PEACE BEARER.

   ❛ ah---! lord zuko!! ❜       at the sight of him she beams , the apples of her cheeks turning rosy . she gains speed with each step she takes , humbleness forgotten as she throws her arms around his highness.

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𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖.     innocence, big dreamer, waking up too early, walking home, being afraid of meeting new people, slim hands, always cold, reading a book under a tree, the smell of the forest, missing your home.

𝐄𝐀𝐆𝐋𝐄.     independent, caring too much for others, sharp looks, walking down the city late at night, the tallest and more spectacular building, iron, being single and okay in a world that tells you that being single is bad.

𝐒𝐖𝐈𝐅𝐓.     falling in love easily and heavily, traveler, the infinity of the bluest sky, storms, broken smiles, forgetting people who used to be your beloved ones, feeling out of place, mistrusting people, a fleeting romance.

𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐖.     feeling as if you have seen so much and as if you know a lot, prejudge, tight hugs that leave you breathless, a grey sky, serenity, intelligence, being left behind, chains, smoke, the pride of someone wise.

𝐃𝐎𝐕𝐄.      petals, jealousy, being tired of living with the same old faces, whispered secrets, marble, sundresses, white clothes, the first sunset of winter, pride in who you are, learning to get over someone.

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐆𝐔𝐋𝐋.     family, golden light, the sea murmuring in your ear, summer afternoons, caramel ice cream, collecting seashells and other things and calling them treasures, living breezy and carefree, swimming in sunlight.

𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐘.       artistic, getting excited easily, dancing and singing while you are alone, looking at your friends having fun, no phone, being afraid of judgement, spring, a meaningful gift, the first ray of sunlight.

   ❛ naga! it’s good to see you again, big girl!

excitement corroded her veins, sheer happiness painted all over her features  ;  this  moment she had been anticipating for so long  ——  too long . she buries herself into amaranthine hoar, it’s softness comforting  /  hiding child-like emotions as dactyls (hard-bitten & marred as they were , for she had won & lost countless battles) dig into it , clinging - almost pitiable , but not so , for all hardships she’d overcome.

book smarts or street smarts

introverted or extroverted

sensible or imaginative

brave or foolhardy

family or friends

wrath or greed 

sunrise or sunset

indoors or outdoors

night owl or early bird

technology or old fashioned

bones crack! as arms reach out into nothingness, eyes squint as they have yet to adjust to the light the morning sun radiates  ;  karma makes sure to always return what you give ( note: thank mom & dad for tolerating you when you were a child yourself. ), for now it was korra’s turn to be awoken at ungodly hours of the day for----

    ❛ lord zuko, if i may---

her tone is kind towards the former fire lord, yet a subtle hint of sternness lingers in her words; she feels the corner of her lips twitch, a myriad of questions storming her brain, but she bites them back -- why is he so.... restless?

the korra that i’m portraying has undergone A LOT of character development; back in book one, when korra was only 17 years old, a clueless teenager since i’m stating facts, korra WAS indeed impatient, hot-headed, would jump head first into fights if provoked; you probably get the gist. 

now let’s remember how many things she’s gone through; her battle with amon and the equalists, fighting her own uncle after being deceived by him to release vaatu from his prison, being captured by the red lotus and poisoned so that she could be killed in the avatar state... korra’s has been through A LOT, she even isolated herself for 3 YEARS because all those events traumatised her.

then we have book 4, personally my favourite one, because that’s when all her characters growth shows; it begins with her AMBITION to get over her trauma, first by getting back on her own feet & walking once again (that, without her knowing that she still had poison in her blood), but that wasn’t it. she was still haunted by her past, thus her disappearing for another 6 months, trying to FIGHT her past initially. it took her talking to zaheer, who was one of her fears,  the spirits leading her to the swamp where she found toph and only THEN was she able to bend the poison out of her system. that was when she reconnected with her spiritual self because that’s when she realised that she wasn’t supposed to FIGHT her past, she was supposed to ACCEPT that all those things have happened to her, yes, but she has to get over them; not for the sake of the world, with her being the avatar and blah blah, but for herself, for her own well-being. 

once she defeated kuvira (can’t really say defeated because... well... it’s quite complicated actually), we see korra and asami leave towards the spirit world, but it doesn’t stop there; the series continues in the comics, where we get even MORE insight of korra’s growth --- thus my portrayal of her.

in the comics we see korra, now a 21-year-old girl, no longer PRIDING herself that she’s the avatar; now she’s embracing her role and acting as it. she’s a responsible person now, who only uses her power when necessary; needless to say, her fuse is still short sometimes, she’s not as hot-headed as she used to be, she’s still fierce, and now she puts the safety of her friends, of the people around her & of the spirits above everything elese. she is still selfish at times (as seen when she wanted to tell her parents about her relation with asami - which she did - BUT she apologised afterwards as asami told korra she shouldn’t be so impatient; not that she minded korra telling her parents, nor that she’d ever hide her feelings for korra & their relation from the world - it was simply that asami & korra’s parents opened korra’s eyes, and that was that not everyone would approve of their relation)