Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-98.238.188.121-20120607030508/@comment-4888161-20120607044934

We all saw how hard it was for her to go against her father. But she did it anyways. That's the whole point:

It was hard for her, but she did it anyways. That takes real conviction (and I mean the: a fixed or firm belief definition of conviction) to do that.

Obviously she would have reasons to go against her father (even though it was so hard for her), or else she wouldn't have done it in the first place. What do you think they were? Now we went over this many times after episode 7, but just about everyone here seems to have a condition called convenient memory loss.

'''1. She does NOT believe what the Equalists are doing is right. '''With everyone else caught in the perfect trap, the Equalists could have made it so only Tarrlok was left in their way. All the other people who would be major obstacles were defeated. Therefore, Asami had no reason to disrupt it if she believed it was right, let alone go against her father to do that. She clearly believes what the Equalists are doing is wrong. There has been evidence towards that by things like Asami being a probending fan, and having bender friends and a bender boyfriend. Ideals like this do not get changed by petty jealousy in a person with strong character, which Asami showed by sticking with her ideals even against her own father. As Asami proves, not every non bender is an Equalist. This theme also appeared again in episode 8, and Asami helped back that up.

'''2. She wanted to protect her friends. '''Now she would want to protect her father as well. But when forced to pick between the two, she stuck with the side that was right. That goes back to point one. It is beyond unlikely that she would go against her father (and other things) if she thought the Equalists were right.

- Basically, Asami already went against her father because of her beliefs. Because those are extremely unlikely to change, she won't go back to the Equalists now (who she strongly believes are wrong) for some petty reason, like it was hard for her to go against her father. She already went against her father specifically NOT to do that. Episode 7 proved some things were more important to Asami than always siding with her father. The conviction it took her to do that isn't going to change. There's no going back for her now.