In Karkata's oppressive environment, Kuja is often forced to engage with other people's problems before He can solve His own. In Karkata, Kuja encounters an obstacle course of reactive resistance from people who are stuck in their own routines and who resist innovation, movement, and change. Mangala must either dominate or eliminate His adversaries. Kuja must still pursue His quarry in the hunt, but in Karkata, His movement is so encumbered that must use entirely psycho-emotional methods to conquer and win.
While not overtly or intentionally deceptive, Kuja in Karkata is vastly slowed in movement by the deep waters of emotional need, and His vitality is handicapped by resistance from people and forces in His environment. He is unhappy, reactive rather than proactive, and covertly rather than overtly disruptive. Kuja's actions, even when dishonorable, may be protected by the family that He is harming (see Thomas Jefferson, whose second family through his slave-mistress was denied for centuries)
