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>Legend of Korra.

Alright. Let's do this.

Season 1. 'Book one: Spirits'

Pro bending league + move over into Unalaq story, where we learn Vaatu, Raava and original Avatar Wan backstory.

Harmonic convergence happens and we get our Korra Vs Unalaq fusion-ha kaiju fight.

>Korra + Tenzin have the same conflict, Korra wants to get her delicious brown ass broken in for glorious sexual awakening while 'ur-not-muh-real-dad' Tenzin nags bitch to study airbending. Korra can't airbend.

>Korra meets Lin Beifong, Mako, Bolin and Asami. No bullshit time wasting relationship with Mako, only threesome-teasing because pro-bending. Korra not a mary sue and gets a run for her money from pro-bending.

>If you actually want that ridiculous Korasami bullshit, actually set it up. Have Asami spend the night with Korra, Mako and Bolin with implied orgy. For real.

>Mako and Bolin are never enamored with Korra or Asami. It is implied they fuck because they are hot guys who are sports stars and let's be real Korra snuck out of Tenzin's temple and snuck into Mako and Bolin's locker looking for dick like a goddamn groupie. "Uh, well, I'm the avatar" mary sue shit doesn't handwave that, so let's just embrace it as her sexual awakening.

>Mako doesn't get written like an enabling tool, and does not apologize for thinking Korra is another of Bolin's groupies. (Watch that ep again and you'll catch it.)

>Mako is instead another mentor to Korra like Tenzin, who shows Korra even being a sports star isn't all fun and games and hot, sweaty sex, and takes discipline.

>Korra, Asami and Bolin meet Varrick

>Korra, Asami and Mako meet Lin Beifong, help her take out a minor villain in the form of a gang, coincides with Varrick+Bolin movie stuff. Bolin and Mako on their trajectories with Varrick and Beifong.

>Team Korra goes to Unalaq like before because Tenzin senses a disturbance in the force. "Go check it out."

>Bolin meets and fucks Eska, Mako fucks Desna for all I care. Varrick tags along to film Bolin in a mover to do with harmonic convergence.

>Korra and Asami have legitimate relationship hinting. "Spending time with you means more to me than just having fun after a pro bending match!"

>Korra learns some lesson about discipline from Tenzin, her father Mufasa and Mako. Still can't airbend, but beats Scar/Unalaq.

>>548614

Season 2. 'Book Two: Air'

Based Zaheer is a big guy for everyone following harmonic convergence. Disturbs the peace etc. Earth Queen and Asami's dad are minor villains being generally oppressive etc.

Team Korra including Tenzin go on their search for airbenders and find Kai (that shota Aladdin Jinora gets moist for.)

Korra still fails at airbending, frustrated with Tenzin, gets comfort from Asami.

Lead into that Asami corporation bullshit no one really cared about, but you get to develop Korra + Asami most here.

Also Mako + Beifong detective stuff. They find out Asami's dad is a baddie.

Asami's dad having been revealed to be working for Earth Queen to be doing some moustache-twirling badness, team Korra defeat Asami's dad.

Meanwhile, Zaheer rocks up to Earth Queen and chokes the bitch.

Team Korra meets with Lin Beifong's sexy gilf of a sister Suyin Beifong, we meet Kuvira and Bolin fucks Opal. Maybe Suyin blows Mako and this pisses off Lin Beifong who shows Mako what a real iron jaw feels like.

Everyone makes up and Team Avatar and Team Zaheer eventually have their epic showdowns like in the show. Good stuff, they got it mostly right.

Korra gets captured and poison raped, Zaheer Vs Tenzin, Suyin killing P'Li, etc and shota alladin boy giving Jinora maximum wide-on with his stupid sexy reckless heroics. And oh fuck Zaheer can fucking fly now. Good shit.

Poisoned Korra overclocks in avatar mode and Jinora leads all the airbenders to help Korra defeat Zaheer.

The season closes with the airbender honors ceremony for Jinora.

We end on Asami holding Korra's hand, happy for Jinora. Korra is sad and in a wheelchair tho.

Dat closeup of Korra sad in what should be a happy ending.

>I still think the Korrasami pairing was a contrived last-ditch ratings grab with the shakiest basis for a relationship I have ever seen, but I figure let's pretend it was intended from the beginning and clean this shit up.

>>548636

I've been going with it in mind, because hey it's a challenge to try legitimize that gravity well of a relationship arc.

Korra + Asami stuff is mostly footnotes, you're totes welcome to disregard it. You may find it surprisingly easy to do so too, when you read through my posts.

Well, the funny thing is it's so easy to disregard, and was so easy for me to leave on the side, because Korra+Asami as a relationship doesn't have any real bearing on the plot.

You can't do the same for the relationships between Korra + Tenzin, Mako, Bolin or Lin Bei Fong. All of these relationships are necessary for the story to hold up.

Asami is only necessary for the cheap love triangle drama they did between herself, Korra and Mako, and the connection to her father who was a replaceable and intermediate minor villain.

I argue to keep it recognizable with the original trainwreck that is Legend of Korra just to see where it can go.

>>548631

Season 3: 'Book Three: Change'

It turns out that other than the rallied airbenders, there are cliques of rogue earth, water and firebenders and even some random airbenders running amok and causing trouble. Riots everywhere, major class warfare having built up over the last season between OG benders, new benders and the muggles caught inbetween. Kuvira and other metalbenders had been dealing with the problem offscreen over the last season while it was a smaller deal and everyone was preoccupied with Zaheer.

Poisoned, traumatized and depressed avatar Korra does what she can to help quell the rioting, but is clearly unstable.

Korra realizes she kinda doesn't care. Existential crisis of 'what's the point of being the avatar if you get people like Zaheer anyway.' etc so she lets Kuvira take the reigns.

Mako and Lin Beifong fuck some more, and work on rumors about some strange gang of equalists and a pattern of disruptive behavior.

Kuvira goes Trump2016 and all that, and gets into power. Everyone's ok with it, except Suyin and Lin Beifong.

So Kuvira does some good hard uniting with Baatar Jr. Baatar Jr you might remember is Kuvira's fiance. He is Suyin's son, he's an accomplished engineer and tired of his hippie gilf of a mom and her SJW ways, even if she does has an amazing mouth.

However, in Baatar Jr.'s mind, the Beifong iron jaw does not compare with the glorious iron vice that is Kuvira's cunt.

All the Beifong extended family drama that goes with this stays. Except Opal shuts the goddamn fuck up (they gave that bitch way too many pointless scenes and lines.)

The focus of drama is Kuvira+Fiance Bataar Jr. Vs Suyin, Suyin vs Lin Bei Fong and Korra with herself.

Korra feels guilty she let Kuvira have her way, and she steps out of her wheelchair.

Korra challenges Kuvira, and Kuvira beats the unprepared Korra.

(Korra still doesn't have airbending yet by the way. Gets fucked up anyway because muh poison etc.)

After being defeated by Kuvira, Korra goes off to find and train with Toph. After a couple of episodes both realize their faults and all that.

Toph is a horrible mother who caused a rift between her daughters Suyin and Lin Beifong.

But Toph's wile and sass snaps Korra out of her depression and she decides to confront her trauma.

Korra then visits the imprisoned Zaheer. He helps her meditate into the spirit world, and there he helps her let go her fear of him and the trauma he caused her.

Team Korra work to confront Kuvira, and quell angry revolutionary mobs calling themselves equalists, which Mako and Lin Beifong had been investigating.

A big fight takes place and makes a warzone out of a city. You got Kuvira in a mech like in the show, and it's all pretty heavy shit right about now.

Korra goes avatar state to tank Kuvira's spirit energy canon, and gets stunned.

Kuvira makes some big, broadcasted announcement from her mech to the public, and just as she's about to claim victory and new world order/whatever, suddenly motherfucking Amon steps out from her crew behind her, feels up her rockin' toned body, takes away her bending, and shit gets real.

The broadcast scrambles off and everyone's left in a state of confusion.

In the aftermath, tenuous order is restored, and there is an unsettling worry over the equalists.

Korra joins Mako and Lin Beifong's investigation of the equalists.

>I have to say that personally I'm enjoying more and more the idea of a relationship between Mako and Lin Bei Fong.

>Steven Universe

>Steven would be less feminine and act more like his pilot self, a hyperactive kid but still nice.

>As he matures he simply becomes more chill but headstrong. Becomes very protective hence the shield.

>If a emotional boy is needed add another character, like Ronaldo's little brother.

>If there is a dramatic moment, the characters won't act comically exaggerated like crying cartoonishly like in Cat Fingers or So Many Birthdays as it would make it hard to take seriously. Better yet, keep the exaggerated moments but bank on the black comedy instead of making it serious.

>Background is beautiful so keep them, but when the animation goes off model have them follow a line of action so they would feel structured as well as exaggerated. Cartoonish expressions like stars in eyes are okay because they follow anime rules, but have them look as far from the default on model style so it won't look awkward when they become exaggerated.

>The Gems take humanoid forms with elemental features. Like Lapis looking more aquatic and fluid while Jasper would have rock textures.

>The Crystal Gems would have some elemental features but would look more humanoid, similar to how they are now. This would represent how they ally themselves with Earth. Amythest would look and act similar to her pilot version, laid back and with a sweater. But she'll still have emotional problems of coming to terms with her origins as a war machine which will be noticeable when she becomes moody or overly emotional when upset.

>Origins will be the same for the Crystal Gems. However, fusions will range from intelligence to basic thought process to human intelligence like Garnet, explaining why Homeworld would use them as weapons.

>Fusions wouldn't be aware of the gems that make them up, so Garnet wouldn't be aware of her origins and there would a sub plot building up to her being made up of Ruby and Sapphire. Before she joined the Crystal Gems she would be loner.

>After finding out her origins, Garnet would be somewhat unsure of how to feel but ultimately accepts it. Maybe Garnet can mentally interact with Ruby and Sapphire make them parent figures to Garnet, leading to some screentime for Ruby and Sapphire as well as development.

>Ruby and Sapphire would be given more character development so the audience would root for them being together. Like we would see flashbacks of them before the reveal that they make Garnet.

>>548733

Season 4: 'Book Three: Balance'

Team Korra hangs out fairly nice and happy, and society seems to be doin' alright on the surface. But there are increasing rumors about the exploits of the equalists, and there's a state of unease. Korra, Mako and Lin Beifong follow a lead on a case, and find out someone has had their bending taken.

Korra visits Kuvira in prison, who is understandably miffed she got her bending violated away.

Kuvira knows little, but drip feeds information to Korra over the season as they work out their issues.

Korra has also returned to pro-bending with Mako and Bolin. The sport has done her good for her spirit, and everything is 'back to normal.'

Tenzin observes Korra is long since over the trauma and depression from Zaheer, and has regained the positiveness of her old self. She's also learned discipline etc. While she still hasn't been able to figure out airbending yet, she's committed to studying airbending in her spare time. Tenzin tells Korra she has everything to be happy for, but senses something is amiss. Unlike the personal trauma she overcame, what is amiss to do with the rumors about the equalists in the city.

A new face haunts her, Amon's mask. She saw him in Kuvira's cockpit but is at a loss for what is going on.

Korra used to be burdened by what she felt, and what she knew, but now she is burdened by what she doesn't know.

Much of the action that follows is Korra kicking ass and getting onto Amon's trail.

Eventually stuff gets similar to the televised season 1, and Amon does his terrorism until Korra runs into him.

Amon takes Korra's bending away on their first encounter, and Korra spends several episodes trying to manage with no bending.

As things escalate and Amon's backstory gets revealed, Tenzin and Jinora get involved and it is they who are threatened to have their bending taken away.

Korra contemplates being burdened by what she doesn't know, and finally appreciates her own fears don't matter with respect to the danger of others (or whatever spirtualistic moral epiphany you like) and her spiritual epiphany unlocks her ability to airbend.

She uses her airbending to save Tenzin and Jinora, and defeat Amon.

The season wraps up with Amon and his brother exploding, and team Korra enjoying a similar ending to what the show did.

I'd personally end it on the conversation where Tenzin tells Korra how proud he is of her.

>I don't know if it's necessary, but if it's really wanted, you can have Korra still get to commune with avatar aang and get all her bending restored, and be able to restore everyone's bending.

>You can follow this with Korra restoring Kuvira's bending, and Kuvira atoning. (You have the duration of the season for Kuvira to 'learn her lesson,' though she may be the sort of character who feels they deserve to be imprisoned when they feel they've done wrong?)

>Kuvira still gets conjugal visits from Baatar Jr, who hadn't committed offenses as harsh and got an earlier release.

>You can also downplay just how much Kuvira technically did wrong, really. She could have been 'legally' put in charge to quell civil unrest, and have charges against her that aren't nearly as severe as Zaheer's.

>I mean, in the show they're practically like "You've been very bad! We are very disappointed in you!" when they took her away at the end, so I'm not feeling Kuvira as an unrepentant one-dimensional evil dictator here.

>Kuvira is also easily the kind of character who would feel humbled by and appreciative of Korra after restoring her bending as a gesture of forgiveness.

>>548764

And really, come to think of it, Korra doing something like that in the end would tie poetically with the first avatar series.

In the finale of ATLA, Aang takes away the firelord's bending.

In the finale of LoK, you could have had Korra restoring Kuvira's bending.

>This would have also given Korra a completed character arc, where she has learned to overcome her fears and forgive those who have wronged her. This contrasts with general good guy Aang who among other things had to learn when to put his foot down.

>>548741

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Less fillers. Around the middle of season 1 we are introduced to Peridot in Warp Tour. Next episode has Marble Madness to keep the momentum. Peridot wouldn't be using limb enhancers, her entire body is robotic with her gem driving it. She would be more robotic but it will be ambiguous on whether she was emotionless but becomes more emotional or that she acts emotionless but has more personality (though its more whiny but not to the extent of Invader Zim Peridot) Everything is the same in the finale. But Peridot would adapt easily as seen in the episodes where she was on the run. By the end of the chase for her, Peridot will be fully emotive and it would be expressed by her fingers which sometimes make shapes like arrows or a stop sign or something snarky. Peridot would get caught but instead of being poofed back into her gem, Garnet accidentally breaks her body with the head flying off only to get caught by Steven. They strike a deal with Peridot but they had to fix the robot body, because Peridot is too weak to form her own body on her own. The fixed robot body would be modified by Pearl but would get rid of all the weapons and flight abilities so Peridot wouldn't escape.

Peridot's episodes in the barn would be more condensed, getting rid of the robot competition and just have the rivalry with Pearl being over who can create the drill which would get them nowhere. Gem Gossip's conflict wouldn't be Amythest acting all moody in a hypocritical aesop but having to deal with a rogue Amythest soldier that have awoken and Amythest finally coming to terms with her origin and fighting it. There would be some tension between Garnet and Peridot but mostly due to Garnet suspecting Peridot to be part of the Mengele like fusion experiments. In one conflict, Peridot is suspected of trying to contact Yellow Diamond. But she ultimately gains their trust with the Crystal Gems after telling off YD for her disregard to Earth.

>>548764

Derp, that's supposed to be titled

Season 4: 'Book Four: Balance'

And pretty much all of the Amon mystery + backstory + his political involvement and drama with his brother is all good, I feel.

And man, looking over all this I really stand by rearranging the major events of the seasons.

Also moving Amon from the big bad of season 1 to the big bad of season 4.

The way they did it, Amon was wasted and Kuvira was too forced a villain. They really bent over backwards when they had her not care about the captive Baatar Jr, it left her pretty one-dimensional in the end. She got a pretty dang unsatisfying, unresolved, anticlimactic end while Amon's was really good.

With Kuvira, they tried but they failed. It's obvious they put more time and care into Amon's resolution. His was good, but then they kinda sweep him under the rug. Even over the course of the first season, they constantly pissed away how scary they made him. It's insane.

They really screwed things up around two of their own major villains, like damn.

>Ditch the entire main cast

>Do Clone Wars style and just have each each episode be about a different group or person

>make the clones a little older but not old flea bags

>Use the literal clone bad company they had and cyborg Echo for a Dark Trooper arc

>said Dark trooper arc then brings in Kyle Katran

>actually just make the whole show about Katarn since Kannan is a shitty clone

>>550170

Here's a pic of the original designs in question.