Are korra and asami gay

I’m seeing a lot of “oh they’re just more favor friends or sisters” or “this came out of left field” on the final scene and I feel like I include to say something about this because I sense like a large collective of people are looking at this with a big fog over their eyes.
First of all I don’t “ship” any pairings in the Avatar universe, so please bare that in intellect while you read this.

As a homosexual dude exposed to heterosexuality in media (especially this compassionate of media) my entire life, Makorra in the early episodes neither surprised nor bothered me. It’s boring, it’s generic, it’s a normal expected pairing. It neither adds to or detracts from the story to me. I would take issue if they’d spent an excess amount of time on any pairing throughout the series, but thankfully any sort of attraction/romance was told in nice subtle ways following the middle poi

Queer-Coded: It’s Not Homophobic To Say Korra And Asami’s Bond Makes No Sense

I have tried to watch and enjoy The Legend of Korra, and I just can’t receive into it.

I experience like it’s a hard series to love after watching the epicnness that is the first Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s shorter, for one. The storytelling, at least in the first season, was haphazard and all over the place. Characterization was off, and there was just so much that seemed half-baked about the series. I watched a video on YouTube that was trying to declare how ideal The Legend of Korra is, but everything they said (and seemingly every video they made) was about how to reorganize and basically rewrite the series so that it made instinct and was actually…you know…good. So suffice it to state, I think The Legend of Korra leaves much to be desired.

However, one of the highlights of the series for a lot of fans is the relationship between Korra and Asami. This relationship is highly important in American animation as one of the few overt homosexual relationships in a show geared towards children. Thankfully, there are beginning to be more animated shows

'The Legend of Korra' helped me receive my bisexuality when I was still a closeted teen. It also ushered in a recent era for gay cartoons.

On December 19, 2014, "The Legend of Korra" made history. As I like to joke, it also made me bisexual.

The terminal shot of the "Avatar: The Last Airbender" sequel showed the series' heroines, Korra and Asami, facing each other, holding hands as they gazed into each other's eyes. Even without a kiss, the sequence felt decidedly non-platonic, and seemed to clearly parallel "Avatar's" romantic conclusion. 

Days later, the series' creators confirmed that "Korrasami," as fans dubbed the relationship, was canon, and that both characters were bisexual. 

As a fan, I was thrilled to see my two favorite characters end up with each other — a possibility I hadn't even dared to entertain given the dearth of LGBTQ characters in cartoons at that point. I was a 17-year-old lgbtq+ woman who had barely come to terms with her sexuality, and "Korra's" finale struck me deep to my core.

"[The] Legend of Korra has wrecked me," I tweeted on the bedtime of the finale. 

Now, as the series arrives on Netflix on Friday, it's worth remembering just

Having too much subtlety

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I was watching a video on Korra about the queer association the two female characters own built up to.

The thing that came up in the video is how the only failing of the relationship is how it wasn’t forward enough and when the show finished, many people complained that they didn’t see the relationship build over the series. I have to wonder if being subtle with certain things in films, shows, books, and games can be bad. Like how much carry out you really need to maintain back or is it beat to just say it out load?

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Specifically for voice, subtlety generally goes wrong. For an example; Watch Dogs 2 spoilers. Take Miranda in Watch Dogs 2 for example. She’s a trans woman, and it’s not really ever stated too blatantly. It’s actually surprisingly subtle enough that a few people I’ve talked to didn’t even realize she was a transitioned woman. Sidenote: At the matching time, her entire arc is about being blackmailed by her trans identity; which is less-than-perfect. So if it’s too subtle, is it really representation? At a certain point it just becomes queerbaiting and that’s even more frustrating than no