In this incarnation, much like The Phantom, the mantle of 'Avatar' is passed down from generation to generation. The costume changes, as does the personality, but the core remains the same - a simple oath to protect those who need protection, and to keep the world in balance, safe from the perils of the dark. Trained by a knowledgeable mentor, the secrets have been maintained a long, long time - but so many want to find them out.
And it's a lot harder from a girl fresh from the Polar sticks, as it were, just trying to make her way in the big city. While by night she's a mighty hero, mild-mannered Korra is, in daylight, just like anybody else. She takes her responsibilities seriously, but she also wants to be a normal, every-day girl living in the city and all its lights. In her years of secret training, after all, nobody told her about dancing and the pictures...
She's even found somewhere to live - an apartment in the basement of her new job at the city's biggest newspaper - where she works as the janitor. Everybody wonders how she gets the whole building sparkling like she does, but gosh it's easy to clean those floors when you can waterbend.
Korra - the Hero known as "Avatar"
And it's a lot harder from a girl fresh from the Polar sticks, as it were, just trying to make her way in the big city. While by night she's a mighty hero, mild-mannered Korra is, in daylight, just like anybody else. She takes her responsibilities seriously, but she also wants to be a normal, every-day girl living in the city and all its lights. In her years of secret training, after all, nobody told her about dancing and the pictures...
She's even found somewhere to live - an apartment in the basement of her new job at the city's biggest newspaper - where she works as the janitor. Everybody wonders how she gets the whole building sparkling like she does, but gosh it's easy to clean those floors when you can waterbend.