Going to be traveling and bored meme

[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.)

Ganked fromsholio

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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[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.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

That's what I've been thinking myself, even if I haven't been able to put it in words. He did treat Asami and Korra badly, but he isn't bad person. Just kid who had to take too much responsibility too early and hasn't quite finished growing up completely.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, he does not to right by our girls, but Zuko was a complete asshole to Iroh for most of the show, and we love him anyway. This fandom is not shy about loving jerkfaces as long as they're also total angstmuffins with the potential to do better.

Of course a lot of the problem is that fandom wants him to be Zuko, and... no.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

He is not Zuko. I absolutely adore (and obsess over) Zuko, and I like Mako, but even I don't consider them to be same type of character.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Oh Fandom...

[floranna.livejournal.com]

I ganked this meme from you if you are interested. ^^

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

...I'll be right over.