Yes! Or, well, Ty Lee strikes me as the kind of girl who's grown up around girls and who knows how to manipulate them perfectly, exactly how to slot herself into a group hierarchy so that she can be part of the bestest most prettiest group of girls in all the Fire Nation. And obviously she needs that desperately because of her six-identical-sisters hang-up, and Azula is the one who singled her out, so, yes, complete adoration, I think.
Though I think I'd see her as a bit less in control than you do, if only because it seems to me that while she's probably very alert to all the nuances of how girls relate to each other (including Zuko, honourary member of the dangerous ladies! Or maybe club secretary, or something...), she seems to approach boys more or less just one way, which is to say, ahem, tits forward. Which works and is evidently fun, say, when she's fighting Sokka, who grew up on an iceberg, but which is a lot less effective on Ember Island.
Though, yes, I think you're right about equilibrium - that she really does like all those boys just the same, and that she really wants things to stay just the same, as well - which is why her final choice is so great and is one of my favourite things about season three. It's one moment which really is all about the ladies, about not letting one of her friends kill the other. And I loved the way they showed her, afterwards, as being all 'I did what!?!?!' Not one for planning, Ty Lee.
And, hmmm, Mai and Azula. I'm actually very fond of the idea that they really did like each other, and perhaps both enjoyed having someone around who was something of an intellectual equal - I mean, not that Mai is a brilliant military strategist, or anything, but she's smarter than Ty Lee or Zuko. And, I mean, even if we know Azula roped Ty Lee into picking on her as a child, we also know that Mai's apparently attracted to passion and conviction - both of which Azula has in spades, as well as Zuko.
But, yes, she's certainly never under Azula's thumb to the same extent as Ty Lee, and I'm sure she was wondering how to best play things her way from Omashu onwards.
I guess I just want the dangerous ladies to be friiiiends. You know, before one of them tries to shoot another with lightning.
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Date: 2010-10-16 02:45 pm (UTC)Though I think I'd see her as a bit less in control than you do, if only because it seems to me that while she's probably very alert to all the nuances of how girls relate to each other (including Zuko, honourary member of the dangerous ladies! Or maybe club secretary, or something...), she seems to approach boys more or less just one way, which is to say, ahem, tits forward. Which works and is evidently fun, say, when she's fighting Sokka, who grew up on an iceberg, but which is a lot less effective on Ember Island.
Though, yes, I think you're right about equilibrium - that she really does like all those boys just the same, and that she really wants things to stay just the same, as well - which is why her final choice is so great and is one of my favourite things about season three. It's one moment which really is all about the ladies, about not letting one of her friends kill the other. And I loved the way they showed her, afterwards, as being all 'I did what!?!?!' Not one for planning, Ty Lee.
And, hmmm, Mai and Azula. I'm actually very fond of the idea that they really did like each other, and perhaps both enjoyed having someone around who was something of an intellectual equal - I mean, not that Mai is a brilliant military strategist, or anything, but she's smarter than Ty Lee or Zuko. And, I mean, even if we know Azula roped Ty Lee into picking on her as a child, we also know that Mai's apparently attracted to passion and conviction - both of which Azula has in spades, as well as Zuko.
But, yes, she's certainly never under Azula's thumb to the same extent as Ty Lee, and I'm sure she was wondering how to best play things her way from Omashu onwards.
I guess I just want the dangerous ladies to be friiiiends. You know, before one of them tries to shoot another with lightning.
... man, I need a dangerous ladies icon.