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Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles is an ongoing Avatar and Legend of Korra fanmade sequel written and illustrated by AirMasterParker, that deals about the adventures next Avatar after Korra, a male earthbender, whose name is Hikar Firestone. I'll be as much canon as possible and based around eighty-three years after "Ruins of the Empire", considering that in this universe some of the characters have a considerably high longevity, like Korra, who lived 86, and some have died like Tenzin, Bumi, Kya, Lin, Jinora. The author had the idea after reading other fanfictions about the next Avatar right after finishing watching THE ENTIRE SERIES of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, and also reading the graphic novel trilogies of The Promise, The Search, The Rift, Smoke and Shadow, North and South and the new Turf Wars trilogy, and of course having read The Lost Adventures and Friends for Life.

Seventy years after the fall of the Earth Empire, Hikar Firestone was a 15-year-old earthbending teen prodigy who, after a brief emotional breakdown and a short state of anger, he blasted a fire shot, turning out to be the New Avatar. Now, after three years, he has mastered all four elements, and with the help of his friends, he will prove himself to be one worthy Avatar for everyone...or just for himself?

Author's Note[]

It would be more entertaining if you read this right after (re-)watching the entire series like this was the next series, or in other words, if you consider it canon.

BUT WARNING: This story is Fanon, not officially canon, this is just some advice to make it more entertaining. Just wanted to point out: THIS STORY IS RATED PG-13, has clean language, no nude scenes, or gore scenes. Though, there are broken bones, blood, and sexual connotations sometimes, which weren't shown in the original series, but just in case, cause I don't know which point of censorship is allowed for it being suitable for PG audiences.

AS OF MAY 2018, Book Two: Lightning is under the process of writing.

AS OF JULY 2019, Book One is being readapted in Webtoon format, plus going through the last rewrite.

AS OF JUNE 2020, Book One is blocked into a small hiatus due to the creators college life.

AS OF MARCH 2024, the series went a creative hiatus but its coming back.

Start Reading[]

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Characters[]

Main article: List of Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles characters

Main Characters[]

  • Hikar Firestone (Justin Briner) is the Avatar immediately succeeding Korra and the main protagonist of the series. He's willing to surpass his past lives and leave his footprint in the world, by reaching his highest potential.
  • Kensi Firestone (Todd Haberkorn) is a waterbender who grew up in Yetai Tong, as Hikar's adoptive brother. Tall, lean, and handsome, he is a waterbending prodigy who became an instructor at a young age. Like Hikar, he's willing to give his highest potential, and even surpass the Avatar himself.
  • Bultina Silverfox (Arryn Zech) is the non-bending childhood friend of Hikar and Kensi, daughter of Chiefs Takeyon & Kimyona Silverfox. Growing up as a non-bender in a family of metalbenders, she was trained as a talented chi-blocker, and a great knife thrower.
  • Shaila Yakuto (Kate Higgins) is a strong firebender, daughter of Fire Nation representatives, who's friends with Hikar and Kensi's girlfriend. She's very self-conscious about her body figure, but over the years, the encouragement of her best friend Bultina she developed a strong self-confidence.
  • Iruka Sato (Neath Oum) is Hikar's waterbending teacher, and Avatar Korra's adoptive son. He teaches waterbending from both sides of the globe and occasionally joins Team Avatar.
  • Nikumi (Dee Bradley Baker) is Hikar's animal companion, a loyal armadillo lion Sterkur Firestone adopted before he was born. He's capable to scout great lengths in a few hours, even minutes.

Plot overview[]

Main article: List of Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles chapters
0. "Prologue"

Book One: Metal (铁)

  1. "New Cycle, Part 1"
  2. "New Cycle, Part 2"
  3. "New Cycle, Part 3"
  4. "The Last Dance"
  5. "Attachments"
  6. "Testing the Waters"
  7. "Return to the City" (COMING 2024)
  8. "Dark Secrets"

Book One: Metal ()[]

Main article: Book One: Metal

First book covers how Hikar discovers he's the new Avatar, and as the title implies, how he will learn metalbending.

Book Two: Lightning (電)[]

Will be the second out of four books, and as the title implies, how will he learn lightningbending. The release date will take place once the previous book is finished.

Locations[]

The following locations have been seen, mentioned, or taken place the story.

Unknown Location

  • Mysterious compound

Earth Confederacy

  • Earth Republic of Daiya
    • Yetai Tong
      • Residential Area
        • First Firestone Household
        • First Silverfox Household (alluded)
      • Yetai Tong Port
  • Bai Jinshen (mentioned only)

United Republic

  • Republic City
    • Sato estate
    • Upper North District
      • Meridian Avenue Police Station
    • House Mounts District
      • Republic West High School
      • Rhynoki Pub (mentioned only)
  • Republic City Metropolitan Area
    • Northeast River Valley
    • Republic City International Airport

Fire Nation

  • Zukokyo
    • Central Street
    • Azula Institute of Technology

Northern Water Tribe

  • Sato Waterbending Academy

Map post-250 AG[]

Avatar HSC Map

Production[]

Development[]

The author himself, AirMasterParker, wrote a whole blog post regarding the beginning of Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles and how it's development went down.

Originally inspired by the fanfiction Avatar Brek, by Omashu Rocks , he felt the fanfiction itself could have an improved extended storyline, just like how it went with Legend of Korra initially having only the first book without the other three in mind. But that was immediately rejected as it went against Avatar Fanon Wikia's policies.

After recreating the story, Parker got a basic structure of 4 books planned, and he started to design the five characters, and to write down in his computer what would be the story overall; once done, he started writing the first chapter of the series, initially called "Hikar Spiritual Force", which was later changed.

Through summer 2016 until March 2017, the story was periodically published in Avatar Fanon Wiki, each episode accompanied by at least five drawings (deleted from the wiki since 2018). Once it was time to write the Book One finale, he tried to write it as a comic so the readers could appreciate more the fight scenes. But because of Parker's life problems and exams, the comic was abandoned, and never properly finished.

By August 2017, he wrote down what the first chapters of Book Two would be like, and he rebooted the series, rewriting it from start to finish, and renaming it as "Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles".

Since February 2018, he adapted a new method of writing to apply to Book Two and restructured the story once again, this time for just two books, and a probable third.

After a test, and joining the Legend of Genji developement team, a parallel post-Korra story, he started working on the story in webtoon format, applying what he learned from other webtoons and Genji itself. The comic was publicated periodically from 2019-2022.

After the cancellation of the Legend of Genji project, Parker took a step back to reevaluate and estabilize his life and choices, until late 2023 when he decided to eventually come back with a newfound focus, after finishing his college degree in june 2024. During the refocusing process, the planned third book was cancelled, with a dimmed posibility of a return.

Promotion[]

Seeing how the story's success was growing, the author started to adapt the story to be available to read in both DeviantArt and Wattpad, extending the audience and the reception.

It was featured in Mackydraws' tumblr blog, as a recommendation on people who were also working in an Earth Avatar Series, thus making the audience grow significantly.

Thanks to later joining the "Legend of Genji" team, his audience grew significantly again, and so did help Parker's Spiderman Parody comic on Instagram and Webtoon.

In July 2020, instagram account @avatargraphicnovel, with over 15.000 followers, promoted the prologue, giving a very significant boost in the following.

The following years promotion was stalled due to a lack of focus and a neglect of the internet algorithm in order to prioitize quality over quantity.

Following a hiatus in social media, it was decided that promotion would no longer take place and social media would only be used to casual engangement with fans and announcing new releases or production updates.

Reception[]

Although it hasn't been that much read by people, it has caught interest in various people in the Avatar Fandom, with artists such as Mackydraws, Nuemilee, Sketchderps and The Kodo finding it interesting, and keeping an eye out, as seen as well in most of the comments in the wiki, as well as in the few comments in Wattpad, DeviantArt and Webtoon.

As of December 18th 2020, it holds a score of 9.81/10 in webtoon, 328 subscribers and 12.7k total reads.

Over the course of mid 2020 it started to gain traction in the avatar fandom, receiving very positive reviews, and being featured as the Avatar Wiki's Fanon of the month in May 2020.

Awards[]

In March 2020, the three-parter pilot of "New Cycle" was submitted for the fanonbending contest under the prompt of "New Beginnings", and it won the first place after a tiebreaker.

 This user won round of the Fanonbender's writing contest with their three-part pilot!

Trivia[]

  • Like the creators during The Legend of Korra, Parker consulted Avatar Wiki to be as canon as possible.
  • Originally was titled "Hikar Spiritual Force", during it's first run. Changed later to make an actual title that made sense into Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles.
  • Originally it was planned as books 2, 3 & 4 from another fanfiction, Avatar Brek by Omashu Rocks, later dropped and restarted from there into what would become Hikar's story.
  • Unlike the original series, it features only one opening sequence in the shape of a prologue, which was done due to the webtoon media nature of the story.
    • Given the webtoon format, there's a limit on how many pages can be submitted each episode, being it not more than 20MB per episode, a maximum of 100 pages per episode, with 2MB of maximum size for each page.
  • During the production of the series, Parker rewatched the series several times, at least once every 3 episodes, to capture the essence of the series.
  • It was predicted for this series to have more or less 20 episodes per book, and 4 total books, which would have made Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles the longest series with around 80 episodes, compared to the canonical series of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra having 61 and 52 episodes respectively. This is no longer the case as Parker has cut down the story to 2 books.

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