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Kalaong's review

This fic is just Crazy Awesome. It starts of with the obvious For Want Of A Nail; as in "What if Avatar Roku didn't have a temper tantrum after Firelord Sozin made his first move?" After, all, he's the Avatar, and even the Firelord isn't a real threat. They instead have a drawn-out political debate that results in Sozin's "colony" being less "British India" and more "British Hong Kong", permitting the Fire Nation to show off its Good Intentions without the Extremism and creating the Title Drop. Instead of a Stern Chase, we get a guided tour of a world at (relative) peace - one that it's easy to imagine as what the Avatar world is like without a Big Bad on the warpath. It makes otherwise absurd situations such as Sokkla rather natural. It even fixes a Missed Moment Of Awesome - Toph Meets Bumi.

Bumi: I just want you to know that I think we're about as close as a creepy old man and a twelve-year-old child should ever be.

Toph: I did not need that image in my head!