white_lotus | Korra Discussion Post: Out of the Past

Here's a question - are there any non-benders on the Council that rules the city? The three always agreeing with Tarrlok - are they benders? I feel like they'd have to be to agree to his stupid proposals. =/

I would love it if non-benders as a whole gained more political power while separating themselves from extremists like Amon. And I LOVE what you said about Korra realizing that her job is also to protect non-benders. It's to protect ALL people from violence and harm. I hope she has an epiphany about this because while she doesn't agree with Tarrlok-esque oppression, she also hasn't always been very nice and can act very elitist about having the power she does - a flaw and point of immaturity for her, I think.

I think they don't have to be - Sokka was on the council in the flashbacks - but I would suspect they currently are? The only societies I remember seeing in AtLA where the leaders weren't benders were either ones that apparently didn't have any (like the two feuding tribes whose names I forget) or the Southern Water tribe who'd had all of theirs killed off. Not sure if that was intentional on the part of the writers, but it does make benders seem a little more like they're an elite class.

It would make a lot of sense to me if non-benders were beginning to feel unrepresented by the current system of four representatives, one for each element, now that they're living in a city and they have identities that aren't as closely tied to being non-bender members of X social group. I'm quite positive they won't get into that on a children's show, but they could hint at it by having an Equalist political party develop?

I do at least think the show definitely realises that Korra's willingness to take advantage of being the Avatar and thinking of herself as special is something of a flaw, so it seems likely that that will be addressed at some point? AtLA was pretty good at demonstrating that Aang's role was generally supposed to be mediator rather than to pick a side.

Yeah, you're right about Sokka! *facepalm* Though I think as a close friend of the Avatar he would have had more status than the average non-bender. He's a good leader and being on the council makes perfect sense for him.

You're right that the show probably won't touch on all that but it would make really wonderful fanon/headcanon! I hope there's fic about it! Maybe I'll write some myself, though lately I haven't really been feeling the writing thing. Hopefully soon it will come back.

True about Aang, though I think that had more to do with his personality than anything. Aang and Korra are very different personality-wise and I would love to see how that affects the role they end up playing as Avatar - and how Korra struggles with her role. And I hope Korra has some real growth moments too. atm I like her as a character, but if they wrote her right in the remaining episodes I might grow to love her.

Yeah, definitely! I could easily see him being something of a rarity.

I know, right? I desperately want all of the twisty political longfic in this fandom, but no one seems to be writing it and I'm not sure I could... (It's always so tragic, no, when fandom doesn't write exactly what you want?/kidding)

Hmm, I think he'd been brought up to it a little more, but it was still sort of what he was supposed to be doing? When Aang was having Roku flashbacks, wasn't Roku's regret that he didn't deal with the Firelord when it was a matter of mediation and it ended up having to be violence instead? I do think that Korra is definitely going to end up mediating very differently, she's certainly not Aang2.0. I like her as a character too, but yeah, she'd be kind of a pain as a person sometimes and she still has a lot of growing up to do.

I hope they make her very dynamic, growing up just a little more each season and emerging as a strong woman at the end - still with flaws, but with a lot of wisdom under her belt from her experiences. I can see her being someone I would really respect at the end. Right now, she's really awesome in a lot of ways but at times makes me think of a pouty kid, so it's harder for me to respect her in the same way I'm compelled to respect, say, Tenzin. (Who, btw? is also awesome. "You really are the worst!" haha)

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