Ty "Lee"
We all remember that Ty Lee has six identical sisters and joined the circus so she wouldn't be part of a matched set forever, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone talk about one specific sentence in that moment (I certainly hadn't thought about it before today)
And then I realized.
It's well-established that Lee is the most common, generic name anyone can have in the Avatar Universe. The perfect no-effort name to dump on a child you weren't expecting to have because no one expects to birth 7 babies in one go.
6 though? That's a sensible number. The rest of 'em can have more meaningful given names.
Thus, Ty Lee had the double burden of being part of a matched set and being the singled-out runt of said set.
That's why "Circus Freak" is a compliment. Not because she preferred the circus, but because it's a more creative name.
Ouch.
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I saw Avatar Way of Water
That fight the boys have on the beach was the most gut-bustering thing I have seen in years in a way that only a fight between teenage boys can be.
"My hand is silly. I know that, look at it; It's silly. But ya know what, it can do something really cool. Here look at this. First I ball it up real tight like this and then I-!" "That's called a Punch bitch!"
One boy was getting pulled by his tail, away from the boy he was wailin on so what does he do? Hooks his finger in his ear and pulls him along!!!!
And Kiri is a Fae Child! And Jesus!!!
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There was a lot of conversation suddenly about that scene in The Beach episode where Zuko brings stuff to Mai, and whether it means Mai is a bad girlfriend for not being more grateful.
And here is my opinion, which I personally consider the ultimate truth, but YMMV,as they say.
Mai is not a bag girlfriend
Zuko is not a bad boyfriend.
Their relationship is not toxic, abusive, or problematic, but it does have problems, since they are both troubled, traumatized teens who hasn’t seen how healthy relationship work, but they are both trying their best.
Let’s try to imagine ourselves inside Zuko’s head. He wants to do something nice, looks around, sees a shell, remembers that girls are supposed to like pretty things and uncle Iroh thought shells were pretty, picks it up and offers it to Mai.
Let’s move to Mai’s head now. She sees Zuko picking up some random trash from the sand and giving it to her, saying that all girls supposed to like it. She doesn’t like and her response is an eyeroll and a sarcastic remark. Zuko is angry, but is it Mai’s fault? No, it is not.
Zuko had good intentions, but good intention don’t necessarily translate into good action. Imagine, a more common scenario from our world: a girl is given cut roses, because girls are supposed to love flowers, and roses are the best flowers. Must a girl be happy and grateful? Roses are usually really beautiful, after all.
Yet she – might hate flowers
- might hate cut flowers
- might dislike roses
- might be allergic to roses
- might be looking forward to daisies instead
- something else entirely
Mai’s reaction might not have been perfect, but it is realistic and understandable.
now, Zuko realized his mistake, and went to get ice cream – something Mai actually loved and wanted to have.
He almost did it – and then didn’t. Imagine Mai’s disappointment, when a cool delicious icecream drops out of your hand and onto your clothes. What did she do? She thanked Zuko, in mildly sarcastic tone. It is a perfect reaction to the silly mishap, really. Zuko is even more disappointed – but not in Mai and her reaction, remember, all this time he is mad at himself, and everything he does and doesn’t do, feeds that anger.
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