The big thing that Navier feels when she finds out that Sovieshu intends to divorce her, in favour of Rashta, is an identity crisis. Having spent her entire life training, preparing and tying her identity into being the Empress, the idea of living a life without that power, responsibility and identity paralyses her and acts as huge contributing factor to her immediately throwing herself into a marriage with Heinrey.

That's not enough, for me. I think there should have been more.

It's a good element to her character, and I wouldn't do without it, but I think there should have been a more immediate and pressing reason for Navier to both reach for the power and protection of a throne AND to flee the country...

Rashta.

I wholeheartedly think that the story should have made Rashta and Navier independently realise that their positions of power and authority were about to drastically change, and both should have had very significant emotional reactions.

Rashta (by this point in the story) truly hates Navier. She thinks this woman is actively out to undermine and harm her and her child.

Navier is a threat.

So, with Navier about to be removed from the imperial household and Rashta taking her place as Empress, Rashta should at least acknowledge that she has just been given the power to both get her revenge on Navier AND ensure she can never harm her or Glorym ever again...

Meanwhile, Navier should acknowledge just who is getting the throne once she is removed from it. Though she is a member of the Trovi family (and it would be an incredibly stupid thing to target such a powerful noble household), Rashta is a vengeful idiot who would have no issue publicly harming or humiliating her and her family for all these months of perceived slights and harm. Then, with how Sovieshu has both thoroughly defended her AND is actively throwing Navier away, Navier should also be worried that Sovieshu isn't going to be especially inclined to rein her in.

Navier should be terrified of what this crazy woman, emboldened with the power and authority of the crown, will do to her and her family if given the opportunity (just like when she talks about issues with her raising Glorym when Sovieshu is at her wedding). Which, as a result, fuels Navier's urgency for a remarriage to Heinrey.

Her marriage to Heinrey (which is one of convenience in the immediate term) is both a protection of her ego and identity AND cements a particular level of protection for herself and her family. Navier physically moving to another nation takes her out of Rashta's range, whilst Navier now being a rival monarch makes harming her family a potential declaration of war and requires Sovieshu to monitor anything Rashta might try to do to them.

This added layer of reasoning deepens the story significantly:

- It gives Navier's urgency (and her fear during the divorce) further weight, as there are real life-threatening consequences to her failure.

- It acknowledges potential political ramifications of a divorce of this nature.

- It makes Navier seem less shallow.

- It shows Heinrey as someone who wants to save Navier.

- It deepens the villainous edge on Rashta.

- It further deepens Sovieshu's feelings of stupidity when he realises what not communicating his plan to Navier made her think.

Its good shit all around!

Tl//dr: Navier should be rushing to marry Heinrey SO Rashta can't just abuse the power of the throne to get revenge on her and her family.

I understand that would be very difficult to prove, and I'm certain big enough corps would find loopholes/ways around it. However;

I fully believe that if a corporation and/or a public or corporate service wastes your time, there should be some built-in legal framework for recovering compensation for the time lost.

If you wait for an Amazon order that never arrives, are pulled over for a traffic infraction that ends up being bogus, held up on an unreasonably long hold time on the phone to a call centre, an appointment cancelled or delayed last minute without a reasonable cause — if you have your time wasted, dealing with a corporate or public service that requires you to sacrifice your time in order to receive a product or service, there should be a set and simple framework for reimbursement for the lost time.

The details of this system are to be decided; with how time is something you flat out don't get back, there should at least be something to remedy it being lost (with little to no gain) due to action beyond your control.

To be blunt, it is really annoying (and honestly kind of embarrassing) the amount of people in this community that can't talk about Korra — or see someone else talking about Korra — without dissing ATLA, or its fans. Especially when someone's LOK take is even mildly critical and/or didn't even mention the original series.

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Korra came out over 14 years ago.

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We got the last episode nearly 12 years ago.

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There has been so much time to just be happy and bask in the fact we got a four-season series (better than most) that, despite Nick's best efforts, told a solid story with a likeable cast and got a good ending. And yet, (especially here) we still have such a prominent group of fans and "fans" with a chip on their shoulder about ATLA being the more popular show, and not being shy about sharing that.

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It's been over a decade, we can't just blame "Korra haters" for the negativity that prevails in these fan spaces. The vast majority of ATLA fans either **do not care about us** or are ALSO fans of Korra too.

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The fact that Korra is a sequel series, and that many people (even if they don't like it AS much) still love Korra for what it is, is lost on the people here who treat ATLA fan and Korra hater as if they are synonymous. Especially when a lot of it manifests in open hostility towards Avatar the Last Airbender, and disingenuous what-ifs and teardowns of the sole reason that the Legend of Korra even exists.

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It feels like everyday there is some thinkpiece on how "Aang is the real Mary Sue" , "ATLA did this [INTENTIONALLY NEGATIVE THING THAT IS ADDRESSED IN THE EPISODE] and no one talks about it" or just a general perspective that the original series needs to be brought down a peg (especially Aang as a character) as some revenge for how certain ATLA fans hate on LOK.

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What happens as a result is three-fold;

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A) People believe we can't defend Korra without criticising Aang and ATLA.

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B) People believe we can't defend Korra without lying.

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And,

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C) People believe we just blindly hate on ATLA, because LOK isn't as popular.

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And despite the fact that none of that is true, so many people in this community (haters in the comments, those cherrypicking shorts and tweets to say they are indiciative of all anti-LOK opinions, people who claim that sexism is the ONLY reason for criticism, amateur powerscalers, etc.) genuinely ruin it for the rest of us.

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So many legitimate talks get derailed by "but what about THIS from ATLA," as any assumed criticism comes with an immediately defensive assumption that you are some kind of pro-ATLA/anti-LOK infiltrator. It often makes talking about this show feel like an exercise of walking on eggshells and feels really tribalistic, despite the fact we're all part of the same franchise.

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Ultimately, can we grow up as a community and start calling out the people acting like we need to tear down ATLA to big up Korra?

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