AN: Short, drabble-esque. Inspired by the clip for the new episode of Korra speaking to Tahno. And written during yet another sleepless night awaiting said new episode!
Seeing Tahno just sitting there, no gaggle of fan girls surrounding him, that smirking face now turned expressionless, empty, devoid of that which made him alive. Tahno may have been a cocky bastard and Korra may have wanted to punch his pretty boy face, but now…he was turned into a shell.
It really put things in perspective.
Korra spoke to him, all her thoughts of hating him and what he stood for gone. And when she promised revenge on Amon from stealing away that precious part of Tahno's very being, she saw that spark of life flash in his eyes before, like a lone candle in the midst of a strong wind, extinguish.
Tahno joined Tenzin and Lin for questioning, and Korra was left watching his slumped form until it disappeared behind the metal door.
Korra wasn't going to let what happened to Tahno happen to anyone else. No matter how a bender used his or her bending, it wasn't anyone's place to take it away. Sure, there are horrible people out there that use their bending to terrorize. She thought of the gangs of Republic City, and she thought of how she stood in that crowded warehouse disguised with Mako watching the leader of the Triple Threat Triad, Lightning Bolt Zolt, lose his bending, and how close Bolin had been to losing his own. She thought of the orphaned Mako and Bolin, parents shot down by a firebender nearly ten years ago and still struggling to get by. She thought of Amon, supposedly scarred behind his mask, revenging his only purpose in life.
Is it right to take their bending, a part of them, away? People are people, free will and all. They have gifts and talents, some used for good and others for not so good. Isn't taking someone's bending like cutting a man's hand off for stealing so he could never steal again. Hadn't civilization evolved past that?
She may have not been the most spiritual Avatar, but she understood that who was and was not a bender was not up to anyone to decide but the spirits. And as the Avatar, the link between the Spirit World and the Human World, Korra would not stand for this infringement on the spirits' judgment.
It was time she made a trip to the Spirit World.