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[attackfish]

This looks like I can answer with my cell phone keyboard!  (On a side note, please forgive my more numerous than usual spelling mistakes in this.  I don't have spellcheck on my phone, and my spelling is lamentable at the best of times.)

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Give me a character and I'll tell you a piece of my personal headcanon. Any fandom is welcome here, provided that I am reasonably familiar with it.

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[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Bumi

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Two for the price of one!

1. I always imagined Bumi the elder having ADHD as a child and bi polar disorder as an adult. His wild, crazy bouts of energetic brillience are balenced out by prolonged periods of depression where he has to force himself through the day. Captivity under Mai's family was very difficult for him, as he had to not succomb to one of his black spells while still being abe to wait for the right moment.

2. I don't have a headcanon for Bumi the younger yet, except that I bet he was an obnoxious older brother to Tenzin/little brother to Kya.

[vynessia361.livejournal.com]

Mozzie?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I have a lot of headcanon for Mozzie, which piece to pick?

I think Mozzie is faking some of his more extreme quirks. Don't get me wrong, I think he's naturally an anxious oddball, but I think he realized a long time ago that people underestimate him when he plays up the oddness, and that it makes people forget that he's a formidable intelligence, supremely gifted at separating them from their valuables, or anything else he wants to possess for himself. This is where some of his more out there conspiracy theories come from, and also where his highly variable food intolerances come from. Or maybe, I just don't like what the writers have been doing with a portrayal of part of my illness, but I like to think he plays up the hypochondria. I also think he taught this trick to Neal, who plays up the flirting, carefree, pretty boy persona instead.

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

Zuko.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

This is worse than Mozzie. I have developed so much headcanon for Zuko it isn't even funny. How about a bit of headcanon for the entire Ozai-and-spawn category?

I like to think that before Ozai decided Zuko was such a failure, he treated him a lot like we see him treating Azula in canon. Zuko was the golden boy and heir apparent, and this is what Zuko meant when he talked about a time when his family was actually happy. Ozai wasn't a warm, caring, emotionally healthy person, but he hadn't really started with the bulk of the abuse yet. Then Azula started really excelling, and Ozai decided Zuko wasn't worthy of his vision, and started treating her like the golden child and Zuko like dirt. This is why Zuko is convinced daddy dearest loves him, and also why he thinks if he just does the impossible, he will be the golden boy again. He also thinks that his father doesn't see capturing the Avatar (who hadn't been seen for a hundred years, no less!) is impossible for Zuko. Zuko sees his inability to do it as a failure to live up to his father's reasonable standards, and that Azula would be able to do it. Not only has Ozai by doing this put his children in direct competition, but now every time he abuses Zuko, he's also abusing Azula. Azula remembers Zuko being the golden boy. She has seen the price of imperfection in Ozai's eyes, and she's terrified of paying it.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

Fshpat, Zuko is taken. Ummm...

Mozzie?

No, that's taken too. Seriously, I didn't notice it until I wrote that.

Mako?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Ever since Mako and Bolin's parents died, he has been taking care of his brother, and he has done everything he can to make sure that Bolin had everything he needed and always felt safe and loved. Because of this, he is somewhere between an older brother and a parent to Bolin, and also, he has never had the space to feel safe himself. He never got the chance to mess around with other kids his age, so he doesn't get a lot of the social things, and misinterprets the signals people send him, and the ones he sends out. He also never learned how to have equal friendships. He has been the only person he could rely on. This is why he gravitates to women in need. It isn't, as huge amounts of fandom speculate, because he likes weak women, it's because he feels more comfortable and secure when he's the one being relied on and not the other way around. Even in relationships where both people rely on each other, he is always subconsciously going what if they leave? What if they die? If they need him, they won't leave him, and if he doesn't need them, if they do, he won't be left in a lurch again. Plus, he's used to being needed by Bolin, so it feels comfortable.

Unlike my other headcanons, which I'm perfectly happy never making it into canon, I really think this or something like this needs to be made explicitly canon, because fandom really hates the poor guy and is calling him an abusive monster when he's really just a bit of a jerk.

[abricot-vert.livejournal.com]

Asami?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Subconsciously, Asami has known for a long time that her father changed after her mother died, and that there was something dark inside him, but she didn' want to admit it to herself or to anyone else. This is part of the reason she was so defensive and protective when Korra made her accusation. She's also gotten used to doing for herself, emotionally speaking, since her mother died, because her father was busy secretly nursing revenge fantasies. Her father's money and the servants took care of her physical needs, but no one has really taken care of her. She pretends to herself, to the world, and to her father that she and her father have a loving, close relationship, because it's easier than acknowledging how much he doesn't bother to pay attention to her anymore.

Also, Asami's mother had the same fashionable hair stylist that Tahno now uses. Look at her picture (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120627090441/avatar/images/3/32/Sato_family.png) and tell me I'm wrong.

[somariel]

Mai

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Like Zuko, I have a lot of headcanon for Mai.

I don't think Mai was the unfavorite child after the birth of her brother. The logic for that fanon tends to be that the real world cultures that the Fire Nation is based on frequently have girls being pushed aside when their brothers are born, but the Fire Nation seems to be pretty big on gender equality. I also don't believe that they see her only as a means to advance their career through marriage because she's a girl. They see her marriageability as a way to advance their careers, but I'm pretty sure they would be pushing to betroth little Mao to Azula just as ardently as they did to betroth little Mai to Zuko. I also think Tom-Tom is pretty neglected himself, because if he weren't they would have noticed he were missing much faster. I just think her parents aren't any good at being parents.

Also, I like to think that Mai is not naturally skilled with people, and instead of trying to teach their daughter the necessary social skills to know what to do and say in a given situation, they just told her to shut up. Azula of course compounded this learned tendency of hers, because it's just safest to be quiet around her. So when she does open her mouth, disaster.

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with Sebastian Shaw of the Hellfire Club from X-Men?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

No I'm not. I never got into X-men, and the only movie I caught this summer was Brave.

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Korra!

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

This is all probably going to be jossed in a few months.

Living on the compound, training to be the Avatar was an extremely lonely childhood, a lot like the ones experienced by young Olympic athletes. For a high energy extrovert like her, this was positively torture. This is part of the reason she was drawn to pro bending. It was familiar to her, and in it, she found a world full of people, just like her, training their tails off at bending in a way not many people in the Korra era do.

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Question- will you be taking secondary requests once the first has been filled, or is this a one-per-customer meme?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

certainly they're allowed. I'm stuck at the doctor's office all day getting shots, so I'd love more distractions. (Feeding the dragons is nice too)

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

If we can request more, then I ask for...Sozin!

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Sozin honestly did believe what he was doing was right. He had a kind of arrogance you see in a lot of people who had to work a little bit but had a generally easy road to sucess that made him think he had all the answers, and he had found the right way of doing things, not only for himself, but for everyone, and if everybody else wasn't as successful as him (or the Fire Nation more generally) it was their own stupid fault, and they should be grateful to him for teaching them better... through conquest, naturally. He was an Amon more than an Ozai. Hisintentions were good, but his methods were vile.

[wolfs-lament.livejournal.com]

If this is still open can I pick General Iroh (from Korra, though if you don't have much of an opinion of him then the original one)?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I have so much more headcanon for Iroh the elder (I have spent far too much time figuring out the ins and outs of the Fire Nation Royal family from Sozin to Zuko) but I have fair amounts for Iroh the younger as well.

It used to be my headcanon before Bryke confirmed that he's Zuko's grandson, that he was the youngest of a huge family that bemused Mai and Zuko more than anything, and when Mai got pregnant with him at like, sixty, she stared up at the sky for a long long time wondering why menopause wasn't coming (please please please let it come). I still like to think Zuko and Mai had a lot of kids, and that Iroh is not the son of their oldest, the Firelord, because if he's that high up in the succession, he would be at home, preparing to become Firelord himself someday.

Please feel free to ignore this if you've had enough

[luunyscarlet.livejournal.com]

I'm actually stuck between Azulon and Ursa *feels a bit embarrassed for being so greedy*. You can choose either or both or just plain neither if you're fed up.

Ursa 1/2

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Wow, this ended up really long.

I don't have all that much of a headcanon for Ursa, surprisingly. I have a lot of theories, but many of them are mutually exclusive. For example, one theory of mine is that she is an enormously powerful firebender, and that this is why Azulon was willing to overlook her heritage and betroth her to his son. Or he could have betrothed her to Ozai as a way to curb his younger son's ambitions to the throne. If his line were tainted with the Avatar's blood, he would be in less of a position to make a play for the throne, not that it stopped him. It also could have been a combination. I want this powerful firebender in my family, and I want to co-opt the power of her line for mine, but she's the Avatar's granddaughter, so I'll have her married to my less favored child. These could have made very different early dynamics in their marriage. Ozai would have prized her for the first and resented her for the second and third, and it might have meant that getting rid of Ursa when he took the throne (and thus any reminder that his children were descended from the Avatar, or even just more than his, might have been a nice side benefit to him.) Or she could be a nonbender, and accomplished with the dual swords (Which would make them superficially similar to Zuko and Mai. Both are are arranged matches according to Bryke, In both, she's a nonbending weapon's expert and he's a royal firebender, disfavored by the current monarch, his father.) She could be a young officer in training, raised to take part in the Fire Nation conquest, after Roku's decedents were brought to court following his death. She could have been in hiding with her family, and have only confided the secret of her heritage to Iroh... Oh the possibilities. I don't actually have a lot of theories as to what happened to her after she offed her father-in-law. I have no clue.

Azulon

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh the Fire Nation royal family. So much headcanon, so little time.

According to Bryke, Azulon was born the same time as the Air Nomad Genocide, and that he led troops into battle. I imagine that he was a sort of Alexander the Great (or better still, the Russian scholar in me wants to say Ivan the Terrible) who took a very personal role in the conquest, like Iroh. I don't think he understood Ozai at all, and that Ozai was always more of a politician than Azulon. Iroh had a political side, but Azulon could connect to him through their shared military experiences, and I think he was less of a politician when he was younger. In some ways, Azulon had a temperament more like Zuko's, though much crueler. He was quick to anger, quick to punishment, not prone to reflection, and his plans and tactics tend to be short term affairs.