And, man, I will go and discover those stories. I do heart Iron Man pretty strongly. But apparently I needed a flying bison to make me heart stuff on the internet!
it's not so much Iroh that Ozai is competing with, as it's Lu Ten, who isn't a firebender
Oh, man, that just makes the stakes so much higher. I mean, is it even traditional for a non-bender to take the throne at all? And yes, Ozai – kept at home because Azulon knows he’s too old to be sure of siring another heir, and he can’t afford to lose all of them in the field. And sure that if he did go to war, he’d burn the Earth Kingdom down to ash within five years, but instead holed up in the palace, orchestrating this elaborate whispering campaign against Lu Ten and Iroh.
it's normal for brothers to bicker and not get along
Yeaaah. I mean, for Azulon, this Cain and Abel dynamic would just be so fucking alien. If he grew up the little brother, tagging along after his older siblings, watching them train and flirt and bicker, leave for war and return and leave again, he knows that family is the one thing you do not tear apart, because the war will do that for you. In other words I would love to see you write Azulon, man.
And, yeah. What this would do to the Fire Nation. All the pictures of the royals in schoolrooms and libraries and offices, getting draped one by one with white cloth.
since my brain is still all Tudor on this, how many miscarriages happened-- OH, WAIT. If maybe the politically-selected brides' family was too close, genetically speaking, to Azulon, and a regressive gene kept popping up?
ARRRGH. Or even, positing some other base reproductive dysfunction, phantom pregnancies, as with Mary. So he’d keep on trying with the first poor bride for years. And yeah, lol inbreeding is too simple to explain Ozai and Azula, but, man. Ozai the precious son who isn’t quite precious enough. Who takes such care to make sure his wife, at least, comes from a lineage that hasn’t been welcomed into the upper echelons since it produced the Avatar. But of course, that doesn’t mean much to a prince. All it promises is power. And, you know, less in the way of consanguinity.
And, man, Ilah being too old to have kids by the time Azulon’s finally, finally brought her and Iroh into the fold.
God, it's all so awful. (AND WE MADE IT ALL UP. Which I love.)
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Date: 2010-09-22 06:14 pm (UTC)And, man, I will go and discover those stories. I do heart Iron Man pretty strongly. But apparently I needed a flying bison to make me heart stuff on the internet!
it's not so much Iroh that Ozai is competing with, as it's Lu Ten, who isn't a firebender
Oh, man, that just makes the stakes so much higher. I mean, is it even traditional for a non-bender to take the throne at all? And yes, Ozai – kept at home because Azulon knows he’s too old to be sure of siring another heir, and he can’t afford to lose all of them in the field. And sure that if he did go to war, he’d burn the Earth Kingdom down to ash within five years, but instead holed up in the palace, orchestrating this elaborate whispering campaign against Lu Ten and Iroh.
it's normal for brothers to bicker and not get along
Yeaaah. I mean, for Azulon, this Cain and Abel dynamic would just be so fucking alien. If he grew up the little brother, tagging along after his older siblings, watching them train and flirt and bicker, leave for war and return and leave again, he knows that family is the one thing you do not tear apart, because the war will do that for you. In other words I would love to see you write Azulon, man.
And, yeah. What this would do to the Fire Nation. All the pictures of the royals in schoolrooms and libraries and offices, getting draped one by one with white cloth.
since my brain is still all Tudor on this, how many miscarriages happened-- OH, WAIT. If maybe the politically-selected brides' family was too close, genetically speaking, to Azulon, and a regressive gene kept popping up?
ARRRGH. Or even, positing some other base reproductive dysfunction, phantom pregnancies, as with Mary. So he’d keep on trying with the first poor bride for years. And yeah, lol inbreeding is too simple to explain Ozai and Azula, but, man. Ozai the precious son who isn’t quite precious enough. Who takes such care to make sure his wife, at least, comes from a lineage that hasn’t been welcomed into the upper echelons since it produced the Avatar. But of course, that doesn’t mean much to a prince. All it promises is power. And, you know, less in the way of consanguinity.
And, man, Ilah being too old to have kids by the time Azulon’s finally, finally brought her and Iroh into the fold.
God, it's all so awful. (AND WE MADE IT ALL UP. Which I love.)
IT IS A HEADY SENSATION. OH FIRE NATION WOE.