Unrelated to Selkie, but I know from previous commentaries that there are other Last Airbender fans out there. I’ve been following it’s sequel series, Legend of Korra, for the past few months, and… oh man. After the last episode I am fretting, honest to god FRETTING, about what will happen in the season finale this week.
If anyone feels like sharing theories/ramblings, I’m gonna start a comment thread below. I don’t want to derail the newspost too much about it… because I am sharing a cute new Fan Art today! Jenny sent me this:
.jpg)
Thanks, Jenny!
The last panel gave me an interesting chance to draw Selkie's face in a little more detail than usual. The eyebrows return. XD
Okay so, Korra. I am going to try to stick to a NO SPOILERS rule because I know what it’s like to be that person who is still playing catch up and hasn’t seen the newest episode yet. So…
NO SPOILERS. XD
I really really REALLY can’t wait to see how the season concludes. I have a very strong feeling, though, that Amon’s identity will NOT be revealed. Both because of cliffhanger fuel potential to lead in to Season 2, and because I am getting a kind of V for Vendetta vibe that the mask IS his identity. He is the symbol of extremism and hatred, of prejudice and domination.
I’ve been itching and theorizing about his identity for the past few weeks, and I am starting to feel like he is more impactful as a character if we DON’T know who he really is, and he’s allowed to simply be an idea (a terrible awful nightmare of an idea) made “flesh”, so to speak.
I am already regretting my no spoilers rule, because I wanna be careful how I phrase this, but… the climatic last few scenes of the last episode… oh my god. Wow.
Showdown time… XD
I’ve heard that each season is supposed to have its own story arc and villain, so it is possible Amon could be unmasked. Then again, by this point I’m thinking it’s entirely possible book two be about something entirely different and STILL bring Amon back at the end. According to the ATLA-Annotated Tumblr blog on the subject (not linking because it IS spoiler-heavy), there’s enough of a difference between how Amon and Aang have debent people that they might be doing different things altogether, and that Amon’s is less permanent, at least if the victim is spiritually aware enough. Of course, the key here is *spiritually aware*, and we’ve seen that it’s at least Korra’s problem.
Also, the family dynamics in this episode made me go d’aaaw. Good to see the airbabies love each other.
Yeah, I don’t think “spiritually aware” translates well into Korra. XD
The semi-permanent theory makes a kind of sense, considering Amon is only using one of the two chakra points (head AND heart)
Oh boy oh boy Selkie’s childhood so excited to learn more!!
Selkie’s face in the last panel makes me sad too.
By the way, seeing how she’s got a fish-eater’s teeth (or so it looks like – dolphin-style rather than shark-style), can her species replace lost teeth, does she still have her milk teeth now that’ll change to permanent teeth, or do they only get one set of teeth in total?
(I chipped a tooth this past weekend, hence thinking of teeth. XD)
I’ve actually gone back and forth on how I want her teeth to work, believe it or not. I haven’t really decided yet.
Oh I believe easily enough – details in a continuous story usually get settled down to only when absolutely necessary for the story. 🙂 Was just wondering, as going by graphics either was possible. ^_^
…did Todd know how old she was when she was dropped off? That she was old enough to remember her mom? Knows another language? And that is the saddest sad face…interesting to see her features in more detail though.
My theory for Amon is that he is either 1. Somehow he’s Avatar Aang, 2. He’s a robot of some sort that’s how he’s able to do some of the things he’s done 3. He’s some sort of super advanced chi blocker. I don’t think the spirits really gave him his ability maybe an extremist…Well I saw no spoilers I don’t know if that means for the original series but… an extremist animal like the one who taught Aang the ability to take bending taught Amon because he truly believes bending is evil. I’m very worried about this last episode because I don’t know if the are renewing the series for a second series so Amon could win…
If Amon is really Aang somehow, that just raises more questions than it answers. XD
LoK has consistently been in the top 5 for the most viewed show on TV on the nights it has aired. It got its second season: 14 episodes.
GENERAL IRO YEAH
ZOMBIE AANG! O_O
Awww… I love this story you’ve come up with. It’s sweet and cute. The kids are kids and it reminds me of my own childhood. Being the different kid, the little boy with a huge imagination, the teasers, the pack leader girl. It’s great, keep writing I can’t wait to see what happens.
Oh, please please PLEASE don’t make her clam back up!!! I want to hear about this!!!
I love your webcomic, thanks for putting it out on the internet for free. 🙂
Also: Why is the Sopa/pipa thing still at the bottom of the main page? Wasn’t that from back in January?
I think it is still there becauase it is a blog post of it’s own, versus being tied to one of the comics
It has been killing me as well to know armons identity
And I am slightly curious as to if they are going to stay in republic city for the entire series or if we are going to see more of this new world…
That’s my big question.
I’ve been geeking out over The Legend of Korra for a few weeks now. I really hope Amon is a new character and not someone we’ve seen, but it might also be interesting if he is the son/grandson of someone from the previous series. My gosh am I looking forward to this season finale. I’ve been on the forums posting crackpot theories like a crazy person and I don’t usually do it this bad. For the sake of not having spoilers I’ll refrain from going on about them here.
The last panel was very well done and really makes you feel for Selkie. I’m happy to see her going into some information about her mom. Now I’m also looking forward to the new Selkie now, too (but I’m always looking forward to more Selkie).
Those are clearly anngs grandkids:) And Genral Iro Hell to the yeah
Also Anngs dead he talked to Kora or at least sent her memories like last avtar did for him.
Yeah that’s what I wonder about the Aang is Amon theory; Korra’s existence implies Aang’s absence.
Here’s another point, based on a blog I was just reading.
Has Selkie ever been vaccinated? Does she have a doctor’s note exempting her from vaccinations?
That’s a very good question I don’t yet have an answer for.
POSSIBLE SPOILER!!
I suspect Amon is the guy they mentioned way early on and that it’s chi blocking so it could be reversed, just really hard to do. Also, those “visions” Korra is experiencing probably have to do with this. In fact, I am fairly certain they hold the key to this whole thing.
I seriously want to know what’s up with those visions. I think in the 3rd to last episode, we saw Tarluk cause he was doing the same thing to the gaang as he had to Korra. (I have to know where he took her, my sister and I have yet to see the last 2 episodes.) Oh jeez, I was eager enough to see them…but now I’m on the verge of freaking out after that news post.
On the subject of the actual comic…Selkie’s face in that last panel just broke my heart. I didn’t know she remembered her mother. Poor baby…
Me sad, need happy.
The last panel is so very good, David….love it and love the comic
I’ll assume her tear ducts work differently from ours? And I want to ask if her tears are actually blue (some waste product maybe?), or if they’re like human tears and the blue is just the art style itself (like loony toons tears or anime tears look nothing like human tears, but are still recognizable).
I realize I’m odd, I’m just curious the differences between what’s in your head and what’s on the page, I suppose.
Blue is just the art style. It’s not literally a blue fluid. As for her tear ducts, they more or less exist to allow Selkie to display sadness. I can’t imagine real-word aquatics have tear ducts, and unless I am wrong even among mammals only humans express emotion with them. But having the ability to cry helps, I feel, to broaden Selkie’s emotional spectrum visually.
Considering that Selkie is amphibious, not exclusively aquatic, it’s not impossible she’d have tear-ducts — her eyes may need moisture as much as her gills do, and/or need to flush out wrong-salinity water. If it was a slightly-advantageous mutation back in her species’ evolution, it could persist for ages. (And if her species was a “return to the sea” instead of “never fully left,” it would be even more likely that they’d retain something like tear ducts.)
Yeah, we don’t have any real-world examples of amphibians-with-tear-ducts that I can think of, but then, we don’t have any real-world sapient humanoid amphibians with ultra-potent saliva, either.
Another potential is that it’s part of her nictitating membrane (hey, cats have ’em! they’re great! Selkie might have a transparent one, for protecting her eyes from wrong-salinity conditions underwater?), and is actually an excess of the membrane’s lubricating fluid being pushed across her eyes, manifesting as tear-like overflow. (Woo, Biology-babble! Like technobabble but less recognized by my spellchecker!)
I’ve seen seals and whales tear-up when they beach themselves.
I just figured the blue was an artifact of a clear fluid magnifying the background colour of her skin.
Actually I think all aquatic mammals produce tears, but they tend to be more viscous, protecting the surface of the eye from random small particles in the water.
http://facts.randomhistory.com/2008/11/20_dolphins.html – fact #22
If you look back at 192, Andi’s tears are blue.
https://selkiecomic.com/?p=822
In 180, Heather’s tears are blue.
https://selkiecomic.com/?p=792
Keisha’s are blue in 177
https://selkiecomic.com/?p=789
So I’m guessing he draws them blue so we can see them.
wouldn’t chap stick work as a quick fix to this saliva thing. making a barrier type of thing.
Alright this might be a stupid question but bear in mind that I’ve only seen the last half of the first or second episode is aang korra’s father or is it interior different because what Ive seen of him he act completely different (and if you know a place I could go to watch the airbrender and legend of Korra on a iPod touch please tell me)
Korra is Aang reincarnated.
The Avatar is reborn from one elemental nation to the next along a cycle (earth-fire-air-water). Aang was an Airbender Avatar, and when he died he was reincarnated into the Water Tribes as Korra.
Aang’s previous incarnations, for example, were a Firebender named Roku and an Earthbender named Kyoshi.