I seem to have a thing for Everyone Being Gone right now in relationship to Avatar, for some reason
Well, it's not as if I can talk! My version of Avatar is all overwrought royal melodrama and woe all the time!
And, hm, early fight-scene parallels between Zuko and Aang. Perhaps you're thinking of the third(?) episode where Zuko is Agni Kai-ing it out with Zhao while Aang is facing up to an empty air temple and Gyatso's body? That's certainly where I first started to feel less than exasperated with Zuko, if only because he was such a doofus thinking of excuses at to how his ship had got smushed. Little did I know he would turn out to be awesome and also hilarious!
And, ahahahaha, have you seen that sprawling thread where I invaded poor esmenet's journal with my ISSUES with academic!Zuko and then s/he proceeded to give me a masterclass in world building? Good times! And, yes, aca!Zuko would definitely feel for the airbenders. But I could imagine canon!Zuko doing so as well - I think my version of him is just pretty thoroughly indoctrinated.
And it hadn't really occurred to me that the knife-game was, beside being hilarious and also adorable (even when he play-fights with himself he loses! Oh Zuko), a very explicit honooooour moment. But, yes, very much a matter of imagining himself in the spotlight, even if only by dint of dying heroically, oh (again) Zuko.
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Date: 2010-10-09 11:17 pm (UTC)Well, it's not as if I can talk! My version of Avatar is all overwrought royal melodrama and woe all the time!
And, hm, early fight-scene parallels between Zuko and Aang. Perhaps you're thinking of the third(?) episode where Zuko is Agni Kai-ing it out with Zhao while Aang is facing up to an empty air temple and Gyatso's body? That's certainly where I first started to feel less than exasperated with Zuko, if only because he was such a doofus thinking of excuses at to how his ship had got smushed. Little did I know he would turn out to be awesome and also hilarious!
And, ahahahaha, have you seen that sprawling thread where I invaded poor
And it hadn't really occurred to me that the knife-game was, beside being hilarious and also adorable (even when he play-fights with himself he loses! Oh Zuko), a very explicit honooooour moment. But, yes, very much a matter of imagining himself in the spotlight, even if only by dint of dying heroically, oh (again) Zuko.