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lizbeeAnd I'm having some feels. (They don't get to be feelings until I can articulate them a bit better.)
If you're interested, I wrote a slightly spoilery account of my reaction over at my shipping Tumblr.
If you're interested, I wrote a slightly spoilery account of my reaction over at my shipping Tumblr.
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Date: 2013-05-04 04:55 am (UTC)Still approaching this comic with an attitude of "not sure if want." But I'm carefully interested in it now? Eight pages can't be too bad, even if it does look like it contradicts every single one of my headcanons. (I really need to stop taking said headcanons so seriously.)
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Date: 2013-05-04 04:57 am (UTC)And I have to admit, it was your Mai headcanon I particularly thought of, reading it, because you had that lovely post about it the other week!
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Date: 2013-05-04 05:00 am (UTC)I worked so hard on that headcanon! *weeps*
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Date: 2013-05-04 05:03 am (UTC)It's why I have a separate shipping Tumblr, so I don't get the crazy all over my other stuff. (Hmm. Do I need a Lin/Tenzin Tumblr? I barely update the Mai/Zuko one.)
Do you ever find yourself with contradictory headcanons? Like, "Is this the universe where Azula raised Lin after Toph died, or the one where Azula and Toph weren't actually together?"
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Date: 2013-05-04 05:07 am (UTC)Usually I just find myself juggling the Jeeko and non-Jeeko timelines. I used to be able to keep them pretty separate, but they're blending more and more these days and it's a little worrisome. Half my readers are rooting for Jeeko, and the other half... aren't.
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Date: 2013-05-04 07:14 am (UTC)Comic summary; avert your eyes if you don't want spoilers!
Date: 2013-05-04 07:34 am (UTC)A handsome guy comes in, buys a bouquet "for a special someone", who, of course, turns out to be Mai. She's not enthused, but agrees to a date because it's better than being bored.
And he even makes her smile! With a pun that even Uncle would hesitate over. Only it turns out he's working for her father, who wanted to be reunited with his daughter, and also to recruit her into his anti-Zuko organisation, the New Ozai Society.
(The NOS has a truly ugly and inaccurate portrait of Ozai on their wall, presumably because if they had a proper one up, everyone would realise they just miss his abs.)
The Governor thinks that, having been "tossed out of the palace like a piece of garbage", Mai will be ready to see reason and join the Ozai fan club. Mai is more concerned that he's brought her little brother to the underground cellar o'plotting, apparently because he wants to rectify the mistakes he made raising Mai.
Mai takes this all in, then straps Tom-Tom to her back and steals him, knocking out the Ozai fan club and destroying the very bad portrait in the process. Her date, whom I have mentally dubbed "Man-Jin", tries to say he has real feelings for her, but Mai just punches him in the face, bids her father goodbye, and leaves with her brother.
The final page has Mai and Tom-Tom in the flower shop, where their aunt is no longer dead, and Mai is looking at a picture of her with Zuko, her expression unreadable.
Re: Comic summary; avert your eyes if you don't want spoilers!
Date: 2013-05-04 08:16 am (UTC)Awww, and Tom-Tom would have been such an adorable little reactionary anti-government agent! I love the idea of Mai taking him in out of well-hidden sibling love. Tom-Tom is much better off with her than with his weirdo parents.
Zuko should release some beefcake posters pronto to reassure the populace that his abs are just as good as Ozai's. I do understand the people's concerns in this area, and they deserve to be answered.
Why does Mai's dad hate the new order that much? Sure, he's not governer of Omashu anymore, but you'd think Zuko would be prepared to treat the family well if one of their daughters is his girlfriend. (Well, was, but the Ozai fan club was presumable founded before the breakup.)
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Date: 2013-05-04 08:21 am (UTC)And she thought scooping the Earth King's bear's shit was bad!
I love the idea of Mai taking him in out of well-hidden sibling love. Tom-Tom is much better off with her than with his weirdo parents.
Mai raising Tom-Tom is one of my Bulletproof Narrative Kinks, so I was pretty excited about this.
Zuko should release some beefcake posters pronto to reassure the populace that his abs are just as good as Ozai's. I do understand the people's concerns in this area, and they deserve to be answered.
IT'S HIS DUTY, DAMMIT!
Why does Mai's dad hate the new order that much?
He seems to be quite offended that he was offered a desk job in the new government, not fitting to his status as the former governor of New Ozai. But I am thinking, also, that if he was from the merchant class, he may owe a lot to Ozai personally, or at least, to whatever opportunities for upward mobility Ozai's regime offered.
(And it makes a lot of sense, now I think about it, that Mai's family comes from the middle classes -- her parents both seemed quite self-conscious about their status, and her uncle seemed to be of a different class all together. And now we have the occasionally-dead aunt who has a flower shop.)
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Date: 2013-05-04 08:33 am (UTC)Mai raising Tom-Tom <3 That might mean Zuko will have to be Dadko a lot sooner than he anticipated. Hehe.
On the other hand, I also love the idea of Mai becoming the nation's number one buster of anti-government plots/spymaster/royal Navy SEALs mistress without getting back together with Zuko. Then she can have an office in the palace again and Zuko can try to ineptly woo her for years.
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Date: 2013-05-05 02:38 am (UTC)Oh yes please.