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korrausummary
Korra comes from a wealthy Malaysian family (though because her mother is Bumipetera, there's some class/racial tension between them and her father's side of the family). Her father is a renowned scholar of Islam.
She wants to change the world, but she doesn't know how. Seeking a purpose in life, she convinced her parents to let her go to university in the United States, thinking maybe she would find her purpose there.
Three years later, she's still looking for it.
notes to incorporate
She practices Silat Melayu, a Malaysian martial art
People tell her that she's not a good Muslim (the same way in canon they told her that she wasn't very spiritual)
She's a terrible student. She has yet to find any purpose in life via university. She still hasn't declared a major. She hasn't dropped out entirely because: she hates quitting; she doesn't want to go back to Malaysia; she doesn't know what else she would do
The quest for the relic becomes the purpose that she's passionate about
Canonically, Korra is so driven by her purpose and consumed by her identity as the Avatar that I don't think she's thought about her sexuality at all. She doesn't think about dating or marriage in the abstract, just the concrete. Her sexuality isn't part of her identity.
AU Korra also only thinks about relationships in the concrete; because she hasn't fallen in love with a girl yet, she has no reason to think about herself as a bisexual person.
She is currently quite comfortable with the "being gay isn't a sin, but homosexual acts are" rationalization. She's encountered queer people, but they're not enough a part of her life for her to struggle with it.
She will really struggle with it once she either falls in love with a girl, or if she regains the memories of being in love with Asami.
She has a dog, Naga, who is a Great Pyrenees
AU Korra does not have PTSD, but canon Korra does. Reclaiming her memories will involve reclaiming that illness and risking relapse.
headcanons
She has several learning disorders (dyslexia and ADD) which, while not severe enough to dominate her life, certainly contribute to her academic difficulties.
Korra comes from a wealthy Malaysian family (though because her mother is Bumipetera, there's some class/racial tension between them and her father's side of the family). Her father is a renowned scholar of Islam.
She wants to change the world, but she doesn't know how. Seeking a purpose in life, she convinced her parents to let her go to university in the United States, thinking maybe she would find her purpose there.
Three years later, she's still looking for it.
notes to incorporate
She practices Silat Melayu, a Malaysian martial art
People tell her that she's not a good Muslim (the same way in canon they told her that she wasn't very spiritual)
- Even though her father is a great scholar of Islam, she hasn't studied the Quran very closely
- When she was younger, she hated doing the ritual prayers, and she would rush through them and complain about them. When she first came to the US, she lapsed entirely because there wasn't a structure to support her and she didn't have a huge internal drive to do it. After falling into a deep depression near the end of her freshman year, forcing herself to do those prayers helped her climb out of that depression, and now they are important to her.
She's a terrible student. She has yet to find any purpose in life via university. She still hasn't declared a major. She hasn't dropped out entirely because: she hates quitting; she doesn't want to go back to Malaysia; she doesn't know what else she would do
The quest for the relic becomes the purpose that she's passionate about
Canonically, Korra is so driven by her purpose and consumed by her identity as the Avatar that I don't think she's thought about her sexuality at all. She doesn't think about dating or marriage in the abstract, just the concrete. Her sexuality isn't part of her identity.
AU Korra also only thinks about relationships in the concrete; because she hasn't fallen in love with a girl yet, she has no reason to think about herself as a bisexual person.
She is currently quite comfortable with the "being gay isn't a sin, but homosexual acts are" rationalization. She's encountered queer people, but they're not enough a part of her life for her to struggle with it.
She will really struggle with it once she either falls in love with a girl, or if she regains the memories of being in love with Asami.
She has a dog, Naga, who is a Great Pyrenees
AU Korra does not have PTSD, but canon Korra does. Reclaiming her memories will involve reclaiming that illness and risking relapse.
headcanons
She has several learning disorders (dyslexia and ADD) which, while not severe enough to dominate her life, certainly contribute to her academic difficulties.
