OOC Questions Meme

[bentflame]

I've seen this around (not anytime recently, but still... *has been stalking some characters' backdated entries*), and figured it might be a good, more serious contrast to the semi-cracky IC question meme below.

If anyone has any questions regarding my character, ask here. You can ask why I play them the way I do, why they do certain things, what their usernames mean, about their canon, whatever. This is just all-out discussion.

You can ask the questions either ICly or OOCly, but all answers will be OOC.

Comments

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

How would she have been as Fire Lord?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

For the people who loved the Fire Nation and what it was doing? She'd have been an awesome Fire Lord, at least at first. She grew up being extensively trained by Daddy so it's reasonable to assume that she knows Fire Nation government and politics through-and-through, she's skilled in military strategy, and she's good enough at commanding to get people to follow her, even large groups made up of people older and more experienced than her (as we see with the Dai Li). Still, she is prone to letting her temper get the best of her, she overreacts to things, and it clearly doesn't take that much for her to start cracking-- so while she can obviously handle and accomplish far more than the average teenager, she's far from invincible, and there would be a point at which the pressure would get to be too much, especially if Ozai wasn't there to support her and keep her focused on the task at hand. Also, unless she had time to mature and grow into the role, I can see her growing bored with the more mundane day-to-day tasks of running a government-- she'd want to be out there in the thick of things, even during times when it would be more prudent for a national leader to stay back and control things from the war room rather than the battlefield.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

Would she have been a better person if her mother had been more loving towards her?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It depends. I personally believe that much more of the blame for Azula's upbringing should be given to Ozai, rather than Ursa (though she was far from a perfect mother regardless). If Ozai's influence had been lessened, Azula likely would have benefited from a better relationship with Ursa-- but if Ozai's presence was a strong as ever and Azula still enthusiastically followed in his footsteps, Ursa probably wouldn't have been able to affect her daughter much at all, no matter what she did.