#1: Sokka/Suki -- Since Suki's canon characterization is pretty thin, this pairing can be very generic. It's a bit like Harry/Ginny in that way. #2: Asuka/Shinji -- There's too much of a fandom tendency to give Shinji a spine and then instantly heal all of Asuka's mental problems with his magical cock. #3: Zuko/Mai -- Echoing the above objection, I'm not fond of the fandom trope of Zuko 'thawing' Mai. It reeks of the healing power of cock. #4: Ty Lee/Azula -- Is there such a thing as the healing power of the clitoris? If so, then Ty Lee using it to redeem Azula. Also the fandom tends to minimize Azula's shortcomings and negative traits in romance fics. #5: Mamoru/Ami -- Ami's pretty Sue-ish in canon. Giving her the lead male character in the show just ups that. #6: Zuko/Suki -- Again, Suki's a thin character.
#10: Zuko/Katara -- Aang gets defrosted a few years early, befriends Lu Ten like he did Zuko in canon, and ends up defeating Azulon/Ozai/Iroh and ending the war. In order to solidify the fragile peace, and to eliminate rival claims to his throne, Lu Ten marries off his cousins to important foreigners. Azula gets engaged to Sokka, the son of the SWT's chieftain, and Zuko to Toph Bei Fong. But when Toph runs off, Zuko must track her down with the help of his sister, future brother-in-law, and future sister-in-law. Over the course of wacky hi-jinks through the post-war Earth Kingdom, Zuko and Katara fall in love but won't admit it. When they finally catch up with Toph, she's running with the Freedom Fighters. They take the foursome prisoner, but they escape in time to stop Jet's dastardly plot to blow up a dam and then they convince Toph that Jet's no good. Toph performs a hostile takeover of the Freedom Fighters and fires Jet. The foursome agree to fake Toph's death in the flood so at least one of them doesn't have their lives decided by the Avatar and the Fire Lord (both of whom have *clearly* forgotten, in their collective opinion, what it means to be young). Sokka and Azula have bonded through the crisis. Katara and Zuko decide to pursue an engagement once Toph has been properly "mourned". But then Zuko returns to the Fire Nation to find the Avatar waiting for him, ready to introduce Princess Yue, but overcoming that obstacle waits for the sequel.
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Date: 2011-01-13 04:39 am (UTC)#2: Asuka/Shinji -- There's too much of a fandom tendency to give Shinji a spine and then instantly heal all of Asuka's mental problems with his magical cock.
#3: Zuko/Mai -- Echoing the above objection, I'm not fond of the fandom trope of Zuko 'thawing' Mai. It reeks of the healing power of cock.
#4: Ty Lee/Azula -- Is there such a thing as the healing power of the clitoris? If so, then Ty Lee using it to redeem Azula. Also the fandom tends to minimize Azula's shortcomings and negative traits in romance fics.
#5: Mamoru/Ami -- Ami's pretty Sue-ish in canon. Giving her the lead male character in the show just ups that.
#6: Zuko/Suki -- Again, Suki's a thin character.
#10: Zuko/Katara -- Aang gets defrosted a few years early, befriends Lu Ten like he did Zuko in canon, and ends up defeating Azulon/Ozai/Iroh and ending the war. In order to solidify the fragile peace, and to eliminate rival claims to his throne, Lu Ten marries off his cousins to important foreigners. Azula gets engaged to Sokka, the son of the SWT's chieftain, and Zuko to Toph Bei Fong. But when Toph runs off, Zuko must track her down with the help of his sister, future brother-in-law, and future sister-in-law. Over the course of wacky hi-jinks through the post-war Earth Kingdom, Zuko and Katara fall in love but won't admit it. When they finally catch up with Toph, she's running with the Freedom Fighters. They take the foursome prisoner, but they escape in time to stop Jet's dastardly plot to blow up a dam and then they convince Toph that Jet's no good. Toph performs a hostile takeover of the Freedom Fighters and fires Jet. The foursome agree to fake Toph's death in the flood so at least one of them doesn't have their lives decided by the Avatar and the Fire Lord (both of whom have *clearly* forgotten, in their collective opinion, what it means to be young). Sokka and Azula have bonded through the crisis. Katara and Zuko decide to pursue an engagement once Toph has been properly "mourned". But then Zuko returns to the Fire Nation to find the Avatar waiting for him, ready to introduce Princess Yue, but overcoming that obstacle waits for the sequel.