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if I've said it before I'll say it a thousand times more but like 95% of the bad Azune takes are the result of white fans who don't identify as part of a diaspora group obstinately refusing to engage with the canon themes and ethnic coding Luis is putting into the character in order to tell a story that draws heavily from his own cultural background and instead yelling "okay wouldn't it be cooler if [insert stock fantasy trope that's been done to fucking death here]?"

fryuitcup

I will follow Him (Wherever he May Go)

grumpytuftedtitmouse

Just finished the Schemer's arc (yes I am behind) and I am chewing drywall about Azune Nayar. His eyes are like the sunset. His sister showed up to commit an assassination that he thwarted, said she'd never be happier after taking a near fatal blow for him, then immediately teleported away. Murray told him he had to find his sister so that she could corroborate what Murray saw, told him she'd help, and he entirely sincerely said he'd do literally anything for Murray if she did. One of his coworkers caused problems for an employee of Hal's and he offered to "take care of him". He killed a man in the sewers, confirmed he was dead, and counted him. He has a list for everything. He was perfectly willing to trade his life for Thjazi and was heartbroken he wasn't able to. He has given a dozen tiny notices that he has truly done some awful things for Thjazi. He lies incredibly well and looks incredibly trustworthy. He changed his face to what he would look like if Thjazi was his dad and went to sleep like that. He doesn't know who he is. None of his friends have ever seen his apartment.

nat1vibe

Aramán’s little soldier boy

shivermedoodles

A Matter of Pride

dont talk to me.

speedpaint posted on my yt channel tho!! details under the cut

warrioreowynofrohan

Azune Nayar is not someone who was failed in his youth by the adults around him.

Azune Nayar is someone whose childhood and youth were marked by adults who, faced with bad choices, made the less-worse one because they cared about him.

His parents starved themselves to give him and his sister the chance of being recruited as child soldiers by a mercenary group, because that was the only way to protect him from starvation.

Thjazi Fang saw a child abandoned by the roadside, desperately, determinedly, and implausibly claiming he could fight. Thazi Fang was in the middle of waging a rebellion against the powers of Araman. That rebellion wasn’t the best place for a child of twelve. But it was a better place than abandoned by the roadside or picked up by another mercenary group, and Thjazi cared, so Thjazi took him in and assigned him to noncombat work away from the front lines.

By 15 Azune was fighting on the front lines. (In an earlier war, the same was true of Thazi at that age.)

Thjazi’s rebellion failed. He asked his brother Hal to look out for the teenage Azune. Hal did so, treating Azune as part of his family. Hal did the same for other people who needed it. Being like family wasn’t the same as being Hal’s kid.

The tragedy of Azune isn’t that he was failed or abandoned or uncared for or used. The tragedy of Azune is that the best that people who cared about him could give him still wasn’t the same as what he needed, because being an adult doesn’t make you all-powerful. Azune’s problems weren’t created by those who loved him. They were created by the world he lives in.

Azune lived his adult life for the Torn Banner because it was the life he knew; or out of loyalty; or because they were the ones trying to change that world into something different.

He offers understanding and empathy to enemies (Julien) and strangers (Vaelus). He learned that somewhere.

He will self-immolate for a cause. He likely learned that from his parents, who did it for him, and from Thjazi, who did it for the same cause.