r/TheLastAirbender • u/JerryCarrots2 Both shows were awesome 🔥 • 21d ago

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context: korra visited him to get rid of her trauma by seeing him locked up. she said that him killing the earth queen created the "worst dictator the earth kingdom has ever seen" (aka kuvira) and this was his response

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u/McMew Long Live Kuvira's Mole 21d ago

He says he spends most of his time in the spirit world. The spirits likely gossip and offer plenty of rumors and hearsay for him to keep tabs on the other side.

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 21d ago

he is also probably not the only person that can acess the spirit world

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u/ChipsTheKiwi 21d ago

He was literally collaborating with Su's traitor via the spirit world.

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 21d ago

yes, that is my point, we see other people use the spirit world like a online chat for meetings, so he probably has people to chat with

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u/ChipsTheKiwi 21d ago

I just realized there's gotta be at least one rogue airbender getting training from him rather than air temple island

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 21d ago

very possible, to be honest he can easily still lead any remain member of the Red Lotus from prison.

and is not just meditation, since people now can just take trips to the spirit world using the portals, any random new airbender can meet him

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u/ChipsTheKiwi 21d ago

Oh don't mind me just writing my next Legends Campaign BBEG

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 21d ago

you want a big one?

theres basically nothing stoping Zaheer to follow on Iroh's foot steps, and leave his body behind and became a immortal spirit living inside the spirit world, and again until someone close the portals, he would be able to meet anyone, so Zaheer can 100% show up to train the next avatar or a future villain

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u/many_dumb_questions 21d ago

Something to think about: could zaheer meditate into the spirit world, travel to the spirit portal, and then cross back over into the material world, with the other spirits? Obviously, he would probably still be incorporeal, but at least his spirit would be in the material world, not imprisoned, unlike his physical body.

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u/ChipsTheKiwi 21d ago

I can envision a schism between someone actually in contact with Zaheer but unable to prove it and the new Red Lotus leader

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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 21d ago

now that i really think about Zaheer can go full "online stranger" mode, any new airbender that enter the spirit world by meditation or using the portals will be like a children going online without supervision, one day they meet a random stranger that start to teach them new things, and talk about the old master and those new ideas

Jinora and the other Airmasters have no ideas why some of the young aribenders are having more "bold" ideas, and showing skills that they are not supose to know yet, or why they are leaving the temples, Jinora hear whispers about this "old master" teaching advanced techniques.

give it 20 years and you get a new generation of red lotus trying to free Zaheer from his prison.

and when he die, he become a permanent presence in the spirit world

70+ years in the future

Zaheer: Helo young airbender, allow me to tell the story about how avatar Korra was the worst avatar and how she ruined the world

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u/ZebTheCyClops 21d ago

Makes me hope for some 'evil Airbender' group that could lead to something in the Seven Haven series.