pining!

[anghraine]

In the academia AU, I was definitely imagining that Korra realizes her feelings first, while Kuvira is wrapping up her "why do my relationships with men always turn out so badly?!" phase (in all universes, Korra is bi and Kuvira is lesbian).

In the Rearrangement/Final Boss Amon AUs, though, I'm definitely imagining that Kuvira falls like a ton of bricks for Korra and knows it relatively soon (Rearrangement: probably soon after their Spirit World adventures). She sees no point and suppresses her feelings—at first successfully, but ... well. Everyone was, naturally, super suspicious of her at first (even with her exploits scaled down), but her behaviour is so contrary to what they expect that they're kind of ??? about her. Some of them think it's a plot, but eventually almost everyone suspects the truth because it's hard to make sense of Kuvira's behaviour otherwise. So when Korra finally realizes that Kuvira is in love with her (either because it clicks at last or because a situation arises where she's told enough), the others are just like "yes, and...?"

I'm just imagining that Korra's like... wait, you KNEW? 
Mako: Yes?
Korra: !!!!?!
Mako: I mean ... yeah, I knew. And Bolin knew. And Asami. And ... uh, everyone.
Korra: I'm the only one who didn't know?
Mako: Well, you and Tenzin.

OTOH, nobody knows what Korra feels—including Korra herself for a while, and definitely including Kuvira.

(This post isn't going anywhere, it's just a Korvira feelings overflow!)

Comments

[shadaras]

I love emotionally oblivious protags. <3 They're so much fun when they finally realise that feelings??? are a thing.

[anghraine]

Heh, same! I've had other ideas for how it could go (e.g. I'm also entertained by Mako being the only person who realizes and not wanting to say it outright, but increasingly frustrated that nobody sees what's in front of their faces and he has to bear the conflict between "UGGGGH KUVIRA" and "loving Korra is right and good" on his own), but emotionally oblivious is a constant :)