Thank you. I greatly appreciate that. :) I have had this discussion more than once in the past. You composed your own points very well, too.
Would she take a man to her bed to conceive a child if she knew of another option to get an heir, especially when she notes it as being something she has to do at some point, and that past gay/lesbian Fire Lords have done when they lack an opposite gendered lover?
This is something I actually wanted resonance_and_d to elaborate on. If Iroh is exempt from the pressure of procuring a blood heir (as he appears to be, through passing the title to Zuko), why not Azula, too? Why can't she assign a relative (possibly a future niece/nephew of her own, or, as stated earlier, a cousin) to be her heir, when Iroh feels no sense of obligation? As I'm not the author, I can't rightly answer, but I've been wondering why there appears to be a double-standard insofar as Iroh gets off scot-free while Azula the lesbian feels compelled to do something she clearly doesn't want to.
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Date: 2012-01-22 11:42 pm (UTC)Would she take a man to her bed to conceive a child if she knew of another option to get an heir, especially when she notes it as being something she has to do at some point, and that past gay/lesbian Fire Lords have done when they lack an opposite gendered lover?
This is something I actually wanted