LoK Shipping Thread

[Snake of the South]

Here's the place to discuss and debate your favorite shipping pairs in Legend of Korra. Remember, keep it PG-13. Crack ships are welcome discussion as well! Happy shipping.

[Battery]

MAKORRA! :DDD

Spoiler: show

[RongNuShii]

Probably gonna have to go with Tenzkorra(TenzinXKorra). And why the hell not?

[The Pahty Mahn]

my ship would be.. Korraanybodyandeveryoneplussexyzhao. i mean, Korra is just that amazing that EVERYONE would love her or want to hook up with her in some way, shape, or form, and Zhao gets added into the mix because a full-strength dosage of our favorite admiral always makes things better. fo sho

[Tera253]

~Korra~

[Tiny]

I don't care for much shipping, especially that prior to our knowledge of the character's interactions and idiosyncracies. That being said, Tera's post is indeed a win.


You know there are going to be some interesting fangirls who want brocest shipping. I am just waiting for their fanart.

[Battery]

I am just waiting for their fanart.

Waiting? Gurl, it's happened. Just browse DA for a bit and you'll find some. xD

[Tiny]

I am just waiting for their fanart.

Waiting? Gurl, it's happened. Just browse DA for a bit and you'll find some. xD

Oh jeez.

[Zutarafan101]

I'm definitely shipping Makorra.

But I find it odd that we barely know the characters yet, and people are already shipping.

[Snake of the South]

I'm definitely shipping Makorra.

But I find it odd that we barely know the characters yet, and people are already shipping.

It's Avatar. I expected this to be honest.

[D3stiny_Sm4sher]

Sadly, I expected this. xD I'm with the threesome comic because it's funny.

Since I'm writing an AU story that incorporates these characters into it, and am just now introducing Bolin/Mako, I'm totally going to make fun of this pre-series shipping stuff.

[flareknight]

I'm going to try and not bother with shipping this time. Mostly because when I actually cared who they might pair Zuko with they put him with a choice so bad I would have rather kept him single.

Should be interesting anyways to see how it goes. Do love though how we can get into pre-series shipping. Really does show the passion Avatar fans have .

[Pleh]

Passion for Avatar Smut more like. Maiko was a good pairing, though it does make me wonder where the relationships will be going this time around. I kinda hope they leave a lot of the shipping under the radar this time. Make all the secret desires of the characters more along the lines of how Toph crushed on Sokka.

I ship Makorra currently, but to be honest, I would love to see it happen much more discreetly than Kataang (so ixnay on the pic Batt posted with the sparring match). Have it be one of those things that Korra always suspects and wonders what Mako is really thinking and have Mako always carefully guarding his true feelings. Then have several episodes where Korra has other interests just to push Mako into jealousy and finish it with a few where Mako is sought after by a few ladies to make Korra realize that she might lose him to another woman. Then we have Korra halfway certain he likes her, but only unsure because he won't pursue her for whatever reason.

Of course, what reason could Mako have to not initiate a relationship? Well, the real reason is because he's a coward. It's not a bad thing, it's just a sign of Mako's age and maturity. All men are either cowards or jerks when it comes to their feelings (especially towards women) and the mark of a true man is their capacity to overcome their overwhelming fear or pride, whichever they tend to have more trouble controlling. However, he won't realize this until much later in the show. The reason he tells himself that he won't pursue her is because he knows his brother Bolin is smitten with her and he doesn't want to break his brother's heart by stealing Korra from him. He's decided to let Bolin pursue her and so he tries to let his feelings for Korra go, but the process of doing this brings a maturity to Mako which starts to counter his natural cowardice, making him more into a man. Inevitably, Korra begins falling in love with Mako, and Mako, in trying to do away with his love by ridding himself of puppy-love feelings, winds up making room in his heart for a deeper kind of love which begins to grow. Bolin becomes jealous and there's a point at which it becomes painfully clear to all three what's happening, even if they don't understand or want it to happen. At some point, Bolin and Mako have to fight it out, because men don't understand their feelings very well and beating on each other is a primal, instinctive way men express their emotions with each other. Until they fight, the wounds that form in the brotherhood will not be able to heal, but after they bruise each other enough, they'll remember their love for each other and come to an understanding. Bolin will realize that he is being selfish and that Korra and Mako have a sincere love that Bolin only wishes to have and he'll step aside. By confronting Bolin, Mako will have overcome his fear of breaking his brother's heart and finally have the courage to express his love for Korra to her. Normally there is a complication at this point in the story, but there is currently insufficient data on the plot and the characters to determine what kind of complication should arise at this point. But I would hope that there WOULD be a complication, because after Mako decides to love Korra with all his heart, then he will have to pay the price for loving her, which is usually the price of fighting to win her love either by saving her from a villain, or pursuing her love despite her rejecting him, or sometimes that's when tragedy strikes and the girl is lost for whatever reason. Whatever the price he has to pay, after fighting his brother for her, he will have to pay that dowry and it will change who he is forever. That is character development, though, and so I fear that Bryke won't make Mako do anything to mature into the kind of man he needs to be in order to love Korra. Characters don't develop in Avatar. But that's how the story SHOULD go.

[Mika Hayami]

Of course, what reason could Mako have to not initiate a relationship? Well, the real reason is because he's a coward. It's not a bad thing, it's just a sign of Mako's age and maturity. All men are either cowards or jerks when it comes to their feelings (especially towards women) and the mark of a true man is their capacity to overcome their overwhelming fear or pride, whichever they tend to have more trouble controlling. However, he won't realize this until much later in the show. The reason he tells himself that he won't pursue her is because he knows his brother Bolin is smitten with her and he doesn't want to break his brother's heart by stealing Korra from him. He's decided to let Bolin pursue her and so he tries to let his feelings for Korra go, but the process of doing this brings a maturity to Mako which starts to counter his natural cowardice, making him more into a man. Inevitably, Korra begins falling in love with Mako, and Mako, in trying to do away with his love by ridding himself of puppy-love feelings, winds up making room in his heart for a deeper kind of love which begins to grow. Bolin becomes jealous and there's a point at which it becomes painfully clear to all three what's happening, even if they don't understand or want it to happen. At some point, Bolin and Mako have to fight it out, because men don't understand their feelings very well and beating on each other is a primal, instinctive way men express their emotions with each other. Until they fight, the wounds that form in the brotherhood will not be able to heal, but after they bruise each other enough, they'll remember their love for each other and come to an understanding. Bolin will realize that he is being selfish and that Korra and Mako have a sincere love that Bolin only wishes to have and he'll step aside. By confronting Bolin, Mako will have overcome his fear of breaking his brother's heart and finally have the courage to express his love for Korra to her. Normally there is a complication at this point in the story, but there is currently insufficient data on the plot and the characters to determine what kind of complication should arise at this point. But I would hope that there WOULD be a complication, because after Mako decides to love Korra with all his heart, then he will have to pay the price for loving her, which is usually the price of fighting to win her love either by saving her from a villain, or pursuing her love despite her rejecting him, or sometimes that's when tragedy strikes and the girl is lost for whatever reason. Whatever the price he has to pay, after fighting his brother for her, he will have to pay that dowry and it will change who he is forever. That is character development, though, and so I fear that Bryke won't make Mako do anything to mature into the kind of man he needs to be in order to love Korra. Characters don't develop in Avatar. But that's how the story SHOULD go.

Ahhh, beautiful. Such a turn of events would make me very happy.

But...I think the reason, in the show, that he will delay a romance with her will be credited more to his steadfast need to win the prize money, and to not let any distractions get in the way of making sure his brother is safe. He will hide behind his duty to his brother in a different way, probably not because Bolin is in love with Korra, but because he feels like he will be made to eventually choose between his brother and the Avatar. And that's scary, so he'll try to stamp out his infatuation for her, and that, in turn, will grow into a greater, more mature love.

As much as I love the pace and stakes of the show, I'm really doubting that kind of character development to come from it. Nick seems to be selling Makorra in the commercials like the typical "they hate each other, then they team up and like each other" romance. As revealed in the trailer, they have to save Bolin from the Equalists soon. Clearly Mako will blame Korra for Bolin's capture. He'll probably take that opportunity to come clean about how important Bolin is to him, how it's his job to protect him, how he's always been the only thing in this crazy world that he felt was worth caring about. Korra will acknowledge that, tears will be shed, and she will swear to help Mako rescue him.

Of course, Bolin was shown being tortured with lightning in the trailer, and I'm kind of thinking that might lead to him temporarily losing his bending--in a seemingly permanent fashion. So, in essence, Korra will have broken Mako's most cherished brother. Mako will totally blame her, but after she and he went to all the trouble of finding him and saving him, bonding as they tried and exposing very vulnerable emotions to each other in the heat of the rescue mission, he will fully acknowledge the girl he was infatuated with, the girl he did not want to get in the way of his duty to Bolin, and the girl who not only did that but actually was the CAUSE of his undoing, is now just as dear to him, in a totally different way. He will be ambivalent and shut himself away before he can allow himself to forgive. Bolin will probably have to give him permission to forgive her, which will be hard as Bolin is a character who loves his bending and its perks very much, and he will have to grow to accept that all his value is not in the physical side of him. When he does accept his injury, that will probably precede the time when he gains back his bending or the time when he dies, but before that he will tell Mako that he forgives him and Korra for crippling him. Mako will weep and regret, and turn to a term of contemplation over what the best action is to take, returning to the shadow of his original problem since now he must be responsible for the crippled Bolin, who he may very well want to dedicate the whole of the rest of his life to. That's when Korra will overcome her intensive fear for self-preservation that Aman pressed into her after their first battle or so. She will come to terms with the fact that as Avatar, she must accept her fear but not let it hinder her (as previously, she denied it and alternatively allowed it to overtake her) and throw her all into defeating Aman for revenge and to save everyone. Relationship-wise, she will need to make a move and bring Mako back out of his shell a bit by telling him there is no hurry--that he does not need to make any decisions about her and him before the final battle. She'll try to hide her troubles from him, and plunge deep into her training with Tenzin, preparing for the battle to come. Any way you look at it, without friends, she is lost. Bolin won't be much help anymore, she might have another comrade in addition to Tenzin, but without Mako, she'll slip up and get in deep trouble. And when that trouble comes, Mako will have received that little outside kick from something that reminded him of his childhood before he and Bolin became orphans, will remember Korra and come storming to her rescue just in the knick of time. And they'll acknowledge each other then, save the day one way or the other, and then settle down after the fight.

Hmmm...maybe there could be development in that. A little less complex than yours, Pleh, but better than nothing. It might turn out well.

And I agree on the whole "discrete" thing. But it won't be. It will sing loud and true as it has from the first episode that Makorra is the only option, and maybe that's because something like what I mentioned above does happen, involving struggles that are mirrored and enhanced by romance, which would mean that it needs to be more overt in the beginning for the audience to get an attachment to it. Not that I agree with that sentiment--I think the subtle approach could work just as well, but might require a level of finesse the pacing of this show is sure to lack. Precedent would certainly say so, as Bolin ships were shut down five seconds after meeting him and Makorra was painfully, cheezily established in that final scene of episode 2. They might as well have sung a "Somewhere Out There" duet.

[Mika Hayami]

This




"I've never felt this way before!" [/cry]

[Tera253]

AmonxKorra has the same nonsensical vibe that AerisxSephiroth or ZeldaxGanondorf does.
I fucken love it. >:B

for some reason, Makorra has a bigger anti-clicking turnoff than Kataang post-season 3 did. I'm not gonna go into canon-denial or anything (I didn't at the end of book 3) but to me in the first two eps it almost seems like a cross between the crappy parts of Kataang and Zutara combined into one.
but, I'll probably end up taking a similar shipping stance that I did in ATLA, and ship all the pimp characters with everyone [Bolin made everyone pregnant. even Mako.] and ship everyone else with everyone else too, anyways.

~Ty Lee~

[Mika Hayami]

Whatever happens, they need to give it more depth and finesse than any of the shitty execution from Season Three. I totally agree with that.

[Snake of the South]

I dunno, while I do find Makorra growing on me the more I watch the premiere over and over again (along with the trailer Korra Nation put up this past weekend), there is a part of me that still wants Borra to happen. Whatever the case, I don't really mind either way. I do think people are jumping the gun with the trailers though. Who remembers the infamous Zutara hug from the season three trailer from NYCC 08? I do cause I was there and everyone was all like "ZOMG ZUTARA ACTUALLY HAS A CHANCE NOW." I'm just saying, trailers aren't the best things to go off of even if Korra did say "Admit it you like me." We just don't have the context. That was the problem with the Zutara hug. Everyone thought it was romantic, but then when the actual episode came out, it makes sense why she hugged him (even though she was pretty OOC in that episode, but that's another thread for another time).

What does Makorra have going for it for sure? That last scene of episode two is probably what comes to most people's minds. And really, it is more obvious than the beginnings of Kataang back in ATLA. However, Bryke are trololols, never forget that. Just look at the Zuko's mom joke. They love to twist and turn the story. Honestly, I need the next episode where we finally see Korra, Mako, and Bolin in a normal dynamic rather than just having met before making a call. This show is already much more "mature" than ATLA though, so I wouldn't put it past Bryke to deliver on character depth. They've learned from ATLA and have done a great job with Tenzin (who has the most depth so far imho).

[datargie]

Even that the show seems to lean to Makorra, I am more neutral-leaning a little to Borra.But I just don't want another shipping war so I'm trying not to care about the ships (it's actually easy for me because I am intersting way more in the storyline and plot)

[Tiny]

I guess the subtle approach has been recently bombed with the .5 second clip that we got of a Makorra kiss in the new trailer. To be frank, I never saw that potential (now canon?) pairing as one that would be subtle. Rather, I think that the two will be one of very direct emotions. Korra is about as subtle as a hammer to the face, and Mako is extraordinarily blunt. I'm more interested in the duration of the relationship. I see any possible pairing as something that will be tumultuous (a hint at Makorra before the series has aired? There's going to be drama.) and as something that won't last for as long as, say, Kataang.

[Firelord Alex]

Looks like it's canon...

I didn't believe it before, but either Makorra will happen or Korra will be single. Her eyes are set on that hunk of man.

[Fire&Ice]

Ha, I loved that part XD

just go with whatever the creators/characters want. Whover they want to be with is who they will be with. Like with kataang. Zutara was never going to happen, but they became good friends after all that had happened between them, and thats suprising itself. If Korra wants to be with Mako, thats what i'm going to support. If she wants to be with Bolin, thats what i'll support.

[sozin]

after the kataang disaster (zuko took a bullet for katarra) they should just hook the two up-mako/korra-and move on

[Conzu]

Episode 4 Makorra [/trolol]

[LimitedUBF]

To add some good humor to this thread, I've seen a meme going around involving the Makorra Kiss from The Spirit of Competition. Most of em are here at http://my.spill.com/photo/album/show?id=947994%3AAlbum%3A5439390&xg_source=activity. Needless to say, I lost my shit when I saw these.