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

[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.