History YMMV / HowIBecameYours

* BadassDecay and {{Chickification}}: Azula, we hardly knew ye. Toph gets this treatment as well, going from a devil-may-care fighter to a soft-spoken, nervous flower of a girl who willingly bottoms to her "twinkle-toes". (Which seems to be among the two/three canon traits she kept.)

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: I don't know if she photoshopped them in (she probably did)... but those half-headed spirit monster things looked ''freaky''. Azula's [[{{Narm}} narmy]] reaction was excellent NightmareRetardant, however.

* UnfortunateImplications: As [[http://www.projectafterforums.com/index.php?s=88ce4a7f1f107ccd2593676b5fa0d833&showtopic=2711&pid=124372&st=0&#entry124372 this]] review states, this story is written by a woman who portrays the women she writes as completely useless without men. Either that, or the women she writes pull all kinds of crap on others just to get the men to look at them, or to punish other women for taking away "their" men's attentions.

* {{Wangst}}: And how. Most of the couples - particularly Aang and Toph, wangst over how they can't be with the one they love, despite having no real reason why they can't. While Katara's angst over losing her unborn son is understandable, the extremes of it - mourning for three years and building a giant tombstone for him - is a bit extreme.

** Katara, too. The things she do the most in this fic? Whining. Being self-centered. ''Whining.'' Making even her unborn chid's death all about her. ''[[RuleOfThree Whining]]''. Only caring about being Zuko's love interest. '''[[RunningGag Whining]]'''. Wearing pretty dresses; cute dresses aren't bad in themselves, but considering the canon setting... they're very out of place. '''''[[OverlyLongGag Whining]].''''' The only scene in which she0s actually seen ''using'' the ActionGirl skills she worked so far for in the TV series? [[spoiler: When she bloodbended Mai to death, and you KNOW how fail-full that was.]] [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready And then she whines some more.]]

* SnarkBait: There have already been [[strike:melo]]dramatic readings!

* UnfortunateImplications: As [[http://www.projectafterforums.com/index.php?s=88ce4a7f1f107ccd2593676b5fa0d833&showtopic=2711&pid=124372&st=0&#entry124372 this]] review states, this story is written by a woman who portrays the women she writes as completely useless without men.

* BadassDecay and {{Chickification}}: Azula, we hardly knew ye. Toph gets this treatment as well, going from a devil-may-care fighter to a soft-spoken, nervous flower of a girl who willingly bottoms to a guy she calls "twinkle-toes".
** Katara, too. The things she do the most in this fic? Whine. Be self-centered. ''Whine.'' Make even her unborn chid's death all about her. ''[[RuleOfThree Whine]]''. Only care about Zuko. '''[[RunningGag Whine]]'''. Wear pretty dresses (cute dresses aren't bad in themselves, but considering the canon setting... they're very out of place). '''''[[OverlyLongGag Whine]].''''' The only scene in which she actually ''uses'' her ActionGirl skills? [[spoiler: When she bloodbends Mai to death, and you KNOW how fail-full that was.]]

** Katara, too. The things she do the most in this fic? Whine. Be self-centered. Whine. Make even her unborn chid's death all about her. Whine. Only care about Zuko. ''[[RunningGag Whine]]''. Wear pretty dresses (cute dresses aren't bad in themselves, but considering the canon setting... they're very out of place). '''[[OverlyLongGag Whine]].''' The only scene in which she actually ''uses'' her ActionGirl skills? [[spoiler: When she bloodbends Mai to death, and you KNOW how fail-full that was.]]

** Katara, too. The things she do the most in thsi fic? Whine. Be self-centered. Whine. Make even her unborn chid's death all about her. Whine. Only care about Zuko. ''[[RunningGag Whine.]]''' Wear pretty dresses. '''[[OverlyLongGag Whine.]]''' The only scene in which she actually ''uses'' her ActionGirl skills? [[spoiler: When she bloodbends Mai to death, and you KNOW how fail-full that was.]]

** Not only that, but the fact she hid the letters telling Zuko about his child is apparently hideous treason. It's not a nice thing to do, sure, but she had good reasons to do so and it's certainly not ''treason''. Particularly when Katara had every intention of hiding the child from Zuko anyway, and the only reason the letter came anywhere close to Mai or Zuko is a clerical error.

* ThirtySuePileup: [[PossessionSue Katara]], [[PuritySue Azula, Toph]], [[RelationshipSue Zuko]]... Sokka stops just short of
Studom and Aang [[CompletelyMissingThePoint doesn't do enough to qualify]].

* ThirtySuePileup: [[PossessionSue Katara]], [[PuritySue Azula, Toph]], [[RelationshipSue Zuko]]... Sokka stops just short of Studom and Aang [[CompletelyMissingThePoint doesn't do enough to qualify]].

* SmallNameBigEgo: If the [[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/how-i-became-yours Bad webcomic wiki]] is to be believed, she apparently has this as an achievement on her ''resume''.
** And here's her "lovely" message in MySpace to her "haters":
--> ''"Fuck all the haters and that INCLUDES the ones on DA, keep talking about me, I am counting on it! MAKE MY NAME FAMOUS!! (...) AND I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS TIME OUT TO THANK ALL THE FANS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED ME through all that bull shit oN DA. AND HERES A MESSAGE to all the losers that have given me words smaller then there desire to be a normal sociable human being instead of sitting downstairs in the basement of your parents house watching reruns of anime shows that you can never duplicated in art work like I can... personal to you I would like to say... "GO into the garage, get your dad's shot gun sit at the computer chair you love so well, put your toe on the trigger... and kiss the devil on the ass for me would you.. THANKS" BUT, to all of you that have been there for ME we have reached a high number of pages views and doubled in fan base =) ALL thanks to you, MY art work has reach from cali to japan!!! SO here is this picture, this gift I give to you =) LOVE YOU GUYS!!! WE DID IT!!! "''
** Some of managed to [[http://community.livejournal.com/capslock_atla/863873.html archive]] her rather arrogant responses to those calling out her tracing and art theft.

* NightmareFuel: I don't know if she photoshopped them in (she probably did)... but those half-headed spirit monster things looked ''freaky''. Azula's [[{{Narm}} narmy]] reaction was excellent NightmareRetardant, however.
** Mai's TearsOfBlood [[spoiler: as Katara murders her.]]
** The bedroom scene with Toph and Aang, already described under FridgeHorror.

* ErectionRejection: The sex scenes. Even militant Zutarians don't like it!

* EvilIsCool: Sho actually manages to pull this off. He comes in out of basically nowhere, nonchalantly tossing around a knife like Mai used to before her CharacterDerailment. He wears a number of knives strapped to his shoulder; they can't be throwing knives, [[DidNotDoTheResearch since he'd have to put both of his hands at an awkward angle to retrieve them from their sheathes]], so you can't help but wonder what their purpose ''[[AlternateCharacterInterpretation really]]'' [[RuleOfCool is]]. Then, he fights [[BadassNormal Sokka]] [[BadassDecay single-handed]], slyly [[MagnificentBastard snarking]] with arguably the most cleverly-written dialogue in the entire comic (not that that's saying much). He almost manages to defeat him, too, until Toph steps in. And then he escapes with a [[DeusExMachina badass firebending move that nobody has seen before]]. This troper can't help wishing he had appeared in more than one chapter.

** PuritySue: Azula, who suffers [[strike:possibly]] ''easily'' the greatest CharacterDerailment the comic has to offer. Also Toph, whose tomboyish personality seems to have degenerated into the occasional matchmaking mischief and one curse when she's beating up Sho.

* {{Wangst}}: In ''spades''.

* CharacterDerailment: In ''spades''.

* {{Hatedom}}

* * MarySue:

* MemeticMutation: '''''CHARD MONSTER!!!'''''**

* PossessionSue: Katara, who looks more and more like the artist as the comic goes on.

'''Mai:''' [[RemixComic Oh bitch best believe it is Hammertime]]. [[SpeedEchoes Wanananana]]