Stolen from beckyh2112

[lavanya_six]

Give me a single character -- in a fandom I write in, like AtLA or Evangelion -- and I will give you my:

+ OTP for them.
+ Runner-up pairing.
+ Honorable mention(s).
+ Crack pairing(s).
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't. (alternately: ship I like that everyone else seems to hate)

Comments

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

+ OTP for them.

Ursa/Ozai. I like the concept of an arranged marriage that grows into something loving, only to sour and turn bitter over their children.

+ Runner-up pairing.

Ursa/Hakoda. A bit of a cliche pairing, but they'd look good together and it's fun to imagine the Fire and Water sibs as step-siblings.

+ Honorable mention(s).

Ursa/Zhao, mostly because I like that idea that Zhao used to be into Zuko's Mom and hates him just for existing.

+ Crack pairing(s).

Ursa/Ty Lee, but only as a one-sided unrequited crush coming from Ty Lee.

+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't. (alternately: ship I like that everyone else seems to hate)

Ursa/Iroh. I find them very boring together, and don't like the reveal you see some fanfic authors occasionally pull where Iroh is Zuko's real biological father. *zzzzZZZzzzz*

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

While I agree about Zuko secretly being Iroh's son, I actually rather enjoyed a fic that turned the idea on it's head with Azula actually being Iroh's daughter.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

I remember that fic. I had the same problem with it that I did with Voldemort's origin story in Harry Potter. Voldemort is born bad because he's essentially a child of rape, while Azula is a 'punishment' for Iroh and Ursa's affair.

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

I assumed that was Iroh's own believe. He's rather big on family based destiny. Zuko is good because of Ursa's blood, bad because of Sozin's. His view of Azula was colored by that. (I vastly prefer falible Iroh to all knowing allways right Iroh)

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

I could see that. Iroh's a born and bred monarchist, after all. Bloodlines and ancestry are big to them.

[Speaking of, one day I'll have to write a drabble or something as a prequel to 'Korra', where Iroh hears about the Republic City proposal/project (or whatever) and is very adamant that this democracy nonsense is the road to ruin. "Be rational, nephew! Peasants can't govern themselves!"]

Fallible Iroh is always a plus. So is fallible Pathik.

[https://profiles.google.com/ranchoth (from livejournal.com)]

Huh. "Republic City prosposal/project"...suddenly brought to mind Experimental Prototype Republic-city Of Tomorrow."

Now I can't help but wonder who the founder is, and if his pencil-moustached head is kept frozen beneath the pirate district; or if there's a white geodesic "Steamship Earth" sphere crowned with twelve sun-ray spires.