"Well, If You See Zuko, Be Sure And Give Him A Kiss From Me."

[redbrunja]

Reason 1,763 that I love Avatar and its fandom:

So, I'm scrolling around the main comm, and I come across a rec post for soko_7 and 5_loves. Now, I'm like, 'Soko?" So I start to do the mental name splicing you do when you come across a pairing name that you don't know (and seriously, people, why does every pairing name need to be smushed together? I mean, for Zutara and Kataang it works, because that's what you end up saying/typing anyway when you've said Zuko/Katara or Katara/Aang ten billion times in a brief period, but Sukka? I'm dyslexic, people, when the pairing name is ONE LETTER away from a character's name, just take the time to type that extra four letters +slash please?).

But back to my tangent, I'm like "-ko, -ko, okay, must be a Zuko/somebody pairing, So- So- whose name starts with -oh. Sokka/Zuko." So I mentally bite my tongue on thoughts like, 'why are you pairing Zuko with the water tribe peasant who he DOESN'T have fights full of UST with?' and scroll down while doing that mental white noise thing I spent most of my time on saiyuki doing, and then I get to the part where the poster goes, "something, something, Zuko/Song."

Me: You mean... Zuko + sweet healer girl for that one episode? There's a whole comm just for them?

Avatar fandom: *smooch*

Comments

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I still don't get why every other mention of Jin I see mentions her big boobs. Honestly, it's not like she wore a tube top or something . . . they didn't strike me as being that big.

Mai was Zuko's choice when he was fooling himself that he was a good little Fire Nation prince. In that situation, he was limited to someone a)female, b)of the Fire Nation and c)Not related to him. Unless a new character were brought in (which would probably be handled even worse), his only other option is Ty Lee, and she's just too perky for Zuko. At that time and with the mindset he had, I can accept that he went with Mai.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think that came about because her breasts changed size a lot? I admit, I hadn't noticed, because I was paying more attention to Zuko being a dork.

But yes, Mai was all part of Zuko's pod prince act. Please let that be the end of that relationship, now that Zuko finally has his head screwed on straight.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Eh. Maybe, but only if you were looking close. Still, it seemed to be named as her defining character trait.

Yep. Though he's probably feeling pretty shitty for using her like that, no matter his feelings for her.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Zuko sure as hell better feel really guilty for what he did to her. I am firmly convinced that post-war, Song is either going to get some random soldier bring her either an ostrich-horse or a sack of gold, or both.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

He'll probably do that for all the girls he's wronged. Song gets two ostrich-horses, a sack of gold, and a note of thanks for 'donating' her ostrich-horse to the cause. It'd be an outright apology, but Zuko needs to keep some face with the troops. Mai gets a cushy job that suits her well and lets her order around soldiers, because regardless of everything else, he did use her. Jin gets her own tea shop in Ba Sing Se.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Umm... Zuko owes some amends to Song, definitively, but Jin? I mean, he was graceless with her, but not unkind, and Mai? How was he using Mai? He was dating her, and doing a far better job of being a boyfriend than his sister's cranky, emotionally unavailable friend was at being a girlfriend. (Zuko at least was trying.)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Jin gets a bunch more tea coupons. ;)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I could see her getting free tea. (And also, how thrilled am I that you see her again, in the tea shop, looking horrified as the fire nation invades?)

[misora.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Dude, she does have nice cans.

I play her in the capslock atla RP. nicejugs. LOL!! XDDD

(haven't been active in that lately, though. Must remedy!)