Avatar Reincarnation THEORY [Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra] 

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For real though, if Kyoshi was the avatar during Sozin's conquest, the hundred year war wouldn't have even lasted a year. 😂

Now i want to see a story about some random bender who happens to grab the right toys

I want the next avatar to be on a mission to somehow reconnect with his previous lives

Fun fact: the current Dhali lama is named Tenzin Gyatso. The guardian and father figure to aang was named Gyatso, and Aang’s son is named Tenzin :)

More like Fire, Air, Water and Earth since the first avatar was technically a fire bender first

personally, I believe the theory that when an avatar dies they become what they most longed to be e.g Aang rejected his avatar side and felt guilty so Korra, his next life, fully stepped into the role of the avatar as a blessing.

Oh my god. I just realized something. When Aang goes into the avatar state, it gives him the power/help of his past lives. That means when he ran away and went into the avatar state, Avatar Roku’s spirit froze him in ice since he knew that Sozin and his army was coming!

When Raava says “I will be with you for all your lifetimes”, it’s implied that Waang would have reincarnated without Raava anyway. This agrees with Buddhist spirituality, as everyone (not just the Dalai Lama or bodhisattva) reincarnates. Perhaps Raava just carries the ability to bend all four elements and the morality alongside Waang’s “spark of life” traveling from body to body.

Remember when Zuko was practicing lightning but exploded in front of him? Was that a kind of combustion bending?

I always assumed that each individual avatar was defined by there experiences, so each avatar is different because they never have the same experiences but able to have the knowledge and wisdom of there past lives

You have to wonder how weird it must have been to be the first Avatar after Wan. Like, Wan died alone from what we saw and even if he didn't, we don't know if anyone else could have heard what Raava said to him, so I doubt anyone knew about the fact that there would be a reincarnation at that point. Which meant you presumably just had this little air nomad kid who was just growing up completely normal...until they just suddenly started bending water.

I always assumed they were for the most part the same person but were changed via their upbringing. Aang was raised as a monk so he is more peace loving and pacifistic. While korra found out she was the avatar at a younger age and was raised to be a bit more free-willed. And their bending talents varied due to that in some ways. Aang was an air bender raised to be peace loving so bending like water and air came naturally to him. They are built on moving with the element rather then forcing it. While earth which requires a bit more stubbornness was harder and fire which was believed to require Fury and control was also hard for him. Also him hurting Katara resulted in him developing a fear if it. Where as korra was a little bit more less structured. She was allowed to develop a somewhat more selfish personality that allowed her to be a little more stubborn and proud, which gave her the willingness to embrace what it takes to bend other elements. That stubbornness also made it difficult for her to air bend because that element is essentially the antithesis of stubbornness and Pride.

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I think all spirits reincarnates. Just Raava hitches a ride to the next body. I know Raava keeps the avatar from reincarnating into anything but human to better relate and be the bridge as Avatar Yangchen explains. I also believe that avatars subconsciously over compensate for the past avatar's sort comings or regrets. Korra is over enthusiastic and bold to make up for Aang's too Methodical ways. Aang is Methodical to make up for Roku's indecisiveness. Roku is indecisive to not be as brash as Kyoshi. Kyoshi is straight to the point and no nonsense to make to make up for Kuruk's arrogance and too laid back ways. Kuruk is laid back and arrogant to compensate for the fact Yangchen was too diligent as a avatar, she chose enlightenment over humanity she had nothing to tether herself to humans and she could not relate to them to be a proper bridge.

Raava is not goodness and peace. She is Light and Order. Good and Evil have nothing to do with the spirits of Light and Dark. We might favor the Light but the Dark has it's appeal as well.

If you cut off a gecko's tail, it will grow back. Maybe a soul, when severed from the body, will eventually grow a new body. As for being able to talk to a past self, I got nothing.

I think the avatar personalities are so different because the avatar becomes/is who the world needs at that time.

same soul, different body and upbringing... seems pretty simple to me

I think Avatar reincarnation is more like a chain adding new links to itself, rather than a piece of clay being reshaped.

If the Spirit is Rava & Wan combined than that means all avatars inherit playful and helpful nature of Wang's personality. And that means Kyoshi was once also young, playful careless. which makes us speculate what made her to change and become scary & intimidating. Yes, Avatar Kyoshi series would rock. (bt only by original creators)

The soul in the Buddhism can be explained easily by comparing your soul to a river. The river will always have the same name even though it's new water that runs through it. Your soul will always be you but you will change with new experiences/water. In fact you're different now than you were when you clicked on this video. That's why the avatar always is different, because they are the same but not. The person Korea was as Aang is a completely different person but at the same time not. I think it's Korra's connection to Rava that makes her capable of remembering specific things from Aang's personal life. She doesn't have his memories because she not him but things like his childhood toys and love for playing stayed with her because that was a core part of who the avatar is.

Korra recognized Toph when meeting her for the first time, you can tell she remembered Toph from Aang's lifetime from the way she spoke to her.

Aang most challenging element was actually earth he was was actually good at fire bending in part 1 since it was a plot point that he got cocky and burnt Katara he got scared of it. On another point I think that each Avatar had an element that they had challenge with since it goes against how they natural are like aang and earth bending since it mostly rigid and goes against his instinct as a airbending prodigy and Korra with air since air takes patience which she lacked

2:10-2:17 turn on the subtitles

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When Korra was separated from Raava it was unclear whether she retained the ability to bend all four elements. In her ensuing fight with Unavaatu she only did waterbending, which is her birth element. I would say that Raava helped carry the ability to bend more than one element with her so giant blue-spirit Korra was only seen to be waterbending against Unavaatu. So it is likely that through the reincarnation Raava ensures that each avatar will be able to bend all four elements with her help.

It's been proven multiple times that avatars cycle with previous regrets, For example Kyoshi protecting her loved ones the most and being serious about her role as the avatar, which are based on regrets from her previous life, Kuruk, which was laid back, went with the flow, and eventually lost his Loved one, and also died at a young age. From the information we currently have it's just speculations to know if Every single creature / human reincarnates, although we have seen people like Iroh and Admiral Zhao which spent time in the Spirit world instead of a new mortal body, which CAN be explained since Zhao did have a fight with the literal Ocean spirit La, so she may have done something with him, and Iroh is very connected to the ghosts so it's also a possibility that he was able to get his Spirit out of his body, but that's just speculation.

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QUESTION: Why does the Avatar cycle end when the Avatar is killed in the Avatar state? Something to do with the connection between Rava and the Avatar being permanently broken? Or is Rava destroyed?

I think Raava is actually a hive of spirits, we see on "The last airbender" that it is incredible difficult to bend different types of elements at the same time. "To bend the stubborn element you have to impose yourself, be like a rock". I think the avatar learn all the elements but cannot bend them together all at once, he can only do that in the avatar state because his past lifes are thinking like a waterbender, or firebender and so on.

Korra recognized the teapot cuz she saw it while in her coma.

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What if each avatar life is just an experience with action, memories and skills So each avatar is the same spirit put back to an almost blank sheet

Ever noticed that every Avatar dates a Woman. Maybe that’s carried over.

In the closed captions, Wan is "one" and Aang is "egg".

I would reincarnate as a Time Lord so I can reincarnate 12 more times before I need to worry about it again

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My personal theory about how the current Avatar can speak to previous Avatars is that Raava maintains a direct connection to the spirits of previous Avatars, think of it as like speed dialing, rather than Raava housing their personalities and memories and beliefs inside her and when Unalaq “kills” Raava he severed the link instead of destroying all the spirits of past Avatars, kinda reaching with this theory but I like the thought that instead of all the past Avatars are forever gone now an Avatar has to go into spirit form to find one of their past lives and maybe is guided to them by the spirit of an Avatars animal guide.

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A simple way way of explaining the difference between the Buddhist concept of a soul a and the western or "Christian" concept uses two of the elements. The Christian soul, or immortal aspect of an individual, can be represented by water. It fills its mortal vessel ( a vase). If the vase were to break, the water would escape, evaporate and float into the sky. The internal substance of that vase, is the water, without it, it is just a shell. If a Christian soul were to reincarnate, the same substance would be poured into another vessel. The Buddhist soul is a flame. When you pass a flame from one candle to another, the flame moves on to the new wick. Then the flame changes to suit the candle. If it was passed onto a sparkler, it would sparkle, if it was passed to a giant Olympic torch, it would roar up into the sky. Like Aang and Zuko with the sun warriors. They both took flames from the fire gifted to the warriors by dragons, but they presented Ran and Shaw with two very different flames. (Well they would have if they didn't start bickering.)

I know how you feel Tim. I just can't imagine having time to do all the research for the videos in the midst of all your school work. Keep up the good work.

But didn't LoK say that when Wan was first gaining the ability to bend all the elements that the strain of bending more than one could kill him? And Raavah used her energy to 'protect him' from that strain until he could do it without her. Now, there's no reason to think that Raavah wouldn't continue to serve that purpose with later incarnations. Rather than the different types of bending being something they have to go discover it's now something that they inherently have, but I imagine that there is still some strain on them while they learn mastery over those styles. Raavah could be just a layer of protection for the avatar so that they maintain the capacity to balance the world. Heck Raavah could be part of how Kora survived being poisoned.

The question of “what incarnates” is a huge question in Buddhism, with an “official” answer that differs in interpretation from sect to sect.

Your theory is interesting. I've always imagined that in a world where reincarnation exists, everyone reincarnates (which I see you have a video on, I haven't watched it yet.) and my theory about the Avatar is that rather than having past lives in the traditional sense that everyone else does, the Avatar is, well, an Avatar for other souls. Each Avatar is a new soul, a new person, a new being, added to the amalgamation, and once you're an avatar you are taken OUT of the reincarnation cycle and instead join the other souls who basically linger around for the next Avatar to access. If Avatar Roku, or Aang, or Kyoshi were reborn, they couldn't keep in contact with Korra, and thus their power couldn't help her. So basically I always thought that the Avatar was the only being to NOT be reborn, but instead, once you die as the Avatar, you stay dead and join this... legion... of past avatars... if that makes any sense... I think what really sparked this idea was the part about "if you die in the avatar state, you die permanently." Before learning about Raava, it made sense in that if they kill you in the avatar state, they're killing every soul at once.

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But my question is the Avatar the only one to reincarnate in the series? Does everyone reincarnate?

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Can an avatar be born to parents of two different nations.

Reminder: Do ATLA spirits reproduce

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It is my belief that you are making this more complex than it needs to be, however, there are many things in this video that you got right. The Avatar spirit can be similarly compared to the idea of yin and yang. Both subjects are independent, but, also the same. When Wan fused with Raava, it became impossible for him to truly die. In the Avatar world, death is not when the soul leaves the body, but when the soul moves on to the afterlife. With this definition, the idea of meditating in order to send your soul into the spirit world, the reincarnation cycle, and the Avatar spirit as a whole immediately start to come together with few, if any, contradictions. Raava does not die for two reasons: she is a spirit that has no mortal form to begin with, and she is quite literally light itself. This is why the Avatar reincarnates while other people die, because Raava's light spirit cannot die, making the Avatar spirit, the combination of Raava and a human soul, immortal, as you stated in your video. But, what explains how the Avatar's memories are passed on and not their personalities is the human aspect of the Avatar spirit. Raava is light so it is not as if she changes when her "form" gets destroyed, but the Avatar does, because with each new Avatar comes a new physical body with its own set of genes that differentiate it from other humans, however slightly that difference is. To summarize, to ask why each Avatar is not the same would be the same as asking why each Avatar does not look the same. Each Avatar has their own brain, their own body, their own being that gets added to the essence of what the Avatar is; and with each Avatar comes another person with their own knowledge, experiences, and spiritual energy that gets added to the Avatar spirit when the Avatar goes into the Avatar state.

Ok check it, here is my theory... The lion turtle gave wan the ability to bend but..... he also said Rava will hold it as well, until he masters the element. Bending is not spiritual magic, or what nation you are from. Its your spirit using your body's energy to control the elements. It is like the lion turtle said, "before the era of the avatar. we bended the elements with the energy within ourselves" (prob not exact but idc). So with that, remember we are a soul with a body, not a body with a soul. Everything has a spirit which include animals and humans. The spirit can bend as a way to communicate to the earth and its material. Kinda like a video game.... The user (spirit) knows how to play the game but the body (controller) is how we control the elements. The body is the tool. Which is why you cant bend in the spirit world as a spirit. The lion turtles gave the abilities to Wan's spirit. When we die we as humans, ascend to the after life. But Rava does not die. Even she said it herself. She can not kill Vatu anymore then he can kill her. So fusing her to Wan's body took away Wan's ability to go to the afterlife becoming a new spirit. He is immortal in a way as well. But hes normal human spirit is meant to harbor a body. His physical body dies but his spirit (which is now rava and wan as one spirit) but can not past away. Which means the very second he "dies", he continues life but not his mortal body. Which mean to us, starts life over again. But now in a new person with a new conscious. Hint Avatar: "a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher". Now the different lives communicating with each other are basically different conscious personalities in the same spirit. Even though you are the same person.... you have a new body. That means the DNA is different because of your parents. So you cant have the same memories. Your new body has a new brain with nothing in it. Unless you, as a conscious physical person, tap into your immortal spirit and talk to yourself from a previous life. So basically the avatars are scenes to Wan's spiritual existence. And when in the avatar state you gain the skills of all the avatars before you. So not necessarily power.... just skill. Because wan was the first avatar, had no help from previous avatars. Just power from Rava and the harmonic convergence. So in a way, they are all really just Wan this whole time just acquired many names in the past 1000 yrs. So when the avatar dies in their standard form as Korra, or Aang, or Kyoshi, they are the embody of the spirit. But dying in the avatar state is bringing the original, fused spirit of Wan up into the physical body of Korra, or Aang (the embodied) and actually dying. Which breaks not only the cycle but the connection between Wan and Rava. Which means Wan actually passes away when Rava was stripped from Korra and "killed". Now Rava can not die but Wan can. Which is why Rava comes back to fuse again (adding the strength of harmonic convergence) So really their are two avatars (three adding Unalaq). And Korra becomes the new start of the avatar cycle. It took a minutes to type this up because my first theory i thought of i debunked myself lol so i hope that makes sense because it was mad hard to explain in words.

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Another example that personality is separate from the soul is the last ep when aang was about to kill sozin. Since aang is linked with raava, she can give him all the past avatars' knowledge, and all of the avatars aang asked said he might have to kill. Right when aang was in the avatar state about to kill sozin his personality stepped in and stopped raava's supply of the knowledge from the past avatars.

I think Avatars are like twins, or like cells splitting. Sure they have a similar blueprint, but they end up different.

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I'm just starting to watch the series, on Book 2 at the moment so my interpretation is admittedly incomplete. Anyway, the way I see it is that the state of being the Avatar is like having the key to a locked door. Hence why the current incarnation of the Avatar can go back and forth between the physical and the spiritual worlds where other people (even their own past incarnations) cannot do so without assistance from another entity, like when Sokka got captured by a forest spirit, Roku possessed Aang in order to help him escape the fire temple that one time, or when Admiral Zhao was carried away by the ocean spirit. I guess the idea that the Avatar State is a defence mechanism would explain how the current one can communicate with their past incarnations. Because as the physical body dies the Avatar spirit moves the person's consciousness to the spirit world in order to preserve it? I don't like the idea of the Avatar spirit being innately good. or the idea of there being an evil opposite. I like the idea of the Avatar spirit being an amoral 'thing' like any other, neither good nor evil, and the people who had it in the past took it upon themselves to use it for good.

what was avatar roku-kyoshi-kruk and yangchen's story

I never noticed this until last night but the four elements are all examples of the four states of matter (I know that everything can change their state of matter but I'm talking about the four element's most basic form) water=liquid fire=plasma earth=solid and air=gas

I’ve already watched this, but it came back up in my suggested feed, so I’m rewatching it lol

I like to make certain comparison. Doctor Who's regenerations. The Doctor is one person, certain inherent traits of them passing on from each regeneration to the next. But what's mostly holding them together is memory, knowing who they were and how they were. But they're still somewhat individual people. Now, the Avatar only has a tiny fragment of small memories and direct connection the who they were, but, the same way as the Doctor, part of their essence remain. Korra loosing her connection to her psst lives Is equivalent to the Doctor losing their memories, only knowing who they are from the point of regeneration onwards, and only knowing they're supposed to fullfil a role as The Doctor

The reason why the Avatar reincarnation makes no sense between Legend of Korra and ATLA is that the concepts of what makes an avatar were retconned! Originally the Avatar was meant to be the Spirit of the World, that took a human shape in order to better sympathize with the humans living and all creatures and each life it experiences brought it closer to comprehending humanity and life, as a being, rather than a none corporal force. Which made sense with how each life is an amalgamation of the previous once and how each personality is different and even gender! Also each avatar could access their previous memory of any of their past lives, once they mastered the Avatar State, also made sense why the Avatar will die if killed in the Avatar form, as all the previous lives are channelling their power and knowledge in a single vessel, thus killing the Avatar kills all their past lives and all knowledge start from ground zero! Raava and Vatuu simply threw a wrench into a coherent story, that tried to make sense, but it could not, the Avatar State was Raava's power channelled and not the Avatar and the past lives were simply held as a memory buffer, as it was shown Raava cannot be killed, yet Wan's past lives and memories died once she was disintegrated? Don't like the Raava/Vatuu explanation meh

I'd like to reincarnate as lord Mishka

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Sooo.. Why did korra not know about Raava? Raava was inside all of the avatars, because raava gets basically pulled out of Korra by the bad avatar. Given how important she was for wan, other avatars should've been able to know her name.

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I think the essence of their personalities is always there. Sometimes you see Katara giving that heartwarming smile to Korra like she just saw Aang in her. What makes them so different in their beliefs is the way they grew up and their experiences.

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Your videos are wonderful and if I were to reincarnate into a fictional animal it would be the Phoenix

I think he might really be onto something with the spark thing because everything about the avatar matches up with the Dalai Lama even how they identify the next Avatar is taken from one of the tests to identify the next Dalai Lama it almost seems as if the way the avatar reincarnates matches with both ways described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead Except 2 moments that bring it all into question for me The the 1st was in a computer game I believe it was Escape the spirit world or something like that Aang talks to the 4 avatar before him At the water bender's turn he is describing how his fiance was pulled through the waters at the Spirit Oasis on their wedding day and he describes to Aang what she looks like Aang tells him about how he went into the spirit world looking for Koh the face stealer and he had a face that matched the avatars fiance the waterbender looks distressed and says he is off to take care of the problem or something I don't remember what but he seemed as if he could act independently of the new Avatar in the spirit world The 2nd was in the season 2 finale of LoK Tenzin, Bumi, Kya, and Jinora are all separated and lost in the spirit fog that causes you to go crazy Tenzin is talking to himself about how he's the Last Hope for the air Nation or something like that and then Aang shows up to him and says you're not me you need to quit trying to be me you were Tenzin and then fog clears and he gets the others and takes the out Tenzin isn't spiritually powerful enough to do that he couldn't even meditate to get into the spirit world hell Jinora wasn't even spiritually power enough to do that even during harmonic convergence I think it took an avatar and I think Aang was able to go and do that because his Spirit was able to act independently in the spirit world the same as the water benders seemed to do On a different note I think they split the 4th Dalai Lama in to two characters and changed chang like 2 things for ATLA, Aang and Zuko The 4th Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso was the great grandson of Altan Khan who was declared the reincarnation of Kublai Khan by the 3rd Dalai Lama Kublai Khan was the 5th Khagan of the Mongol Empire and grandson Genghis Khan he also started the Yuan dynasty in China

I think the key to understanding how the avatar spirits work is in the scene when Unalaq destroys Ravva. With each strike, a past incarnation was destroyed, meaning the memories and personalities of every avatar were stored within Ravva herself. I theorize that when the avatar is talking to a past incarnation, or when a past incarnation is taking over, it's actually ravva using the older data to help solve the problem.

If i were to rencarnate into a animal fictional or otherwise would have to be a Dragon i love them and i would love to be one! :)

I don't think Rava gives the ability to reincarnate. The way she says "we will be together for all of your lifetimes" makes it sound like he would have already had different lifetimes on his own, but now they can be together through it. So I don't believe that what makes the avatar special is that he can reincarnate. Perhaps everyone can do that, but no one tests them on it or keeps records to show them like they would for the avatar. Honestly I think reincarnation has to be looked at separately from being the avatar, and more like it has been seen in past wisdom. Like @Ida Thomsson has mentioned, the spirit is more of a path of life (to give more of an identity to that "spark" you mentioned) that's still subject to change. You can trace where it is now but you can't really nail it down type of thing. If we talk about the soul as the ongoing river, it's as if the avatar state is process of connecting to the ocean that this river feeds. Although the ocean has 'older' water in it, it does not feed the river. The river has a home in its current path (which will also change), and in the force that its source provides. Even though water is what makes you know it's a river, water alone doesn't make it a river in the way it would a body of water.

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Can you do a theory on the avatar world solar system? Edit: omg thank you for the heart!

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I've seen this on a few videos now. Starting at 1:55 music plays loudly over the clips and your speaking cuts out for about 20 seconds.

How does Fire Lord Zuko have a dragon???

I view reincarnation as a soul moving from body to body trying to learn lessons. The soul has all the memories from a past life but blocks them off so that their new lesson wont be tainted by habits from a previous life. This being what causes a woman from england visiting china and knowing a house, down to knowing how to pronounce the street without ever seeing it before, or in the most peculiar case I've seen, a young boy recognizing a beach and remembering a day where he, his wife, and his children played before going home, then being able to point out the exact house he lived in and knowing things he shouldn't have known. (you can youtube interviews with him talking about his other mother and his life before he died). Personally i havent experienced a bizzare "i know this place" moment but i believe it feels a lot like dejvu, like being able to name a perfume because your preschool babysitter wore it even though you cant even remember the babysitter. My beliefs stem from the egg theory, if you want to read more about them.

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To me it seemed like every single Avatar is it's own entity to some degree. They are all combined by Raava and maybe also Wan at the same time but the way they said "the Avatar reincarnates" in the show implies to me that the Avatar in itself is like a mixture of mental images, powers, natural beliefs that passes on to the next person but every Avatar is it's own spirit. That's my guess.

I've always thought that the memories, thoughts, and memories of the past lives carry over to the next life. As new memories and experiences come in, it builds a new person. Haven't you ever said, "My six year old self is so happy right now," or "My 21 year old self is with you. My 38 year old stuff, not so much?" Haven't you ever had a "conversation" with your younger self? I think these memories are retained in Rava, which is why killing her broke the connection to the past lives. Each new person brings not only new social experiences, but new experiences in the body. Imagine being placed in a body that was allergic to your favorite food, or even just the taste buds react differently so it tastes horrible now. With arms and legs and tongue and neck all suddenly different lengths than ever before and weak as a newborn, all of your memories will be pushed to a subconscious level while you relearn to walk and talk and such. If I could be reborn as anything, I'd want to be a river otter in a zoo. I saw river otters at the zoo. They always look likey they're having fun. I saw them mating once... I want to be a river otter.

I would either be Lugia, or a velociraptor (blue from JW) mostly since they're both badass.

Raava isn't the one who gave Wan the ability to bend the elements. The lion turtles did. Raava doesn't really do much except allow the Avatar to access their past lives with the avatar state (which more or less puts the spirit Raava in a human body), giving that avatar thousands of years of experience in that moment, until the avatar state passes. The avatar and Raava are pretty well separated.

Love your vids, always a pleasure. I have two questions though. Firstly you say there are two halves to the Avatar. Do you think it’s possible for those two halves to be reincarnated separately? Like a set of twins? Secondly, after the events of Korra loosing the connection to her past lives, I’d assume it’s just the human half that looses the connection, but Raava herself would still remember. Do you think it possible for future Avatars to regain said connection? Like visiting the homes or places of worship dedicated to specific Avatars to learn their history and regain the connection individually.

I know, a pheonix that way I could be reborn into a baby pheonix when it is time to die and I could heal the venom of a basilisk. And when I watched the episode when Korra was in the spirit world and found her teapot I was curious as to why she was a little girl while there instead of her actual age.

SPOILERS Can you make a theory about the giant Dragon skeleton on vaneheim

So I think, let me emphasize the “think” in that sentence, that the spirit remembers all past experiences that it has gone through but the experience of being reborn causes our minds to forget giving us a clean slate and only through meditation and the like are able to connect with our previous lives and memories

Nature and nurture, the nature of the person stays the same but the way that the person is Raised changes there for from nurture changing the person they turn out to be