Yue

[lavanya_six]

Currently writing a fic starring (a living) Yue for someone. I'm having a devil of a time trying to write her. She's just so... boring. There's only so much milage you can get out of the dutiful, self-sacrificing martyr. 

Anyone have any advice for writing Yue? How do you view her personality?

Comments

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

Do an AU and make her a dutiful, self-sacrificing axe-wielding maniac whose out to help conquer the world for the glory of the Water Tribe.

Or is that not an option?

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Well, she's going to be conquering the Fire Nation for the glory of the Water Tribe. But that's only because she's the Avatar in this fic.

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

Hold, she's the avatar? Then I'd suggest you make that your angle for her personality,don't ask, what is Yue's personality? But instead ask, how would what we know of her circumstances and personality affect he avatarhood?

First their is the question of how the NWT deals with female avatar's given the number of them, their had to be a few at some point. I see a few options.

1. The taboo against women fighting is recent, they haven't' had to deal with the problem. This creates a interesting situation, as they have to deal with having a woman avatar, while Yue's has to deal with two mutually incompatible 'duties'. She has a duty to her tribe to not fight, but she has a duty to the world to stop the Fire Nation. How does she deal with that?

2. They are expected to only learn water-tribe healing, but the tribe discretely ignores them learning to fight with other elements. In this case, Yue still has the mutually incompatible duties, with waterbending only for healing, airbending out of the picture, and most Firebenders wanting to kill her, she's left with only earthbending. At the same time, it would take her longer to realize this as she can fight, and it might take a while to realize it's not enough.

3. They send em south, que her heading down south, only to realize how bad it really is out there.

4. Avatar's are considered 'not women' for cultural reasons, which gives large opportunity to mess with personality.

Another possible bit of fun is her interaction with the Moon spirit. Both her and Aang had more spiritual awareness than normal people, but what if you combined it. Maybe Avatar Yue's a little to spiritual? Not entirely all there? Uncanny valley, with a thought process that's... odd. Not evil, not elderich abomination, just... odd.

And what of the other spirits reactions to this? The show focused on the Avatar keeping balance between humans, and humans and spirits, but I've always imagined that it also had a duty to keep balance between spirits. Maybe the moon spirit sticking it's fins in Yue has some of the other spirits scared, and now there are wars potentially looming in both worlds.

Or maybe the other spirits want champions of their own in the world? So now the daughter of the the Son of the Fire Lord is brilliant beyond compare, but also burns with an uncontrollable rage. Or the daughter of the Bei Fong's, who is blind, but also a living archive of every bit of written knowledge. Or Sokka's sister, who is always so strange, seeing this that arn't there?

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

What't the required pairing? Do you have any other plot mandates? Giving suggestions is easier the more I know what's being aimed for.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

I can't discuss the pairing in the open, as it's a secret exchange until the community's moderator post the finished fics. I'll email you the details.