Reason 4,678 That Awesome And Hot Girl Is Not Dead

[redbrunja]

One day I will not ramble about Avatar. Today is not that day.

(All the reasons boil down to 'because I won't allow it' - I think Mike and Bryan could show me her bloody corpse and I'd go, 'we have necromancers in this world, right? Also, my mother never even considered the idea that Suki was dead, which I take as a good sign.)

But I had a point. It hit me recently, that Azula has all those Dai Lai under her sway - Dai Lai who are quite practiced at brainwashing. What if the reason Suki doesn't mention Sokka anymore is because she doesn't remember him?

You could have a totally awesome meeting where Sokka is like, "Suki! Thank god you're alright!" and Suki's like, "Back off. Who the hell do you think you are?"

Which leads to much angst and sorrow.

(And since I'm in the middle of writing 'what I think happened to Suki' we're sure to find out this Friday, before I have a chance to finish my fic. At this point, I don't know whether to hope I find out what happened to her this week, or hope I don't.)

Now, to segue to smut instead, before I actually watched Avatar, I floated the idea that this might be a show I could write girl-on-girl for, with all the great female characters running around.

So, I was reading this fic that had Toph in a lesbian relationship, which made SO much sense to me (and then I worried I believed that because she's nontraditionally feminine and if that said bad things about me and my social constructed paradigms about sexuality) and then I saw a really cute pic of Katara and Toph kissing and you know, that would be a very interesting relationship.

(This is a tangent: I was talking to mother about this, as we paired up the people in Avatar the way they should be - needless to say, Zuko is going to get a damn fine Fire Lady, and Toph is going to be queen and/or get Haru. Or a lesbian relationship. Anyway, the point is... *tries to remember point* Okay, I've got it. So, we're talking about Toph and lesbianism, and my mother mentions, that when she first say Toph she thought Toph was going to be "a rival for Katara."

Me: "I don't know if they'd do that. You know, have an actual lesbian relationship on a children's cartoon. But it would be pretty awesome if they did."

Mom: "I meant a rival for Katara regarding Aang."

Me: "Oh.")

However, what I actually want to talk about was Azula. Now, smilaraaq has written/mentioned that if anyone in Avatar wants to top, it would be Azula, which is just blatantly true. HOWEVER, I often find that having the obviously dominant character in a couple top can be... predictable, you know? So then I thought, who would be topping Azula? Well, it obviously wouldn't be Mei, because topping Azula would take effort and, you know, having a pulse, but Ty Li? Can't you just imagine her using her circus freak acrobatics and pressure points to have her way with Miss Thing?

Randomly: you know how on a molecular level glass is a liquid? I wonder if Katara could do fun things with glass, or if that would more be Toph's milieu because glass comes from sand.

Comments

[renegadekitsune.livejournal.com]

I can see TophAang more than I can see TophSokka. You know, have you realized Sokka is the pimp of this series? You have SokkaSuki, SokkaToph, SokkaTy Li, SokkaAzula(Only in an odd circumstance, like they're trapped in a bubble and the only way they can get out is if they have sex.)

That would be rather neat...Ty Li would so top Azula like woah (We all know she would.)

Toph would bend sand to counter Azula's lightning and the heat would turn that sand to Glass and while in it's molten state Katara could fling it right back at Azula. It'd be a team effort.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Azula/Ty Lee with Ty Lee topping is believable. There's the whole topping-from-bottom aspect where Azula would likely have fun with Ty Lee effectively doing all the work . . .

After the fic I wrote the other day, my brain is unbreakable

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I often find that having the obviously dominant character in a couple top can be... predictable, you know?

Heh, yeah, but at the same time, having the really ragingly real-life-powerful, dominant personality who is secretly a deeply submissive bottom in the bedroom is also a bit of a cliche, so really, damned if you do, damned if you don't... Personally, my general default since it allows for the most flexibility is to assume most characters are potentially at least a little bit bi and a little bit switchy; this comes out especially in slash/yaoi settings because I really, really hate it when folks write that sort of thing with the roles set in stone and the uke being very feminized, so it ends up playing out like really *bad* gender-role-stereotyped het. Be it het or slashy, even if you've got a character who plausibly has a very strong preference in one direction, I'd still generally like to see a relationship that has enough trust and comfort built up that there can be occasional role reversals.

As for Azula, heh, this is why in the triangley AU stuff we had her as very, very dominant until she found herself with someone who had a strong enough personality to begin standing up to her occasionally, and she found she enjoyed the unpredictability of the power struggle. But even there, it was definitely more than a hint of topping from the bottom, as she still was very much the controlling one on the emotional side of things.

(And Mai, IMO, is totally into knifeplay.)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, ha, and almost forgot, Toph/Haru is another pairing that I think could be deeply amusing, so of course it's pretty much nonexistent! She's so abrasive and impulsive and temperamental, and he's so sweet and polite and restrained; but he's no pushover, and under that nice-boy politeness I think he's got enough depths of stubbornness that he could stand up to her. It could be really, really cute. And their kids would have awesome hair. ;)