Anonymous9: What's the big deal about cousins? Cousins get married all the time, particularly back in the "time" in which Avatar was set. Even now marrying a cousin is perfectly legal and accepted. Great artwork, would like to see this develop into a series.
Comixfan: This should have happened. Bottom line, end of story, damn you Mike and Bryan! Seriously, it would have been a perfect pairing, especially if they would have set it up as something which happens after the finale of Book 3.
Very easily could have had Suki die (killed either during the Zepplin Assault Mission or by Combustion Man) which would added to the sense of sacrifice the finale was sorely missing, and hinted that, while Sokka's heart was broken it would be mended, overtime, by Toph who had secretly loved him for sometime (The Serpent's Path)
Had there been a scene with Sokka, sitting alone, morning Suki, and Toph coming along to do something as simple as put her hand on his (given that she's blind, it's a poignant gesture) there would have been a disturbance in the Force as millions of Avatards shipping Tokka would have had their head's collectively explode.
That said, this piece, and the other Toph/Sokka piece, is just fucking extraordinaringly gorgeous and hot.
Comixfan: @Anonymous: Shipping has nothing to do with it; it's a pairing that just made sense. As for the Cousin's aspect between Tenzin and Lin, you *do*, of course, realize that in most modern European and Asian countries, and even Western territories no one bats an eyelash at Cousin's dating, getting married or even just "hooking up."
First or Second cousins is not considered Incest, so there's really no Taboo element to it. In America there was a Stigma attached to it in pop-culture which, overtime, has lead to ignorant perceptions.
Some of the most influential and revered figures in American/World History were married or had families with their First, Second, Third and so on Cousins. There's also the caveat that the Avatar Universe is *fictional* and certain rules need not apply.
However, since I can guarantee Nickelodeon will never allow even the merest "hint" of something deemed "incestuous" -even inaccurately- in a "family" show, this point is rather moot.
Anonymous13: Man, it's funny to see the Tokka argument here when LoK AND the comics have yet to actually decanonize it. Only confirming that Sokka isn't Lin's birth father. We have no solid info on what happened with Sokka and Suki's relationship over the decades after TLA's era (whether they stayed together, divorced, saw others, etc.). Suyin is a half-sibling to Lin not a full sibling.
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Just didn't think it would be today!
I'm going to print this and jack all over it.
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Very easily could have had Suki die (killed either during the Zepplin Assault Mission or by Combustion Man) which would added to the sense of sacrifice the finale was sorely missing, and hinted that, while Sokka's heart was broken it would be mended, overtime, by Toph who had secretly loved him for sometime (The Serpent's Path)
Had there been a scene with Sokka, sitting alone, morning Suki, and Toph coming along to do something as simple as put her hand on his (given that she's blind, it's a poignant gesture) there would have been a disturbance in the Force as millions of Avatards shipping Tokka would have had their head's collectively explode.
That said, this piece, and the other Toph/Sokka piece, is just fucking extraordinaringly gorgeous and hot.
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First or Second cousins is not considered Incest, so there's really no Taboo element to it. In America there was a Stigma attached to it in pop-culture which, overtime, has lead to ignorant perceptions.
Some of the most influential and revered figures in American/World History were married or had families with their First, Second, Third and so on Cousins. There's also the caveat that the Avatar Universe is *fictional* and certain rules need not apply.
However, since I can guarantee Nickelodeon will never allow even the merest "hint" of something deemed "incestuous" -even inaccurately- in a "family" show, this point is rather moot.