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Oddly enough, I also have a story to share already concerning ships.

I was looking at one of OrlandoBloomFan's new posters, and she made mention that there was already a ship of Tenzin/Korra, apparently.

And since this is about 70 years after the end of the war, people are estimating that Tenzin is a fairly older guy, like around 30s-40s.

So with that in mind, I visibly cringed and kind of screamed a little.
I posted on the page something like "Korzin? I'm thinking he's a lot older than her, so...D:"

And she replies with "Love knows no age."

At which point I visibly cringed and screamed a little again. So I replied with " No, I meant he's like, in his 40s, kind of older than her."

She came back with some wierd thing about it being a crack ship and an ironic ship, blah blah. But Eeeugh. I was kind of scarred by her first response. And really, how many of us even make our crack ships with a teenage girl and a middle aged guy ANYWAY? Crap. That's messed up.

Which...she didn't really respond to in the first place by saying something like, Oh, that's how much older? or Oh that was a joke.

Ahhhhh, the wonder of Kataangers. I live it again.

I'm excited for the new series, but I have concerns about it... They better not shove Kataang in our faces. If they do, I'll be pissed and my Kataanger-friend will just smirk at me whenever he sees me. Which I won't look forward to. I'm okay with some mention of it... Just not in large dosages... >.o

Plus, hopefully they'll address about the extinction of the Air Nomads.. I mean, sure, we have Aang and now we have Tenzin... But is there anyone else? There was always that speculation of the Eastern Air Temple which housed the female airbenders... I dunno...

And what about Ursa?! I really hope they have some sort of flashback with Zuko explaining something about Ursa! It's been killing me that we had so many loose ends with Ursa! DX But one thing that humors me is the sight of seeing little Zuko Jrs... Haha. I wonder if they'd be as dorky as their daddy, lol.

But I agree with Malee, how is the rest of the world going to view the Fire Nation after their 100 year terror that they caused the rest of the world? It's probably because of that they have Republic City and their anti-bending movement...

But I'm definitely looking forward to the fact that we're going to have a teenage Avatar, as opposed to a kid like Aang... (Bryke better get the shipping right this time, lol) I like that Korra is also very different in personality, which will show us how she'll handle things differently than Aang, who was young and naive about certain things. I look forward to Korra and the rest of the GAang reappearing. I would be amused if Toph was the ruler (Queen, in this case?) of either Ba Sing Se or of Omashu...

Little late for that. Tenzin's mother is Katara, was I the only person to practically retch when I read this? The series hasn't even officially started and Bryke is already fueling the flames for the fandom drama. neutral I'm not excited, but I guess it's worth keeping an eye open for. Still, I have a lot of reservations.

Korra seems wonderful, and other Avatarians have already started suggesting the same which I've thought myself. They say that Korra could be a grandchild of Sokka and Suki.

I mean, okay, yeah, we haven't seen her face, but it's not the fact that she's a Southern Water Tribe's woman, it's something about her stance and her hair that is both traits of Sokka and Suki. She has a warrior braid/ponytail mix.

Are people already shipping Korra/Tenzin? O_o; Wow, that's beyond creepy. And hello dusty Gaia account, how I have ignored thee. :B

I'm very excited and nervous for this whole thing. I really hope that they do a nice job on the characters and that they keep up with the good animation style. I always hate it when a show dishes in alot of cash so they start going cheap on the animation. >_>

Ah, I have a bad feeling that the Kataangers are going to throw this all in our faces. We'll have to be the more mature ones, though, and look past it. I really hope they have some flashbacks since I'd love to see Katara and the rest of the gang in their 20's and 30's even if the flashbacks are Kataang based. We'll just have to be strong. ^_^

Huh. Maybe I'm the only one at peace with the whole idea of Tenzin being a Kataang baby.

I mean, come on. She'd have to learn airbending from someone, and there's now only one bloodline in their world that HAS Airbending. Are you really that surprised that Katara is the other half of that genepool? Really?

Honestly it was a given, and I'm not going to let it spoil it for me. And I don't think they'll spend too much time giving us background on how lovey-dovey Tenzins mommy and Daddy were. This is going to be about Korra.

I honestly don't care who Tenzin's parents are, but in my mind Aang will always be a little 12 year old kid. I can't see him as anything other than a little kid.

I'm curious to see if Tenzin has any siblings or Katara and Aang got super lucky in the offspring department and decided that was it for kids. Honestly, at the chance of having a waterbender, no bender and airbender they got air on the first try which is pretty damn lucky.

Well, I think it's just the initial reaction of people not agreeing with Tenzin being a Kataang child... I mean, I'll admit that when I first saw Bryke's answer to the question about who's the mother, it bothered me. It was like adding fuel to the fire or at least re-lighting the old flames of the shipping wars. But if I don't actively think about it, the fact that Tenzin is Kataang spawn (I find that phrase amusing, haha), it doesn't affect me one way or the other. I just kinda shove it away from me and focus on other things, such as the concerns/thoughts that I posted above.

But also at the same time, it was kinda to be expected that Aang and Katara are the parents of Tenzin, y'know? This show is on Nickelodeon, and I wouldn't expect them to pull such-and-such separated/divorced and person-and-person got together/secret relationships ending with a b*****d child, or something. The original demographic of this channel doesn't exactly cater to divorces and messy details of relationships like that, so it was to be expected that a relationship of 13-year-old and a 15-year-old would work out forever on this show(quite unrealistic, yes, but whatever). And... then again, I don't pay attention to Nick that much anymore so I don't know if there are any current shows that discusses marital problems... *shrugs* Point is, it's probably for the best that they kept it as clean as it is, with no relationship issues between the cast and if there were separations down the line, it would use up some (perhaps a small portion) of the air time that the show has.