3. What would be your ideal scenario for couple #3? If I had one for Maiko, I think it'd be that they only really get to know each other after the coup of Ba Sing Se. I've written them as a childhood sweethearts in one fic, but I'm warming to the interpretation that has them really only being passingly familiar with each other through Azula pre-BSS. It feels less like destiny/inevitability and more like a real relationship, one struck up by circumstance and convenience.
This. So hard. I've liked fics that use baby!Maiko in some way, but I just don't believe it happened that way, and likely, Mai never thought Zuko would come back. If Zuko really had romantic interest in Mai, we likely would have seen evidence of it "Zuko Alone."
My solution- Zuko crushed on Ty Lee as a kid. Mai wound up sighing a lot, Azula thought it grand entertainment, and Ty Lee was very confused. Then, after Azula killed Aang, Zuko discovered he liked goths. Weird, how much he changed.
Anyway, I considered doing this meme, but then I realized that some people might take the Transformers shippings seriously.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:30 am (UTC)If I had one for Maiko, I think it'd be that they only really get to know each other after the coup of Ba Sing Se. I've written them as a childhood sweethearts in one fic, but I'm warming to the interpretation that has them really only being passingly familiar with each other through Azula pre-BSS. It feels less like destiny/inevitability and more like a real relationship, one struck up by circumstance and convenience.
This. So hard. I've liked fics that use baby!Maiko in some way, but I just don't believe it happened that way, and likely, Mai never thought Zuko would come back. If Zuko really had romantic interest in Mai, we likely would have seen evidence of it "Zuko Alone."
My solution- Zuko crushed on Ty Lee as a kid. Mai wound up sighing a lot, Azula thought it grand entertainment, and Ty Lee was very confused. Then, after Azula killed Aang, Zuko discovered he liked goths. Weird, how much he changed.
Anyway, I considered doing this meme, but then I realized that some people might take the Transformers shippings seriously.