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I'm doing random computer housekeeping tasks (cleaning up tabs, getting stuff off my desktop, etc), and feel like playing a bit while I do it, so here's a meme seen on a few people's journals -

Pick a fandom and I'll tell you...
- The first character I fell in love with:
- The character who is my ‘baby’:
- The character who I do not understand:
- The character that I think the show ruined:
- The most attractive male and female character:
- The character death that was the worst for me:
- The character that is the most like me:
- The character I think the writer(s) love:
- The character that I just want to be happy:
- My four favorite characters, past or present:
- My four least favorite characters, past or present:

Anything that I've seen/read enough of to be at least vaguely familiar with the characters is fair game.

Fandoms done so far: White Collar, Dresden Files, Carnivale, MCU, Person of Interest, Highlander, Stargate Atlantis, Marvel 616, Avatar: The Last Airbender, X-Men movies

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Avatar: The Last Airbender?

Oooh fun! :D

- The first character I fell in love with: Sokka
- The character who is my ‘baby’: Zuuuuuuko ♥
- The character who I do not understand: Ty Lee. I like her okay, but I really have trouble wrapping my brain around how she thinks.
- The character that I think the show ruined: Azula, at least in the sense that I absolutely hated the end of her story arc. I really wish they let her go out tough and bad, not broken down, crying and insane.
- The most attractive male and female character: Zuko and ... you know, there is not really a female character who jumps out at me here. I am gonna go with Lin, who I know is from Legend of Korra, but LIN!
- The character death that was the worst for me: Yue (though I suppose in some sense, she didn't really die ...)
- The character that is the most like me: Katara, probably
- The character I think the writer(s) love: hmmm, I don't really get that feeling off anyone
- The character that I just want to be happy: Aang
- My four favorite characters, past or present: As always, can't pick four - Zuko, Katara, Toph, Sokka, Aang, Iroh (and since I seem to be adding Korra, also Lin and Asami)
- My four least favorite characters, past or present: Ozai, Earth King Kuei, Azula, whatever the name of the general in the first story arc is ... (and several Korra characters; I have Strong Opinions on a number of those ...)

Edited 2014-06-04 20:53 (UTC)

If you ever want long ramblings about the way Ty Lee thinks, poke me some time. Ty Lee is by far the character I am most like, and given our similar histories, I really get the way her mind works. And it's not pretty.

I'm of two minds about Azula. One, I do not like the equation of mental illness and evil that is so common in media. Azula feeds into that. Also, I don't like the breaking of such a terrifying female villain. On the other hand, it was an excellent depiction of a the kind of severe Narcissistic Rage that I like to call the Narcissistic death spiral, in which the Narcissist can no longer sustain their self image.

I know we've talked about Ty Lee somewhat, and I think talking to you about her is the closest I've ever come to getting a window into how she thinks. I'm not sure why she's so hard for me to wrap my brain around, but I had actually forgotten that we'd discussed her in the past, and you do have excellent Ty Lee insights.

It's really hard to get your head around her for a couple of reasons, first we're never given any real time inside her head. She's a side character, and there's a lot going on in there for a side character. Second, I think most people miss how incredibly dishonest most of what she shows the world is. She is utterly miserable and terrified, almost all of the time. This is not mutually exclusive with smiling. Smiling is a mask that keeps Azula's suspicions off her, and probably one she has no idea how to take off anymore. Also, she lies. She had to lie to Azula to survive, and keep her happy, so during the show, most what we hear her say to Azula is a lie. She also lies to herself. When you live with someone like Azula, it's safest to just let their lies become the truth for you. It makes you more miserable, but it keeps them from getting angry. Her lies aren't malicious. Her reaction to Azula was to become an extreme people pleaser, and her lies are in the service of pleasing others. It's still really unhealthy, and very damaging to any relationship she tries to build, and she's probably in for a nasty reckoning down the road.

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