Kuruk - Blog Posts

I need more of them😂

Just three Avatars who share a common interest in their "companions"👀🌊❤️

This artwork comes from a recent video of mine. The piece was done for me by @ijjstlostthegame

The avatars if they were in a punk rock band together!!

+ w/o text & Wan, their underworked 40 something manager

Alternative Yangchen & Kuruk!!

Woo boy I did not expect the love for the Kuruk doodles but it’s certainly a joy! Anyways have some Anatomy studies with the man and a bonus ATLA water spirit OC I made a while back

I’ve had a lack of motivation to draw but I was able to pump out a mix of fanart’s today. Kuruk sketches and bonus Overwatch ones

I’m very happy that my first post is ATLA related! Anyways I stumbled upon @avatarkurukdefender Ao3 fic based off all the Avatar’s being de-aged when I was binging for Kuruk fanfics and they’ve just fed my love for him! So these sketches were all made thanks to that little boost! Go check them out they’re a God-tier writer!<3 Bonus ones of him and Korra because we were robbed of them interacting. They’d have the best sibling relationship imo

Avatar Kuruk:  Failure or Retcon?

WARNING:  Minor Spoilers for the Kyoshi Novels.  

Avatar Kuruk was the Water Tribe Avatar before Korra and is considered by many to be a failure of an Avatar.  He was brash and was more interested in personal pleasure than keeping balance.  

The recent Kyoshi novels explain that Kuruk wasn’t a failure.  Rather, he spent his life fighting dark spirits which most people were unaware of.  The Kyoshi novels suggest that he was a good avatar even though public opinion was very much against him.  

However, this new information feels like a retcon to me for one specific reason:  

Everything we know about Kuruk doesn’t come from a third party account, it comes from Kuruk himself.  

Other than the novels, our info on Kuruk comes from the season 2 “Escape from the Spirit World” game, and the episode 319.  Kuruk himself recounts that he wasn’t the best Avatar and spent most of his time goofing off.  

However, if Kuruk wanted to explain he wasn’t a complete failure, then he had apple time to do so.  Plus, as our main source of info he had full controlled how the fans viewed him.  

I do not think the dark spirits were an original part of his character.  I think it was a much later addition after dark spirits were introduced in Korra.  I believe this retcon existed because Bryke didn’t want fans to think Kuruk was a total failure.  

But a retcon is still a retcon.  

And not all Avatars did a good job.