Legend of Korra Book 3: Bending over Backwards

[MLai]

It is fairly straightforward that her methods include shady deals with bandits... And that she is gathering loyalty to herself personally rather than towards whatever nation or faction she represents. Thwt doesn't bode well even without the genre savvyness and external info.

If we go that route of shining morality, then basically every single founding king/emperor in China's 5000 year history is a mustache-twirling villain.
Which isn't that far from the truth in an absolutist sense, but China is better off for having had them than without.

(1) Yes she's gathering power to herself. As opposed to the alternative, a useless ponce of an exiled prince? If she's blindly loyal to the prince, as shining morality dictates, then she's dooming the nation to repeat its own history. Ambition is not evil in and of itself.
(2) She likely sabotaged the kids' relief effort. Yes that's low, but in the grand scheme of things not really. What the kids are doing is a temporary salve that makes themselves feel good, but in the long run achieves nothing. Kuvira's move handily forced the chieftain/governor/whatev to sign the treaty, at which point the people got all the food and more.

Edit: Crap, I made page 51. What happens now? Am I going to get smited? Smote? Smitten?

[LibraryOgre]

Edit: Crap, I made page 51. What happens now? Am I going to get smited? Smote? Smitten?

The Mod Wonder: At which point, MLai was never seen again.

Carry on, my wayward puns; there's a fourth thread that we've begun. Let's lay this thread to rest; don't you post no more.