tuurmil as in tuuri/emil from stand still stay silent?... speak on that? i've never considered it but i'm curious 🤔
Me when I get to talk about my rare pair ship!!!!!!!!
Alright where to begin……….
You see, it all started back in the year of our Lord 2014. The comic was just starting…. characters were still being introduced… And nobody knew Tuuri was gonna die lol! In the earliest chapters, Emil and Tuuri carried a decent portion of the MC dialogue since Lalli is so introverted and knew no Swedish. So I got attached to the idea of them being a couple fairly quickly. And I wasnt the only one!!!! lol!!
I mean like, Tuuri was literally enamored with the idea of Emil since day one when she heard about him so 😂 Im not completely insane. (He's not as tall as she wanted but yknow, love conquers all.) And of course Emil tries to impress everyone, but the fact that after he's only known this girl for one day, he pulls this kind of shenanigans in front of her/??? It speaks to me. (Something something, being comfortable to show your true self to someone)
ALSO!! If you got the book 1 you know theres a bonus comic thats not published online where Tuuri drags Emil into a bakery and theres a couple nuggets of cuteness in there I waaaaaaaa
(a completely normal way to look at someone that you've only known for a few hours)
Oh and there's another bonus comic where he's like "hey who'd win in an arm wrestle match you or Lalli" to her like????? akjalsdjlsfj the way the hotakainens bring out the silliness in this boy i swear. anyway
Basically a lot of this ship for me is (literally unattainable) Potential.
You have Emil, who's kinda a jerk on the surface but that layer is very superficial and underneath is a wholesome, caring guy. And then you have Tuuri, who is very happy and friendly on the surface, but underneath can be kinda conniving and sour. Tuuri beats around the bush, while Emil is often straight to the point. So they keep balancing each other out, and I kinda love that. Also she's the mechanic and he's the pyro: they're the Gasoline Duo! lol
If Tuuri had lived and they were given a couple more years to cook, with Emil maturing more, I think they could've been a good couple. (Emil is already so different by the end of the story). They're not perfect of course (every relationship has its pros and cons) but their dynamic is interesting to me.
If you're ready to jump into this canoe with me I highly recommend listening to "Wasteland, Baby!" by Hozier and then crying about it bc it's Their ship song to me
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10. What two songs, two books and two luxury items do they take to a desert island?
Zuko: A very old, traditional Fire Nation song; probably a love song, though he’d insist (while blushing) that that isn’t why he picked it, a copy of Love Amongst the Dragons, and his dao swords.
Katara: An old Southern Water Tribe song, a lullaby or old story in musical form, a cookbook of fish and plants most likely to be on said island, and (not sure how much this counts as a 'luxury') a Water Tribe hunting spear or canoe, whichever she finds more useful/harder to replace.
12. What first changes when it starts getting serious?
(It starts out pretty serious. Even apart from Zuko’s position as Fire Lord adding immense weight to any romantic interactions, they’re not the kind of people to flirt for the sake of flirting or date without at least the possibility of something coming of it.)
When it comes to the point where it shifts from “I really like you and want to see where this goes” to “I want to marry you”, it actually results in them spending less time together at first -- not a lot, but Zuko suddenly has extra meetings with his advisors (to figure out the political repercussions, how best to broach it on the world stage, etc.), and Katara is suddenly spending extra time researching and looking into Fire Nation customs and expectations. When they are together, they have a few stilted conversations, as they try to work out (without coming out and saying it) if the other is as open to the idea of marriage as they are.
16. When the zombie apocalypse comes, how do they cope together?
Like … zombie apocalypse dream team.
They're both excellent fighters with a fair amount of experience surviving on their own. Katara can heal and find and produce water from almost anywhere, and Zuko can start fires to keep them warm, boil water, cook food, and fight off zombies.
One of the biggest issues i have with zombie stories is the lack of community building; it would solve too many issues, so either the community falls apart or nobody even tries to build one. There's basically no way Zuko and Katara, two people naturally drawn towards leadership and helping the helpless, wouldn't end up starting or joining and improving some kind of settlement.
27. Why do their friends get annoyed with them?
First they get annoyed because i have to say the common z/k trope of them both pining but resisting saying anything, because they think it won’t work or the other isn’t interested, strikes me as very, very accurate. Also my take on post-canon is that Zuko knows he loves her but thinks Katara doesn’t feel the same, and it takes Katara a while to realize that she does, and both of them are very stubborn.
Once they’re together, they annoy their friends both by being practical wet blankets on their friends’ half-serious suggested shenanigans, and then turning around and pulling off outrageously ill-advised ideas without back-up. I mean, Zuko was willing to free the Avatar from one of his own country’s top military men, without backup, and Katara got herself arrested on purpose and started a revolt on a prison barge.
30. Why does it work (or not work) between them?
They are opposites in ways that attract, and similar in ways that matter. They are deeply hurt people who care very deeply, about each other, about other people, about doing the right thing even when it's hard. And even if/when they can't justify being together for their own sakes -- Zuko and Katara both being people to set aside their own happiness for the greater good -- it's so plainly in the other's best interest to be together that they can't argue for breaking up. So basically, they work so well together that it works out. :-)
2, 7, and 12 foe your three favorite fictional friendships :)
Thank you! Picking three of my favorites off the top of my head, and going on At Length about them:
My favorite scene of them: Sam & Frodo. Every single scene, all of them, but... even with the increasing beauty of the Mordor scenes, right now I'm going to name their scene at the end of Fellowship. Sam's devotion! Sam's perceptiveness! Frodo's desperate attempt to go sacrifice himself alone overridden by his much more urgent need to pull Sam out of the water (especially understandable given the fact that Frodo's parents drowned). Their little argument of "I couldn't have born being left behind, it would've been the death of me" "It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam, and I could not bear that"--both completely unembarrassed to say what they're feeling. Frodo's relief and laughter once he accepts Sam's service for good!
I think this scene is a really good look at how much, and how well, they each treasure the other, and how that makes the friendship work.
What makes me like their friendship: The Doctor & the Brigadier. I just... I love relationships that serve as constants! Where people keep pinging and circling back to each other, and the friendship is a rock no matter what context it's weathering. I love long-distance/long-term friendships that are not the slightest bit damaged by time apart, and the timey-wimeyness of this one takes that to an extreme.
I also love friendships where both parties are very different in their approaches to life but both so good that they still get along and rely on each other, and friendships where one person is supposed to be Very Cool and the other person is completely indifferent to said Coolness. I love how the Brigadier instantly aligns himself with the Doctor whenever they cross paths, and how the Doctor always lights up when he sees the Brigadier unexpectedly.
It's also... it's like that post about how a ship loves an anchor or a fire loves a hearth. That's the Doctor & Earth, but it's especially the Doctor & the Brigadier.
A word to describe them: Holmes & Watson. I think... "Legendary." Because they themselves have the status of legends or folklore in our cultural consciousness, at this point, and because this friendship in particular is one of THE fictional friendships of all time. It's archetypal. It's iconic. Even if you've never read the stories and know nothing about either of them, you can't help knowing that they go together; within the Canon itself, their friendship is chronicled across forty years and dozens of adventures and is very clearly unbreakable. It's the stuff of legend and a source of legends! And it wouldn't be if it weren't for the warmth and depth and groundedness in the stories themselves, of course... but what we see along with and springing from those qualities is something legendary.
a concept: you and i sitting here on our devices, documents open in the background, we have planned, we have prepared, we know what needs to be done, we have assured each other repeatedly that no, this time, we swear, we're going to write
we do no such thing, we are liars and we knew it with every boldfaced word we said
fireside - if you had your dream wardrobe, what would it look like?
i love how all three of u asked me this when u all know i have fashion blacklisted as;ghdgkhlkj
orchard - share one thing that you’d like to happen this autumn.
mm perhaps i’d like to write a poem
bonfire - describe your dream house.
when i was little i used to look at blueprint magazines and dream up my ideal house (obvs with a library and a turret bedroom) but now i think i’d just like a small, clean, comfy space where i can live by myself with my dog and my books. no big aspirations just comfort.
