This is all probably going to be jossed in a few months.
Living on the compound, training to be the Avatar was an extremely lonely childhood, a lot like the ones experienced by young Olympic athletes. For a high energy extrovert like her, this was positively torture. This is part of the reason she was drawn to pro bending. It was familiar to her, and in it, she found a world full of people, just like her, training their tails off at bending in a way not many people in the Korra era do.
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Date: 2012-08-06 09:33 pm (UTC)Living on the compound, training to be the Avatar was an extremely lonely childhood, a lot like the ones experienced by young Olympic athletes. For a high energy extrovert like her, this was positively torture. This is part of the reason she was drawn to pro bending. It was familiar to her, and in it, she found a world full of people, just like her, training their tails off at bending in a way not many people in the Korra era do.