Sunday, August 27, 2017

Korrasami Shares First Kiss In "The Legend Of Korra: Turf Wars Part One"

The first part of the novel also reveals that another character is gay, and that another Avatar was bisexual!


Nickelodeon's hit animated series The Legend of Korra ended with a bang. Team Avatar was successful in defeating Kovira. After an amazing four season run and many seemingly invincible enemies; Korra made it through it all. She made her own decisions as Avatar and triumphed in the end. Besides her battles, Korra also triumphed in another thing. With the show about to end, the powerful Avatar Korra and the ingenious industrialist Asami held hands as they walked together through a portal into the Spirit World. Completely making it canon that the two women are indeed in a relationship, and making Korra one of the few canonically bisexual characters in a kids network. This caused a lot positive fan reaction, with left fans wanting to see more of the two.

What are they going to do in the Spirit World? Where will Korrasami go from here? To answer all these questions fans can now turn to The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars. The comic book is out now and doesn’t just show what happened to the couple after the cartoon ended, but also their first kiss.

First Kiss on the Spirit World

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part one is the first installment of the canon graphic novel written by Legend of Korra co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino.

The graphic novel opens exactly where the television series left off. Korra and Asami venture into the Spirit World to get some time by themselves. There’s a montage of moments as they reminisce about their time together and the adventures they went through, but it ends when the couple climb up a disgruntled mountain spirit, who tosses them aside, causing them to lose their supplies.

With their supplies now lost, Korra and Asami decide it is time to return to the city. However, Asami tells Korra that, “Before we go, there’s one last thing I want to do on our vacation,” and that is to kiss her.


Korra and Asami was a relationship favored by many fans of The Legend of Korra. The series hinted that the relationship was real when the two held hands and walked into the Spirit World at the end of the series finale. DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, The Legend of Korra’s other creator, confirmed that the moment was meant to indicate a romantic relationship following the episode’s debut.

“We approached the network and while they were supportive there was a limit to how far we could go with it, as just about every article I read accurately deduced,” Konietzko said in a blog post after the finale aired. “It was originally written in the script over a year ago that Korra and Asami held hands as they walked into the spirit portal. We went back and forth on it in the storyboards, but later in the retake process I staged a revision where they turned towards each other, clasping both hands in a reverential manner, in a direct reference to Varrick and Zhu Li’s nuptial pose from a few minutes prior. We asked Jeremy Zuckerman to make the music tender and romantic, and he fulfilled the assignment with a sublime score. I think the entire last two-minute sequence with Korra and Asami turned out beautiful, and again, it is a resolution of which I am very proud. I love how their relationship arc took its time, through kindness and caring. If it seems out of the blue to you, I think a second viewing of the last two seasons would show that perhaps you were looking at it only through a hetero lens.”

Another Avatar confirmed to be bisexual

The Legend of Korra may have surprised and excited fans by revealing the relationship between Avatar Korra and Asami, but it turns out Korra isn’t the first LGBTQ Avatar!

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars – Part One also reveals that Avatar Kyoshi of the Earth Kingdom was bisexual.

The revelation comes when Kya, Avatar Aang’s daughter, approaches Korra and Asami about their relationship. In addition to revealing that she too is gay, Aya tells the couple about the attitudes of each of the four nations towards LGBTQ relationships.

Of the four nations, the Earth Kingdom is the most traditional and resistant to the idea of non-straight relationships. In the panel below, Aya tells Korra and Asami “Even Avatar Kyoshi – who by all accounts loved men and women – was unable to effect any kind of real progress. After all, the Earth Kingdom has been the slowest to accept change and the most militaristically repressive.”


As The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars is written by DiMartino, there is no question that these new revelations are indeed canon.

Kyoshi was the Avatar two incarnations ahead of Avatar Aang, preceding Avatar Roku of the Fire Nation. While her sexuality may not have been accepted in her home nation, Kyoshi herself was a more militaristic Avatar than either Aang or Korra and had no problem with killing her enemies to maintain peace. She was beloved by her people and inspired the Kyoshi Warriors of Kyoshi Island to imitate her style of dress of fighting generations later.

The Legend of Korra: Turf War is written by Legend of Korra co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino, drawn by Irene Koh, and published by Dark Horse Comics. Moving Korra’s relationship into comics is allowing DiMartino to do things that he and co-creator Bryan Konietzko may have wanted to do while The Legend of Korra was still on television but that Nickelodeon was hesitant about.

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars is proving to be a good follow up to the main series. With part two coming in January 2018 and part three in the works, fans can still hope for more revelations.

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Original sources: ComicBook.com (I, II), Blasting News.
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