Character Meme

[lavanya_six]

I'm swamped trying to get my Mini-Bang, Maiko Bang, and Rare/Crack Pairing submissions done by their alloted deadlines, BUT my brain needs a bit of distraction now and again...


Via beckyh2112:

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudocanon.

I'll be limiting this to the AtLA and Neon Genesis Evangelion fandoms.

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[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

Azula it is then.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

1. Azula is born around midnight, during a thunderstorm. The dawn drives most women carrying firebenders into labor, so nighttime births are relatively rare. Most firebenders are born during the summer dry months, so being born while it is raining is often considered a sign of weak talent -- but being born while cold-blooded fire is burning overhead is the flipside of that, so Azula is considered from a traditionalist, spiritual perspective to have been born exceptionally lucky.

2. Azula loathes her uncle. Partly this is because of her father's influence on her opinions, but mostly it's because her earliest memory of him is of Iroh being transparently flattering towards one of her nursery maids. Throughout her life she's seen him reinforce this impression by being manipulative of women's feelings to get what he wants. Azula believes that only someone who believed that all women were shallow, vapid creatures would treat them that way. It certainly explains, in her mind, why he thought sending her a dress-up doll was a good idea for a gift when Zuko, a boy, got the surrendered knife of one of Ba Sing Se's Council of Five.

3. She never planned on ultimately killing Zuko for the throne. Usurping him, yes. Making an Uncle out of him, definitely. She'd find a nice out-of-the-way colonial prefecture for him to administer so he could waste away his days playing pai-sho and growing fat. She'd even let Mai marry him, if only because she'd served Azula well enough for some reward. Azula believed that Mai wouldn't mind until her lust burned out, and even then she'd soldier on apathetically. If she got some nieces and nephews out of the deal, well, then so much the better -- her own mother was a pathetic waste, but Azula had still come from her womb. Who was to say that the two of them might not manage to produce someone of use?

4. Between the two of her friends, Ty Lee was by far the one Azula liked best. At least Ty Lee had to ambition to go out and take what she wanted from life, however undignified being a circus acrobat was.