smiling-vagabond asked: I just realized that when wander was like 'wander...I like that!' He could have just as easily decided to go by the word Weirdo instead and we could be watching Weirdo Over Here-do.
ok so i screenshotted this moment because i thought it was pretty cool
the first time we get to see all four elements working together for a common enemy, blah blah blah, but i started laughing because
sokka’s fucking boomerang. sokka threw a fucking boomerang at princess azula, renowned lightning bender and heir-apparent to the throne of the fire nation.
and sokka threw a boomerang at her.
I said it once and i say it again.
Azula considered Sokka to be the biggest threat in this group and countered him first. What this picture miss is Sokka sanding nearby. All members of this group unleash their attack at same time, but Azula reacts to boomerang first. If you watch this part in slow motion, you could see that Sokka’s boomerang was the first thing that would hit Azula and may even incapacitate her making her unable to continue to fight. So she had to counter in first. She deflected it with well placed shoot.
Then and only then, when there is no immediate threat, she starts to create her blue fire wall to counter other elements.
Lets think about this. How hard should you have to throw something to make it move faster that any elemental attack? Either all elemental attacks are slow or you are pretty strong. That said nonbenders with good aim and strong hands could easily overpower benders if they timed it right.(Aang got captured by Yuan archers who are all nonbenders.) Azula knew of this and acted according to it. She is talented bender and you may think that she should enlist other benders to help her track and capture Zuko, Iroh, and later avatar, but instead she uses her nonbender friend to help her.
Even if you have no bending you can still fight… and win.
Let’s not forget that on the Day of Black Sun, Sokka was the one in charge and Azula was no idiot Azula knew that.
When Aang, Sokka, and Toph all confronted Azula, she proceeded to make them chase her and waste their time. Azula is not only talented, she’s sly and smart as hell. WHO WAS THE ONE WHO SAW THROUGH THAT BS CHASE?
NOT ONLY THAT but after Sokka explains to the Gaang that Azula is just baiting them, Azula actually verbally attacks Sokka. Not through fighting, but through words, knowing not only that an intelligent person like him could only be brought down with emotions BUT that Sokka was the leader and if she could get him the stay, Aang and Toph would follow his lead.
Azula knew Sokka was their strength and took him down. WOULD SHE DO THAT IF HE WASNT A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO HER!!??!
No. She wouldn’t waste her time and energy on someone she didn’t think was capable of actually getting in her way.
WHEN SHE GETS HER FIREBENDING BACK SHE HAS THE OPTION OF ATTACKING BADASS METAL BENDING TOPH AND THE FUCKING AVATAR
WHO DOES SHE ATTACK?!?!
Azula never underestimated the power of non benders especially an intelligent one like Sokka. Sokka was a huge threat to fucking Azula on multiple occasions.
Remember that.
And why doesn’t Azula underestimate the power of nonbenders?
Because she’s been best friends with Mai and Ty Lee since childhood.
So, we know how the Homeworld rubies were looking for Jasper, right?
Jasper’s old enough to remember the war on Earth and old enough to be part of the “first generation” of Gems that were created.
In “Too Short to Ride,” Peridot mentioned that Homeworld is running out of resources to make Gems like “they used to,” (i.e. like Jasper).
Before the new ep, I had thought maybe they were hunting Jasper down for her failure in the mission and/or wanted to bring her back for punishment. Possibly even shatter her.
But that seemed out of character for someone like Yellow Diamond who seems to want to make efficient use of all her resources, including her soldiers. Why would she dispatch a bunch of rubies on a mission to retrieve one soldier? Unless Jasper has some crucial information related to the Cluster, it just seems like lot of effort to retrieve one, ostensibly, replaceable gem. There are not too many other explanations I can come up without stretching the canon a bit.
But “Too Short to Ride” fills in the missing piece.
While Jasper might have failed in her mission, she is a part of a generation of Gems that is fast becoming a dying breed. Homeworld no longer has the luxury of simply disposing of soldiers who fail to meet expectations. If small Gems like peridots are all they can produce these days, then they cannot afford to lose the firepower that Quartz-type soldiers provide.
So, to sum it up: they are trying to get Jasper back because they literally cannot afford to lose her.
