![]() develop new technology, and started experimenting with spirit vines to create a renewable, unlimited energy source. Sometime after the Earth Queen was assassinated by the Red Lotus, he and his assistant Zhu Li then joined Kuvira's Earth Empire to help rebuild the Earth Kingdom after it fell into chaos. Varrick was also the one to suggest to Team Avatar that the terrorist suspect in Zaofu was framed, which led to the group discovering Aiwei was the true culprit and Korra coming face to face with the group of people trying to kill her: the Red Lotus. Initially introduced as a helpful ally to Team Avatar, Varrick was revealed to have orchestrated the Water Nation Civil War and instigated multiple terrorist attacks in Republic City in order to make a profit from those conflicts.Īfter escaping prison, Varrick joined the Metal Clan and switched his efforts to modernizing Zaofu, particularly experimenting with magnets. Iknik Blackstone Varrick is a major character in The Legend of Korra, serving as the secondary antagonist of Book 2 and an anti-hero in Books 3 and 4. ~ Varrick explains his newfounded morality. And there's this nagging voice in my head constantly telling me what's right from wrong! I know, it's not like me, right? Usually I look at a project like this and think, "Wow! "I could make a ton of money off this!" But recently, I've been having these strange feelings. Especially if that little guy can help this guy become a bigger guy. Both characters kind of possess the same amount of space on either side of the frame, though our darker character, Zaheer, is in more shadow than our hero, Korra.Yep, I like to think I'm always there to stand up for the little guy. You do have a couple horizontal lines that direct your attention to her and the triangle formed by the pseudo-sight line, the floor, the chains in Zaheer, is a neat division of the frame if you sliced it diagonally from the upper right corner down to the lower left. As soon as you focus on him, the position of his head, tilted forward creates a pseudo-sight line (his eyes are closed, a’ight?) that direct your attention downward to Korra, who remains seated on the ground – i.e., she hasn’t let lose her earthly tether (who’s head has to explode for that to occur?). Again, you have Zaheer’s levitation, which suggests his freedom from the material world, and in the frame, you have three lines that direct you to Zaheer, the horizontal line of the ledge running left and right and then a line from the column in the background. Korra and Zaheer are now both meditating. The fact that he’s floating and only held down by chains, definitely conveys Zaheer’s freedom from the material world and the fact that he spends much of his time in the spirit one is not so much of a surprise. The faint light that is still visible could be interpreted as a visual representation that the subject is enlightened or almost saintly (granted this requires a new definition of saint). Because the perspective’s vanishing point is out of frame but somewhere above the top of it, your eyes are drawn by the lines moving toward it and Zaheer’s general form to his face/head, which, in turn, almost entirely obscures the crystal light behind them. You also have a flow from the top of the frame, where his head almost touches the very top down to the chains, which help center our Red Lotus member. ![]() This is a cool shot because the upward looking perspective helps Zaheer’s cross-legged position help form a a large triangle centered in the middle of the frame, using the lines behind him and to his sides. Zaheer! It’s just fun writing everyone’s name with an exclamation mark, because it makes it more exciting and dramatic! Fine, fine, I will stop doing that, but what we do have here is the introductory shot of Zaheer, meditating and levitating. She doesn’t even want to make that connection of looking into his face. Also note that while he’s trying to look into her eyes, Opal’s gaze is not directed at his face, but downward. Bolin is also centered by the wall of green spirit vine behind him. He’s being Bolin, so his posture is actually straight up as he’s confident his position and completely unassuming of Opal’s level of anger with him. Bolin, by contrast, is below her, a submissive position, stepping toward her indicating his desire to be with her. Her body posture is not one that’s giving an inch. Opal is firmly planted with and between the columns, which could indicate her strong feelings (anger) with Bolin, but also, you can see she’s standing pretty straight with a solid stance. You have lines drawing your attention to both Bolin and then Opal, from the rails on the steps to lines in paneling behind Opal (even the direction of the Satomobile headlights point toward Bolin). Here we find Bolin pleading to Opal on the steps outside the city hall.
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