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Leadership
Tarrlok
The Chairman of the Republic City Council
- Adaptational Villainy: While he was certainly not a nice guy in canon, Tarrlok here is an insensitive Jerkass to Tonraq about his missing daughter. Also unlike his canon counterpart who used bloodbending as a last resort and took no visual pleasure in doing so, here he starts off with it and clearly enjoys it.
- Jerkass: His dialogue with Tonraq during Chapter Three would be more than enough to categorize him as this.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He has made a few valid points despite his less than tactful way of stating things.
- While he could have been less abrasive about it, the other world leaders such as Suyin and Izumi, agree that the search for the Avatar must take a backseat to other world affairs.
- Due to Korra's rather sketchy background and the fact she was manipulated by the Red Lotus, he has a point that Korra might not be trustworthy.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: He nearly blood-bends Ming Hua to death before being stopped by Ghazan.
- Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Capitalizes on the Equalist attacks and the financial downfall of Future Industries in order to make a profit for himself.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: When Iroh begins purchasing shares of Future Industries in order to protect Asami and the workers, Tarrlok uses his authority to send Iroh on a mission away from Republic City.
Chiyo
- Deader than Dead: P'Li hits her with a full powered combustion bolt. Chiyo's body is described to have "vanished in a blast of fire."
- Death by Adaptation: Type I. None of the other councilmen are seen to be killed onscreen in canon even after the Equalist Revolution.
- Named by the Adaptation: Originally a nameless councilmen who was named in this story.
- Small Role, Big Impact:Her death at the hands of the Red Lotus along with Kim has been used to propel parts of the plot during the end of Book One and Book Two. Justified since he was one of the leaders of Republic City.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off before the end of Book One, and she only had a few appearances that did not give us a lot of insight into her character.
Kim
- Death by Adaptation: Type I. None of the other councilmen are seen to be killed onscreen in canon even after the Equalist Revolution.
- Named by the Adaptation: Originally a nameless councilmen who was named in this story.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His death along with Chiyo's at the hands of the Red Lotus have been used to propel parts of the plot during the end of Book One and Book Two. Justified since he was one of the leaders of Republic City.
- We Hardly Knew Ye
Tenzin's Family
In General
- Badass Family
- Blow You Away: Tenzin and his children are Airbenders.
- Racial Remnant
Tenzin
He is a member of the Republic City Council. He along with Tonraq have supported the efforts to find Korra after she was kidnapped fourteen years earlier.
- Amicable Exes: With Lin Beifong.
- First Love: He was this to his childhood friend Lin Beifong.
- Happily Married: To Pema.
- I Have Your Wife: When a Red Lotus member holds his daughter hostage in Chapter Fourteen.
- Innocently Insensitive: He accidentally hits Korra's Berserk Button when he accidentally reminds her of Zaheer.
- The Mentor:
- He has been this to his children in regards to their airbending training, and he hoped to become Korra's mentor as well even long after her kidnapping.
- Starting in Book Two, he has officially taken on the role of Korra's airbending teacher and mentor.
- Nice Guy: He is a kind man who wishes to help others.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He proves to be one several times.
- After receiving word that Korra might be in the city and has engaged in some criminal activities, he wants to find her rather than having her be imprisoned. He recognizes the fact that being kidnapped by the Red Lotus would have significantly affected her, and he wants to help her.
- When he finally meets Korra during Chapter Sixteen, he makes it clear he wants to hear her side of the story, and he will try to prevent her from being arrested. Korra was surprised by the fact he was willing to offer her shelter despite everything that happened.
- In the aftermath of the battle with the Red Lotus, he is doing his best to shield Korra from the public and try to help her image when she is eventually revealed to the public.
- Unlike canon, he does not appear to give Korra a hard time for wanting to continue playing pro-bending, and is happy to welcome her friends to Air Temple Island.
- Sacred Hospitality: He offers this to Korra and her family.
Pema
- Innocently Insensitive: Pema quickly realizes that mentioning the Red Lotus affects Korra and excuses herself.
- Happily Married: To Tenzin
- Muggle: The only non-Airbender
Jinora
- Badass Adorable
- Badass in Distress: She is held hostage by Manu during Chapter Fourteen of Book One.
- Child Prodigy: She not only is intelligent, but she has great Air Bending skills as well.
- Nice Girl: Korra considers her to be this. She tells Tenzin that Jinora is a wonderful daughter. She also appears to be the first of her siblings to accept Korra as her grandfather's reincarnation.
- Wise Beyond Her Years: Her vast knowledge of Air Nation culture impresses Korra.
Ikki
Meelo
- Badass Adorable
- Demoted to Extra: The authors have stated he will mostly make cameos and have limited dialogue due to disliking the character in canon.
Republic City Police Department
Lin Beifong
Daughter of Toph Beifong and chief of police.
- 24-Hour Armor: She always wears armor like her canon counterpart.
- Action Girl: That is putting it lightly.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: She appears to be somewhat nicer from the start of the story than she is at the beginning of the canon storyline. She is far nicer and respectful to Korra during their first actual conversation in Chapter One of Book Two than her canon counterpart is with Korra who wanted to arrest Korra and throw her out of Republic City. Likewise, Korra is much nicer to Lin, and apologizes for her actions.
- Adaptational Sexuality: In canon, there's no other indication to her sexuality besides her previous relationship with Tenzin. In Saga, Lin is bisexual as she started dating Kya after breaking up with Tenzin.
- Amicable Exes: Unlike canon, she starts off like this with Tenzin. Rather than there being tension between her and Tenzin, things are much more amicable between the two of them despite their break up.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She is not the Chief of police for nothing.
- Big Damn Heroes: She and other metal-bender police officers arrive and restrain Korra before she can finish off Kuvira.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She and Tenzin had this prior to their break up. She is currently in one with Kya.
- First Love: Similar to canon, she is this to her childhood friend Tenzin.
- Heroic Bastard: Similar to canon, Lin is Toph's illegitimate daughter.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After finding out from one of her subordinates that Korra might be in the city, she tries to find the Avatar discreetly and understands that her circumstances of living were far from ideal. This is highlighted during their first real interactions at the beginning of Book Two.Lin: It is a honor to meet you, Avatar Korra. The police will offer you as much assistance as they are able. (winks) Just stay on the right side of the law, okay?Korra: T-thank you. I'm... sorry I attacked you.Lin: The situation was unstable. We could have handled it better ourselves. Please believe me; I am not holding it against you.
- Scars Are Forever: She has the same scar from canon.
Kuvira
See Team Avatar
Chang
An officer that works under Lin Beifong and had two chance encounters with Korra.
- Original Character: She is exclusive to the Saga storyline.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She witnessed the aftermath of Korra using waterbending to incapacitate other police officers and then she is defeated by Korra who used firebending. This leads her to realizing that Korra's the Avatar, and she informs Tenzin and Lin Beifong of her discovery.
Jin
An officer that works under Lin Beifong and had two chance encounters with Korra.
- Original Character: He is exclusive to the Saga storyline.
Republic City United Forces
General Iroh
He is the grandson of former Fire Lord Zuko and the son of the current Fire Lord Izumi. He is currently a general of Republic City's United Forces.
- Action Dad: As in canon, he's a general and skilled firebender. Here, he has a little daughter named Yuzu, who is kept a secret by the royal family.
- Affectionate Nickname: His great-aunt Azula calls him "Junior" to set him apart from the previous Iroh.
- Age Lift: Is quite a bit younger than his canon counterpart.
- Ancestral Weapon: He owns the pearl-handled dagger that his namesake gave to his grandfather Zuko.
- Ascended Extra: He plays a more important role throughout the story in contrast to how his canon counterpart's importance dropped significantly after Book One.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He isn't the general for nothing.
- The Chains of Commanding: Being a general means making tough decisions during a war. After the final battle of Republic City against the Earth Empire, the guilt over all the people who died because of his choices and Bolin becoming deaf after Iroh sent him to die in the battlefield drives Iroh to withdrawn from the public completely.
- Child Prodigy: Even as a young boy he was an incredibly skilled and powerful fire-bender, enough to pin down P'Li and help his great aunt fight off the Red Lotus. The authors have confirmed that if Iroh had been any older at the time, the Red Lotus would not have survived the encounter.
- Consummate Liar: It seems he takes after his great-aunt Azula in deception skills because his lies go undetected by the truth-teller earthbenders.
- Dead Guy Junior: His mother named him after Zuko's uncle Iroh. However, General Iroh admits to Asami he doesn't exactly like that Zuko did that because it put some pressure on him to follow the previous Iroh's footsteps.
- Friends with Benefits: He gets into this sort of relationship with Asami. They're attracted to each other and have casual sex, but neither is looking for a serious relationship with the other.
- Guile Hero: Instead of using his considerable fire-bending abilities, Iroh uses his intelligence and position to accomplish his goals.
- Important Haircut: He cut his long hair shortly before he joined the United Forces.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: His comment in the meeting with Katara is supposed to confirm that the dart that hit Korra was nothing harmful. Didn't stop the speculation.Iroh: I hurried analysis through since the dart seems to be all that some care about. (sigh)
- Nerves of Steel: Unsurprising, given his occupation. He always keeps a cool head and keeps his patience even in difficult times. Perhaps best seen in "Escape from Republic City" where his level-headed disposition contrasts with Korra's anger and frustration.
- Non-Idle Rich: Uses his wealth to protect the workers of Future Industries.
- Officer and a Gentleman: He has both the demeanor and the high class background.
- Parents as People: He has a little daughter named Yuzu, but only the members of the Fire Nation royal family and their most trusted allies know of her existence. Because of his job as a general of the United Forces, Iroh has been absent for most of Yuzu's infancy and laments how much he missed out on it.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He along with Lin and Bumi are willing to help Tenzin try to keep Korra's existence a secret from the public for as long as possible.
- In Book Two after Hiroshi Sato's complicity with the Equalists has been revealed and his company suffers for it, Iroh begins to buy shares of the Sato company in order to protect the jobs of the workers.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: He is a prince and a general. His side story details how he didn't want to rely on his royal privilege to join the army and choose to work himself to the top in the United Forces to earn his position as general himself.
- Running Gag: Being asked about Zaheer's dart.
- Sins of Our Fathers: He carries with the burden of not being allowed to forget about the bloodshed and war caused by his ancestors, despite him and his mother doing good for the current world. Those like Kuvira demand him to pay for the Fire Nation royal family's crimes like if they were his own.
- Take Me Instead: During his negotiation with Kuvira, Iroh offers to let her take him prisoner in exchange for her releasing the Fire Nation citizens she told him she's holding hostage to lure him to her. Kuvira rejects the offer and demands Iroh a duel to death with her.
- Warrior Prince: He is the prince of the Fire Nation, and he is a great fighter.
General Kya
She is the second child and only daughter of Avatar Aang and Katara.
- Adaptational Badass: Her canon counterpart was a hippie, in this story she is a United Forces General. Even outranking her older brother.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She is in one with Lin Beifong.
- The Ghost: She was mentioned a few times in Book One, but she did not make any appearances. She finally makes her debut during Book Two's prologue.
- Promoted to Love Interest: She is in a romantic relationship with Lin in this story while there was never an indication of such in canon.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She along with Tenzin, Bumi, and Iroh seems to understand Korra's rather unfortunate circumstances were less than desirable.
- Second Love: She started dating Lin after the latter broke up with her brother Tenzin.
Commander Bumi
The first child and son of Avatar Aang and Katara.
- Last Episode, New Character: Similar to canon, Bumi is introduced during the last chapter of Book One.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He along with Iroh and Lin are willing to help Tenzin try to keep Korra's existence a secret from the public for as long as possible.
Sato Household & Future Industries
Hiroshi Sato
Asami Sato's father and CEO of Future Industries.
- Fantastic Racism: He does make it clear he is not a fan of benders. Later leading him to support the Equalists.
- Honest Corporate Executive: It has yet to be made clear if he will follow his canon counterparts footsteps, but he appears to be this. Is Subverted later when he is revealed to be as intolerant as his canon counterpart.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While he may have come off as a jerk for what he says about Korra, Mako, and Bolin, he did have a point about them potentially being dangerous. When he later sees his daughter was right about them, he apologizes.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he is affable to his daughter, he does make it clear he does not approve of his daughter befriending benders, and insults them without even trying to get to know them. Despite his negative traits, he clearly cares for his daughter, and he is willing to admit when he is wrong.
- Muggle: Similar to canon, he is a non-bender.
- Nice to the Waiter: He appears to treat his employees and servants well.
- Pet the Dog: He allows Asami to throw a party with her friends after they win their first Pro-bending match. He admits that he misjudged them.
- Properly Paranoid: While he misjudged Korra, Bolin, and Mako, he was right that Asami having self-defense classes was a necessity as proven on several occasions in the story so far.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Zig-zagged. He never actually thanks Korra for saving Asami's life and thinks rather poorly of her at first, but he does let Korra live in the mansion with them at Asami's request.
Yasuko Sato
Asami Sato's mother who was killed years ago.
- Ascended Extra: Makes an actual appearance during the first chapter of this story.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: From what little we knew of her, she was a good and loving mother to Asami who still grieves her to this day.
- Missing Mom: She was killed when her daughter Asami was a child.
- Posthumous Character: She is killed between the events of the first and second chapter, but she's still mentioned frequently by her husband and daughter.
Asami Sato
See Asami Sato
Takeshi
Saionji
Yujin
One of the Sato's families loyal servants. She is murdered by the Red Lotus during Chapter Fourteen.
- Sacrificial Lion: Her death shows how ruthless the Red Lotus are.
- Small Role, Big Impact: During her early appearances, she is a Nice Girl and loyal servant to the Sato family. After she is murdered by the Red Lotus, it sets off a chain of events that ultimately leads to their demise.
Wen
One of the Sato's families loyal servants.
Yin
One of the Sato's families loyal servants. He is killed by the Red Lotus after they invade the Sato Estate and kidnap Korra.
- Red Shirt: He is killed by the Red Lotus trying while trying to help Asami and the others stop them from kidnapping Korra.
Mei
One of the Sato's families loyal servants.
Chao
Republic City Criminals
Shady Shin
- Composite Character: He is Shady Shin with Lightning Bolt Zolt's abilities. This was done by accident by the authors of the story.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He and his thugs are delivering one to Mako before Korra, Bolin, and Asami arrive and put Shin on the receiving end of this trope.
- Dirty Coward
- Starter Villain: He is the first named villain that Korra and her new friends in Republic City have to contend with.
- Small Role, Big Impact: It was due to his actions that Korra and Asami reunite along with Mako and Bolin losing their home which causes Asami to help them.
Yang and Li
- Dirty Coward: They both left Bolin and Korra behind to save themselves.
- Small Role, Big Impact: If it wasn't for their betrayal, Korra would not have needed to save Bolin. If she did not need to save Bolin, Chang would not have seen her nor trigger White Lotus' or Red Lotus' search for Korra in Republic City.
Other Republic City Residents
Hasook
The waterbender member of the Fire Ferrets.
Toza
Tahno
- Adaptational Heroism: Is just as much of an arrogant Jerkass as he is in canon, but he does not appear to be a cheater like his canon counterpart.
- The Cameo: In Chapter Twelve.
Doctor Love
- The Mentor: He offers Bolin some advice about love and his dreams.
Tomo
Yue
The granddaughter of Sokka and Suki as well as General Iroh's accountant and best friend.
- Crusading Lawyer: Aids Iroh in his attempts to save Future Industries and agrees to investigate Tarrlok while he is away.
- Sassy Secretary
- Scholarship Student: She went to the academy in the Fire Nation under a scholarship.
