I haven't watched it since the second or third season - it started getting a bit too precious - but the first couple of years were gold, and since I started working with Laura in UF, I've often had the thought that as an adult, she'll be a lot like the show's female protagonist. Not in terms of what she does, Temperance Brennan is an anthropologist, but in her general demeanor. Brennan's not mean to people for its own sake, she simply hasn't got the time or inclination for that "lying to be polite" thing. She isn't subtle. The really fun thing about her in the early going, though, and another trait I think she shares with the adult Laura Kinney, is that she's aware of that (unlike your more stereotypical "socially hopeless" character type) and not particularly shy about it. If someone around her says something the Cool Kids would understand and she doesn't, she'll just say, "I don't understand what that means." She's honest like a shovel to the back of the head is honest. :)

>Doesn't bring it up, doesn't
>flirt, and bluntly tells anyone who brings up the issue in the hopes
>of, etc., that they simply aren't good enough.

Except on the rare occasions when they are, in which case there's no time wasted farting around with the other half of the usual dance either. We haven't seen that? But I'm sure it's happened at least once or twice in the years between 2336 and 2411. :)

>>She's just
>>insanely (if you'll pardon the expression) picky. She's a princess,
>>after all. She has standards.
>
>Not that different from Laura, come to think of it, just with less
>blithely frank lack of appreciation and a lot more aristocratic
>hauteur.

One important difference is that, when Azula does encounter someone who measures up, she's perfectly happy to play the whole game. In fact, it probably annoys her a little that skipping half of the steps in the dance actually works for Laura; the one time she tried it, the guy literally ran away.

>Also, I waited a whole day, on purpose, to post a reply. Noone else
>around here wants to talk about -innuendo- of all things? Wow, tough
>crowd.

I know, right? That and a whole bonus scene! Nothin'. 'Tis the season. It used to be worse, though. When I first started doing this stuff, most of my readers were students, and virtually nobody in those days had Internet access at home, so when colleges and universities were closed, that was it.

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