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

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

*nod* Just because in said fanon I can see Ozai having a genuine lack of understanding/examples of how love and relationships work, doesn't mean it excuses what he does. It just helps set up the long, nasty fall after the brief bloom of 'want, need- take'.

Lyrics definitely work. And the contrast definitely comes through, the keeping-up-of-face while everything smolders against the supporting structures.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

It just helps set up the long, nasty fall after the brief bloom of 'want, need- take'.

Exactly. A lot of people look at abusive relationships, real or fictional, and assume they must have been obviously abusive all along, which of course has the fridge logic of how does anybody get involved with someone who abuses them right off the bat? Or if they know the relationship was sweet and affectionate at the start and think that somehow mitigates or excuses the abuse, which really bemuses me, because that's how abuse works. *sigh*

I love making the idiomatic literal.