How would you guys envision a South Asian-inspired Avatar: The Last Airbender? In our East Asian-inspired version, we have Japanese culture: Fire Nation, China: Earth Kingdom, Eskimo: Water Tribe, Tibetans/Nepalese: Air Noimads. So which four Asian cultures would correlate to bending?
How would you guys envision a South Asian-inspired Avatar: The Last Airbender? In our East Asian-inspired version...
Alexander Davis
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Thomas Young
Arnt there already indian people in avatar
Chase Hernandez
I honestly wish that we got more South Asian inspired stuff but apparently Indians get really buttmad if non-Indians use their stuff.
Robert Brooks
Poobender lol
Anthony Ortiz
If you extend to south and southeast asian cultures in general it'd be pretty neat.
Brandon Cooper
Nah its more if they use it but get it wrong. Like say if we take Jesus and make him a gay man.
Owen Edwards
The Four Nations aren't so strictly based on any one East Asian culture like you wrote. For example, Pathik is clearly Indian-inspired and the Water Tribes take a lot from Oceania cultures in addition to the Inuit. The Fire Nation is hardly Japanese outside of their war efforts, being based mostly on Chinese and Thai culture.
Easton Phillips
Jacob Williams
Hell his name was once a really common one
Leo Barnes
I would like a storey that was inspired by old South Asian stories. They have some dope stories that can be told and we are stuck with generic fake Japanese or Chinese ones
Xavier Garcia
India and South East Asia does have presence. They're just not so prominent. Also, the backbone of the Avatar franchise is martial arts and while I'm sure India has their own martial arts, it ain't as flashy as their East Asian counterparts
Asher Wood
Yeah thats true. Its more of bum rushing and killing people bit they had some dope weapons
Andrew Allen
It already exists, it's the Avatar live action movie, and much like the country of India it is shit.
Connor Thomas
Wasn't that how it was though? Yeshua was always working with hard word and hung around with prostitutes yet never fucked them.
Logan Collins
Nothing is more manly than working on wood and taking spears on your death bed
Noah Cruz
POOOO
Samuel Brooks
probably not your questuion, but indonesian fire nation maritime empire would be cash
they were the only good parts of that movie.
Levi Foster
>I'm sure India has their own martial arts, it ain't as flashy as their East Asian counterparts
Nigga look up Kalaripayattu
Jaxson Murphy
reminds me of the Worldbending project a few years ago; ATLA inspired worlds based on a variety of cultures. shit was p neat
Jacob Collins
>Water Tribe
Inuit, polynesian, south american, sacandinavian, greek
>Fire Nation
Japanese, indian, mesoamerican, roman, anglo-saxon
>Earth Kingdom
China, middle eastern, egyptian, slavic
>Air nomads
Tibetan, native north american, hebrew, celtic
What do you guys think? I'll admit I don't know a lot about the arabic world to properly separate them better
Jacob Moore
how about just these regions
Julian Russell
Slavs would be those wierdo waterbenders from the swamp that everybody ignores/has distaste for.
Angel Wood
But he is gay.
And black
Gabriel Hernandez
>native north american, hebrew, celtic.
Not really, they're very much based on Tibetan spiritualism.
Benjamin Scott
Avatar wasn't focused on one country. If you wanted to focus on South Asia you'd have to extend further into the Middle East
Ayden Martin
I'm not saying what each one is based on. Just what would fit on each
Alexander Hall
I have this idea about a universe parallel to Avatar based upon Western civilization. The world is a complement to Avatar's Eastern-inspired world & would appear on the other side of the planet in what the creators said was an ocean of nothingness.
>The air nation people is spread throughout the land. They're stateless & super religious. The few who airbend, or manipulate wind, believe they are the chosen ones.
>Fire folk are rather private about their ability. Most of them are redheads.
>Water manipulators are indigenous to tropical regions. Due to the world's reliance on water for transit, they'really the ones with the most power.
>Earth dwellers are mole people. All of them can move stone, but there are very few of them. Their talents are in high demand.
Henry Stewart
So fire is Celtic/Scandinavian, water is Mediterranean, air is France/Germany/Christianity, & Earth people are gypsies.
Hunter James
Iranians in general are also fire.
Charles Scott
I've rather have a native american inspired Avatar.
Isaiah Diaz
Already exist
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Jordan Lewis
a shit bender?