#(oh also CHZ = circumstellar habitable zone. lol)

[comradekatara]

chan and ruon-jian are such good characters because they’re literally just these privileged teenagers living in the imperial core, summering in their beach houses, sheltered from the realities of the atrocities being committed by their own fathers. they know that their fathers are a big deal due to their military rank, but they are disturbed and off-put by even the most distant allusion to the realities of the war because they can only imagine the war in abstract terms of prestige and glory. they are two dimensional caricatures of the popular jock archetype—a white, suburban, american construction. they are completely hollow characters, lacking any substance beyond what they materially represent to azula and zuko. and isn’t that just so apt?

#[jason from us voice] it’s us #<- by which he means the american bourgeoisie. if you somehow haven’t seen the movie #NEVER FORGET THAT ATLA IS A BUSH ERA TEXT #chan and ruon jian #live in the CHZ. azula and zuko are too close to the imperial core & so they get burned #while the working class in the fire nation & the rest of the world are too far away #but they’re just the right distance from the ‘core’/star so they’re in that sweet spot #forgive me for the extremely nerdy analogy #(oh also CHZ = circumstellar habitable zone. lol)