#jet lee

Honestly, I think the name is pretty much the high-point of the ship.

I suppose there's storytelling potential in any Jet/FirePerson ship, with him torn between racism and love. Just stick him next to an attractive FirePerson with a big personality and there's not a lot of work you have to do to sell it audiences. However, it's a bit harder to justify the FirePerson in question being attracted to Jet in turn. Zuko certainly wasn't into the guy, and I can't think of any reason why Azula, Mai, or Ty Lee would be. Jet does have a certain charisma, but even Katara got over him pretty quickly one she saw his true nature. We kinda just have to rely on a kind of completely irrational love-at-first-sight thing to sell it.

However, if we don't care about making any sense and simultaneously enjoy Looney Tunes cartoons, I think it would be a lot of fun to do a Pepe Le Pew thing with Ty Lee as Pepe who doesn't realize Jet is a Fire-hating terrorist and Jet plays the pursued guy who doesn't want anything to do with attractive Fire Nation people. Ty Lee has the kind of oblivious romantic sparkly-vision that would make that kind of thing work, while I don't think any of the other FirePersons do. So that could be a fun little unique scenario for them. And then in the end it turns out Ty Lee knew the whole time he was a terrorist and she was manipulating him to either neutralize him or get some kind of information out of him or something.

Alternatively, Jet could be Wile E. Coyote and Ty Lee is the Fire Nation Roadrunner he's trying to kill. And then in the end when he can't beat her, he decides to marry her.

Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Azula/Katara (Avatar), Azula & Katara (Avatar), Jet/Katara (Avatar), Azula/Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Zuko (Avatar), Katara & Zuko (Avatar), Katara & Suki (Avatar), Katara & Yue (Avatar), Azula & Suki (Avatar), Katara & Sokka (Avatar), Azula & Kiyi (Avatar), Kiyi & Zuko (Avatar), Azula & Mai & Ty Lee (Avatar), Azula & Mai (Avatar), Azula & Ty Lee (Avatar), Mai & Ty Lee (Avatar), Mai/Zuko (Avatar), Kiyi & Ty Lee (Avatar), Sokka/Suki (Avatar), Sokka/Yue (Avatar), Jet/Yue (Avatar), Jet/Ty Lee (Avatar), Azula & The Gaang & Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Azula (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Kiyi (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Jet (Avatar), Suki (Avatar), Yue (Avatar), Ursa (Avatar), Hakoda (Avatar), Zhao (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Ty Lee (Avatar), Mai (Avatar) Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - High School, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Slasher, Alternate Universe - Scream Fusion, Inspired by Scream (Movies), Inspired by Scream (TV Series), Movie: Scream (1996), Past Child Abuse, Sibling Incest, Canon-Typical Violence, (canon typical violence for SCREAM not for ATLA. to be clear.), Mind the Tags & Warnings Please, when i say major character death i mean it, ANYONE can die in this story or what's the point?, alternatively: no one is safe from the possibility of being ghostface, randy voice: everybody's a suspect!, Codependency, Unhealthy Relationships, Hallucinations, Mildly Dubious Consent, Ozai Being an Asshole (Avatar), Ozai Dies (Avatar), Gaslighting, Paranoia, Unreliable Narrator, Mental Instability, Psychological Horror, Angst, Drama, Romance, Betrayal, Tragedy

A gruesome string of killings. A small town. Lakewood, California is shocked when Mayor Ozai is proven responsible for the carnage. Or is he? What really happened the night Zuko saved Katara's life from his violent father? Azula has never trusted anyone - not even her best friends, quiet goth girl Mai & bubbly cheer captain Ty Lee. But Katara crashes into her life in the wake of tragedy & changes everything. Kiyi never asked for an imperfect life with Ursa struggling to stay afloat - or two brand-new shiny siblings. But here they are anyway! It's senior year. Katara & Azula are on the verge of something good - perhaps redemption from her dark past for Azula & a shot at healing for Katara - when they find themselves in an IRL horror story & they're the final girls. Bodies are piling up. Everyone has something to hide. Suki is a horror junkie who's not above using her proximity to death for personal gain. Is beloved sweetheart Yue harboring a not-so-sweet secret? Why are some of the killer's phone calls from Jet's cell? And how did Sokka's truck get involved in a missing person case? Katara & Azula are trapped in a deadly game. The prize is survival & the clock is ticking...

"Are you sure you're not an Airbender?" Jet murmured as he held her close; "The way you jump across the trees is pretty fucking magical."

Ty Lee laughed as she stretched up to kiss his cheek: "I promise I'm not an Airbender," she said brightly, "even though everyone seems to think I am."

Jet smiled down at her, watching the gentle breeze flow through her flyaway strands of brown hair as they stood together in the forest canopy—the home of the Freedom Fighters. This girl was the most agile person he'd ever met (not to mention the prettiest), but his attraction to her went deeper than that—she drew him in, her bright outlook and clever tricks hinting that her bubbly persona was an extension of something much deeper, a strong will and sharp wit that carried her through even the toughest of days.

When the animated Mulan movie came out in 1998, it blew my mind. Here we had a female character who was struggling with the roles established by society and made the decision to risk everything in order to save her father. A young woman who was trying to come to terms with who she was and what society wanted her to be. She was driven by her desire to protect her father and she held her ground surrounded by those society stated she would never be an equal to.

Mulan (1998) reflected the struggle young women still faced in the late 90s. I truly identified with her character and the song “Reflection,” still moves me to tears. I knew how it felt and I lived it every day. In this movie, Mulan was discovered because she got injured trying to save the captain and was exiled from the troupe for lying and deceit. The captain, who had grown to respect her as a man, now turned his back on her. She went to the city and helped on her own, she was never recognized for her valor in the fight, not until she saved the emperor. The message was very clear: in order to be recognized as equal she still had to work harder than men. And only extraordinary things could make society acknowledge her to their same level. She declined the offer to stay as a warrior to return home - after all, her dream had never been to be a warrior, she had taken the task to save her father’s life. In the end, it is hinted that Mulan and the captain will enter courtship.

Twelve years later, we are presented with a different Mulan (2020). This version of the story is powerful and the changes speak millions, at least to me. In this story we see Mulan as a little girl full of energy and talented in the martial arts - talent she inherited from her father, a retired general and great warrior. In this story she isn’t an only child, she is actually an older sister. The community where she lives sees her as an odd one and her mother is constantly saying that she wants Mulan to be more feminine (like her youngest daughter) and reproaches her husband for encouraging Mulan. After an incident, her father sits with Mulan and practically tells her to suppress her energy and who she really is.

So, this Mulan grows into a young woman suppressing her talent, not exploring her full capacity, holding back. She is still “wild” but she is a shadow of who she can truly be. Just like in the animated film, Mulan makes her decision to save her father, and goes to the army. It is a hard journey but she makes it there and as she trains the general in charge of their unit keeps observing her. At one point, he asks her why is she holding back. He encourages her to reach her full potential. Of course, he thinks she is a man and it is funny how he sees this person as a potential marriage material for his own daughter.  She possesses  the characteristics valued in a man, but laughed at in a woman - as can be seen in the scene where her friends ask Mulan what her ideal woman is and she describes herself only to get roaring laughter from most of them. There is only one guy who doesn’t laugh at her ideal. 

This Mulan has a warrior spirit and a talent that surpassed many in her unit. She takes the general’s advise and strengthens herself and reaches her full capacity during training. She is made captain of a troupe. She has become a respected leader and in the fight, they defeat their enemy because of her maneuver. 

Now, in this film, the character of the bird that we saw helping the enemy leader in the animated film, was turned into a powerful woman. A woman with warrior powers, a fighter that can fight with fist and with her own supernatural abilities. I think this was a very important switch. This nameless woman (all called her a witch) was banned from her family and country because she didn’t hide who she was. She was then found by her current leader. She fought next to him because he promised her freedom, a place in society where she could belong. So, when the witch and Mulan meet the first time, she tells Mulan to be aware, that society will never accept her once they find out who she really is.  This conversation makes Mulan reflect and she sheds the mask and returns to the unit as who she is. She asks forgiveness for hiding the truth but it is denied to her and she exiled.

In her second encounter with the witch, Mulan is offered a place next to the witch. This nameless woman can identify with Mulan and wants to offer her the possibility of equality. But Mulan tells her that she will not turn her back on her country, not because she doesn’t want to be recognized as equal to men, but because she believes she doesn’t have to betray her ideals, her family and country to do so. These women part ways, the witch to realize she was being used and considered a slave; Mulan to give heads up to the unit that the emperor is in danger and to find that her troupe believes in her and so does the general. In this version, Mulan is accepted into the army because of her skills and loyalty. She is given the captain position once more and she leads her troupe to the city. These two scenes are so important to me because they reflect a dichotomy we still face. Some people see women and men as equals and recognize them because of their skills, not because of their sex. But there are still others that don’t see women as equal. The struggle is still real and we go through it at home, at school / work, everywhere we go. In the end, the witch helps Mulan because she understands that what her leader had offered wasn’t true freedom.

In the end of the movie, Mulan is offered a place in the army but she refuses because she wants to go back to her family. She goes back and once she is there, the general pays her a visit, giving her a sword as a gift from the emperor and giving her again the chance to be part of the army. In this version we have  an open ending, we don’t see what she chooses and it should not matter. In this movie, the young man that saw her as his equal and friend, was already matched to someone else. And so we don’t have a hint of marriage in the mists. If we take the words spoken at the end of the move literally we can assume she decides to go back to the army, but here the audience can create their own ending for Mulan.