Yes Dark Avatar is a thing and yes later down the line an Avatar has to deal with demonic wallpaper popping out their chest/back.

>>136719743 (OP)

I feel like Unalaq could have worked better if he was trying to get revenge on the Fire Nation instead of some vague MUH SPIRITUALISM MUH CHAOS crap. Would serve well to parallel the theme of revenge in ATLA, only now it's a Water Tribe bender trying to use a spirit to invade and destroy the Fire Nation (parallel Aang fused with La to protect the Water Tribe).

literally a fanfic that became canon

>>136719743 (OP)

"Fan" fiction



How does "evil enlightenment" even supposed to work?

Is it good?



Yeah he felt like the weakest of the Big Bads even though Zaheer was entertainingly dumb.

That's kinda the problem with Bryke: they don't understand that evil "spiritual" characters in anime aren't evil for being (((extremist))), but rather evil in how they've perverted or warped existing value systems or ideology. The ideology or even the extremism is not what's wrong with them, only how they serve to use it for evil.



And even then, the truly spiritual villainous types that remain interesting (Akuma, Kimblee) are fascinating because they ARE spiritual - they're "pure" in how amoral and lacking in hypocrisy they are, they're the opposite of the moral priest, having embraced and keeping firm and decisive control on base or primal instincts while still living a very spiritual lifestyle.

Miles main is issue is leeching/not having any direction.

Unalaq, as a result, fails because not only are his convictions and motivations vague and undercooked, his turn to extremism comes out of nowhere. He's not really spiritual in any sense, and he continues the trend of radical = mega satan that TLOK keeps up. Zaheer is better, but that's not saying much because of how the narrative THINKS Zaheer is some wise guru or has a leg to stand on when in reality he's just a quack who's reasoning falls apart with basic questioning. Bryke can't write spiritual villains for the same reason they can't write spiritual heroes, the duo are just lacking in any true faith or wisdom themselves. You can't write what you don't have, don't understand or aren't interested in.

>>136719743 (OP)

The Silver Saga and The Silver Age are both sequels to the writers' Sonic fanfiction in the Sonic Universe comic

I wouldn't call Kimblee spiritual.

I don't think there will be another naturally occurring dark avatar

Korra doing the purification dance seems to have deleted Vaatu outright



He'll re-emerge from Raava sometime over the next ten thousand years but not bonded to a human soul

Well actually it just dawned on me that while it won't be an INDEPENDENT dark avatar, eventually *a* avatar will have that dark spirit in them. Though presumably he'll be glued to Raava like when Wan first found them, and thus they might actually have to develop a balance between themselves inside the avatar

All of Ken Penders work on Sonic
