Over what time period are we talking though?
Like the Wikipedia article says 10-100M and up to 95% died from plagues brought over from ~1500-1618, but I can’t tell if the sources are any good/reliable.
Does this count or does it mean that of those who remained, a further 75% got genocided? Or is it referring to some specific even later genocide.
But instead you just introduce a new cast or something
It could be the original cast but it feels like that would make the world very small feeling. I’d prefer something where you might hear about them, maybe see them on a few rare occasions, but for the most part they’re off doing their own things. They won and achieved success, she lost everything. It’d be much more interesting if she’s mostly beneath their notice, street/village level plots to their nation level ones. Perhaps they could be a source of motivation in that news of their successes motivate her through spite or paranoia of their influence.
It’d also mean a more interpersonal drama based tone that doesn’t really play to Azula’s strengths as a character in my opinion (her self confidence, drive, and lack of social skills).
Lastly, I also couldn’t see her wanting to make friends with them and an easy way to develop/heal as a person is to remove yourself from situations that aren’t good for you which feels like the only way her type of character could do so.
Seems almost like playing dodgeball with the old story in my eyes.
I don’t get the dodgeball analogy. Can’t figure out what it means.
This is like the memes calling Trump and Putin gay, you aren’t hurting your target, you are just further marginalizing normal people who struggle with these issues.
Can’t say for certain without knowing exactly which memes you’re talking about but the ones I’ve seen are often the opposite. The butt of the joke is their ‘hypermasculinity’, drawing attention to how ridiculous the concept is and thereby trying to destigmatize being gay or at least being more open to ‘gay’ behaviours (e.g. empathy).
There’s also ones where they’re directly accused of being closeted (e.g. Graham) which is a bit more harmful but even then it seems strategically positive in that allies won’t care, and if it gets the hateful ones to turn on them that improves conditions for the vast majority of ordinary lgbtq+ members.
Source for that 75% claim? Wondering how it’s calculated since I’ve heard ~90% died to plagues the settlers brought, but since 75% is below that it seems like it’s calculating something else. Is it referring to some specific time period?
She can get the memo and choose to be stuck in her ways. That doesn’t make for good narrative, obviously. It’s like in Super Paper Mario you can ignore the call to adventure or choose to capitulate to the final boss and you simply game over. But if you want to see with fresh perspective the rebuilding after the war, awko-taco conversations with people who don’t like Azula, and how she chooses to become an adult who deals with consequences and finds joy then a redemption arc would be narratively compelling.
It’s rare in western media, but she has the charisma to be a villainous main character/lead. It’s a trope I’ve only really seen in webnovels but they can be quite good. They just need to be marginally less evil that whomever they’re fighting, or more as long as they don’t have a kick the dog scene. It’s a big world and she could be anywhere after the series end, there’s endless opportunities for interesting plots if we follow her running away from the authorities.
The trope of villain misunderstood to be a hero can also be pretty fun and her over the top behaviour might work well with that kind of plot. (i.e. Plots where self-serving actions are interpreted to be benevolent by random villagers - e.g. taking out some petty local tyrant because they annoyed her and not knowing how to react to becoming a hero)
slinging shade at Iroh’s memory because he was a war criminal
Feels like that would be completely justified. For all her ills, she was a 14 year old child soldier and he was one of the few authority figures above her that had the power to change that and didn’t. His reformation was always incredibly self serving, he hardly made any amends, had the opportunity to fight for his right to the throne to implement reform but didn’t. He feels like one of those “look at the impact committing warcrimes has had on our soldier’s joy” films.
Azula could have been a great character as a semi-reformed “lawful evil” type adult, a spiteful hermit or even a better Iroh fighting for reforms that would eliminate the position of fire lord (self serving in a “if she can’t have no one can” way but also dismantling the system that led to everything)
While I personally think that voting democrat out of fear of the alternative is far far more harmful in the long run, I had an issue with
I think if you put the responsibility on the voters and not the coalition of politicians that claim to represent them, after a while that starts to seem less like advocacy and more like victim blaming.
Calling it victim blaming feels unfair. It acts like voters are completely innocent and are absolutely opposed to their representative’s actions. Even though some of their actions are unpopular - US voters support their politicians, police, army, etc… Look at how they react whenever anything unfortunate happens to any of them.
If you actively support and defend a system you’re kind of responsible for it’s actions even if it ignored you when you politely asked it to do something else. E.g. Despite being unjustly sentenced to death Socrates still drank Hemlock because having supported the system his entire life he had that responsibility / ethical obligation.
The flag and closet arrow imply that the person agreeing is also a trans girl - just not one who had previously revealed it to the person they’re talking to. So by agreeing it’s gay they’re saying it’s gay because it’s two women in love. Unless you’re saying gay only applies to 2 men in love and not 2 women in love.
Up yours, Woke Moralists
the US does that kind of shit now
now
You think they only started now???!
That is one route but it feels like we’ve already seen it with Zuko.
Personally she feels more like she’d either go in a “why I lost” way where she grows not out of guilt but by learning to handle her character flaws (e.g. her mental collapse, her lack of social understanding alienating her friends and making her brother/mother think of her as a monster), or at most “It was fucked up what they made me do” where she sees some of the error of her ways but is so self-assured that she knows the system she was raised in made her that way and as a child at the time she doesn’t blame herself. (only works because she was 14 and basically a child soldier, wouldn’t work if she’d been an adult)
Like sure she could become a reformed ‘good person’ like Zuko but it’d be so much more fun with her as a villainess protagonist. Where you can root for her because she’s doing good overall - but it’s always for self serving reasons. (possibly fake justifications for why it’s self serving eventually)