Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-72.37.248.20-20121012024037/@comment-5333850-20121016060037

^ I agree that Korra should probably get the least sympathy, although the pressure must be immense. In any case, as far as past go, I certainly would give the Sympathy Award to Mako and Bolin. Asami losing her mother was indeed tragic, but she was loved by her father, always had her needs met, and never had to worry about starving or being hurt. Mako and Bolin on the other hand had to fend for themselves in a very large and dangerous city. That added onto the trauma of losing one parents, and then for Mako having to raise his brother in a very large and dangerous city at the age of eight after witnessing the murder of his parents is pretty gruesome. Because of that past it would make sense why Mako would be moody.

Now, the problem with all that is we didn't get to see it, so it blunts the effect. So, as far as what we've seen in this season, Asami has suffered the most and therefore drawing more sympathy from the fandom. I suppose what gets on some people's nerves is when people disregard everything we know about the characters, and base a character solely on what happened in the season, when before it was always perfectly acceptable to use a person's background as a means of fully analysing a character.