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[lizbee]

Is it ever actually said, in the show (stuff Bryan and Mike say in interviews only counts if I like it) that Ursa is not a firebender?

Because I keep seeing it come up, but I don't remember anything about it in her (very brief) appearances, and it doesn't make sense to me. I can't imagine Azulon letting even a second son marry a non-bender, or Ozai being willing to do it. And in any case, she's Roku's granddaughter and Azula's mother. I'm pretty sure she can light a match, y'know?

This week's AtLA obsessions: Ursa and Azula. Is there any Azula redemption fic? It seems like there should be -- I mean, there's a whole massive Zhao redemption comic, and on the whole I'd say his crimes have greater spiritual consquences than Azula's. But she is a girl, and that's a taint that no amount of cleansing can remove.

(My other whim, for schmoopy Ursa/Hakoda fic, was somehow answered. Only the fic is too schmoopy. I NEED A PROPER BALANCE, PEOPLE! MY WHIMS, CATER TO THEM! Or I'll have to write the damn thing myself. And we all know how that ends up.)

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[innerbrat]

I totally meant Sozon, not Azulon. You knew what I meant.

[weaver]

I totally did, it's OK. Zhao is the BITTEREST NEARLY-COUSIN EVER.

[myniamh]

This has made me think. If they are all crazy inbred royals, wouldn't there be a large element of arranging marriages? Her not being a bender is irrelevant in the face of all those deals that went on after she was born?

[lizbee]

Possibly? I don't know; a lot of European arranged marriages would fall by the wayside if one of the kids grew up to be the wrong religion or something. I don't know about the systems in any Asian cultures, though.