instead of spamming an artist who probably just wants to mind their business with their own au ima paste the really short simplified analysis i did for each of the HS kids wrt heroism vs villainy in popular culture here
John is the everyman, the guy they write bildungsromane about, the fucking farmboy in star wars and eragon. 2/?
Rose is the modern antihero, especially dark YA novel types and is pretty subversive by virtue of rebellion against her princess-like position & being drawn to incredibly morally dubious actions/forces, ultimately reframing what it means to be good/a hero in the first place 3/?
Dave is a more classic brooding antihero, a born warrior that struggles with his violent tendencies and has a dark past that he masks behind his heroic facade 4/?
Jade is The Main Character 5/?
in the story jade belongs to (varying SFF genres) all the above are just accessories to her plot about her being connected to divine force as a prophet/living goddess and heir to a power beyond imagining that allows her to warp the cosmos to save everyone 6/?
the next part is probably more contentious by virtue of asserting that the alpha kids are all without exception intended to be antagonists due to the roles of their adult selves in the narrative. if the epilogue was kind at all it was in not showing us the worst of jake or roxy.
Jane is the evil queen, the one who is least likely to have any positive qualities shown 8/?
Dirk is the antivillain, who may have just ideals but completely loses the plot with his villainous machinations. he is quite possibly behind everything 9/?
Jake is essentially the token good teammate of the villains to Rose's token evil teammate for the heroes, the one who is most likely to have a heel-face turn. he's probably bankrolling the villains or is otherwise a cornerstone to their team in terms of power/offense 10/?
roxy is an extremely mysterious catwoman-like figure, or like shego/ty lee/etc, the one who may work with the heroes sometimes even but you really have no idea what her actual goals or allegiances are. possibly the secret final boss after the 'main' antagonist is defeated 11/?
tl;dr for the alpha kids:
roxy: Looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you
Dirk: Looks like he could kill you, is a cinnamon roll (sort of)
Jake: Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll
Jane: Looks like she could kill you, will actually kill you
12/?
or to make this even simpler for the entire cast we can literally map them 1-to-1 with the ATLA cast as follows:

John: Aang
Rose: Katara
Dave: Sokka
Jade: Toph
Jane: Azula
Dirk: Mai
roxy: Ty Lee
Jake: Zuko

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