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long term plotting
If I manage to keep playing Korra for a year, I'll give her her bending back. (I may cave and make it sooner, but I like the idea of doing it as a "OMG, KATIE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY HOLD ONTO A CHARACTER FOR MORE THAN A FEW MONTHS" celebration)
Also I just want time to really play out the process of it.
Korra's issue is she doesn't listen. She has a rigid self definition and attacks all problems the same way. It's only when she's at her absolutely most desperate that she considers alternatives: when kidnapped by Tarrlok, when Amon is attacking Mako, when she loses all hope of getting her bending back. It's not a conscious consideration of alternatives so much as an open-mindedness. This is why she gets those clearer visions from Aang, gets her airbending, and then finally completely connects with her past lives and has her bending restored.
In the City, she's having the same problem. She sees herself as a failed Avatar, and she still goes at all her problems the same way -- head on, using brute force and no planning.
Her self-image will change slightly, as she's going to give up being the Avatar and try to just be a regular person - learning non bending martial arts, getting a job, etc. But this isn't really a change for her, because in her heart of hearts, she'll still see herself as a failed Avatar. She'll have dreams of Aang and Appa in the storm (Aang's way of saying she's running away from her problems, but she won't realize that).
Eventually, eventually, eventually, she needs to encounter a problem that she has to solve and can't do physically. Something that forces her in desperation to be open to change. Something spiritual. One of her friends is out of balance and she has to open herself to seeing energy in order to fix it. Somehow. Something.
Also I just want time to really play out the process of it.
Korra's issue is she doesn't listen. She has a rigid self definition and attacks all problems the same way. It's only when she's at her absolutely most desperate that she considers alternatives: when kidnapped by Tarrlok, when Amon is attacking Mako, when she loses all hope of getting her bending back. It's not a conscious consideration of alternatives so much as an open-mindedness. This is why she gets those clearer visions from Aang, gets her airbending, and then finally completely connects with her past lives and has her bending restored.
In the City, she's having the same problem. She sees herself as a failed Avatar, and she still goes at all her problems the same way -- head on, using brute force and no planning.
Her self-image will change slightly, as she's going to give up being the Avatar and try to just be a regular person - learning non bending martial arts, getting a job, etc. But this isn't really a change for her, because in her heart of hearts, she'll still see herself as a failed Avatar. She'll have dreams of Aang and Appa in the storm (Aang's way of saying she's running away from her problems, but she won't realize that).
Eventually, eventually, eventually, she needs to encounter a problem that she has to solve and can't do physically. Something that forces her in desperation to be open to change. Something spiritual. One of her friends is out of balance and she has to open herself to seeing energy in order to fix it. Somehow. Something.