That phrase will always make me laugh. Always. If reports start popping up of some chick wandering around conventions wearing a shirt with that, you can be pretty sure it's me. (And yeah, in my head, Ilah is as far from being model pretty as Camilla is -- handsome in the traditional cultural sense, so well-built and strong and good at the upper-class sports of FIREBENDING and MILITARY CAMPAIGNING of the Fire Nation, but really, not going to show up as a fashion icon or on a commemorative plate in a Cinderella dress anytime soon.)
And yeah, Iroh is so, so, so the FitzRoy that lived up to the titles and then some. In my head, a big part of Iroh's guilt about Lu Ten dying is that Lu Ten was so gung-ho about campaigning and personally being part of the seige of Ba Sing Se because he saw it as a way to help his dad secure the throne. Helps if you know the next one in line is really great, too, especially in a society with as many Confucian undertones as Fire Nation.
(Although one thing I'm not sure I know is if the Fire Nation works on a strictly patrilineal line of descent, rather than a generational one -- like, if the Fire Lord-ship would have gone to Lu Ten if Iroh kicked it, or whether it would have gone to Ozai. Because that would explain, I think, the line in Zuko's flashback about how Azula shouldn't hope that Iroh dies because how would she feel if Lu Ten wanted Dad dead? Because while that makes sense in a familial way if Lu Ten is ahead of Azula in succession, it makes much more sense on a power-scheme sense plus a family sense if the succession goes Iroh - Ozai - Lu Ten - Zuko - Azula.)
Come to keep an old man company in the dank Earth Kingdom winter.
It helps with the guilt of having forgotten some things about Lu Ten, who has been dead for close to twenty years now: there is that picture of him, but Iroh can't summon up the image of the living thing anymore. Easier to think of Lu Ten as consisting of patterns in the flame and the movement of curtains on a dead-still afternoon.
OH MAN. Uh, thanks for descending on this thread and MAPPING OUT IROH’S LAST DAYS, you guys.
DON'T EVEN TRY TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE THIS WAS ALL US YOU WERE IN ON IT TOO
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Date: 2010-09-22 01:56 pm (UTC)That phrase will always make me laugh. Always. If reports start popping up of some chick wandering around conventions wearing a shirt with that, you can be pretty sure it's me. (And yeah, in my head, Ilah is as far from being model pretty as Camilla is -- handsome in the traditional cultural sense, so well-built and strong and good at the upper-class sports of FIREBENDING and MILITARY CAMPAIGNING of the Fire Nation, but really, not going to show up as a fashion icon or on a commemorative plate in a Cinderella dress anytime soon.)
And yeah, Iroh is so, so, so the FitzRoy that lived up to the titles and then some. In my head, a big part of Iroh's guilt about Lu Ten dying is that Lu Ten was so gung-ho about campaigning and personally being part of the seige of Ba Sing Se because he saw it as a way to help his dad secure the throne. Helps if you know the next one in line is really great, too, especially in a society with as many Confucian undertones as Fire Nation.
(Although one thing I'm not sure I know is if the Fire Nation works on a strictly patrilineal line of descent, rather than a generational one -- like, if the Fire Lord-ship would have gone to Lu Ten if Iroh kicked it, or whether it would have gone to Ozai. Because that would explain, I think, the line in Zuko's flashback about how Azula shouldn't hope that Iroh dies because how would she feel if Lu Ten wanted Dad dead? Because while that makes sense in a familial way if Lu Ten is ahead of Azula in succession, it makes much more sense on a power-scheme sense plus a family sense if the succession goes Iroh - Ozai - Lu Ten - Zuko - Azula.)
Come to keep an old man company in the dank Earth Kingdom winter.
It helps with the guilt of having forgotten some things about Lu Ten, who has been dead for close to twenty years now: there is that picture of him, but Iroh can't summon up the image of the living thing anymore. Easier to think of Lu Ten as consisting of patterns in the flame and the movement of curtains on a dead-still afternoon.
OH MAN. Uh, thanks for descending on this thread and MAPPING OUT IROH’S LAST DAYS, you guys.
DON'T EVEN TRY TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE THIS WAS ALL US YOU WERE IN ON IT TOO