Vid: Ursa made Ozai King of Anything

[attackfish]

Disclaimer: The music for this vid is Sara Bareilles's "King of Anything" . The footage in this vid comes from Avatar: the Last Airbender, which belongs to Nickelodeon, as well as to Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.

Summary: It was Ursa who made Ozai Firelord.

Creator Commentary: There is frustratingly little footage of Ursa to work with, and I didn't realize until this vid that there isn't a single scene of Ursa talking with Ozai in the series proper.  This really goes to emphasize her status as a cypher.


Ursa made Ozai King of Anything

Comments

[ljlee.livejournal.com]

Brilliant edit of Ursa's story. I particularly loved the overlap of Lu Ten's face when the lyrics went "who died and made you king," not to mention how the whole thing ended with Ozai defeated and in prison. The whole video was cut to great emotional impact, good job.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

*blush* thank you! It really struck me while I was making this that Ozai didn't become Firelord because of his own schemes. Even if he killed Lu Ten (and we don't know he did or not) he became Firelord because of Ursa. And how does he repay her? He spends his reign abusing her children.

[ljlee.livejournal.com]

amyraine in her interview (http://lalunatique.livejournal.com/15175.html) with me had this to say about Ursa and Ozai:

"I find [Ursa] to have more agency and purpose than Ozai himself, who is supposed to be the big bad. Think about it: who got him the throne? Ursa. Who got him Ba Sing Se? Azula. Who came up with the plan to annihilate the EK? Azula. Other than his one horrific act of abuse toward Zuko, the man did dick squat. I find Ozai to be the most boring villian in the history of boring villains, ever."

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I don't find him boring, because I have known real life Ozais (though thankfully none with control of a country) so he scares me too much for me to really think of him as boring. But it never ceases to amaze me how much that man gloats about things other people have done for him.