Tumblr crosspost (13 September 2020)

[anghraine]

Also following from the LOK villain post … now that I think some more about it, IMO there could be a really interesting AU in reducing the main antagonists’ villainy so that simply defeating them isn’t really an option.

I’m thinking of two basic ways it could go:

- They’re still pretty morally dubious, but not so much so that the heroes can just start attacking them

- They’re scaled down even further to non-villain status, so they have to be engaged with on their own terms

e.g., in scenario 1, Noatak would be a less violent, self-centered, and dominating version of Amon; in scenario 2, he wouldn’t be Amon at all, but an activist—a bender ally to the Equalists.

The idea is that this would hold for all the main villains, which would make for a … complicated AU. But it would also be cool to see it for any one of them.

Tagged: #i've thought of it for kuvira and noatak individually at times (though w/o ever associating the ideas) #but suddenly the idea hit ... what if BOTH #and then: what if ALL #i really like both scenarios actually #i wouldn't want to go like... what if the heroes were villains and the villains were heroes!!!! #just ... what if physically attacking the people questioning the status quo weren't the easy option? #which requires 'questioning the status quo' to not be ott villainy