#60, RE: (OOTR15) M5 Taken by Storm
Posted by JeanneHedge on Jun-01-15 at 03:22 AM
In response to message #24
>>I don't thnk
>>anyone ever really realized the depth of contempt those White Lotus
>>members really had for the Avatar. What I'm not sure of is why they
>>thought she needed to be a machine. A slave.
>
>In Korra's lifetime, there has always been that thread in the
>White Lotus Society's fabric, the ones who - consciously or not -
>believe that she should work for them rather than the other way
>around. It started almost as soon as she was identified as the next
>Avatar, when she was four, and for the next 13 years that... well,
>"faction" isn't really the right word, but, that faction had the upper
>hand. What started out as a poorly-thought-out imperative to protect
>and guide the much-too-young-to-be-Avatar Avatar went wrong fairly
>quickly, as the difference between guidance and control (and between
>protection and confinement) sort of got lost in the shuffle.
>
>The point is, there have always been those who have been convinced
>they know better than Korra does what she ought to be doing (and often
>with whom and for what reasons, as well). Not just in the White
>Lotus, as such - she got a bunch of that from Tenzin, too, as a
>teenager. He wised up eventually, and she thought the White Lotus had
>too. To say that she's disappointed by their recent performance is to
>undersell the point somewhat spectacularly. If you count the Tenneq
>conspiracy as a separate event, this incident marks at least the
>fourth time in her life that the White Lotus Society has failed her
>utterly and catastrophically at a critical moment.
>
>There will be consequences. "Emily, I have an immediate opening for a press director. Interested?" Actually, I can see where the WL would be thinking Korra was getting out of hand (to them). First there was her reaction to the wedding invite thing, which led to her getting rid of several of them (one way or another), then she brings back outsiders, and then she starts appointing her own people to WL positions (tho I'm not clear if Kate and Nyima were temp or permanent appointments). Make it worse - one of the new appointments was one of the dread outsiders, the other an air nomad kid! They went into self-preservation mode.
Jeanne
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