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* CrazyIsCool: Xing's schemes: his colleagues think he's touched by the spirits, but as a SelfInsert, he knows how the series goes, and throws monkey wrenches in the setting appropriately.
** Another, more fitting example of the trope is the Mad King Bumi of Omashu.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44347030/chapters/111528556 Focused Fire]] is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' SelfInsertFic revolving around Xing, sole survivor of an attack on a Fire Nation colony in the Earth Kingdom-turned prodigious firebending colonel of the Fire Nation's 11th Regiment.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44347030/chapters/111528556 Focused Fire]] is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' SelfInsertFic revolving around Xing, sole survivor of an attack on a Fire Nation colony in the Earth Kingdom-turned Kingdom, and his ascent towards prodigious firebending colonel of the Fire Nation's 11th Regiment.
Regiment... and beyond.



As of 2023 November 23, the story has been marked as completed, with other snippets chronicling loose ends to tie up, among other things.



* CurbStompBattle: Aang battles Xing for the fate of Ba Sing Se in a duel, and all Xing needs to do to win the fight is to heat the air Aang is bending.

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* CurbStompBattle: Aang battles Xing for the fate of Ba Sing Se in a duel, and duel: all Xing needs to do to win the fight is to heat the air Aang is bending.bending.
** Most of Xing's battles are one-sided despite tough odds: this is due to his resourcefulness and outside-context knowledge.


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** They also follow the rules of engagement to a fault, as for all their bloodlust, they do their best to keep civilians out of the line of fire.

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* ButterflyOfDoom: Xing's schemes change canon in odd ways. For example, it is Iroh who teaches the Avatar firebending instead of Zuko.
** Azula, meanwhile, has had the most CharacterDevelopment due to her association with Xing and the 11th.



* DeathByAThousandCuts: Duke Cho's fate at the hands of the 11th, for letting someone like Shiluo become a general.



* ForWantOfANail: Xing's schemes DO change canon in odd ways. For example, it is Iroh who teaches the Avatar firebending instead of Zuko.


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* TookALevelInBadass: The cabbage merchant, to the point where he's cooperating with the 11th by acting as bait for the loyalists to try and take his supplies.

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