I would come to a much horrific realization of just how serious and true these rumors were of my mother’s authoritarianism and military conquest come the day of the princese’s coronation.
I have come to realize that Prince Wu can be quite a nuisance and even selfish. But he was not his horrid great Aunt. He did have the decency to apologize to me on the behalf of that horrid queen’s unjust attempt to make me into a pet of some sort. It is why I never went to the earth kingdom lands or at least parts of the earth kingdom that were under complete control of the earth queen.
This is because of the fact that she used her people as assets and she hath committed a great evil during her time as ruler. When the airbenders returned as a result of the great avatar Korra chose to keep the spirit portals open as a means of creating harmony amongst us and the spirits. And this proved to be true as the spirits along with us did learn how to peacefully coexist and even learn to live among one another in harmony in certain ways. Such as by providing one another with knowledge of our strengths. The benders of my world would actually managed to teach the spirits how to bend the elements as they are beings that lived long enough to receive immortality and spiritual power or were their children, they were able to bend the elements. And in turn they were able to teach us how to properly control that of spirit power or at the very least those who possessed the strength within. These were commonly air benders or a priest.
And our connection was not only of simple formality but of more personal connections, many friendships and even romantic relationships and that of family managed to be created. I myself had a few spirit friends as I grew up, but this was not common within the areas of the earth kingdom and the queen did not trust the spirits and saw them as a threat to the people of the land as they were not human, and their powers could harm. For she was quite the xenophobe and could be quite selfish and of greed when it came down to it. However, there was the misfortune of those who gained the ability to bend that of air within their country and she would see them as a great asset as a means of protecting her political power. As the queen
in her mind need to defend the land from the “unnatural powers” of the spirits and so she would have her Dai Lee agents kidnap airbenders as a means of training them to one day join her army to protect the queen of “righteousness.” As well as defend the lands of the earth kingdom from those of the spirits. Thank the avatar for putting an end to such injustice.
The prince did humbly apologize to the airbenders for such levels of injustice. He even agreed to the monarchy to be required to have certain restrictions upon their power in regard to extremisms and unjust actions. Any future queens and kings would not be allowed to pass any legislation or executive ordinance if it is for their own personal benefit. They would also no longer be allowed to create any forms of slavery or involuntary servitude or any action of violence or the annihilation of any persons or based reasoned. Violence would only be permitted or protective purposes only nothing more.
I discussed of the benefits I believed to be true with mother and father. They seemed a bit annoyed that I was discussing of them giving the prince the power to rule over the nation as king. Which I could understand as he did possess certain flaws, but he would not be alone in his rule and so the country would likely move forward, and I did enjoy the content of having more time alongside mother and father. Perhaps our other family members would have at least tried to allow for mother and father to return home to Zaofu. It would have been nice to see my family and perhaps my old friends once more. Mother and father seemed a bit concerned by this as if it were something they wished to not discuss and keep hidden for a reason.
When we entered the hotel, we were supposed to stay during the ceremony I remember of how luxurious it was with all the rich cultural decor. I smiled when I saw Grandmother Suyin. I was about to go talk to her, but the guards came along and gestured to me to follow them to where mother and father along with the rest of the ranking military were. I was annoyed by this, but I knew that it would be rude to publicly humiliate mother and father.
I couldn’t help but smile when I saw mother giving some young adolescent children that couldn’t have been more than a few years older than I autographs. There are great joys that may come from providing others with that of joy and of hope and it was nice to see that of a smile of joy and kindness upon mother’s face again.
Mother is often busy and does not have time for smiles. This ended when Prince Wei walked over to mother in one of his dorky dancey ways. He can be a bit too weird, but he is still far better than that tyrant. I was quite shocked to hear what he had said. From what I recall it was something along the lines of “You’re pretty easy on the eyes for a military type.” I had to cover my mouth and resist laughing even though how spirit damn funny this was. Mother would have been pretty darn mad likely punish me if I laughed so I couldn’t. I especially couldn’t because of the fact that mother didn’t deserve any public humiliation especially after all the good she did it was because of her and father that they brought order back to the kingdom after all.
It wasn’t surprising that mother seemed annoyed by this and of him continuing his flirting by trying to see if he could get her little upgrade while she stayed in Republic City. Of course, mother stated she would not be needing her help as she reserved the presidential sweet. The prince was confused as he stated that he had the president sweet. But she humorously stated that she had him moved out she couldn’t resist smiling as the prince seemed in a panic and asked one of his servants where all of his stuff was, and it was discovered that he was moved in a junior sweet and mother responded that there was something he should know about her that she always gets what she wants with a bit of a crude smirk. I had no idea mom could be so savage. I couldn’t help but smile myself. I did feel sorry for the prince of course but it was better to not state of within open public and I would need to settle down for the day.
I did not really have the time to have any lovely conversations with any of the high ranked and well-known people such as Master Tenzin as a guard gestured me to come into the sweet, we would be staying in for the time being. It was quite luxurious with the furniture and flooring as well as the walls clearly having quite a lot of fire nation and earth kingdom culture. It didn’t take long for me to me to finish unpacking and organizing my stuff. I did love remaining organized even all those years ago. When I was done, I was able to have a lovely chat with Bolin and even with mother and father as they were not very busy for once. It was nice even after all these years they still cared for me, and I knew this wasn’t going to change. Once it grew late, I made sure to be presentable for the lovely and quite delicious dinner that was provided to everyone. I sat down next to my parents. The options all looked expensive so I recommended the salad but mother and father wished for me to have an elegant meal full of nutrients instead and so I got a very elegant stara fish strip with some vegetables and bean buns it was very delicious and had a lemon flavor that was put on just right along with the vegetables tasting that of a gentle steaming flavor that was covered just right. I was a bit worried about the expense, but mother and father told me not to worry.
I did however notice they got quite the extravagant dinner for themselves. This bothered me somewhat as even for rulers the meal in question was quite extravagant especially in regard to them handing over power to prince Wu in a way it looked like they were celebrating but I knew they did not wish to hand over power to the prince since he was not the best of rulers, so this confused me. Unless they were hiding something from me, but I put these feelings aside.