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An anon said:
Yakone literally stopping in his tracks and staring at his future wife, who smiles and blushes at him, and Yakone having the ONE genuine, non-malicious, honest to the spirits smile on his face, out of all the times we see him, followed by "Those were the good years" and kellyykao's family portrait of them before everything went south is just... *hand over heart while screaming and crying* YOU BASTARD! YOU BASTARD! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!
I said:
He sure did! All he had to do was not be a shitheel for a few more years, but no.
The meet cute thing with his wife was an interesting choice—this moment of ordinary humanity in him. Still, I do kind of wonder about just how easily he swerved from this affectionate father to having no value for his sons except as tools of his revenge. I mean, he could have still plotted to use them to get revenge on the Avatar without completely reducing them to that.
It’s like … he tips so easily into this remorselessly abusive parent that it’s hard for me to imagine that he’d have made a good father indefinitely. It’s one thing when they’re tiny and adorable, but once they got older? I feel like something would probably have gone wrong anyway—not anywhere near as bad as in canon, but something.
Yakone literally stopping in his tracks and staring at his future wife, who smiles and blushes at him, and Yakone having the ONE genuine, non-malicious, honest to the spirits smile on his face, out of all the times we see him, followed by "Those were the good years" and kellyykao's family portrait of them before everything went south is just... *hand over heart while screaming and crying* YOU BASTARD! YOU BASTARD! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!
I said:
He sure did! All he had to do was not be a shitheel for a few more years, but no.
The meet cute thing with his wife was an interesting choice—this moment of ordinary humanity in him. Still, I do kind of wonder about just how easily he swerved from this affectionate father to having no value for his sons except as tools of his revenge. I mean, he could have still plotted to use them to get revenge on the Avatar without completely reducing them to that.
It’s like … he tips so easily into this remorselessly abusive parent that it’s hard for me to imagine that he’d have made a good father indefinitely. It’s one thing when they’re tiny and adorable, but once they got older? I feel like something would probably have gone wrong anyway—not anywhere near as bad as in canon, but something.