Yeay! *high fives back* Somehow I think Aang should teach Zuzu how to dance, Fire nation style :D :D I love it when it stops pouting and glowering and smiles. He totally looks surprised yet pleased he can make such an expression. It's totally adorable. Almost as adorable as him smacking his forehead and talking about silver sandwiches <3333
It's such a sad and tragic thing that he was repressing all that silliness, just like a good little boy prince should, I guess. <3 I didn't consciously realize he was being robotic 'cause he was so ANGRY, but I guess he was an angry robot. He certainly didn't have a large repertoire of emotions. Maybe firebenders can be angry in their sleep. THEY PROBABLY CAN <3. I was just thinking about elements and the weird way I love fire/fiery/brooding-angry people (at least in fiction...) and how it's totally like nails on a chalkboard to me in most ways but I can't resist it. In some way all that anger is so... it's almost always somehow naive, or a sort of childish defense. A mature fieryness is oddly steady and earthy-- not quite as attractive; an immature 'adult' fieryness is all aggression and ego and rage (like the one who started the war). When they're on the cusp, though, they've got such a disarming earnestness that no other type has in the same way; earth-type boys are also earnest, but so transparent. Fire boys are pure but also totally deluded and full of, well, hot air, which is pretty much adorable when the mask slips and they sort of toddle around being lost (and angsty & insecure). 'Love me, love me, see how great and awesome I am!' SO CUTE. <3 The whole fire nation attacking 'cause they wanted to prove they were awesome, the best, the mightiest-- it's the same thing writ large. Oh man. It makes me happy to think the height of aggression, if caught and transformed at the right time, can be successfully 'managed' and defused by caring and head-petting (and some butt-kicking for their idiocy of course). This is why I'm a sucker, right there in a nutshell :P Anyway, it's also why the Avatar at the time failed so miserably to defuse the situation; he should've been reassuring and caring, not confrontational and challenging. Ah well :(
'Zuzu logic' is brilliant! That's exactly what he functions on! Although part of the blame goes to Iroh-- all those wise tales and sayings, and they mutate horrifically inside of Zuzu's head in his attempt to make them 'make sense'. Haha the 'destiny' thing is kind of hilarious to me. He really is so earnest. Awww. It's sort of adorable that he's about as earnest as Aang. Even SOKKA is more crafty emotionally, though he wears his heart on his sleeve. HEE!
I feel like he makes Aang feel oddly more confident by acting like he knows what he's doing-- I guess all the others just expect more self-confidence than Aang has, or think it should be obvious (he's the Avatar!) and yet here's someone who knows Aang doesn't have all the answers and yet he believes in him anyway. It's very much a 'dad' energy like I believe someone (you?) said a few comments up :D
I also think Zuzu wants to be responsible for something just as Aang wants to be an eensy bit *less* responsible. It's so cute! I swear, all of them have such interesting dynamics every which way <3.
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Date: 2008-05-26 07:41 am (UTC)It's such a sad and tragic thing that he was repressing all that silliness, just like a good little boy prince should, I guess. <3 I didn't consciously realize he was being robotic 'cause he was so ANGRY, but I guess he was an angry robot. He certainly didn't have a large repertoire of emotions. Maybe firebenders can be angry in their sleep. THEY PROBABLY CAN <3. I was just thinking about elements and the weird way I love fire/fiery/brooding-angry people (at least in fiction...) and how it's totally like nails on a chalkboard to me in most ways but I can't resist it. In some way all that anger is so... it's almost always somehow naive, or a sort of childish defense. A mature fieryness is oddly steady and earthy-- not quite as attractive; an immature 'adult' fieryness is all aggression and ego and rage (like the one who started the war). When they're on the cusp, though, they've got such a disarming earnestness that no other type has in the same way; earth-type boys are also earnest, but so transparent. Fire boys are pure but also totally deluded and full of, well, hot air, which is pretty much adorable when the mask slips and they sort of toddle around being lost (and angsty & insecure). 'Love me, love me, see how great and awesome I am!' SO CUTE. <3 The whole fire nation attacking 'cause they wanted to prove they were awesome, the best, the mightiest-- it's the same thing writ large. Oh man. It makes me happy to think the height of aggression, if caught and transformed at the right time, can be successfully 'managed' and defused by caring and head-petting (and some butt-kicking for their idiocy of course). This is why I'm a sucker, right there in a nutshell :P Anyway, it's also why the Avatar at the time failed so miserably to defuse the situation; he should've been reassuring and caring, not confrontational and challenging. Ah well :(
'Zuzu logic' is brilliant! That's exactly what he functions on! Although part of the blame goes to Iroh-- all those wise tales and sayings, and they mutate horrifically inside of Zuzu's head in his attempt to make them 'make sense'. Haha the 'destiny' thing is kind of hilarious to me. He really is so earnest. Awww. It's sort of adorable that he's about as earnest as Aang. Even SOKKA is more crafty emotionally, though he wears his heart on his sleeve. HEE!
I feel like he makes Aang feel oddly more confident by acting like he knows what he's doing-- I guess all the others just expect more self-confidence than Aang has, or think it should be obvious (he's the Avatar!) and yet here's someone who knows Aang doesn't have all the answers and yet he believes in him anyway. It's very much a 'dad' energy like I believe someone (you?) said a few comments up :D
I also think Zuzu wants to be responsible for something just as Aang wants to be an eensy bit *less* responsible. It's so cute! I swear, all of them have such interesting dynamics every which way <3.