this time, we’ll go together.
Mako: How did you figure out Amon is your brother?
Tarrlok: When he took my bending, the sensation was somehow familiar. I later recognized it as my brother’s bloodbending grip.
the moment when you figure out the significance of this scene after the season finale.
The very person he’s setting himself up against…. turns out in a way to be another part of himself.
Ouch this hurts.
reblogging my own gif (for like the third time lol) because this person^ gets what i meant. i got so much hate on this gif like calm down you basic bitches
Ah, I’m glad you found someone who got what you meant! This is an excellent gif, I’m sorry you’ve gotten so much hate on it :I
Eternally sad kid Tarrlok, for your enjoyment
And people wonder why he’s a fandom woobie.
He’s an oppressive power-hungry jerk for most of the show so we are obliged to hate him for all time.
Here he is being abandoned by his older brother for being such a dick.
LOL! Thanks, there wasn’t enough
saddickish baby Tarrlok in my life.(Apparently, Tarrlok’s douchery transcends space-time, so we’re supposed to hate young Tarrlok for adult Tarrlok’s actions. ???)
older!Tarrlok infuriates me to no end (until the finale) but kid!Tarrlok makes me want to cry hot tears
what happened during the in-between Tarrlok you were so cute and now I’m angry
He got abandoned by Noatak for being “weak” and was left with a father who gave up on life because thought Tarrlok was worthless and a mother who couldn’t handle the (apparent) death of her oldest son and decline of her husband. It wouldn’t be that strange for him to seek power as a defense mechanism and lose himself in the process.
I just want to give little Tarrlok a hug and tell him it will be alright, Except it won’t =(.
Yeah. Older!Tarrlok’s tragic sadface is pretty devastating too, especially since it leads directly to, y’know, blowing himself and his brother to smithereens. He constructed himself as both the anti-Yakone and anti-his-suffering-rejected-young-self, but unconsciously was too deeply shaped by what happened to him to even realize what he’d become until his self-image was completely shattered. And, I mean, by the end, Tarrlok was still worthless to pretty much everyone but Noatak (…just like the good old days?) and that in a screwed-up way, and he knew it. Living with that consciousness from early childhood could screw with anyone’s head, let alone a sensitive kid who’s already under crushing strain.
tarrlok’s arc is just a little bleak the only time he’s not miserable is when he’s completely blind to himself and what he’s doing and he died in the perfect conviction that the only person who could possibly care whether he lived or died was dying with him i guess it’d be sadder if they hadn’t died together and in accord though tarrlok didn’t even get to know that noatak was submitting to his choice though maybe he wouldn’t have done it if he’d known or maybe he’d have just cried too idk
My tags are like sunshine and rainbows :D
Legend of Korra - Waterbenders
Eee, my favourite element! (And I love how with the first three, the water itself has perfect form, all smooth curves and, well, fluid.
Part of the reason I wish the brothers had survived is that I just want to see them waterbend again.)
