I WOULD SO WEAR THAT T-SHIRT. Hilarious from every possible angle!
Ilah is as far from being model pretty as Camilla is
SO MUCH YES. I mean, didn’t you have Azulon meet her on campaign? And be turned on by her firebending. And even if her family had bred for prettiness as successfully as say Mai’s household, a youth spent training and fighting with firebending, trekking along hot dusty roads on the fringes of the Earth Kingdom colonies, commanding decisive, brutal assaults on every little port or fortress that’s needed as a refuelling station or which commands rich farmland or potential mining territory – well, that’s gonna leave you looking weathered, to say the least.
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
Oh man, Lu Ten, so much THE GOOD SON. And Ozai, conversely, so profoundly aware that he was never, ever good enough, mapping his own lack so precisely out onto his children.
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.
That’s such a fascinating line of thought. I mean, it makes Ozai parading Azula and Zuko in front of his father even more gratuitously nasty. Because of course even if he and Lu Ten were much more closely tied in the succession stakes than those rules imply, because Lu Ten is A GOOD SON and Azulon knows perfectly well that Ozai is a poisonous little brat ... he was still technically ahead of Lu Ten and would be ahead of any children Iroh might produce in the future.
And oh man, little Zuko never considers, when he’s defending Iroh to his sister, that if she’s willing to wish for Iroh’s death, if she’s apparently unmoved when Lu Ten does die, what else would she be willing to countenance, to gain the throne? Who else is most important to her, stands most in the path of her ambition?
I SHOULD MENTION HOW MUCH I LOVE YOUR IDEA OF THIS SPRAWLING ROYAL FAMILY BEING WHITTLED DOWN TO A TINY BITTER KNOT OF INFIGHTING AND INCEST BY THE WAY.
the guilt of having forgotten some things about Lu Ten
Oh, Iroh. In the Fire Nation, he knows there are more pictures, statues. Zuko has been rather emphatic when it comes to honouring his cousin, and it was of course politically expedient. But Iroh would rather have the little flicks of fire and air, here in Ba Sing Se.
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Date: 2010-09-22 03:25 pm (UTC)Ilah is as far from being model pretty as Camilla is
SO MUCH YES. I mean, didn’t you have Azulon meet her on campaign? And be turned on by her firebending. And even if her family had bred for prettiness as successfully as say Mai’s household, a youth spent training and fighting with firebending, trekking along hot dusty roads on the fringes of the Earth Kingdom colonies, commanding decisive, brutal assaults on every little port or fortress that’s needed as a refuelling station or which commands rich farmland or potential mining territory – well, that’s gonna leave you looking weathered, to say the least.
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
Oh man, Lu Ten, so much THE GOOD SON. And Ozai, conversely, so profoundly aware that he was never, ever good enough, mapping his own lack so precisely out onto his children.
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.
That’s such a fascinating line of thought. I mean, it makes Ozai parading Azula and Zuko in front of his father even more gratuitously nasty. Because of course even if he and Lu Ten were much more closely tied in the succession stakes than those rules imply, because Lu Ten is A GOOD SON and Azulon knows perfectly well that Ozai is a poisonous little brat ... he was still technically ahead of Lu Ten and would be ahead of any children Iroh might produce in the future.
And oh man, little Zuko never considers, when he’s defending Iroh to his sister, that if she’s willing to wish for Iroh’s death, if she’s apparently unmoved when Lu Ten does die, what else would she be willing to countenance, to gain the throne? Who else is most important to her, stands most in the path of her ambition?
I SHOULD MENTION HOW MUCH I LOVE YOUR IDEA OF THIS SPRAWLING ROYAL FAMILY BEING WHITTLED DOWN TO A TINY BITTER KNOT OF INFIGHTING
AND INCESTBY THE WAY.the guilt of having forgotten some things about Lu Ten
Oh, Iroh. In the Fire Nation, he knows there are more pictures, statues. Zuko has been rather emphatic when it comes to honouring his cousin, and it was of course politically expedient. But Iroh would rather have the little flicks of fire and air, here in Ba Sing Se.
YOU WERE IN ON IT TOO
I APPROVE OF THIS ‘DOOMTHREAD’ BUSINESS