#the eugenics experiment and the fire nation royal family

[phoenix-king-ozai]

The most surprising thing about the comics is that Ozai didn't just kill Ursa after Azulon died. Seriously they don't like each other and it surprises Ozai didn't just toss Ursa under the bus to try and make his accession look legit and framing her as the sole culprit to kill two birds with one stone. He already has heirs, Ursa is legit useless to him at this point.

It makes me feel they had no idea what to do with her character so they made up a new backstory. It surprises they didn't go the easy route of Ozai simply killing her after Azulon died to try and cover himself.

Obviously, the comic writers Yang and Co didn’t want Ursa to be killed because they wanted her to have her “happy ending”with their OC character called Ikea excuse me Ikem. Despite having to abandon her children and lose her original face and memories. It would had been better if Ursa hid at Ba Sing Se or Yu Dao a Fire Nation Colony instead of Hira’a her home village that Ozai would be able to assassinate her easily from.

Ursa should have been hunted by Yuyan Archer or Combustion Man due to her being an assassin and knowing the true nature of Fire Lord Azulon’s death of a rather successful assassination by posion. Which was also stupid writing wise given Firebenders strong resistance to posion even in old age as shown by Iroh and the White Jade Tea.

However, Azulon’s death was much more believable due to his immensely old age whereas Ursa being a woman in the prime years of her life would not be. Many of the daimyo lords of the prefectures of the Fire Nation would be EXTREMELY skeptical of Ursa’s death given that she is not a warrior.

Honestly, the biggest and stupidest mistake on the writers part was Ikem surviving after confronting Fire Lord Azulon’s carriage to take Ursa back. Azulon or Ozai’s soliders should had executed this peasant commoner for daring to threaten the Fire Nation Royal Family at all. What gall and arrogance! Nor should Ozai given into Ursa desire to spare his life. Ozai doesn’t know or care about Ursa at all! She is just a eugenics experiment for the Fire Sage and his father the Fire Lord. In fact Ozai should have burned Ikem to ashes for daring to point his wooden sword at his father and Fire Lord.

Obviously, the comic writers took the stereotypical route of making Ursa a victim of a forced arranged marriage where Ursa is kept from her true love by an evil domineering abusive man. 🙄😒 Despite, the ATLA creators stating that Ozai and Ursa had a good relationship earlier during their marriage.

[longing-for-rain]

Katara ain't even the last southern waterbender. The post-ATLA material shows that there were other waterbenders in the SWT all along but they were in hiding or couldn't be contacted because the South Pole is too big and communications broke down during the war.

It would be more revolutionary for Katara to end up with a SWT boy so they could rebuild their tribe together and help pass down customs, but Katara doesn't know ANY southern water tribe boys her age except for her brother. Bryke literally couldn't be bothered making any other SWT boys Katara's age, so she has no viable romantic options left apart from Aang. Katara herself was even SUPPORTIVE of settler colonialism if it meant the outcomes could benefit the future mixed kids she would have with Aang. Kataang being "revolutionary", my ass. 😭

I also think it's kindaaaa ironic that someone going on about how "revolutionary" a particular romance is supports Maiko and literally has the url of "Fire Lady Mai" when the Fire Nation monarchy should have been abolished because they gained their power through eugenics over the centuries by breeding the royal family with noble lineages to produce the world's strongest firebenders, and Mai was literally a colonizer who never learned that colonization was bad and becomes the queen of the nation she colonized in the name of. Lol um, okay.

That response was…something, for sure.

I agree, if we’re taking the “Katara has a duty to marry a specific kind of man to fulfill a duty to her people” angle, then yes, someone from the Southern Water Tribe would best fulfill that.

But what I have an issue with is the whole idea that who she marries should be dictated by a sense of duty. Or politicized in general. That’s just a classic misogynistic narrative (so unsurprising to hear from a kataang fan) that a woman’s relationships is not about what she wants, but rather, what would be for the greater good. That is not a healthy basis for a relationship. A relationship shouldn’t be political; it should be about you as a person and who you love. And ultimately I think that’s why Zutara is so hated, because ultimately it does represent placing love above the greater good. Some people view this as traitorous and selfish for a woman to do, but couldn’t be me. Katara, and all women, are not wrong for choosing love. We don’t live very long and love is one of the most beautiful things to experience. We have a right to experience it.

However, I disagree that Katara supported settler colonialism, assuming we’re talking about The Promise here. What she believed was that families shouldn’t be separated and lovers shouldn’t be kept from one another just because their ethnicities are different. She brought up the children to convince Aang to reconsider his stance on enforcing racial segregation (too bad certain fans didn’t get the memo). Also, Zuko wasn’t even trying to recolonize that province; he and Katara only supported their right to self-determination. That’s the opposite of colonialism.

[lightdancer1]

A further expansion on subverting the intention of the eugenics program as applied to both Zuko *and* Azula:

Is the simplest and yet in some ways, in my admittedly rather biased opinion, most profound way of all to do it. Azulon set out to indoctrinate two kids away from being human and to being talking weapons that killed until he told them to stop. Zuko developed his (selective) empathy over time and ultimately set out to right wrongs and topple an unworthy monarch from his throne in most of my AUs, as his arc invariably leads into political waters and into stirring those waters.

Azula, by contrast, was considered the success and attempted to be molded into an Angron-style KILL ALL BURN ALL LOOT ALL attack dog. She deliberately refuses this as she did in canon, and where in canon she's the blend of 'makes you want to root for the villains' turns into 'do not do this cool thing and there are no good imperialists', in the heroic AU the same traits that made her an effective villain also make her an equally effective hero. She is taught to wield terror and to enjoy sadism, she deliberately refuses both. She makes a point to respect non-Benders and other traditions of Bending in a manner that she again was not taught, as its own, more subtle, rebellion than Zuko's but one more to the very heart of everything around her.

Heroic Azula takes all the positive traits of the canon version and magnifies them, while the negative traits lurk like a serpent beneath overripe fruit, but instead of ultimately overwhelming her, they are manageable and her problems are manageable with an actual support network that helps.

And were the premise of the eugenics program true neither of the two Fire Siblings should be able to do what they do under Azulon's ideal vision.

[lightdancer1]

Although I make frequent use of it in my heroic Azula AUs I do agree with this on general principles. There's also that the Avatar-verse is at least pseudo-medieval in design where eugenics tends to be much more of a modern 20th Century concept.

It can work in stories that run with it for a horror element in the background and for emphasizing what an unpleasant SOB Azulon actually was, but as a storytelling angle? It not only provides a further example of Zuko-centric morality, but does so in the ham-handedly buffoonish way the comics manage to do with everything.

Though what goes beyond this in canon is when Iroh bluntly not only agrees with it in an inversion from how Azulon probably meant it to be taken, but.....is never shown to actually be wrong in a major way that counts in-universe. A setting should never validate the concepts like this that are used by the villains because that's the worst kind of storytelling approach that can be used.

In the cartoon, unfortunately, there are seeds of what happens in the comics in that episode. :/

Unpopular opinion: Adding eugenics to Azula's background was ugly and unnecessary.

In trying to explain it, the comics undermine how special her talent is. I liken her to Prince or Mozart on purpose. She's a talent that you can't describe as anything but a gift. Her potential is only limited by her effort and imagination. Why take that from her by making it all Azulon's doing?

Making her the result of a eugenics plot destroys something important about her. She's not gifted. She's just an experiment. She's a lab rat that can talk. The eugenics explanation treats her gifts as the result of a mathematical formula. Worse, it explains her most unique traits purely as the result of a biological link to a male character. Aside from the sexism lurking under that (can't have a girl just be better at something men deem important!), it's boring as shit.

Male characters get to be wildly talented without reducing them to their component parts. Why not Azula?

[justanotherthrowaway1950]

Why It Makes Sense for the Fire Nation Royal Family to Be So Overpowered, and What It Could Mean for Azula’s Future

I know people hate the idea that is remotely plausible that Azula could even be match for a remotely serious Aang by the time Smoke and Shadow is done, but I don’t think the idea is crazy, or unfounded.

For I headcanon that after getting threatened by Kyoshi in Shadow of Kyoshi, Fire Lord Zoryu vowed to make sure that his descendants would never have to bow before the Avatar ever again, in addition to his plan to centralize power in the Fire Lord so he and his descendants would never face a coup attempt again. So he started the tradition for marrying for (literal) power, making sure heirs either married the most powerful firebenders benders available, or recent blood descendants of recent Fire Nation Avatars.

And I think my headcanon explains why Fire Lord Sozin thought he could win in a fight against fully realized Roku; why the Royal Family only seems to produce elite/prodigy benders; why Ozai is considered so strong that only the Avatar could defeat him, when other elite benders of the other elements could easily be taken out by a small group of elite fighters; the whole eugenics experiment/prophecy underlying the Ozai-Ursa marriage; why Zuko can bend rainbow fire in addition to the implication that he surpassed his father while only being a young adult; and why "sane" Azula is essentially already the GOAT firebender as a teenager.

And why in all honesty I think Azula by her next comic appearance is going to at least be able to make her quick charge, and maybe even instant, lightning lethal, since that is how she is going to still remain a threat in my opinion. For even with all the raw power at Aang’s command, he still has a frail human body.

Hell, considering that the Kyoshi novels implied that smokebending is a subset of firebending, and that the Fire Warriors seemed to be psychically bending smoke, Azula could learn to bend fire or lightning psychically, which in that case I think she could even take on Amon, Yakone, and Tarrlok all at once and stomp them.

So, what do you guys think about my headcanons?

Plausible, or just the insane ramblings of a Fire Nation Royal Family and Azula fan engaging in maximum wank?

[hello-nichya-here]

Why It Makes Sense for the Fire Nation Royal Family to Be so Overpowered and What It Could Mean for Azula’s Future

I know people hate the idea that is remotely plausible that Azula could even be match for Full Power Aang by the time Smoke and Shadow is done but I don’t think that is crazy or that it is unfounded. For I have a headcanon that after getting threatened by Kyoshi in Shadow of Kyoshi, Fire Lord Zoryu vowed to make sure that his descendants would never have to bow before the Avatar ever again in addition to his plan to centralize power in the Fire Lord so he/his descendants would never face a coup attempt again. So he started the tradition for marrying for (literal) power, making sure heirs either married the most powerful fire benders benders available or recent blood descendants of recent Fire Nation Avatars.

I think it explains why FL Sozin thought he could win in a fight against fully realized Roku (before getting bitch slapped); why the Royal Family only seems to produce elite/prodigy benders; why Ozai is considered so strong that only the Avatar could defeat him when other elite benders of the other elements could easily be taken by a small group of elite fighters; the whole eugenics experiment/prophecy underlying the Ozai-Ursa marriage; why Zuko can bend rainbow fire in addition to the implication that he surpassed his father while still being a young adult; and why sane!Azula is essentially already the GOAT firebender/lightingbender as a teen.

In all honesty, I think Azula by her next comics appearance is going to at least be able to make her quick charge lighting lethal (or even her instant) and that is how she is going to still remain a threat. For even with all the raw power at Aang’s command, he still has a frail human body. Hell, considering that the Kyoshi novels implied that smokebending is a subset of firebending, and that Azula/The Fire Warriors seemed to be psychically bending smoke, Azula could learn to bend fire or lighting psychically, which in that case I think she could even take on Amon, Yakone, and Tarrlok all at once and stomp them.

So what do you think about my headcanons? Plausible or just the insane ramblings of a Fire Nation Royal Family/Azula fan engaging in maximum wank?

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I think you’re correct. It makes perfect sense that royalty that obsessed with power and dominating the world would choose to only marry equally/more powerful benders, not only to make sure that they’d have strong heirs, but also to make sure that the powerful benders that were not royalty were still weaker than the actual royal family, which would lower their chances of winning if they were to ever try to dethrone them. 

(It could also lead to some incestuous marriages, but we all know the real reason I want that to be Fire Nation thing XD ) 

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[royaltealovingkookiness]

Hi, so I know it's super random, but is a firelord allowed to marry a non-fire bender? Imagine the child inheriting their mother's (or father's if the firelord is a woman) bending abilities... Like a waterbending firelord? Or earthbending? Or airbending? How are they going to be a FIRElord if they bend another element? This can't have been allowed idk XD

Yes, considering that the position grew out of a theocratic leadership by the first Fire Lord (at least according to the comics), who was the leader of the Fire Sages, it seems to me that originally the position was deeply linked with being a strong firebender. 

I don’t know if there would be a written rule, but because of the expectation of the Fire Lord being a powerful, if not the most powerful firebender of the land, I’m sure that the royal family would arrange marriages trying to secure the best possible chances of this happening (hence the eugenics experiment of marrying Ozai and Ursa). This would also be an explanation why it is such a big deal that Azula outshines Zuko in bending. 

Having said that, governments and societies change, and things that were once unimaginable become a possibility. Like in many countries for a long time it was unimaginable (whether legally forbidden or not) to have a political leader who is a woman, or POC, or [insert religion], or gay, etc. until society was ready for the change and could have such a leader. 

I think that the end of the war would mark huge societal changes in the Fire Nation, as well as changes in perception. Mixed families would become common-place, and there would be Fire Nation citizens who were earth-benders from the colonies, for example. As these benders of other elements start to become common-place in schools, the army and other work-places, the Fire Nation identity would change with it - and it would be less linked to the element itself. Maybe the position of Fire Lord would become progressively more about good governance and who is the right person for the job, rather than who is the strongest bender in the land. 

So in such a shifting society, I could imagine that a marriage with a different bender would be seen less as a genetic risk for the bloodline and more as a diplomatic asset. Whether a child who bends other element than fire (especially in case there are eligible firebenders in the royal family) could become Fire Lord is another issue - and would certainly make an interesting story to explore. 

[phoenix-king-ozai]

While I agree Ozai didn't love his children or even Azula as a father should. He still cared about Azula, in a shallow hollow way. Ozai doesn't know how to truly love someone UNCONDITIONALLY. Ozai got married to Ursa in the first place due to her mother's Avatar bloodline from Avatar Roku. Azulon forced Ozai and Ursa to get married for powerful heirs to the throne. Ozai saw Ursa, Zuko, and Azula as more tools, assets, and liabilities. Ozai and Zuko stated Ozai somewhat TRIED to be a good father to them early on, but probably failed due to his ruthless brutality Imperialism upbringing as Fire Prince.

I suspect Ozai relationship with Azulon was far more turbulent than Iroh was with their father. Ozai being the second born and despised by his father (probably over Fire Lady Ilah death) made her more viscous, cruel, callous, brutal. Ozai was probably seen and treated as a tool by his father Azulon and continued the legacy with his children: Zuko and Azula.

Ozai wanted to follow in his father and grandfather Imperialist legacy just like his brother Iroh and later his nephew Lu Ten. In Ozai mind, his goal for his children is, that Zuko and Azula should become brutal, heartless, cold warriors and soilders like himself, his father, and his grandfather. Ozai believes that love, compassion, mercy, and morality to weakness that go against the values that Sozin and Azulon had pass down to him.

Ozai unlike Azula had years to come to terms and wash away any need of familial love and compassion long before Ursa came into his life during his 30's. Ozai and Ursa was an experimental eugenic experiment for increasing the power of the Royal Family. Ozai again views Ursa, Zuko, and Azula along with very one else as tools and scarfical pawns for the Fire Lord, Fire Nation and himself.

Ozai does have faith and give Azula more leeway than Zuko. Zuko was born possibly prematurely and thought to be a non bender plus struggled with Fire bending compared to his two years junior sister. Plus, she's a lightning bending and master tactician at 14.

This is why Ozai favors and "care" for Azula. The Fire Sages prophesy came true with Azula in his mind. And she is the rightful heir to Firelord in Ozai mind. Ozai loses faith in Azula after her many failures: Failed to protect the Drill from the Avatar, Fail to kill the Avatar, Lied about Zuko killing the Avatar, and being betrayed by Mai and Ty Lee during the Boiling Lake. If this was Zuko he would be punished severely, but with Azula he basically grounded her home at the Fire Nation and gives her his old yet important title.

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Flotation Device

Flotilla Way

Folk Implosion

The Forbidden Five

Forgotten Nobody

Four Dead Flowers

The Four Roses

Four Seasons Boys

Frank Barone

French Toast

Fry Jones

Gadgits

The Garden

The Garment District

Gary Musisko

Gary Twoman

Gentleman Auction House

George Willard

German Shepherd Ghost Road

Gil Mantera's Party Dream

Girl Talk

Girl Trouble

Glad Girls

Go Pills

Go Pillx

The Goblins

The Goonies

Goonland

The Goops

The Gothees

Grand Buffet

Grand Piano

Granola Explosion

Grant Valdes

Gravel

The Graveyard Rockers

Great Ants

Greg Cislon

Groundwater Mafia

The Grow Ops

Grumpy

Guided By Voices

Guru Guru

Guyliners

Half Japanese

Happy Flowers

Har Mar Superstar

HARM

Hard Money

Harry and the Potters

Heaven & Hell

Heavy Cream

The Hecklers

Height

The Heiz

Helmet

Hell Yeah the Hellcats

The Helper T-Cells

The Heretics

The Hidden Twin

The Hi-Frequencies

The Hillbilly Varmints

The Hips

The Hodag

Hogwind

The Homostupids

The Hope Harveys

Hot Dog Forest

Hot Mess

Hotness

Houdini's Psychic Theater

House of Assassins

Household Stories

Hovland

Howard Jones

HTML

The Human Brains

Hungry Bill

Hurra Torpedo

I am the Lost Sea

I Speak Tree

Ian Semasko

Ice Capades

Icon Gallery

In the Wake of Giants The Independents

Instead of Sleeping

International Espionage

The Invisible Nothings

IO

Irene Moon

Ivenfaint

J. Marinelli

Jack in Irons

Jack Medicine

Jack Sabbith

Jackson

Jad Fair

Jake and the Jakeman

Jam Messengers

Jana Bates

Jandek

Jane's Addiction

The Jasons

The Jealous Zealots

Jefferson Golfcart

Jericho Theory

The Jim Dandies

Jody Perigo & Laura Totten

Joe Jack Talcum

Joe Landes

Joey Molinaro

Johnny and the Razorblades

Johnny Locomotive & the Engineers

The Johnsons

Jonathan Hape

Jonathan Richman

Jonny Cohen

Joybox

JPS Brown

Judas Priest

The Juicy Girls

Juno Vega

Jupiter's Girlfriend

K-Hun

Kafka Romance Dissolver

Kalon

Karl Hendricks

Kazimier

Kevin Finn

Khaled

Kick Old Man

Kick the Can

Kill Or Be Killed

Kind of Like Spitting

King Karcass

King Kong

King Missile

kingdom Of Not

Kisswhistle

Kitty Pryde and the Shadowcats

Koala-T

Kracfive AllStars

The Kyle Sowashes

The Lady and the Monsters

Landing Strip

Landmonster!

Laura Kahl

Lavacola

Le Cachot

The Left Turns

Leonard Cohen Ensemble One

Leo's Operation

Les Georges Leningrad

The Lesser Apes

Let Them Eat Cake

Libre Duo

Life in Bed

The Limbs

Living Praise Choir

Liz and the Bandits

The Lobster Quadrille

Loose Interpretation

The Lopez

Lord Grunge

Lorelei

Lorenzo's Oil

Los Swamp Monsters

Lost Weekend

Lou Barlow

The Love Drunks

Lover 29

Lunachicks

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Lydia Lunch

Mac Sabbath

Magic Wolf

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Maguillacutty

The Main Events

The Make-up

Mama Spell

Man Found Dead

Manherringbone

Manhole

Margo Van Hoy

Mark Mallman

Marshmallow Pop Orchestra

Marumari

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Massif

Master Mechanic

Maurice Rickard

Maxi-Pads

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Medium Ugly

Meeting of Important People

Meisha

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The Meridians

Microwaves

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Mike Dillon Band

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Miss Massive Snowflake

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Missing Pilots

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Modey Lemon

Moldies and Monsters

The Molecules

Molesuit Choir

A Moment of Clarity

Mommy's Little Monster

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Moons of Saturn

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MOTO

Motorhead

The Motorpsychos

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MSC

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Murder of Bridges

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Mustache Required

Mutant Mountain Boys

My Boyfriend the Pilot

My Captain, My Sea

My Dad is Dead

My Niece Denise

My Prodi

My Sexiest Mistake

My Superhero

The Name of This Band is Not Talking Heads

Nanako

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Night and the City

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On Vinyl

Only Flesh

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Paul Tabachnek

Pete Bush and the Hoi Polloi

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Pfunkt

The Phantom Maggots

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The Phone Calls

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Pierogi Pizza

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Pleaseeasaur

The Pleasureheads

Poingly

The Polyatomic

Polvo

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Poopy Necroponde's Burgee Boys

The Pork Torta

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Pox

PPDB

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Pretty Girls Make Graves

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Proto-martyr

Psycho-a-go-go

Puma Barrier

Quaranteened

R. Stevie Moore

The Radio Beats

Radio 4

Rainy Day Regatta

The Ramones

Rapscallionz

Ray Zen

Reason and Eos

Red Vs. Black

The Red Western

Refried Boogie

Reo Speedwagon

Requiem

The Residents

The Resistables

Rex Morgan M.D. Trio

The Rhodora

Rick Bach

River Is To Train

RJ Myato

Xylen Roberts

Robin Vote

Rocket From the Tombs

Rocketsled

The Roger 6

The Rogers Sisters

Rollins Band

Rot Shit

Roulette Waves

Round Black Ghosts

Royal City

The Ruins

Run DMC

The Sablowskis

Sad Tropics

Salt Chuck Mary

Sam Goodwill

Samuel Locke Ward & The Boo Hoos

Santa Inferno

Satanic Bat

Satyr/Elfheim

Savage Lines

Says She

The SB

Scandal

Science is Dead

Scott Demian

Scott Fry

The Scratch n Sniffs

Scrawl

Seam

Seas We Fear To Sail

Season Finale

Sebadoh

Secret Paper Moon

The Seeing Eyeballs

The Semi-Supervillains

Senator Flux

Sewercide

The Sewing Machine War

SFX

Sheer Mag

Shitappa Oyabun

Shonen Knife

The Show is the Rainbow

Sick Ridiculous and the Sick Ridiculous

Signifiers

Silbia Han

Silkworm

The Silver Eagle Band

Sissy Baby Boys

Skinless/Boneless

The Skirt Tasters

Slant 6

Slate Dump

Sleeping in Class

SleepyV

Slices

The Slow Reel

Sludgehammer

Smokey Bellows

The Smugglers

Sneaky Mike

Sodastream

Soft Sickle

Solarburn

Son of Bitch

Song of Zarathustra

Songs About Robots Sorry I'm Dead

Soul Excursion

Sounding Rockets

South Ken

South Sea Sneak

Sovron Court

Spacefish

Sparrow

Special Ed

The Speeds

Spidercake

Spoon

Sports Metaphors

Spudboys

Spynda, Pace and Kress

Star fk Radium

The Stars

Stars of the Dogon

Steady Matt

Stephen Foster and the Awesomes

Steve Boyle

Steve Malkmus

Steve Whitten

Sticky Pink Chew

Stone Temple Pilots

Jim Storch

Stuck in Standby

Styles For Modern Living

Styx

Subdevil

Sugar Daddy

The Suicide Dolls

Summer Erickson

Summer Lungs

Super Fun Time Awesome Party Band

Superchunk

Supersystem

The Surface Dwellers

Sweet Icing

Sweet Nothing

Take No Damage

TBA

Tecumseh EQs

Ted Leo + Pharmacists

Telecorps

Telefonics

Telesys

The Telethons

Television

Terror, Inc.

Testament

The Test Patterns

Thee 50's High Teens

Thee Speaking Canaries

They Might Be Jerks

Thin Sketch

Things That Aren't There Anymore

Third Class

.38 Special

This Present Expression

Three Day Stubble

The Thunder Chickens

Thee Starry Eyes

Tianna and the Cliffhangers

TigerHorseSheepPigCow

Tilt

The Tinklers

Tonks and the Aurors

Torus

Treeline Freeline

The Tree Three

Triggers

Tron Ate My Baby

Truckasaurus

True Love Always

Truxon

TsuShiMamiRie

Tub Ring

Tulpa

Tusklord

TV John

2020K

Uke and Tuba

Ukebox

Ukiah

Ukulady Liz

Ultimate VAG

Ume

Uni Sami

Universal Congress Of

Unlikely Japan

The Upholsterers

Upskirts

Vale and Year

Vampire Nation

Vampire Weekend at Bernies

Vehicle Flips

Vel

The Velcats

Velvet Monkeys

Vequinox

Videohippos

Viewers Like You

Village of Dead Roads

The Viragos

The Visitations

The Vivians

Von Ludendork

Vox Robotica

Wake

Wallace's Fallen Obelisk Kidz

The Wasps Nest and Valerie Kuehne

The Waxwings

WE are the Asteroid

We are the Dead

We Came From Space

The Weasels

Weird Al Yankovic

Werewolves

Wesley Willis

Western Pennsylvania

The Whipped Cream Explosion

The White Stripes

Will Simmons & Turdburglar

William Wesley and the Tiny Sockets

Wimp Factor 14

The Winterbrief

The Wire Riots

The Working Poor

Workshop

Wyld Stalyns

The Wynkataug Monks

X.13

The X Brothers

Asher Yatzar

The Youngstown Tramps

Your Favorite Assassin

Yung Ka

Z-Man

Za Dharsh

The Zambonis

Zigtebra

Zelazowa

The Zou

Zubat and the Bees' Knees

The Zvills

[phoenix-king-ozai]

Honestly I'm more impressed when reading fanfics in ATLA how Ozai is constantly tormenting his kids(sexually, physically, emotionally) like 24/7. Personally Ozai struck me as the type of person to not really focus on his kids beyond honing in their skills, especially if that kid is Zuko.

Seriously if Zuko never spoke during the war meeting Ozai probably would've entirely ignored him. When we see what Ozai's ideal version of Zuko is like when he's under the impression Zuko killed Aang, Zuko is legit silent and basically sits there like furniture during the meeting.

Also I struggle to see Ozai interacting with his children beyond training since that's probably where Ozai's expertise lies more than parenting. Ursa was probably bench pressing the parenting duties until Ozai told her to leave and even then, I imagine Ozai left other people to do the more tedious tasks like servants or what not.

I believe that Ozai, Ursa, Zuko, and Azula including the entire Fire Nation Royal Family have very complex relationship dynanamics with each other. I believe that over time Ozai began to develop feelings of affection, care, even geniune love for his family. However, since Ozai has been raised to be a ruthless, cunning, manipulative vicious warriors since his childhood. Ozai and Ursa maybe be Fire Nation Royal and Noble by blood. However their personalities and background environment extremely differ. Which is why Ozai is so much colder, cruel, and brutally ruthless compared to his wife Ursa and even brother Iroh. Ozai has been personally brainwashed and socially conditioned since childhood by the Fire Nation Elite and Fire Lord Azulon to become the man that he is today. Compassion, Morality, Peace, Pacifism and Mercy are signs of Weakness and MUST be eradicated and eviscerated. However, during Zuko and Azula early childhood Ozai was more gentle and fatherly towards his children and husbandly towards his wife. Ozai was never some sadistic wife and child beating that the ATLA Fandumb tries to horribly make him out to seem like! It just their Abuse Porn Headcanon Fanficition Obession!

Zuko mentions that Ozai and Ursa along with their family used to be happy, and we saw that in Zuko's flashbacks. Yang, just decided to make Ursa a victim because in his mind: URSA IS A GOOD WOMAN! OZAI IS A BAD MAN! SHE MUST BE HELD HOSTAGE BY THE EVIL ABUSIVE MONSTER!!! While Ozai and Ursa arrange marriage does make sense and was confirmed by the creators. It doesn't mean that Ozai and Ursa's relationship was ALWAYS BAD, or SHE WAS KIDNAPPED! Plus, the Urzai relationship is quite normal in the antiquity of Asian societies that the Fire Nation is based on aka Shogunates of Japan and Imperial Chinese Dynasties!!!

Ozai HIMSELF stated in the comics that he tried to be a good father to Zuko and Azula during their young childhood which is canon to flashbacks that Zuko has in the show. Zuko HIMSELF also stated that Ozai tried to be a good father to him and Azula. WHICH ALSO EXPLAINED WHY ZUKO TRIED SO DESPERATELY TO GET BACK IN HIS FATHER'S GOOD GRACE AGAIN AND REGAIN HIS FATHER'S LOVE! So, in conclusion, Ozai did love and care for Ursa, Zuko, and Azula. Despite, according to the comics he was ALSO FORCED into an eugenics experiment with the granddaughter of his grandfather's old rival and friend. On the orders of his father Fire Lord Azulon and the wishes of the Fire Sages. I believe that Ursa did alot of the child rearing when Zuko and Azula were toddler with Fire Nation Royal Servants helping her as well. However, Ozai was a active and positive influence as a father for his children in their early youth. Why would Zuko desperately want to return to the Fire Nation and his father if Ozai was just a cruel, harshless, bastard to him? Ozai, Ursa and the children used to enjoy the time at Ember Island with theater plays and playing on the beach at their family's summer house.

Ozai's harshness and ruthlessness regarding Zuko have nothing to do with Ursa or Ikem's forbidden love! Ozai wants Zuko and Azula to both prove themselves. Ozai doesn't favor Zuko or Azula. It is about which child will succeed Sozin, Azulon, and his legacy as future Fire Lord. In fact, Ozai doesn't want Zuko or Azula to think that they are the “favorite” child. He wants Azula and Zuko to improve through competition. Because of the “only the greatest of pressures can forge diamonds” & “steel sharpen steel” mentality. Ozai has the mentality of an imperialist warlord. Ozai isn't trying to be the world's most loving and caring father but rather continue and build upon a powerful and dominant legacy that his forefathers had created before him. He wants Zuko & Azula to be cold, ruthless, heartless, vicious, and brutal imperialistic warmongers like him (Ozai), his father (Azulon), and his grandfather (Sozin). As far as Ozai and Azula is concerned, Zuko is a disgrace as Firstborn of the Firelord. Ozai had some hope in the past for Zuko which is why he didn’t Exile, Assassinate or Banished him during his childhood or during reign as Firelord until the Agni Kai duel. Ozai was originally shame of Zuko for possibly being a non bender. Fire Bending probably means everything to Fire Nation Royalty and Nobility, even Piandao [probably noble] parents abandon him for being a non bending because it would be a disgrace. Ozai was probably going to disown Zuko for being a “non-bender” that was born on a Winter Solstice and Premature. High Fire Nation society is all about power, dominance, intimidation. 

In Fire Nation Elite Society, the Agni Kai between Ozai and Zuko was socially justifiable in the eyes of the of the elite noblity. The burning and banishment was cause by Zuko breaking sacred Fire Nation tradition in a War Meeting that he wasn't invited for!

HE IS A COMPLETE FAILURE OF A FIREBENDER AT 14 AND HAS NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE AS A GENERAL YET HE HAS THE GALL TO CALL OUT GENERAL LI PLANS FOR BEING TERRIBLE?

INSULTING AND CRITICIZING A HIGH RANKING WAR GENERAL WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE NOT BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE ACCORDING TO IROH!

REFUSING TO DUEL (ANIMATED ATLA) OR HOLDING BACK (NETFLIX ATLA) IN A SACRED AGNI KAI DUEL WHEN COMMANDED BY THE FIRE LORD AND HIS IS OWN FATHER!

Extremely hot take...Yeah, I know. Granted, Zuko was MORALLY RIGHT about the Fire Nation troops being sacrificed on the battlefield for victory, but SACRIFICES ARE COMMON IN FUEDAL ANCIENT WARFARE which the Fire Nation is based on! Tokugawa Shogunate Japan, Yuan Mongolian Empire, Tang Dynasty and etc. Which were Imperialist and Absolute Monarchies. Robb Stark and Napoleon did the same thing and are considered great generals!

Was the plan immoral? Yes, but the Fire Nation genocided the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom for decades. Morality is the LEAST of the Fire Nation concerns especially when you can sacrifice a platoon of inexperienced fodder to capture a massive town or city and flank the powerful EK army. Firelord Sozin also had no issue committing genocide against hundreds or thousands of Air nomads during the beginning of the war, the same can be said for his son Firelord Azulon genocide of the Southern Water Tribes and his raids on the Earth Kingdom and Seige of Ba Sing Se!

Ozai's distaste and despisement of Zuko have NOTHING to do with Ursa and Ozai's arguments in ATLA Canon even in the Comics Ozai was simply saying that to hurt Ursa's feelings and gaslight her over bullshit letters. Ozai views Zuko as a disappointment of a son, firebender, and prince. His skills in Firebending are pathetic compared to his sister's and his morality from his mother and later uncle is out of line with Ozai and mainstream Fire Nation Elite Imperialists. If Zuko was a ruthless and cold-blooded killer like Azula and was at least just as good as his YOUNGER sister, then Ozai would NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM with Zuko as his son and heir! Zuko represents everything that Ozai was raised to hate and resent; compassion, morality, mercy, weakness, etc. Ozai hates his son for incompetence as a firebending warrior which is antithetical to Ozai as the strongest firebender in the series along with him being an Agni Kai champion along with the morality and softness that Ursa and later Iroh fostered in Zuko. The fact that Zuko doesn't conform to their society's warrior culture and morality bothers his father since Ozai was likely forced to conform since his own childhood under his father Azulon’s reign. Ozai probably resents that Zuko has his mother and uncle's affection whereas Ozai as a child probably didn't have his mother, Ilah's love to protect and care for him from Azulon's wrath due to her death in childbirth. Iroh got to experience his mother's love and presence along with his father's respect during his childhood, something that Ozai never had. Ozai resents his first-born Zuko and relates far more with his second-born daughter Azula who is neglected like him.

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Travel Attractions - Best Locations Austria Tour Advice

Going out in the nation to go on trip is one particular variable that a great deal of people do frequently, but the majority of do rarely. So the notion of taking a ski holiday in a different country any time you will come throughout ski hotels inside your residence country can appear just a little extreme. The marvels of a foreign country wait for to thrill you inside the Austrian alps, if you are up for the experience. Obtaining a little Austria tour help, it might potentially be your greatest trip ever.

A great deal of people who see Austria inside the winter do it to appreciate their world-famous ski resorts. But should that you are not considering

skiing or snowboarding, you will can value the Austrian culture by discovering in a nearby village, or enter some good top quality leisure at a connected health spa in some hotels. Suitable not long after your day of entertaining, you will certainly can rejoin any kind of section from the household participants who had been practicing on the slopes.

Austria Travel Guide

Austria is actually a breath-taking nation complete of history as well as appeal that has been a draw card for visitors for hundreds of years. With various opportunities to select from during your continue to be, Austria tour advice suggests looking into extensively prior to you program your trip. The adhering to areas are really liked in addition to a wonderful spot to start if you opt to take a trip concerning the nation sightseeing.

The Monastery at Admont could be found along the banks in the River Enns, the little community has actually been host for the abbey for practically one specific thousand years. Admont monastery was built in 1074 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg as well as was the dwelling to generations of Benedictine monks hoping to Saint Blaise.

The Admont monastery is popular for obtaining the residence to 2 important artists. The sculptor Joseph Stammel along with the Brother Benno Hann, the embroiderer, each lived as monks in the abbey for several years. The abbey additionally housed a popular convent for girls which just approved enrolments from Noble households.

The initial constructing was destroyed in a fire through 1856 nevertheless the excellent library continued to be uninjured. In 1857 the abbey started to come to be rebuilt and is when once more an impressive building. The monastery goned on the listing of to start with natural record museums ever made with monks gathering curios and bugs for display taking into consideration that it re opened. The library also has an impressive collection of publications making use of the earliest dating back for the opening in the abbey inside the 11th century.

Schloss Hoff is among the most famous palaces in Austria and also was developed by the Area Marshal Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1726. Schloss Hoff is currently believed to end up being one of several finest instances of Baroque style inside the world. It was exchanged a hunting lodge by the original owner as well as right after it was offered for the Empress Maria Theresia it proceeded its glory as a location for several distinguished parties as well as gatherings.

The royal residence of Schloss Hoff could be situated near to the Slovakia boundary, following suffering disrepair for a prolonged duration an enormous undertaking began in 2002 to reinstate the previous magnificence from the buildings. Concurrently the yards had been redone with animals as well as plants prevalent inside the 18th century applied.

For visitors looking for a distinctive experience, one particular that functions appropriately for young people and grownups alike, then a check out to Castle Herberstein remains in order. The total household will get a kick out of the substantial wild animals park that is absolutely housed inside its grounds. The wild animals park is prominent globally for hosting animals from almost every continent and permitting them as significantly liberty as is workable. The Castle likewise contains two prominent art galleries, Kunsthaus for global items plus the Bruno Gironcoli museum for the contemporary artist.

Castle Herberstein is home to Countess Andrea of Herberstein who copes with her 3 young children inside the castle. It was under the treatment of Countess Andrea that the house was recovered to its existing state. You'll find everyday directed tours from the castle conveniently offered which make it possible for guests to figure out the beauty of each the home and yards though understanding concerning the historic significance in the region.

Austria offers numerous distinctive encounters for any type of individual picking to discover the lands. With all the beauty and record readily available you can not be disappointed when seeing this wonderful nation.

Ice skating, sleigh travel and leisure rides, snowshoe tours as well as various other entertaining exterior activities are accessible to make sure that you will be capable of appreciate the spectacular winter with no obtaining setup foot on the slopes. Austria tourism deals with their visitors, and also exquisite restaurants, town stores, as well as other cultural experiences exist for you to take in. Peaceful communities obtaining a relaxing ambience are entertaining for some, as well as more busy towns with an energetic night life are the choice of various other individuals. Each may be determined inside the Austrian alps.

You will remain in a position to check out all pertaining to the amenities in an Austria travel guide, which will certainly detail the causes why Austria is such an amazing vacation location through the wintertime. The Austrian alps obtain practically best environment for skiers- the grainy snow as well as large drops integrate with a great temperature to create snowboarding in Austria an impressive encounter.

The Alps are the birth place of downhill snowboarding, and also Austria is renowned for their ski colleges. If you want to know the top option to downhill ski or simply brighten your abilities, this could be the area to finish it. When you do, you will be qualified of value particularly the similar mountain sensations due to the fact that the leaders in the contemporary sport.

Best Beaches In Austria

Austria is largely mountainous region as an outcome of area in Alps. Maybe divided right into 5 essential locations. The vital components of Austria hinge on pleasant climate in which humid western winds predominate. You might have coastlines with good places.

Wolfgangsee:

its 11km extended beach is biggest in Salzburg and also has 2 major hotel St. Wolfgang and also St. Gilgen. There is definitely Strobl on its eastern shores, enjoyable hotels and campsites.

Fuschlsee:

Fuschlsee and also moderate Hintersee are each established amidst breathtaking landscapes inside the Salzkammergut area. The relatively Fuschlsee area is discover inside quick reach of Salzburg as well as offers a great deal of sports and recreation facilities and also an old castle overlooking the lake.

Klopeiner See Beach:

The beaches of Australian lakes have warm, clear and also leading high quality water. You may have member of the family linked safeguarded atmosphere exactly where it is feasible to do diving, angling, boating and also swimming.

Faaker See Lake:

This lovely lake has ten beaches regarding it. You may have cozy as well as clean water contained in it. Boating is preferred in it, and furthermore you can get a kick out of swimming, playing and also sunbathing.

[lightdancer1]

That same deconstruction of the super-soldier idea underpins my Avatar stories

One of the key elements, though not explicitly noted as such is that Zuko is not 1:1 as powerful in Firebending as Azula is, but they are both products of that experiment. Zuko, as a Firebender, has his main advantage as a super-soldier in that he learns the basic of a technique more swiftly than Azula does....but because he doesn't put in nearly the work that she does into it his Firebending lags at multiple levels.

Azula is far more powerful than Zuko in raw terms and puts in all the work to get there.

At the same token there are people who are not products of the experiment at all who match the most powerful Firebender of her generation 1:1 in raw power terms. Toph and Katara, and ultimately Tenzin when the Airbenders have a non-Avatar example. Toph and Katara within the spheres of Earthbending and Waterbending are unstoppable forces, and when the three face off against each other they tend to stalemate because it's a case of an unstoppable force versus an immovable object.

*Zuko* needs surprise and luck to beat Azula in sparring, let alone real combat. Katara or Toph, OTOH, have a 50:50 chance to do so by brute force and equally so by smarts/sneakiness. The very reality that people who have no equivalent program whatsoever, and in the case of Toph Beifong the first Earthbender in a family in some 350 years, a complete absence of (known) Avatar-ancestry, and in the case of Katara having the improbable combination of 'sole surviving (known) example of a category *also* being the most powerful exemplar of that type of Bending is its own deconstruction of the idea.

Azula never registers Zuko as an equal as a Bender because he isn't one, Katara and Toph, OTOH, absolutely do get this and more to the point, even absent the mental breakdown, at least as I write the scenario Katara would have beaten Azula in a 1:1 match given she very nearly did so under Ba Sing Se in the prior season. Katara is Azula's equal in skill and raw power.

In various AUs the two (and ultimately the three when Toph shows up full-time) become a combination that brings the war to a very rapid finishing point as having the Avatar, who masters all four elements, and the three most powerful of the next generation in three elements on the same side makes Team Avatar the equivalent of a very big army and something where only fools rush in where angels fear to tread to face.

[justtrynakeepup]

Our #FakeHero president is an insult to our Founders

Washington Post

Eugene Robinson

Opinion writer July 3 at 7:51 PM

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were highly imperfect men. Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Southerners were rank hypocrites for declaring “all men are created equal” while owning men, women and children as their slaves. John Adams was sour and disputatious, and later as president would sign the Sedition Act cracking down on criticism of the government. John Hancock was accused of amassing his fortune through smuggling. Benjamin Franklin could have been described as kind of a dirty old man.

Yet they laid out a set of principles, later codified in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that transcended their flaws. At this bizarre moment in our history, it is useful to remember that the ideas and institutions of the American experiment are much more powerful and enduring than the idiosyncrasies of our leaders.

We have a president who neither understands nor respects the basic norms of American democracy. Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a true aberration. There is no figure like him in U.S. history, for which we should be thankful.Trump’s inexperience is unique; he is the only president never to have served in government or the military. This weakness is exponentially compounded by his ignorance of both policy and process, his lack of curiosity, his inability to focus and his tremendous insecurity. He refuses to acknowledge his shortcomings, let alone come to terms with them; and he desperately craves the kind of sycophantic adulation that George Washington, a genuine hero, pointedly rejected.Trump is a #FakeHero. He strings along his supporters with promises he has no idea how to keep. Like many a would-be strongman before him, he defines himself politically by the fights he picks; he erects straw men — faceless “elites,” cable television hosts, Muslims, Mexicans, nonexistent individuals or groups waging an imaginary “war on Christmas” — because authoritarians always need enemies. Yet his ego is a delicate hothouse flower, threatened by the slightest puff of criticism.

The Founders, mindful of their own faults, ultimately designed a system to contain a rogue president. They limited his elective term to four years, gave checking and balancing powers to the legislative and judicial branches, and designed impeachment as a last-ditch remedy. The Trump presidency compels all of us to be mindful of our constitutional duties.The role of the citizenry — to express approval or disapproval at the ballot box — includes making sure that suffrage is not selectively and unfairly denied by restrictive voter-ID laws or partisan purges of the voter rolls. It is heartening that red states have joined blue in resisting the attempt by Trump’s trumped-up “voter fraud” commission to assemble a national list of voters. Perhaps some future administration could be trusted to make sense of our confusing patchwork of voting systems. This one can’t.

Congress must assert its powers of oversight. One reason the signers of the Declaration gathered in Philadelphia to pledge “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor” to the cause of independence was that they saw the mingling of royal power and British commercial interests as corrupt. We now have a president whose far-flung business empire — which he has refused to divest, and which his family still operates — presents myriad potential conflicts of interest. Trump has deepened the swamp, not drained it; and Congress has a duty to sort through the muck.Congress must also let Trump know, in no uncertain terms, that any attempt to impede or disrupt special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian election meddling will have the gravest consequences. Trump should be told that firing Mueller would automatically be considered grounds for impeachment.The justices of the Supreme Court, meanwhile, should study the court’s decisions in United States v. Nixon, which forced Richard Nixon to turn over his White House tapes; and Bush v. Gore, which halted the 2000 vote recount in Florida. Both were instances wherein the court, which rightly shies away from decisions that determine who occupies the presidency, felt it had no choice but to act. It is no stretch to imagine that Trump’s contempt for the Constitution will once again force the court’s hand.

The Fourth of July is no day for despair. It’s a day to remember that our system, though vulnerable to a charlatan such as Trump, is robust and resilient. Eventually he will be tossed or voted out. And the star-spangled banner yet will wave.

[dbamountaineer]

By just learning the year the houses and buildings were built and seeing these houses still standing today is already a proof they survived more than a century. Now I understand how state of Victoria able to preserve these houses. Though there are some units that already demolished and we cannot see them today, there are still building and houses that survives, a truly treasure that should be kept and maintain.

Another Saturday of June 2013, I did a walking experiment while living in Melbourne. That time the one that I did was taking the stroll of what they called Melbourne Walks – Elegant Enclave. The word it used is quite intriguing because it used ‘Elegant’ which pretty much sure that it also connotes with wealth and luxury.

From the people who I had met and made friends in Melbourne, they told me that East Melbourne is part of Melbourne where rich and wealthy people lives. And with that said I became curious in this part of the city and after the walk, I can say that there is evidence of what my friends are telling me, and its historically.

I brought the map brochure that I got from Visitors Centre at Federation Square as my guidance to see and discover the ‘Elegant Enclave’. I started my discovery after passing Fitzroy Gardens and Clarendon Street.

Hepburn Terrace (No 199–209 George Street)

Not far from the corner of Clarendon Street and George Street, I found Hepburn Terrace – a six two-storey terraced houses. These houses were built in 1855, 1867 and 1872.

Along George Street, there are many mansions that can be found here according to the map and to be honest, I myself got confused which one was really mentioned in the map. So spare me if not all photos of the buildings in the map was not here as I am not able to capture them all.

1920s Post Office (No. 24 George Street)

Former post office built in 1920s and stands at 24 George Street. This building seems to be the youngest building that I am including in this post, even though this one is more than 80 years old.

Georgian Court (No. 21 George Street)

Built as apartment in 1860, currently the building becomes Georgian Court Bed & Breakfast. The building survived for more than 150 years now. Quite impressive historically. Another discovery for this building is, it was city base home of famous Australian operatic soprano named Dame Nellie Melba (Melba was pseudonym from Melbourne).

No 49 George Street

The building was once home of Melbourne’s first surveyor, Robert Russell in 1865.

Queen Bess Row (corner Simpson and Hotham Streets)

It’s a three four storey houses of red brick with sandstone dressings and the first fully developed example building built in the Queen Anne Revival style. The building initially became The East Melbourne Trained Nurses’ Home and private hospital from 1890 until 1894. Then, it become apartment – first apartment block in Melbourne.

In 1920’s, the building were known as the following: Rubra Flats (72), Angus McArthur’s boarding house (74), and Cregh Flats (76). In 1936 No. 74 was known as Tudor Guest House.

In 1989, the building stop as boarding house and were sold in three separate houses in 1990.

Dorset Terrace (No 114 – 120 Hotham Street)

Four terrace houses erected in 1883 with front doors unusually placed diagonally to the gates. This is notable terrace in the boom classical style.

Cairns Memorial Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian church built in 1895 but due to fire happened in 1988 where the shell of the building are the only remains, it was converted into luxury apartments.

Opera House – Opera Box Style Balcony (No 138 Powlett Street)

Because of opera-box style balcony, the building has been called as Opera House which was built in 1868.

Terrace House (No 130 Powlett Street)

Tuck-pointed terrace built in 1867 for Stephen Trythall, headmaster of Trinity Public School, corner Victoria Pde.& Hoddle St. – later National School.

Crathre House (No 118 Gipps Street)

The building was built in 1874 and has busy history over a century since then and along with it, the name Crathie became Crathre with no particular reason but due to confusion or misunderstanding.

1898-1902 – the Bungalow house function as family home at first, then become a lodging house 1902-1904 – Sir John Monash and his wife become residents of the house 1904-1914 – it become boarding and lodging house again. 1924-1933 – called as Crathie House Private Hospital 1933-1969 – the building become apartments 1969-1980 – it was intended to demolished but it provoked a storm of protest from the National Trust, the East Melbourne and residents where the campaign against it was successful

Nepean Terrace (No 128 – 132 Gipps Street)

A terrace of three two-storey houses in Regency style and built in 1863. While searching about the history of the building, there is one thing that caught my attention. One of the history owner of the residence was Frederick Baker, known professionally as Federici, singer by profession whom died in Princess Theatre in March 1888 after the stage act due to heart attack.

Townhouse (No 179 Gipps Street)

They described it as

“A fine two-storeyed house in the Italianate manner with delicate stucco detailing and well proportioned openings”

and was built in 1861. The building was the townhouse of Constance Stone, who became Australia’s first woman doctor in 1890.

Little Parndon (No 159 Gipps Street)

This building was built for the Austrian born, landscape painter, Eugene von Guerard in 1862 who was prominent artist and teacher in the late 1800s. Based from history, it is uncertain who named the house ‘Little Parndon’ but the name was in use by 1937. The original Little Parndon was a village in Essex, now incorporated in the town of Harlow.

No. 155 Gipps Street

This building built in 1863 and artist-author Norman Lindsay (who wrote The Magic Pudding) courted first wife Kate Parkinson in the 1890s.

Canterbury Terrace (No 82 – 112 Powlett Street)

A row of 16 terrace houses of five bays built in 1878, it is Melbourne’s longest terrace, with 16 homes. While reading its history, the one below got my interest.

“Local belief is that one of the houses held the lodgings of Brian Fitzgerald, the main character and early murder suspect in the best-selling book, Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written by Fergus Hume in 1886. The house is described only as being in Powlett Street near the Cairns Memorial Church.”

House (No. 85 Powlett Street)

It was home to Peter Lalor, who led miners in the Eureka Stockade uprising at Ballarat in 1854 and became Speaker in the Victorian Parliament, an interesting facts to learn.

The Gothic House (No. 157 Hotham Street)

An 1861 bluestone home dubbed The Gothic House. It was designed by architect Joseph Reed (who designed Melbourne Town Hall, State Library and Royal Exhibition Building) for deputy surveyor-general Clement Hodgkinson (who designed the Fitzroy and Treasury gardens).

Fairhall (No. 154 Hotham Street)

The house was built in 1860 and an elegant townhouse at the same year. One of the owner was William Robert Johnston, antique dealer and collector. He changed the name of the house to the more euphonious Fairhall. It is now now the home of The Johnston Collection.

Cyprus Terrace (No. 158 – 164 Hotham Street)

Built in 1867-68 and was designed to look like two grand houses but is actually four homes.

Bishopscourt

Bishopscourt is the official residence of the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne. It is used as the residence for all of Melbourne’s Anglican diocesan bishops and archbishops. From 1874 to 1876, it was used as Victoria’s Government House.

Additional:

Below are the other buildings that I were able to capture some photos but not included in map. Here’s some information of it.

Mosspennoch (No 22-40 Clarendon Street)

The building become heritage building as the architect of this is the same who design Royal Arcade – Charles Webb (please see my post about  Royal Arcade here).

Janet Terrace (92-96 Hotham Street)

Named after Janet Clarke, second wife of Sir William John Clarke. His father, ‘Big’ Clarke was allegedly the father of William Maloney. William Maloney was a medical doctor who became Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for 36 years.

Magnolia Court (No 101 Powlett Street)

A two storey, freestanding house with a modern extension to the southern side built in 1861. Now a boutique hotel.

It was Ormiston Ladies College. In the early 1900s, Magnolia Court was home to those involved in Melbourne’s theatre and the early days of the Australian Ballet.

In 1951 the property was re-named Magnolia Court after the impressive magnolia tree that once graced the front garden.

No 10-14 Powlett Street-Group

Three similar terrace type houses of 1886 with elaborate architectural treatment which includes a pedimented gablet in the balcony roof and ornamental iron brackets of unusual design.

Credits:

Historical research information are mostly came from East Melbourne Historical Society and Victorian Heritage Database

Notes: 1. Plan to visit East Melbourne or wanted to do the Melbourne – Elegant Enclave ? Please visit Visitors Centre at Federation Square and pick the Elegant Enclave Walk or download the walking map tour here.

2. The walk is free and can be done at your leisure time

3. Public Transportation Ticket – Use Myki (Melbourne Ticketing System), please check here for more details.

4. Directions

To Visitors Centre at Federation Square:

Using tram

Use tramTracker Apps or even just Google Maps (use directions) and there are tram routes available Route: 1, 3/3a, 5, 6, 8, 16, 64, 67, 72 –> get off at Stop 13 – Flinders Street Route 19, 59 –> get off at Stop 4 – Federation Square

Using train

Ride from any station and get off at Flinders Street Station

To East Melbourne:

Using tram From Townhall/Collins Street Route: 12, 109 –> get off at Stop 16 – Wellington Street Rout: 48 –> get off at Stop 11 – Jolimont Station From Swantons Street and Flinders Street Route: 75 –> get off at Stop 11 – Jolimont Station

Using train Take either South Morang Line or Hurst Bridge Line and get off at Jolimont Station

Enclave at East Melbourne – A Classical Residential District of Melbourne – Melbourne Walking Tour – Part 9 By just learning the year the houses and buildings were built and seeing these houses still standing today is already a proof they survived more than a century.

[phoenix-king-ozai]

What is your favorite fire nation royal ships

My favorite Azula ship would be Azulaang or Tyzula followed by Sokkla. The contrast between Aang and Ty Lee’s personality with Azula’s own personality make their interactions in fanfics and canon very interesting and carry a certain charm to them. Aang would make a great therapist and healer for Azula. Along with Ty Lee being her closest female friend outside of Mai. Sokka and Azula also share genius-level intelligence and cunning. As well as make an excellence comedic duo! My favorite relationship outside of shipping for Azula is most definitely between Ozai, Ursa and Zuko. The parent & daughter and brother & sister relationship reigns supreme over all others. Maiko and Zutara personally is tied for me in regards to Zuko's ships!

Personally, I like Tyzula, Maiko, Azulaang, Zutara, and Sokkla for the main children characters and fire hazard siblings of the ATLA series and Irohsami for TLOK series. However, my FAVORITE ship in ALL of the Avatar: TLA series is Urzai obviously! PERIOD!

I believe that Ozai, Ursa, Zuko, and Azula including the entire Fire Nation Royal Family have very complex relationship dynanamics with each other. I believe that over time Ozai began to develop feelings of affection, care, even geniune love for his family. However, since Ozai has been raised to be a ruthless, cunning, manipulative vicious warrior since his childhood. He has socializing and romantic relationship problems as a result of Fire Lord Azulon’s ruthless, cruel, and brutal royal indoctrination of him. Ozai and Ursa maybe be Fire Nation Royals and Nobility by blood. However their personalities and background environment extremely differ. Which is why Ozai is so much colder, cruel, and brutally ruthless compared to his wife Ursa and even brother Iroh. Ozai has been personally brainwashed and socially conditioned since childhood by the Fire Nation Elite and Fire Lord Azulon to become the man that he is today. Compassion, Morality, Peace, Pacifism and Mercy are signs of Weakness and MUST be eradicated and eviscerated. However, during Zuko and Azula's early childhood Ozai was more gentle and fatherly towards his children and husbandly towards his wife. Ozai was never some sadistic wife and child beater that the ATLA fandumb tries to horribly make him out to seem like! It just their Abuse Porn Headcanon Fanficition Obession!

Zuko mentions that Ozai and Ursa along with their family used to be happy, and we saw that in Zuko's flashbacks. Yang, just decided to make Ursa a victim because in his mind: URSA IS A GOOD WOMAN! OZAI IS A BAD MAN! SHE MUST BE HELD HOSTAGE BY THE EVIL ABUSIVE MONSTER!!! While Ozai and Ursa arrange marriage does make sense and was confirmed by the creators. It doesn't mean that Ozai and Ursa's relationship was ALWAYS BAD, or SHE WAS KIDNAPPED! Plus, the Urzai relationship is quite normal in the antiquity of Asian societies that the Fire Nation is based on aka Shogunates of Japan and Imperial Chinese Dynasties!!!

Ozai HIMSELF stated in the comics that he tried to be a good father to Zuko and Azula during their young childhood which is canon to flashbacks that Zuko has in the show. Zuko HIMSELF also stated that Ozai tried to be a good father to him and Azula. WHICH ALSO EXPLAINED WHY ZUKO TRIED SO DESPERATELY TO GET BACK IN HIS FATHER'S GOOD GRACE AGAIN AND REGAIN HIS FATHER'S LOVE! So, in conclusion, Ozai did love and care for Ursa, Zuko, and Azula. Despite, according to the comics he was ALSO FORCED into an eugenics experiment with the granddaughter of his grandfather's old rival and friend. On the orders of his father Fire Lord Azulon and the wishes of the Fire Sages. I believe that Ursa did alot of the child rearing when Zuko and Azula were toddler with Fire Nation Royal Servants helping her as well. However, Ozai was a active and positive influence as a father for his children in their early youth. Why would Zuko desperately want to return to the Fire Nation and his father if Ozai was just a cruel, harshless, bastard to him? Ozai, Ursa and the children used to enjoy the time at Ember Island with theater plays and playing on the beach at their family's summer house.