[OOC] Notes

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- She's 18. (Confirmed at Comic-Con! w00t.) Based on the timeline Tenzin gave, it would mean she was six when her mother was killed.

- Through a combination of practical learning and innate ability, Asami shares her father's talents in mechanics and engineering. (Which I'm basically going to consider confirmed at Comic-Con, because she's test piloting planes and everything.)

- Asami's scooter is one she designed and helped construct. Once her mechanical prowess became clear, her father insisted she help design and construct the things she wanted (and fix them, if they broke), rather than just receive them, so as to help hone her abilities.

- She started self-defense training very soon after her mother was killed.

- Asami didn't witness her mother's death, but Hiroshi did. Most of what Asami remembers from that night is a lot of yelling. She managed to come out of her room and make it close enough to her parents' bedroom to hear her father and understand that something was wrong with him, but one of the household staff grabbed her, put her back in her room, and locked her in until morning.

- After her mother's death, Hiroshi made an effort to be a very present figure in her life. In the months immediately after, he tended to try to make sure there was always someone with her, but this backfired when she developed a tendency to run off and find hiding spots in the Future Industries factories. His efforts to play an active role in her life were more successful, however, and as a result Asami has always been very close to her father, in part leading to the public perception that she is "Daddy's little girl." For her, this mostly meant she was not raised at a distance from him, as he always made an effort to see her, personally taught her certain skills (though they tended to be the sorts of things he could teach competently), and allowed her into his work spaces. Basically, very little was off-limits to her growing up, to the point that such a notion wouldn't even occur to her, nor would it occur to her to go looking for things or suspect her father of hiding anything from her.

- Asami wasn't really a tomboy as a child, and even when young tended to be more calm than rambunctious, but she did and does have a rather powerful curiosity, which sometimes lead her to do things like climbing into a car engine when she was little, which aside from being dangerous also infuriated her mother, who took on the task of getting engine grease out of her hair. Because of things like this, it was surprising to some people who knew her growing up that she turned into the "elegant" young woman she is at 18.

- Until fairly recently, Asami went to some private fancy school for rich people's children in Republic City. This means she has a pretty well-rounded education and general knowledge of the history of the Avatarworld (though it would also mean that until Korra shows up in Republic City and in pro-bending, the Avatar to Asami is a figure from history books). Her strong subjects were math and science; she never did that badly at anything, but it was because she's not really the type of person to slack off when she feels she has obligations. However, math and science in which the areas where she excelled. Given what we've seen of the education systems in Avatarland (e.g., Ba Sing Se University or the Royal Fire Academy for Girls), I have the impression that going on to a higher education level would be mostly for people who plan to become scholars/academics/religious instructors of some sort, and instead someone like Asami would be transitioning into something closer to an apprenticeship with her father.

ETA: I do what I want

- Asami had three boyfriends before Mako. The first was sort of a barely-qualifying relationship when she was thirteen, with a boy girl in her something-like-phys.-ed. class. It only went on for a couple weeks before both pretty much lost interest, though it did result in her first kiss. (HeShe was also the only other bender she dated – an earthbender). The second and her most serious previous relationship was when she was sixteen, and dated the son of the ambassador from the Earth Kingdom (who was also grand-nephew to the Earth King) ha ha no. They were together for five months before he learned he was going to be moving back to Ba Sing Se, and they mutually decided to break up rather than try to continue the relationship.

The third was when she was seventeen and nearly done with school. Asami dated a boy who was from a family that owned a historic Fire Nation-based textiles company that was currently pioneering the sale of ready-made clothes. He was handsome and smart, but also kind of a jerk, who despite her class status sometimes looked down on the Sato family for being nouveau riche, and after about two months, Asami broke up with him.

- I have no idea what was in all those boxes she brought to the Air Temple. I don't doubt her materialism, but seriously Asami, you only wear like two outfits. How many of them can you have.

- I believe the Nickelodeon-Korra-site-thing (????) says that the Sato family is descended from early Fire Nation colonists. Given that Hiroshi apparently came from humble beginnings, I'm going to guess they were something along the lines of migrant workers. While Hiroshi definitely has a Fire Nation look about him, Asami has green eyes, so I think her mother was descended either from a mixed family, or an Earth Kingdom family.

- She generally doesn't give out her last name immediately if she doesn't have to. Asami doesn't actively keep it a secret – as with when Mako asked, she'll immediately identify herself if it comes up. But she also often doesn't actively choose make it known she's Hiroshi Sato's daughter right when she meets people, as it tends to affect how others act around her. Someone who pays a lot of attention to the social columns in Republic City's media would recognize her, anyway, but while she's been subject to some media scrutiny, Hiroshi's been successful in at least keeping the press out of her life, and Asami doesn't pay too much attention to it.

- Despite the media interest in her, the most well-known image of her that exists (particularly among those who don't pay attention to the gossip rag sort of details) is a photograph of her at age six, wearing a white dress and standing by her father at her mother's funeral. Asami and Hiroshi continue to visit her mother's grave every year.

- Asami's moped operates with handlebar brakes, manual transmission shifter in the left handle and throttle in the right. There is also a switch on the left handle for the headlamp, a key port for ignition, and a circular gauge that indicates speed and remaining fuel.