I realized that i freakin love one-sided Maiko...i do. It's a guilty pleasure. but really i think it's because we've all been there...

that and i loved Mai's line in the Boiling Rock; "You miscalculated, Azula. I love Zuko more than i fear you..." BURN!!

And then some clever zutarian said: "You miscalculated, Bryke. We love Zutara more than we fear canon!" DOUBLE BURN!!

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"But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed to drape her dreams over." Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"


Now she'd done it, Mai realized as she sat there with Ty Lee in the darkest, dankest cell in the prison. Mai leaned her head back against the brick wall and sighed deeply.

She felt rather than saw Ty Lee look over at her. "Did you mean what you said?" Ty Lee asked in a small and strangely unconfident voice. Mai chanced a glance at her with a start, realized that Ty Lee was afraid. Ty Lee was never afraid, not like this. Her slim shoulders slumped and her soft grey eyes were filled with un-shed tears.

"Mean what?" Mai wondered, keeping the roughness from her voice.

"That you love Zuko more than you fear Azula?"

Mai sighed again and pressed her spine against the brick. She looked down at her hands as she turned the question over and over in her mind. For so long she'd admired Zuko from afar; he was handsome, honorable, brave sweet. He was a prince, too. He was what everyone else wanted. Mai had him, or at least until a few weeks ago, she thought she did. She replayed every kiss, every touch in the past season. To her great disappointment, Mai now knew that she had only been a passing fad. Something had changed Zuko during his journeys and Mai had refused to see it.

Azula had told Mai that Zuko had been thrown into prison in Ba Sing Se with that water bender….Kaya…Kana…something to that effect…. Mai remembered what she looked like though; slender, chocolate colored skin, thick wavy hair and a pair of fierce blue eyes. She was younger than Mai by maybe a year, year and a half? She was a beauty, no doubt, and would continue to become more beautiful in the years to come.

Mai almost laughed to herself then. How could she have been so blind? Zuko had taken on the prince illusion in order to put the water tribe peasant behind him. And now he he'd gone back to her.

"So…" Ty Lee prompted. "Do you?"

Mai looked at Ty Lee and smiled. "I may love him, but I doubt he loves me the way I do him."

"I don't know about that…" Ty Lee tried to be reassuring, putting her small hand on Mai's shoulder.

Mai shrugged. "You didn't see the look in his eyes. He loves someone else. Not me. It was just an illusion."


So, i thought i'd go ahead and give you the next 10..thats right count them 10 themes!! considering i'm moving to school in like twelve hours and i have no idea when the next ones will be written

#46. Family

#47. Creation

#48. Childhood

#49. Stripes

#50. Breaking all the Rules

#51. Sport

#52. Deep in Thought

#53. Keeping a secret

#54. Tower

#55. Waiting