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[lavanya_six]

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Excuse me mum, May I make another

[martikhoras.livejournal.com]

Aang is often told to me as the most intensely challenging to write, I'm curious your testimony/experience there.

Re: Excuse me mum, May I make another

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say he's hard to write. Toph is hard to write extended POV scenes for, mostly because you don't realize how much you rely on visual description and concepts to paint a scene.

What difficulty Aang poses is writing him so that his morality and pacifism isn't a strawman. It's not even that he forgives the Fire Nation for genociding his people; forgiveness has a sort of power to it, that *I* choose to let what *you* did go. Aang doesn't even hate the Fire Nation. He just moves on with his life after Episode 3, and whatever guilt he associates with the Air Nomad genocide is, as shown in "The Guru", the guilt he has for surviving. But it's not really a strong survivor's guilt, either.

Rationalizing that without resorting to hollow platitudes is a real challenge.

Re: Excuse me mum, May I make another

[martikhoras.livejournal.com]

hmm...
I never thought about the doesn't hate thing. I just chalked it up to him still maturing and processing and a kind of avoid the shock lever thing. plus being trained not to. He got really mad and lost himself. He doesn't like feeling that so he stops.
Besides he feels him betraying the people who needed him got them killed (The Storm) which isn't that wildly out there. He deals with the feelings amazingly well but it is a massive process he seems to always be working through though in an actually subtle or indirect way. I mean Appa gets stolen and holy hell, that hurt and rage came from somewhere.

Heh man Toph is that challenging huh. Hmm never realized.

What are the challenges with Azula or Iroh?

Re: Excuse me mum, May I make another

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Azula and Iroh are both actually pretty fun to write. They also don't have any central difficulty in them like Aang or Toph.

Re: Excuse me mum, May I make another

[martikhoras.livejournal.com]

I would say Aang is hateful enough of the war and the Fire Nation from Northern Air Temple. He just is constantly working on it.

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