Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-72.199.181.220-20120430054527/@comment-50.53.109.37-20120430060427

Precisely. This story needs non-bender representatives who can demonstrate that not everyone who can't bend isn't a bigoted douchebag whose parents were convieniently killed by benders so as to justify bender hate. Heck, who knows, maybe Asami's mother was a bender who was killed by an equalist, thus she hates equalists as the bigoted psychopaths that they are.

Asami being an equalist has two major flaws: 1) It's predictable, having a character be a turncoat for the enemy, and 2) She has no real motive to be an equalist. Most equalists seem to be people of the lower class. Such people historically are the ones who join a revolution, not the well-to-do like Asami. Asami has no need to be jealous or threatened by benders since her dad, a non-bender, is pretty much the richest and most powerful man in the city, I doubt they have bender thugs knocking on their door asking for protection money.

Asami actually being a bender sympathizer would be more interesting AND make more sense in light of her social status. Unless Bryke wants to throw the now overused "benders killed my family" excuse to make her an equalist, she just doesn't have any other logical motivation.