Tenzin, easily. He's her teacher and her mentor, and his expression just reads "I failed to protect you, Korra."

@UnchainedDragon25 Tenzin’s is very saddening. When he assured Tonraq she wasn’t there he sounded just so dejected. But if I may ask, I didn’t consider the perspective you offered on how you interpreted it. If possible, could you please explain why you feel his expressions conveys “I failed to protect you, Korra”? I would be interested in understanding.

AdmiralZod1, Tenzin refused to tell the Red Lotus where Korra was and got the crap kicked out of himself in his bid to protect her. Additionally, Tenzin was not just her airbending master, but also her mentor as the Avatar when she lost her connection to Aang. He encouraged her when both life and her enemies tried to seed her with doubt. Tenzin, like any reasonable teacher, sought to see his student rise to her fullest potential, and to see such a fiery spirit brought low, I can only imagine that he feels like he failed to protect her.

@UnchainedDragon25 I never thought of it that way. Thank you for giving me this new perspective

AdmiralZod1, I may also be projecting a bit of my own experiences onto Tenzin's perspective. I formerly worked as an educator and wasn't always able to access the necessary resources and authority to protect my students from terrible circumstances both at school and at home. I still carry many regrets over my inability to help them, and as such I know what the face of a man who feels he has failed his students looks like.

@UnchainedDragon25 I can understand that, and please know you have my deepest sympathies for having to go through such experiences, I know they can be very hard and taking them into account certainly allows me to better consider Tenzin’s feelings on the subject.

I personally feel Asami’s was most depressing not only because we know how deeply in love she was with Korra by this point, but also her reasoning for loving Korra. Once, I did an assessment on why Asami developed feelings for Korra which I feel had to do with what she brought into her life. After the death of her mother, it is implied Asami was a deeply lonely individual and didn’t have any friends outside of Mako and Bolin, with her inner sadness growing after her father’s true nature was revealed and struggling to save her family’s company in season 2. Being with Korra, however, allowed her to connect with others, find solutions to her problems, and take her mind off of the sadness in her heart. Furthermore, after Korra left Asami lost contact with her friends, with her only having reunited with Mako and Tenzin’s family after it was falsely announced that Korra was coming back.

She felt so long as Korra was in her life, she had the bonds and adventures she needed. Thus, her expression was so despairing because, not only was her beloved no coming, but it also meant that Asami would lose the primary aspects of Korra’s presence that I think she (Asami) felt gave her life meaning. Plus, as previously stated, I think this only worsened her fears that Korra didn’t or wouldn’t return her feelings. Everything she feared probably seemed to have been confirmed to her in this moment, which is why she seemed the most devastated and if watch it carefully, aside from Pema who looks concerned, Asami was the first to react to the news with such despair, making one interpret how she was the one who seemed most impacted by the news.

AdmiralZod1, thank you.

As for your take, I completely understand. Asami was dealing with the fear of losing both her sense of community as well as the fear of potentially rejection from the same person as the world continued to speed up with how it was changing around her. To call Asami isolated would be understating things to the point of obscenity. And to know that the person she loved the most was in such pain and to be unable to do anything to help is nothing short of very idea of torture itself.

When you're in love, seeing the person you care about in that much pain is another kind of hell.

Yes, Asami had been through so much especially after losing so much already throughout her life. This is another reason, I feel she was most devastated and why her expression to Korra’s absence from the scheduled arrival was so heartbreaking. She had her company and did so much good with it, but I think it’s in line with her character to estimate that, while she was happy to help others, it also felt partly empty when she didn’t have others with her.

In regard to your statement, yes, Asami truly wanted to help Korra so much but could do nothing. She was even willing to leave Republic City and probably risk losing her company, that she fought so hard to uphold from its financial troubles and was perhaps one of the few things she had to remember her mother, just so she could be with Korra and do something, anything, to help her recover. One can only imagine the pain Asami was feeling at seeing the one she had come to love more than anyone be so pained, physically and mentally, and being able to provide only minimal support. I truly feel for her.

It was heartwarming seeing her so excited and happy when it seemed Korra would be coming back. A large part of that I feel is that she was under the impression that Korra was fully healed and that things could go back to normal. But when she didn’t not show up, I think she realized that Korra’s pain was still powerful and she couldn’t do anything to help now that she was gone. And that her being in such pain would also increase the chances of rejection. While Asami claimed to realize her feelings after Korra left, some speculate they were actually before then, based on her gestures.

When Korra was paralyzed early on, Asami seemed to have wanted to open up to Korra about her feelings but kept herself because she thought Korra was going through too much at the moment, and probably felt that way again when she chose not to send the special letter. Realizing that she wasn’t showing and probably in pain still, may have caused her to think that her feelings would never be returned and she couldn’t never open up, based on her previous experiences.

Lin’s is just funny tho

Her’s conveys both confusion and sadness