Crazy What You Could've Had

[redbrunja]

Yeah, I basically did this two days ago, but it's different, it's character specific. Plus, I'm cleaning just about everything in the house, including my computer, but I think I have ants under my keyboard or behind my bed. Or both. *shudders*


1) Comment with one of my fandoms or a character or two from that fandom.
2) I'll answer with one or two of my unpopular opinions about that fandom or character.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I said in a previous post that one reason I love "The Runaway" is that it is basically a love letter to how awesome Katara is, and shows how Toph really fails at dealing well with her family issues. And that icon just sums up her emotional state in the ep so well I just had to use it.

1.) Toph is a brat. I said this at the time, but in the second 2 episodes she was in, she was pulling crap my mother NEVER let me get away with and would never THINK about doing to people who weren't, well, my mother, and I wanted Katara to bitchslap her silly.

2.) Sokka is never going to go for Toph. He likes girls who are a bit out of his league (I think Suki is perfect because she is both feminine and regal a la Yue, but is also strong enough to take him and hold her own in a fight, a la Katara). I don't think he'll ever see Toph as anything other than another little sister.

3.) This is only tangentially related to Toph, but every time someone writes Suki as a vamp or a fling from Sokka's pov, I want to beat them silly. Making Sokka not care about her just cheapens whatever you're trying to do with Toph/Sokka (and I say that as someone who cheats on her OTP with that pairing.)

For you... Suki. Or Katara.

I hated Toph in the two episodes after she was introduced, and while I love "The Runaway" I large part of that love is because that episode is basically a love letter to how awesome Katara is, and shows how Toph really fails at dealing well with her family issues.

[mzminola.livejournal.com]

1. In that episode I kept thinking "Kid, you are missing the point."
2. Word.
3. Dismissing feelings = bad.

I'll have to rewatch The Runaway, I can't remember which one it is. Was it the con-artist one?


Oooh, tough. I do not know most fandom opinions of Suki, besides "She's awesome!" which I already agree with.
Okay, here goes with Katara:

1. I don't see her as mothering. She seems a lot more like a older sister than a younger one, but she acts her age a lot more than the fans give her credit for. I think part of the "She's the mother!" comes from her usually being the...slightly more mature one, since she's contrasted with two 12-year-olds and Sokka.

2. I'm pretty sure at some point, she will use bloodbending. I will be disappointed if she doesn't it's be really shitty writing to introduce such a thing and then not use it, especially since Toph uses her metalbending. She used it to stop Hama (she did, right? I'm not misremembering?) and I feel that this war is so close to home for her, she will go far to end it. With the hate issues you brought up in mind, at some point in battle it'll snap that these enemies took away her mother.
Maybe Sokka'll bring it up during his planning.
Ideally, Katara'll use it against Ty Lee, equating body-control with the Ty Lee's chi-blocking technique.

3. I think she'd be a terrible Fire Lady.
The Painted Lady episode shows she doesn't hold the actions of the Army against the people, but then again this was a village on the water.
She was in the war-council in Ba Sing Se, and was respected...
She does seem to enjoy travelling the world, but homesickness would make it awfully sucky to be stuck in a place so different and burny.

I guess I feel she's a good leader, but not a stationary one. She's got travel experience, compromising tactics, and a strong will. I say she'd make a good traveling emissary for the Water Tribes.

...why does no one suggest dragging Zuko down to the Southern Water Tribe instead, if they have to be together? He could help keep people warm, and show that the new, peaceful Fire Nation is willing to be vulnerable.

If you feel like doing more, how about Captain Jack Sparrow?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yep, 'The Runaway' is the con artist one.

Oh, totally agreed about the bloodbending. She used it on Hama and was totally badass about it. If you have a pistol on the mantle... I just hope they do something similar to the stealing from pirates thing - where it's the best action in a bad situation and they don't make a huge angst fest about it, and but she has a moment of quiet 'what have i done?' and then has to go one and do things.

I think she would make a great leader or a great ambassador - as long as she had something important to do. I know I have a hard time imagining Zuko down at the South Pole (for extended periods of time) for the same reasons I can't imagine Katara going back to her village and staying there: there's nothing for them to do. (Plus, I don't think that Iroh would want to be Fire Lord, especially if Zuko wasn't around.) Basically, I see them as characters that need to have things to do, and I don't know how much they could find to fix and rule in an eight-hut village.

(however, I bet money Katara goes back to her village for a bit after the war is over, possibly until her grandmother dies, and Zuko vacationing in the South Pole is a situation ripe with hilarity.)

Jack... I'm not in the fandom enough to know what's unpopular, but...

1.) I don't think he's the kind of character that you can hang a movie on, thus Elizabeth and Will being hero and heroine and Jack as a very important secondary character.

2.) fic-wise, I have no interest in reading about Jack.

3.) Elizabeth is AWESOME.

4.) I totally don't see Jack/Will. And not just because I'm not a slasher.

For you... FMA's Lust.

[mzminola.livejournal.com]

I can't really see any of them staying in one place too long anymore, even if it was a big city or political center with lots too do. Maybe when they're older (like, past middle age, into seniority) or possibly if raising young children.

Were you the one who said you think there's more tribes than just theirs down in the South pole? Because in that case I can see her being there for quite some time teaching a bit to new waterbenders, getting the small tribes in contact with eachother.

Elizabeth Swann-Turner is more bad-ass than Will and Jack put together, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Hmm, haven't thought much about Lust until now, so this is pretty much spur of the moment...

1. I have no interest in het with her, because there's both
a) part of my brain screaming that men being seduced by the Sexy Sexy Danger is part of leftover stick-up-ass Christianity and other major religions attempts to make women out to be evil creatures who taint Good Upstanding Men and that it's not the pig's fault at all they got that bitch pregnant, she seduced me.
I know most FMA fans are not thinking like that at all, so I don't think badly of them at all, it just nags at me.
b) I just think the yuri would be infinitely hotter. Note to self: look for some Lust femslash.

2. Like the Nobodies in Kingdom Hearts, the homonculi are incomplete beings who had no choice in their creation, and simply want to feel whole again.
But I don't feel very bad for them, because they do really horrible things for that end.

3. While the porn could be really hot, part of Lust is the unfulfillment. People go after what's out of their reach, so actualling having sex with someone has the chance of lessening Lust's power over them, and I don't know if she'd be willing to do that. Might get people close though, leave them begging for more, without letting them achieve orgasm.

Another! Saiyuki's Sanzo.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yep, I was the one who said there are probably bigger cities around, and I can see Katara at one of those for a while, but I do think she got nicely infected with wanderlust and a need to have a purpose.


Elizabeth Swann-Turner is more bad-ass than Will and Jack put together, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Hell yeah.

I agree with most of what you said about Lust (have you checked out my memories? because there is some Lust/Maria in there that is just scorching) and I do think she's a bit of a tease - it's all about what you MIGHT get, not what you actually do.

Sanzo:

1.) Not that sexy. While he may be pretty, he's a pain in the ass.

2.) Loves Goku, but it's not sexual, and he'd kill anyone who said it was.

3.) Is not sexually attracted to ANYONE, and considers masturbation the same way he looks at being hungry.

For you: Gojyo.

[mzminola.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh, I shall have to check your memories then.

Gojyo, hmmm...(most of these are pretty loose, and may contradict eachother)
1. Not that great in bed. Puts on a good show, but hasn't slept with as many women as he claims.
2. Submissive. Enjoys the chase, flirting, but lets the partner take charge during sex.
3. Self-destructive in the past, but not so much anymore. The group, especially Hakkai, is a reason for him to preserve his own life. The group all claims they like that they don't have to worry about the others dying on them, but I think they're lying to us. Well, Sanzo might not be. Odds are if it wasn't for the group, he'd be dead in a few years.

For you: who haven't we done? Hakkai!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

2: total word.I totally believe he let's his partner call the shots.

Hakkai:

1.) Is not that great a cook. He's just far, far better than anyone else in the ikkou.

2.) Knows that his obsession with keeping everything perfectly clean is a neruosis, but it's a useful neruosis, so he'll keep it, if it's just the same to you.

3.) takes his coffee sweet and black.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, exactly.

He was heartbroken and furious over the fact that Azula had her.