Heh, nobody in the wasteland was particularly her type, and anyway, she was way too busy conquering the world to fool around with, well, fooling around. Say what you will about Azula, she's good at prioritizing. She doesn't always get them right, but once she's set them she sticks with them. :)

>Of course, I have no notion which way Azula
>swings, nor do I claim to.

Canonically, as far as I can recall, she never showed any particular interest in anybody apart from that one guy she scared the crap out of at the beach party in that one episode. Avatar was on Nickelodeon, so even if anything further afield than that was somehow in the character's nature, it wouldn't have been expressed on screen anyway.

>I haven't seen ATLA or LOK but I get the
>impression whenever they tried to handle romance at all in the show it
>wasn't done well.

Oh my yes, which is to say no. The adjective "woeful" comes to mind.

>Aye. Especially since she's still a Girl Guide and having adventures
>with the crew (and the band!) at that point, I think.

Yes, and then she's off to medical school. She's not even really going to have time to think about starting to consider contemplating the general notion of reproducing until at least 2350. I suppose it could be argued that accidents do happen, but a) not so much in the 24th century, generally and b) not to someone with as much medical know-how as Rhian, in particular.

>Couldn't be sister, though. Not because that's not possible, but
>because if she swung that way, she and Mairwen would already be
>snogging in secret since before they met Laura, let alone Azula.
>
>Which is...not impossible.

Well, at least not if you assume that Mairwen would also be up for it. I don't have any data on that at present.

>>Not in 2382, no. Rhian may well have gone through a
>>Flying Doctors
>>phase earlier in her career, but by then she's quite happily settled
>>in a steady hospital job - the better to conduct really cutting-edge
>>research - and leaving gallivanting around the cosmos to those with
>>more of a taste for it.
>
>Not exactly a Dr. Chakwas, I guess. =)

No indeed. Rather the opposite, in fact. Rhian does have a fairly adventurous spirit - she's a Neo-Snowdonian Guide, after all - but it runs more toward outdoorsiness and liking a challenge than it does to that Bashirian "real frontier medicine" attitude. She'd rather have an enormous, well-funded research establishment behind her medical adventures.

That said, having mentioned Julian now, I like the idea that she might've been one of his mentors. Judging by his accent, it's not out of the question that he may have received some of his medical training in the Crown Colonies.

>(Caesar's Legion must have been heeling and toeing it from
>Fisto!)

... as it were!

Azula's version of Fisto's OS actually has two modes, one for when he's "in the office" at the Wrangler and one for when the gang's out doin' shooty stuff. About the only carryover between the two is that he sometimes instructs raiders he's shooting at to assume the position.

... and sometimes also Boone, but that's just because Boone hates it when Fisto says that to him, so Fisto makes sure to do so least once a week. :)

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