenders, possibly even the royal house of the Fire Nation. He's not ethnically Asian but speaks at least some Cantonese, his powers seem to work identically to firebending, and he sort of looks like Zuko.
- If we follow that logic, then that would mean that Terra from Teen Titans (2003) is a descendant from the Earthbenders.
- And that the Loch Ness Monster is really an eelhound.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Perhaps we found a way to harness the elements, made it compact, and then made it inherent to the human condition. The "Learning from the moon, the bison, the dragon, and the badgermole" is a metaphor for how technology is inspired by nature.
The player kills the Water Dragon at the end, so that she can be reborn into the world and to re-establish the natural order. The Celestial Bureaucracy decides to remove the water aspect of her domain in her rebirth. She was originally attacked solely to end the drought, so they figure she'll be less likely to be attacked if her sole dominion is over spirits. She is reborn as the Giant Lion Turtle, the one Aang meets at the end of the series (obviously involving a sex change, but somehow I don't think that Gods care about such things)
The player is a Spirit Monk, and retains all of those handy powers. Like Spirit Binding. Which sounds suspiciously like something that Aang did at the end of the series: attacking the spirit of another. That's right: the player from JE founds a new order of what we come to call Energybenders.
With the new Spirit Monk order replacing the Order of the Lotus/Lotus Assassins, the Jade Empire sweeps across the world, absorbing all others into themselves. Eventually, the empire grows decadant and corrupt. As the four forms of bending start appearing in the world, the empire's Spirit Monks are able to absorb their bending. In the process, they go insane (remember the Lion Turtle's warning: your spirit must be unbendable or you will be corrupt. Somehow, I doubt all energybenders had unbendable spirits). This threatens the new order of the world.
So the Giant Lion Turtle decides to kill off her old order. To do so, she brings together 4 benders, one of each element, and Energybends their spirits into a single entity: the first Avatar. She then binds the Avatar spirit to the world, so that it will be reincarnated with full access to its past incarnations. The Avatar destroys the Jade Empire, kills off all of the Spirit Monks, destroys the knowledge of Energybending (except perhaps what lies in Wan Si Tong's library), and brings about the Time of the Avatar.
- Mandy has all the deviousness and ambition of her counterpart, but the general lack of subtlety and tact that comes from both being an eleven-year-old child and living in a Crapsack World. However, when she gets older, starts reading Macchiavelli's The Prince, and learns to rein in that dazzling smile of hers, all that will change...
- Further supported by both being voiced by Grey DeLisle. Everybody who knows the type of roles she plays understands why.
- Alternately, Azula is an older version of Megan from Drake And Josh who Took a Level in Badass.
Azula and River are both geniuses (quite obvious with River, Azula is a master strategizer who understood complex battle plans at the age of eight), but both are also talented physically (obviously with Azula, being capable of bending lightning and producing blue flame, River in the movie is shown to have Ninja Skillz© plus she's an amazing dancer). And neither Azula nor River is adverse to killing people.
...Also, both Simon and Zuko are terrible at talking to girls.
- I love you.
- And Ty Lee is an alternate version of Kaylee! She's just as cheery as Kaylee and like Kaylee choosing to befriend and support River, she appears to be closer with Azula than most others.
- Iroh is totally an alternate version of Shepard Book. Wise and spiritual with a dark past.
- While we're typecasting, Sokka is Malcom Reynolds, Katara is Zoe, Aang is Wash (both characters die unexpectedly after a moment of triumph), Toph is a female Jayne Cobb, and I suppose that leaves the role of Inara to Suki.
- Given that the Sun Warriors appear to be pre-Columbian Mesoamericans, it's not that big a stretch to assume EITHER group could populate Lion Turtle Island.
- And Ba Sing Se will become Ankh-Morpork...
- Actually, I thought that the exact moment that I saw him! And the eye is his transmutation circle!
Aang will have gotten a rude awakening that his defeating Fire Lord Ozai didn't do jack shit to actually fix things, especially not immediately. At the same time, while he and Katara will have probably had a few kids, all will be Waterbenders like their mother. Again, reality starts to hit the now disillusioned Avatar that, while he isn't the LAST Avatar, the cycle will end with the next Waterbender Avatar, since there will no longer be an Airbender to reincarnate into, and the cycle will end. After that, who's to say that something like the Fire Nation War will not happen again, and this time no-one can help? He finally bemoans his fate, and believes that there would be no problems like these if people could only think like the Airbenders did, free of their earthly problems.
Aang attempts to intervene in a battle between Earth Kingdom discontents who are trying to drive out/destroy members of a Fire Nation colony, while the Colonists refuse to leave their home of generations. They do not listen to his pleas, and even after he mass Energybends several of the front lines to try and stop them, they only momentarily stop, then pick up whatever weapons they can find and continue attacking. Finally, in a fit of rage and frustration, Aang enters the Avatar State and Energybends both armies, knocking many of them out.
When Aang's reinforcements arrive, they cart off the ranks two armies, but Aang notices something: as one of the prisoners thrashes about, he sees a bucket filled with water start to shake for no reason, and finally, the water splashes out of the bucket. Seeing this, Aang rushes back to the Fire Nation. There, he goes to Ozai, saying he will still find a way for Ozai to benefit the world. Ordering the guards away, Aang begins to Energybend Ozai, apparently somewhat painfully.
This all leads to Aang finally perfecting his Elementbending technique, becomes a Well-Intentioned Extremist, and begins to handle the rebellions, insurgeancies, and guerilla wars by forcefully turning the combatants into Airbenders - both to stop the wars and to ensure the existance of future Avatars, since Aang still staunchly refuses to kill. Of course, word gets back to Zuko, Katara, Toph (now the Earth Queen since Bumi has passed on and no one had the cahones to tell her "no"), and Sokka (the new chieftan of the Water Tribe), as well as the remaining White Lotus members about Aang's crimes.
They corner him in a battle and confront him about this, but can't convince him to stop. In the same moment, an Earth Kingdom insurgeant who Aang had Elementbended into an Airbender spots Zuko and, thirsty for revenge, shoots him with an arrow. Seeing his friend fall, apparently dead, Aang goes full One-Winged Angel, and the Gaang's only option is to take him down. This ultimately ends with Katara Bloodbending Aang to stop him, but he doesn't release from the Avatar state. After trying everything, and as she's losing her grip on him, she tearfully embraces him and gently Bloodbends his heart to a stop.
To avert a full Downer Ending, the movie ends a few years later, with Zuko still alive, though bearing the scar from the arrow, the guerilla battles having all but ended, and a final scene of Katara calling the kids to come inside - the last and youngest being paler, round-faced child Airbending a ball.
This troper is a Zeta Gundam fan - does it show?
- You mentioned the waterbender after Aang being the last avatar...why? The Avatar would have two more re-incarnations after that. The Avatar Cycle is water>Earth>Fire>Air>Water>Etc>Etc.
- While not with that specific plot, I could easily see an OVA being made if the film is a success. (Which it likely will be, even if it's crap. Never underestimate the power of a Super Bowl ad.)
- Okay, with the new series being announced, with the Water Tribesgirl being the new Avatar, one-third of this theory is Hilarious in Hindsight.
- Hippo elephants.
- And a snake. (There's a snake, right?)
- No, the elephants on the turtle with the giant disc are from Discworld. There's no snake, and I don't remember their resembling hippos.
- There's no snake on the Discworld itself, but there has been another one mentioned (By Tethys, IIRC) which did have a world serpent.
- The elephants and turtles are much, much older than Discworld. Jormungandr is from Midgard, which is in the roots of Yggdrasil, a completely different mythos. And here, it's turtles all the way down.
- And a snake. (There's a snake, right?)
- By the same token, the Lion-Turtle is Great A'Tuin's son. Or something.
The Elements are forged at (and one presumes using materials from) places called power spots the Fighting Cliffs in the Earth Kingdom are such a spot.
This does not necessarily mean that Avatar: The Last Airbender and Chrono Cross (and by extension Chrono Trigger) take place on the same planet they may merely have the same resources.
- Incidentally, thinking of Zuko as Erik makes watching The Phantom of the Opera a lot more entertaining...
- Sounds good, but - for us who are musical-illiterate - more examples are needed. Especially in reference to Firelords Ozai, Azulon, and Sozin; Avatar Roku; Prince Iroh; Ursa; and, of course, the legendary Azula.
- Aang would fit perfectly as Ren from Fooootloose, given their free-spirited natures and masculine passion for dancing. Don't believe me? Watch "The Headband."
- Legendary Azula? Just look up "The Madness of King Scar" from The Lion King on Broadway.
- Mai and Ty Lee could be Elphaba and Glinda.
- Now that you mention it; This one had a thought during, like, season 2 that the fire nation was America and the war symbolized the war in Iraq/all those times we felt the need to spread democracy onto other countries. And after the above mentioned CMOA and The Avatar and the Fire Lord, that's all I can think about.
- America is hardly the only country to use the excuse of "spreading our ideals to the less fortunate" or some other form of manifest destiny to invade other nations. Crack open a history book—that's been around since man organized into big, powerful civilizations. This troper isn't American and is no fan of their actions last few years, but shoehorning every recent "big power invades something" story into the American invasion of Iraq/Afghanistan is just silly. If it must be symbolic, then it would be more of a shot against great powers pushing around not-so-powerful nations in general rather than any specific (or recent) incident.
- This just shows how the Fire Nation won the war and fufilled the objectives of Sozen. Fire Nation tech will be instermental in rebuilding the Earth Kingdom and it will be adopted by the Water Tribes and reborn Air Nomads in less then a generation. This is what Sozen claimed to want. The Avatar wasn't meant to beat the Fire Nation, just the Fire Lord
- Either that,, or President Obama watches Avatar.
- That would be so badass. I don't even particularly like, or agree with, President Obama, but if he watches Avatar... Wow.
- He does have young kids. It's totally plausible that he's been exposed to a good cartoon - and one featuring a nonwhite cast, at that.
- Obama is a nerd, he watches Star Trek and collect Spiderman and Conan The Barbarian comics. As a nerd he would easily like the show.
- Wait, what? This troper thought the whole thing was about how China treats Tibet.
- lolwut?
- America is hardly the only country to use the excuse of "spreading our ideals to the less fortunate" or some other form of manifest destiny to invade other nations. Crack open a history book—that's been around since man organized into big, powerful civilizations. This troper isn't American and is no fan of their actions last few years, but shoehorning every recent "big power invades something" story into the American invasion of Iraq/Afghanistan is just silly. If it must be symbolic, then it would be more of a shot against great powers pushing around not-so-powerful nations in general rather than any specific (or recent) incident.
- Many places at once, eh? It certainly explains why he can travel so fast.
- Also, Aang and Katara are precursors to Paul and Chani.
- And the White Lotus Society is evolving into a behind the scenes shadowy group to control the culture and information of the world.
- If Aang and Katara have triplets...
Then the 'comet' swung around for the first time. Either it was mis-aimed and got hooked into an elliptical orbit, or the spirits, sensing the evil within it, diverted it. However, parts of the 'comet' fell off and infected the world. Fearing this the pieces were dumped into volcanos. Sensing the power of the world, when the 'comet' came by on its second swing it started to meddle, infusing some of it's power and intent into the people near parts of its body. Again, it was repelled and sent off it's orbit, but too late, because the power had already taken root, and particles of its body was spread into the atmosphere.
Firebenders were included into the cycle in an attempt to balance the world, and the Airbenders became all gung-ho about philosophy and doing the right thing in an attempt to cleanse this, but Sozin found out about the 'comet' and called it down, drawing it into a hundred year orbit.
That's right, Sozin is Azayla, and the Comet is Lavos.
- Alternatively, the comet is the Chaos Comet.
- Probably. Also, a Bloodbender should be able to cause atherosclerosis by ponding the blood or thrombosis by forming blood clots. Doing this inside your heart should also be possible, causing severe heart attacks. Considering the fact that most waterbenders can turn water into gas or ice, bloodbenders should also be able to freeze or vaporize the water in your blood. Also, the water in your blood is not the only water that exists in your body.
- * Shudders* And just think of the ramifications of bloodbending into the Octopus Form.
- Even better, the Fire Nation IS the Tevinter Imperium. After attempting to kill the spirit of the moon, General Zhao taints the Ocean Spirit. Eventually a Blight forms in which the spirit became an Archdemon.
- This only makes sense for the first half of Season 1. If at all.
- The reason they don't age is because the entire series takes place over the course of less than a year. The first season takes place during Winter, the second during Spring, and the third during Summer.
- Ten months, according to Word of God.
- They do age, it's just subtle, and not in your face. Katara's hair slowly grows, and in the epsiode "Tales of Ba Sing Se," we see Sokka shaving his thinly growing moustache.
- But Captain Hook's ugly!
- Tell that to Jason Isaacs.
- ...you know, Jason Isaacs is in Avatar as an ocean-going villain who keeps trying to capture Aang and his friends. Maybe the OP is onto something after all.
- Tell that to Jason Isaacs.
- Even better: the Lion Turtle is the Island from Lost. Aang perceives it as a Lion Turtle because that's the spiritual framework by which he interprets the world.
- The Mechanist was a Time Lord. He fell through the Rift/Void/what have you into the Avatar world, crashed his Tardis beyond repair, and decided to just live as a human instead of trying to get back home - which I'm willing to bet was in the middle of the infamous last Great Time War. Fast forward twenty years and you get the events of "The Northern Air Temple".
- Confirmed by awesome.
- Not Spongebob himself, but Mermaid Man.
- Yes, that baseless, unsupported, and poorly capitalized idea is terrifying.
- ... I LIKE YOU!!
- The names "Toph" and "Tommy" are similar. We can attribute any difference to two factors. First, it is likely Pete Townshend made an error translating the Chinese character for Toph to English. It is likely he ended up with Tom instead. This leads into the second point, which is that Tom was modified to Tommy for musical purposes, e.g. fitting the meter of a song.
- The lyrical contents of the song "Amazing Journey", a track on Tommy correlate to Toph's story of how she learned to Earthbend. In short, Tommy, though his senses are impaired, begins to experience events in is life as music, and is lead on his life story by a tall stranger in glittery robes. Replace "music" with earthbending and "tall stranger in glittery robes" with hideous mole creature, and you have Toph's orignal story. Either one of the above points, translation errors or an artistic license, can account for the discrepancies.
- The last point is more speculative than the previous two, but possible. In all the scams Toph and friends ran on Fire Nation citizens in Season 3, it is likely that one of them was playing pinball for cash. Toph simply had to earth/metalbend the pinball and she could reach an unbeatable score. It just makes sense.
- This is supported by the fact that in the chibi-ized short, Bending Battle, Toph turned a cliff into a pinball machine and used Sokka as the ball.
- Building on this, the Moon and the Ocean spirits are Great Furies - note that in Captain's Fury Isana says that the ocean is all one vast fury. Since all waterbenders draw their power from the Moon, they're all crafting from one vast fury. The Sun is probably another fury, and Sozin's Comet is another that the Fire Nation has learned the harness and claim.
- Well this explains why no one ever tries to sail from the Earth Kingdom's east coast to the Fire Nation's west coast or vice versa by going around the planet. Every attempt ran into blood bending wolfmen or animal bending neanderthals and never returned to tell anyone about them.
- It might be less than nobody was taught about wood- and metalbending, and more that none of them are using their full powers so they think they're just very good sword/knife-users or archers. The swamp-dwelling woodbender and Toph have basically made Achievements in Ignorance.
- The Yu-Yan Archers get their Improbable Aiming Skills from being woodbenders. Piandao is a metalbender. And by extension...Sokka is a metalbender too! Toph is quite clearly a High Lord-tier crafter, being able to bend metal and earth, and Zuko, being a master swordsman, may also be a High Lord-tier metal and firecrafter.
- Another connection. Alera the fury is an artificial version of the Avatar Spirit. Alera was created by gathering pieces from every corner of the continent in one place, creating a new Avatar Spirit specifically for that continent. Alera gives the current First Lord access to extreme power, but with drawbacks attached like the Avatar State.
- But Aang's way too nice to be anything like Truth, if anyone's Truth, it's probably Koh
- Tell that to Alphonse.
- Nah dude, she didn't move the island she CREATED it.
- By severing a land protrusion from a mainland. A "peninsulectomy" if you will. Seems appropriate that it was done by a woman...
- And the Emperor couldn't psychically check up on Kyoshi because the Spirit World had seceded from the rest of the Warp because its inhabitants got sick of the grimdark. Since the Warp is a plane of emotion and psychic energy given form, and the Avatar world, for all its troubles, is an ultimately more hopeful and on average less murder-happy place, it makes sense that their corner of the Immaterium would be less mind-searingly hostile. (Although certainly not without its dangers.)
Likely, Aang and successive Avatars will be none the wiser and just keep on Energybending people's abilities away in order to quell future uprisings with as little death to influential persons as possible, only making the restless Devil-energy within the gate that much more potent without even realizing this exists. Thus, Aang has literally no idea that he and the Lion Turtle who taught him this power are directly responsible for allowing the birth of Father''.
- But there is no Satan/Devil figure in Avatarland. It has largely eastern philosophies, so there's no "Satan" per se. There can be demons, evil spirits like Koh, but there's no all-encompassing lord of evil. Also, this Troper sees no evidence that the Fullmetal Alchemist and the A:TLA world are the same one.
- LET'S REVISE THIS THEN!! There was no "devil" figure guiding the Lion Turtle or Aang, so it wasn't exactly a deception—however, even The Legend of Korra developments don't change the fact that saying the energy went straight to the Gate still works as well as anything else. The change here is that this transfer would set off a gradual shift in the link between living beings and natural energy, which ultimately would result in a tradeoff after at least a good several hundred years or so. By a certain point, no benders or hybrid animals would be born anymore, with the last Avatar (possibly two or three after Korra) likely also living to be the last bender; however the power of the elements could now be accessed by via hermetical/scientific means. This offshoot, identified as alchemy, is more governed by the laws of nature than anything spiritual and it's certainly not genetic, which in turn means anyone can do it—provided they put forth the necessary intelligence, study, and practice. In the end, though it's certainly less malicious than the original theory suggested, the Lion Turtle and Aang are still inadvertently responsible for Father—after all it is through alchemy that Homunculus is first drawn from the gate, right? As for FMA and ATLA: the map showing Amestris, surrounding countries, the Great Desert and Xing could easily be interpreted as a part of the Earth Kingdom with maybe some geographical change.
- Airbenders are blue/white.
- Actually, they make more sense as White/Green, given their philosophy and the fact that Green has air spells.
- Firebenders are mostly red/white, with some of the royal family over the last century or so being black/red.
- Pure firebending can also be Red/Green, since Green is the colour of life.
- Earthbenders are red.
- Maybe with a splash of Green.
- Waterbenders are blue.
- Add Green for healing and plant growing, and Black for bloodbending.
- All spirits are at least partly green.
- The Avatar is all five colors, possibly minus black but probably not.
The avatar can manipulate all forms of matter due to his/her past jedi lives.
As we know, Aang remained in the ice for a long time, and the Earth Kingdom failed to launch its offensive long enough for the Fire Nation to recover from its losses and turn the tide of the war due a combination of industrial superiority and enemy infighting, thus prompting the Oracle to choose a set of Guardians well ahead of time (the comic makes clear they were supposed to be chosen in time to fight Phobos fifty years later, around the time Will and co. were in fact chosen), with a quintet of Earth humans being chosen due their resemblance with ATLA humans and being from the world that will be on the frontlines when Phobos resurfaces.
The sudden apparition of a group of five overpowered Benders including a Waterbender, an Airbender flying on her own power (Yan Lin), a two-element Bender (Kadma: in W.I.T.C.H. plants fall under Earth, in ATLA some plants fall under Water and the others are not-bendable) and two Firebenders (Nerissa's energy projection looking more like Firebending than anything else) fighting the Fire Nation gave the Earth Kingdom some much needed breathing space, especially with Iroh's siege sucking up manpower. Then Iroh did the impossible and breached the Outer Wall, causing the chance for Ba Sing Se to fall and cause the Fire Nation to still win the war, getting the attention of the Guardians, with Nerissa plaguing the sleeps of the troops before leading the garrison in a counter-attack. In which Nerissa could have well targeted Lu Ten to break Iroh's spirit, and the siege with it.
With Iroh's spirit broken, a good chunk of its army busy defending itself from Ba Sing Se's garrison and the morale at the lowest point ever, the Fire Nation was ripe for surrender if the Guardians attacked the capital... But before that could happen, the Oracle noticed Nerissa's addiction to the power of the Heart, and when he passed it to Cassidy Nerissa murdered her and her group broke up.
- That would make a great crossover fic, though it does make the Oracle look sort of dickish. Unless Nerissa winning the war would have made things worse by her taking over the Fire Nation and continuing the war. Face it, she's a lot smarter than Ozai was and her mentoring Azula... scary stuff.
- That or he feared that she'd go mad if left with the Heart. According to Kadma (at least in the comic), the Oracle had been late, not wrong. Coupled with the fact that the Heart must be willingly given, it's probable that Nerissa herself was noticing she was growing too attached to the Heart and allowed him to give it to Cassidy, with both of them not expecting her withdrawal to get her completely mad. Now that I think about it, it's possible that either Kadma or Halinor had warned them it could have happened but hadn't been listened...
- In addition, every Keeper is a potential Guardian of one element, chosen every time following the Avatar Cycle (Water —> Earth —> Fire —> Air —> Water). There is a similar situation in canon: Cassidy had replaced Nerissa and was the Guardian of Water (at least in the cartoon. The comic never stated her or Halinor's Element), and her successor Will was shown to be a potential Guardian of the Earth (aside the fact that Will is the third most stubborn character in the series after Kadma and Cornelia, both Guardians of the Earth, in one All Just a Dream special where Cornelia had quit being a Guardian we see that Will took Cornelia's place as the Guardian of the Earth, with Orube becoming the new Keeper). Will's successor would be a potential Guardian of Fire, while Nerissa was most probably a potential Guardian of Water (when Taranee went on strike and Orube filled in she received no elemental power, working with her training, innate abilities and Fridge Logic about the Guardians' wings).
- Does someone have a gif or jpg of it?
(Nevermind that America tried to "become one" with them, shhhh.)