hayyyyy helloooo <3 the project's own porpor has showed up!!
i think for aang there's another element of his kids growing up and growing distant/preoccupied with their own commitments (and bumi to the war). kya HERSELF embodies wanting to burst into a similar role as her big brother, if not for mum's meddling! [shakes fist] i DID work hard to try and make the world/state of the galaxy immediately accessible in ch1 and ngl, ash's map is pulling a LOT of freaking weight there. i couldn't have written that teacup map scene if i didn't know she'd have the map RIGHT THERE bc it's confusing...! but i hate to do a ton of sledgehammer exposition, we're accessing the world through the pov of sokka and he's not spending all his time thinking, "oh yeah so the galaxy is circular and divided into four quadrants, which are all named after these animals-" BOOOORING ! you're all getting thrown into it right away, figure it out! that was something i always loved about jasper fforde's books, being thrown into a fully fledged world and having to work it out myself
emptiness ii is a WORLD away from the fire nations i'm accustomed to writing. it's cold in its desolation, as opposed to the heat and rot and decay of the iconoclast. it IS hard actually cos i am less familiar with the cold, but also writing the cold from the pov of someone who's used to.... Much Colder. and it looks dead from the outside but then u get close and it's heaving with life
as part of writing an adaptation i think it IS interesting seeing what i ultimately decided to keep, cut, or change. i think the zhou yu introduction was perfect in every way (maybe except for the missing dragon) and it embodies so much of what he's about in that movie. someone who's got a knife on him because he's always at the ready - but wielding it for integrity and generosity.
re the quotes. SETTING UP SOKKA'S LONELINESSSSS >:) you wont be lonely much longerrr >:)))) "chiaroscuro" lil italian nod for ash. it was something i had in mind all along, the image of everything lit up in the light of the star. and the scene is compleeeetely filtered through sokka's suspicion and trepidation. no. 3 snapshot of u and k just a few years later [massage dot emoji] granted he has to impress us all with planet-freezing techniques first. re druk that is very much the specific vision i had of him roaring across. possibly from a ghibli movie, moving so fast the wind is making a sound, like a bullet train or something. no5 of course zuko's close-enough-but-not-quite resemblance then becomes a BIG thing later on >:)
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ranilla_bean on Chapter 1 Tue 10 Sep 2024 06:59AM UTC
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