1/13/2024 0 Comments Gifted kid burnout tumblrBut I’m meh on Ty Lee/Azula overall and that seems to be the biggest one. ![]() Spending a few years as a woman in male-dominated fields gives you a new appreciation for the sheer style points and lack-of-fucks to deliver those lines. Tie between “Do the tides command this ship?” and “You weren’t even a player.” I mean, I guess overall it’s s3, since it digs into her character more. ![]() I can very much appreciate a girl who uses the fact that she is a teenage girl to make people underestimate her, and then perform a feat of tactical importance that not even the best general could do…with zero casualties and only using her words. I actually really like her entire Ba Sing Se takeover arc. (Fun fact: that part’s done around age 25. But kinda mitigated by the fact she’s sheltered and her brain literally hasn’t fully-developed the areas for decision-making yet. I guess there’s that “direct IV to the propaganda juice leading to jingoism and imperialism” thing. Which is a slightly distressing phrase to use considering its association with the Bridge of Sighs. If my father wasn’t hellbent on giving us all the support he could, because he’d lost his mother as a child and was forced to grow up faster.īecause it’s sometimes really difficult to see a character who is so close to a “there but for the grace of god go I”. If my mother wasn’t determined to take all the things that had hurt her as a child and do the opposite for my brother and I. I like Azula because I very clearly see a person I could have been, if my parents hadn’t given a shit. And I didn’t realize what had actually happened to me until I was 22 and a therapist was looking at me with absolute horror as I recounted my K-8 years. And I know exactly what it means to decide to be an asshole in order to protect yourself, because when you let down your walls, someone you called a friend stabbed right in that carefully hidden weak point and sent you spiraling in a panic attack and self-destructive behaviors.īecause I was 14 when I escaped that. I know exactly what it feels like to have people you grew up with and you thought were friends stab you in the back. I know exactly what it feels like to craft your identity around your abilities, because those are the things that you’ve been told determine your worth. But there’s a bit more to it than that.īecause I know exactly what it feels like to be seen only for your abilities and how they can be used to make the adults who are supposed to give a shit about you look good. I’ve joked that Azula is just another millennial with gifted-child syndrome and hypercompetative parent, and just like the rest of us, she ended up with a mental breakdown before her 25th birthday. ![]() I am absolutely unsurprised, given my recent hyperfixation.īecause beyond my fondness for feral genius girl-children characters and characters associated with lightning, and how I’m drawn to characters who are morally grey (to me, Azula is, in DnD terms, Lawful Neutral, which is fascinating and probably also why a lot of people have a hard time with her), I’ve realized that there are a lot of similarities between myself and Azula.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |