Cold Beboots was cold

[beboots]

The final evening at Christmas Reflections at Fort Edmonton! It ended up being like -27C in the river valley... The poor draft horses had frost all over their coats, and were brought into the stables (switched out for tractors AKA "mechanical horses" ;) ) halfway through the evening. I took a shower right before I left for work, and I put my hair in braids while wet. So after I lit the bonfires, and I realized about an hour into my shift that my braids had frozen. SOLID. Like, icicle cores. D: 

CHECK IT OUT



PIPI LONGSTOCKING COSPLAYS = NOW RIDICULOUSLY EASY. 

And for comparison purposes, here is what it looks like defrosted. SO FLOPPY



Here is a shot of the glorious bonfire I made yesterday, to warm you up wherever you are. :)

Comments

[beboots.livejournal.com]

"Azula never acts affectionate (except the one time when he's unconscious and still bloody and she curls up next to him to reduce any further threats to ashes), or if she does it's with some cutting comment after so nobody starts having thoughts, but she spends most of her time insulting him. Zuko starts out worrying that she's going to leave the instant she's sane enough to realize what's been going on, but then the two of them grow into something approaching a good relationship." YES YES YES PLZ. Awesome.

"Katara gets the epic plot arc of "I hate him" to "I don't trust him" to "Okay, fine, I guess all that torture proves I like him" to "OMG he takes his shirt off to practice?!?!?"" XD LOVE IT. I also love Zuko's character arc. ;)

"He's too much of an idiot to hold all that against her properly, so it's not like she owes him anything, but she needs to look after him so he doesn't repeat any boneheaded stunts. She only has one brother, and doesn't trust Ozai to make any other good ones." <3 SO TRUE. I'm also intrigued by the detail of alienating Uncle Iroh. When/how will he realize that Zuko was right?

... $20 in the right place? I will definitely keep an eye out! :DD

[feral-shrew.livejournal.com]

Azula is going to be different from the show. I'm keeping the core parts of her personality (damn smart, she can understand what people are going to do and how she can manipulate them to do what she wants, driven, needs to be the best at what she does--and under all that, she's afraid of what will happen if somebody else is better). The surface actions and thoughts, though, are going to be very different. Azula's father sent her to hell. Her mother thought she was a monster (or so Azula believes, so that's all that matters), Iroh didn't care about her, and her father was the one that sent her to the mindbenders. She starts sending Zuko letters, even if he'd be better off if he ignored them, and he comes for her.

Zuko breaks her out of that place, and gave up everything for her, and their dad hurt him, too. That last part might actually be why she decides to trust him, because her mental processes are extremely sporadic.

Azula and Katara are actually very similar, personality-wise. Azula has the sadistic streak, maybe, but they're both confident prodigy benders that were spoiled and always called special for what they could do with their element. They're used to being right, they don't like being questioned, they don't really want to be the younger sibling...

"<3 SO TRUE. I'm also intrigued by the detail of alienating Uncle Iroh. When/how will he realize that Zuko was right?"

Iroh realizes in the first chapter of the Avatar/Firefly mashup. I have the rest of the casting listed out, finally, but Iroh and Zuko meet up almost right away. Iroh still doesn't understand quite what happened at first, so he ignores him at first, but then he sees crazy!Azula and realizes that Zuko was right from the start. Iroh had turned away earlier, so Zuko shuts him out. He doesn't need anybody, he'll just go live out in the middle of nowhere and find a job so that he can take care of Azula.

Then Katara's crew adopts him and he's a criminal for a living. Kind of. But they're stealing from people that steal from people, so maybe it's better?

[beboots.livejournal.com]

"Zuko breaks her out of that place, and gave up everything for her, and their dad hurt him, too. That last part might actually be why she decides to trust him, because her mental processes are extremely sporadic." So Zuko is literally the only family member she can trust? ;_; Also, I have to wonder, then, how she reacts to seeing Iroh on Appa...?

[feral-shrew.livejournal.com]

Zuko is the only person from her family she wants anything to do with. She ignores Iroh, generally. He's not a threat, and never was outright dismissive of her, but he didn't help her and he didn't spend time with her when she was a kid. Ursa is gone somewhere, and she vanished to protect Zuko, and Ozai has an uphill fight if he wants to make Azula stay in the same building.

She eventually starts to get her mind back to herself, and then she and Iroh can have a little bit of a bond. It gets a lot better when Iroh is the first person to figure out what the mindbenders were trying to do. Zuko knew fragments, Iroh knows the history.