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Gilded Green is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfiction by Caelum Blue. It is an ElseWhereFic, starring Lu Ten during and after the 600 Day Siege of Ba Sing Se. It can be read on Website/FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7108225/1/Gilded-Green here]] and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/429368/chapters/724972 here]].
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Huang and Wu Sheng.
* TriggerPhrase: In addition to 'The Earth Kind has invited you to Lake Laogai', there is also a thank you to get the subject out of the hypnosis. This phrase is used for civillians and basically anyone who's not a Joo Dee once whoever's done with them.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu Ten, Kenta and Min Lee, who is implied to be the eldest of Ty Lee's many sisters.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Lu Ten will seem like this to Kenta and Min Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: {{Downplayed}} with Iroh when his son dies, as it's a quieter realization. Eventually he just leaves abruptly.
* TriggerPhrase: In addition to 'The Earth Kind has invited you to Lake Laogai', there is also a thank you to get the subject out of the hypnosis. This phrase is used for civillians and basically anyone who's not a Joo Dee once whoever's done with them.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu Ten, Kenta and Min Lee, who is implied to be the eldest of Ty Lee's many sisters.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Lu Ten will seem like this to Kenta and Min Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: {{Downplayed}} with Iroh when his son dies, as it's a quieter realization. Eventually he just leaves abruptly.
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* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu Ten, Kenta and Min Lee, who is implied to be the eldest of Ty Lee's many sisters.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Lu Ten will seem like this to Kenta and Min Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: {{Downplayed}} with Iroh when his son dies, as it's a quieter realization. Eventually he just leaves abruptly.
* TriggerPhrase: In addition to 'The Earth Kind has invited you to Lake Laogai', there is also a thank you to get the subject out of the hypnosis. This phrase is used for civillians and basically anyone who's not a Joo Dee once whoever's done with them.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu Ten, Kenta and Min Lee, who is implied to be the eldest of Ty Lee's many sisters.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Lu Ten will seem like this to Kenta and Min Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: {{Downplayed}} with Iroh when his son dies, as it's a quieter realization. Eventually he just leaves abruptly.
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Gilded Green is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfiction by Caelum Blue. It is an ElseWhereFic, starring Lu Ten during and after the 600 Day Siege of Ba Sing Se. It can be read on FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7108225/1/Gilded-Green here]] and AO3 [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/429368/chapters/724972 here]].
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Gilded Green is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfiction by Caelum Blue. It is an ElseWhereFic, starring Lu Ten during and after the 600 Day Siege of Ba Sing Se. It can be read on FanFictionDotNet Website/FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7108225/1/Gilded-Green here]] and AO3 Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/429368/chapters/724972 here]].
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Gilded Green is an Avatar: The Last Airbender ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfiction by Caelum Blue. It is an ElseWhereFic, starring Lu Ten during and after the 600 Day Siege of Ba Sing Se. It can be read on Fanfiction.net FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7108225/1/Gilded-Green here]] and AO3.
AO3 [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/429368/chapters/724972 here]].
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At the end of Iroh's Siege, the Dai Li decide to test their brainwashing abilities on a Fire Nation soldier. They don't know that their guinea pig-rat happens to be a supposedly-dead prince. First in a series. AU, DaiLi!Lu Ten.
Gilded Green is an Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction by Caelum Blue. It is an ElseWhereFic, starring Lu Ten during and after the 600 Day Siege of Ba Sing Se. It can be read on Fanfiction.net and AO3.
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!Tropes Found in this Particular Fanfic:
* AffectionateNickname: Lu Ten has these for his cousins.
* AllThereInTheManual: Several things that are not said in the fic itself are talked about in the author's notes.
* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Lu Ten]] behaves much differently from things than [[spoiler:Xiaofan]] does.
* AntiHero: Lu Ten is a staunch believer in Fire Nation imperialism and superiority, but he is kind and [[{{EvenEvilHasLovedOnes}} has loved ones too.]]
* AntiVillain: Shirong is probably the closest thing to a villain this fic has besides perhaps Long Feng, but he's a Dai Li agent who's just doing his job and, while creepy, (even the author says so) isn't so bad once you get to know him.
* AwfulTruth: That Iroh has [[spoiler:abandonned the Siege.]] but it's only awful to Lu Ten.
* BashBrothers: Lu Ten is this with Jouin. [[spoiler:For awhile.]]
* BeleagueredAssistant: Inverted with Director Tuan. His agents love messing with him.
* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou: Our main cast is made of the Dai Li. And later, [[spoiler:Xiaofan.]]
* BookEnds: Both the prologue and the epilogue feature [[spoiler:the letter to Azula.]]
* BrainWashed: The main premise of this fic.
* BreakThemByTalking: Shirong to Lu Ten.
* BreatherEpisode: The seventh chapter, which focuses on Shirong's godson's birthday. {{Lampshaded}} by the author.
* BrickJoke: Enlai had to save a group of girls from a spiderfly in a Haiku club once. In chapter six, a certain bug is irritating the Dai Li Directors. Poor Enlai is doomed to squashing bugs.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Huang and Wu Sheng. The two are funny, take Earthbending Ball [[{{SeriousBusiness}} way too seriously]], invade their boss' office at will, and are excellent Dai Li agents.
* BuriedAlive: Lu Ten for a little while.
* ButNotTooForeign: Used in-universe with Xiaofan.
* ButtMonkey: ''Tuan.'' Almost all the man's best agents get whisked away to Investigations by Yong, (''almost'' being the operative word) which is generally considered the better job, none of his colleagues listen to him, he has to deal with not remembering an embarassing drunken bet he made for a thousand jin, the agents he's left with enjoy annoying him for kicks... If this series is ever continued, the counter is sure to get broken.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Azula, in the epilogue.]]
* CheerfulChild: Lee, Shirong's godson, among the other children at his birthday party.
* ChildhoodFriends: Lu Ten with Kenta and Min Lee. He met them at six and seven respectively.
** Also, while childhood may be stretching it, Long Feng and Shirong have known each other from their university days.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Lu Ten appears to have feelings for Min Lee.
* TheConfidant: Jouin, [[spoiler:in life. In death, he [[{{CaptainObvious}} isn't much different.]]]]
* CurseCutShort: Shirong to Yong before Long Feng interrupts.
-->'''Shirong''': "Listen, Yong. Just because I'm not letting you rip the man to shreds doesn't mean you need to act like a-"
* DeadpanSnarker: Lu Ten shows shades of this.
* DeathByChildbirth: Princess Janya, Lu Ten's mother.
* DeathGlare: Lu Ten is quite fond of giving these to his captors.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Shirong didn't quite think about [[spoiler:keeping Xiaofan]] through.
* DistressedDude: Lu Ten, who's a prisoner of war.
* DoomedByCanon: Everyone who's watched the series knows that Lu Ten is going to be taken out of the picture one way or another.
* DoubleAgent: Enlai considers 'Lee' this. 'Lee' begs to differ.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The Haiku Club in passing mention.
* ElementalPowers: Benders need to be in contact with their respective elements for their spirits to remain happy. Earthbender Joo Dees are content in the crystal catacombs, but [[spoiler:Firebenders tend to break when seperated from the sun.]]
* {{Elsewhere Fic}}: Deals with important but little-known minor character Lu Ten and the Dai Li, who don't get much fleshing out in both canon and fanon.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: 'Lee' the Fire Nation soldier puts HonorBeforeReason and returns the favour to Enlai for saving his life offscreen.
** Another example is Shirong. While morally gray, he is above pointless cruelty and does not have the heart to carry out some of the more terrible experiments on Lu Ten.
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:Ozai orchestrated Lu Ten's 'death'.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Lu Ten. [[spoiler:After becoming Xiaofan, he drops his Fire Nation-style topknot and goes with an Earth Kingdom braid.]]
* FakeMemories: Played with. Shirong finds it's easier to implant memories with some truth in them, lest the subject's subconscious start to reject them.
** To elaborate, [[spoiler:Xiofan's past and personal life is a mix of Lu Ten's and Jouin's.]]
* FantasticRacism: Between the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom.
* FirstNameBasis: All the agents are on first-name basis with each other, calling them Agent 'X'. This trope is not used as an indication of growing relationships.
* ForegoneConclusion: Lu Ten will not return to Iroh, and Ba Sing Se will not fall to the Fire Nation. Until later.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Jouin's death. By the man himself, too.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Jouin''']]: I couldn't care less about what [Ba Sing Se] the city looks like. I don't care if I ''never'' see it. I just want to get away from this stupid wall."
* GenreSavvy: Jouin. He never really got around to say that [[spoiler:when Earthbenders hang back and do minimal activity, it's usually because they're planning something big.]]
* GoodParents: Good ''parent'', more like. Iroh has never made Lu Ten doubt that he loves his son.
* HeelRealization: Iroh has one.
* HeroicBSOD: While not exactly heroic per se, Lu Ten has one of these when he is told that the Fire Army is retreating.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Lu Ten with Kenta and Min Lee.
* HonorBeforeReason: People from the Fire Nation are like this. The Dai Li, however...
* InSeriesNickname: Zuzu for Zuko, Zuli for Azula and Lu for Lu Ten.
* InsistentTerminology: It's not an obsession. Lu Ten is a tea ''enthusiast''.
* {{Irony}}: Long Feng loves the idea of [[spoiler:a brainwashed Fire Nation soldier going around complimenting the Earth Kingdom.]]
** Also, the [[spoiler:non-existent]] Fire Nation soldiers that [[spoiler:Shirong weaves into Lu Ten's brain crushed his legs with a rock]] to invoke this trope.
* JerkAss: Yong. Even [[{{WordOfGod}} the author]] thinks so.
* KnifeNut: Princess Janya is implied to be this, as Iroh keeps a set of throwing knives that she used to own.
* LaResistance: Mentioned in passing is an underground resistance in Ba Sing Se.
* LossOfIdentity: Naturally. It comes with the brainwashing sometimes.
* MeaningfulName: Invoked by Delun and Long Feng, who deliberately choose befittingly ironic names for Lu Ten.
** To go into further detail, [[spoiler:'Xiao' means small, while 'fan' would equate to model or example. 'Yu' would mean consent, spelling out 'little obedient one who consents'.]]
*** Also, the farmers in the Agrarian Zone have the surname 'Qiang' meaning 'wall' or 'superior'.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: 'Lee' doesn't consider himself a double agent, as to him, he's simply carrying out the orders of a different master whose goals contradict his previous master's.
* MindRape: But of course.
* MissingMom: Lu Ten. Plus, Zuko and Azula.
* MixedAncestry: Xiaofan. He's got a Fire Nation father and an Earth Kingdom mother.
* TheMole: Or mole-rat. 'Lee' is this to the Fire Nation troops.
** Also it is said that there are several Fire Nation spies in Ba Sing Se during the Siege. Not that all of them are ever seen again.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Lu Ten wasn't actually dead so...''duh''.
* NiceGuy: Yuan.
* NobodyPoops: A month in captivity and not one mention is made to how Lu Ten relieves himself. Probably to avoid Squick.
* NoodleIncident: Several. To name some, the Winter Solstice party (which gets everyone groaning) [[spoiler:which a certain bet was placed]], and the Spiderfly in the Haiku Club Incident.
** No one really knows what happened to the Dai Li agents who were harrasing the first Joo Dees.
*** The 'butcher knife incident' involving a Joo Dee who had snapped.
*** ''And'' the incident when Yong tried to go after one of Shirong's Joo Dees and an epic, all-out bending war broke out that is still talked about among the agents apparently.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Iroh has this moment for Lu Ten.
* OhCrap: Lu Ten has a few. As does Long Feng, [[spoiler:when Shirong brings Xiaofan/Lu Ten to the Director's meeting, as he [[{{PlayingWithFire}}still has the fireplace lit.]]]]
* OriginalCharacters: The fic is rife with grey, flawed and believable OCs. This is nessecary, as the only Dai Li who got a name and backstory was Long Feng.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Huang and Wu Sheng.
* TriggerPhrase: In addition to 'The Earth Kind has invited you to Lake Laogai', there is also a thank you to get the subject out of the hypnosis. This phrase is used for civillians and basically anyone who's not a Joo Dee once whoever's done with them.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu Ten, Kenta and Min Lee, who is implied to be the eldest of Ty Lee's many sisters.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Lu Ten will seem like this to Kenta and Min Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: {{Downplayed}} with Iroh when his son dies, as it's a quieter realization. Eventually he just leaves abruptly.
* PapaWolf: Shirong to his 'projects'. Though he's in denial.
* ParentalSubstitute: Ursa to Lu Ten. He sees her as a mother.
* PetTheDog: Shirong attends his godson's birthday party and is shown to be a genuinely good godfather and friend in chapter seven. Contrast this with chapter eight, where he is [[spoiler:nonchalantly mindraping Lu Ten. A stranger example is when Lu Ten/Xiaofan is calling out pitifully for his father Iroh, and Shirong comforts him, telling him that the process does not have to be painful, but continues brainwashing him anyway.]]
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:Lu Ten soon has his Firebending robbed from him.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Xiaofan.
-->'''Xiaofan''': "What the ''hell'' are you talking about?"
* RunningGag: Shirong being uncreative when choosing names. Plus, Enlai and spiderflies.
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: Lu Ten, eventually.]]
* SeriousBusiness: Boarqupine roasting for Jouin, tea for Lu Ten, and Earthbending Ball for Huang and Wu Sheng.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shirong mentions in his internal monologue that traumatized war veterans who are Earthbenders are brainwashed as to avoid from them causing mishaps from a combination of flashbacks and out of control Earthbending. Also, war veterans who cannot be quiet about the war.
* ShownTheirWork: The author, Caelum Blue has done extensive amounts of research and even made her own ''calender'' (which can be seen on her profile) for the series using ancient Chinese influence and a hell of a lot of brainstorming.
* SoleSurvivor: Lu Ten is the only survivor found from his platoon.
* TheStoic: Delun, who takes things in stride.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Shirong thinks it's better to brainwash citizens rather than kill them.
* WordOfGod: The author has not declared this series dead, and says it will be continued, but when... is rather unclear.
* WorldBuilding: In particular, Ba Sing Se.
* YouDidntAsk: Lu Ten to Shirong. Shirong simply decides to be more specific.
Gilded Green is an Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction by Caelum Blue. It is an ElseWhereFic, starring Lu Ten during and after the 600 Day Siege of Ba Sing Se. It can be read on Fanfiction.net and AO3.
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!Tropes Found in this Particular Fanfic:
* AffectionateNickname: Lu Ten has these for his cousins.
* AllThereInTheManual: Several things that are not said in the fic itself are talked about in the author's notes.
* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Lu Ten]] behaves much differently from things than [[spoiler:Xiaofan]] does.
* AntiHero: Lu Ten is a staunch believer in Fire Nation imperialism and superiority, but he is kind and [[{{EvenEvilHasLovedOnes}} has loved ones too.]]
* AntiVillain: Shirong is probably the closest thing to a villain this fic has besides perhaps Long Feng, but he's a Dai Li agent who's just doing his job and, while creepy, (even the author says so) isn't so bad once you get to know him.
* AwfulTruth: That Iroh has [[spoiler:abandonned the Siege.]] but it's only awful to Lu Ten.
* BashBrothers: Lu Ten is this with Jouin. [[spoiler:For awhile.]]
* BeleagueredAssistant: Inverted with Director Tuan. His agents love messing with him.
* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou: Our main cast is made of the Dai Li. And later, [[spoiler:Xiaofan.]]
* BookEnds: Both the prologue and the epilogue feature [[spoiler:the letter to Azula.]]
* BrainWashed: The main premise of this fic.
* BreakThemByTalking: Shirong to Lu Ten.
* BreatherEpisode: The seventh chapter, which focuses on Shirong's godson's birthday. {{Lampshaded}} by the author.
* BrickJoke: Enlai had to save a group of girls from a spiderfly in a Haiku club once. In chapter six, a certain bug is irritating the Dai Li Directors. Poor Enlai is doomed to squashing bugs.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Huang and Wu Sheng. The two are funny, take Earthbending Ball [[{{SeriousBusiness}} way too seriously]], invade their boss' office at will, and are excellent Dai Li agents.
* BuriedAlive: Lu Ten for a little while.
* ButNotTooForeign: Used in-universe with Xiaofan.
* ButtMonkey: ''Tuan.'' Almost all the man's best agents get whisked away to Investigations by Yong, (''almost'' being the operative word) which is generally considered the better job, none of his colleagues listen to him, he has to deal with not remembering an embarassing drunken bet he made for a thousand jin, the agents he's left with enjoy annoying him for kicks... If this series is ever continued, the counter is sure to get broken.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Azula, in the epilogue.]]
* CheerfulChild: Lee, Shirong's godson, among the other children at his birthday party.
* ChildhoodFriends: Lu Ten with Kenta and Min Lee. He met them at six and seven respectively.
** Also, while childhood may be stretching it, Long Feng and Shirong have known each other from their university days.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Lu Ten appears to have feelings for Min Lee.
* TheConfidant: Jouin, [[spoiler:in life. In death, he [[{{CaptainObvious}} isn't much different.]]]]
* CurseCutShort: Shirong to Yong before Long Feng interrupts.
-->'''Shirong''': "Listen, Yong. Just because I'm not letting you rip the man to shreds doesn't mean you need to act like a-"
* DeadpanSnarker: Lu Ten shows shades of this.
* DeathByChildbirth: Princess Janya, Lu Ten's mother.
* DeathGlare: Lu Ten is quite fond of giving these to his captors.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Shirong didn't quite think about [[spoiler:keeping Xiaofan]] through.
* DistressedDude: Lu Ten, who's a prisoner of war.
* DoomedByCanon: Everyone who's watched the series knows that Lu Ten is going to be taken out of the picture one way or another.
* DoubleAgent: Enlai considers 'Lee' this. 'Lee' begs to differ.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The Haiku Club in passing mention.
* ElementalPowers: Benders need to be in contact with their respective elements for their spirits to remain happy. Earthbender Joo Dees are content in the crystal catacombs, but [[spoiler:Firebenders tend to break when seperated from the sun.]]
* {{Elsewhere Fic}}: Deals with important but little-known minor character Lu Ten and the Dai Li, who don't get much fleshing out in both canon and fanon.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: 'Lee' the Fire Nation soldier puts HonorBeforeReason and returns the favour to Enlai for saving his life offscreen.
** Another example is Shirong. While morally gray, he is above pointless cruelty and does not have the heart to carry out some of the more terrible experiments on Lu Ten.
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:Ozai orchestrated Lu Ten's 'death'.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Lu Ten. [[spoiler:After becoming Xiaofan, he drops his Fire Nation-style topknot and goes with an Earth Kingdom braid.]]
* FakeMemories: Played with. Shirong finds it's easier to implant memories with some truth in them, lest the subject's subconscious start to reject them.
** To elaborate, [[spoiler:Xiofan's past and personal life is a mix of Lu Ten's and Jouin's.]]
* FantasticRacism: Between the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom.
* FirstNameBasis: All the agents are on first-name basis with each other, calling them Agent 'X'. This trope is not used as an indication of growing relationships.
* ForegoneConclusion: Lu Ten will not return to Iroh, and Ba Sing Se will not fall to the Fire Nation. Until later.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Jouin's death. By the man himself, too.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Jouin''']]: I couldn't care less about what [Ba Sing Se] the city looks like. I don't care if I ''never'' see it. I just want to get away from this stupid wall."
* GenreSavvy: Jouin. He never really got around to say that [[spoiler:when Earthbenders hang back and do minimal activity, it's usually because they're planning something big.]]
* GoodParents: Good ''parent'', more like. Iroh has never made Lu Ten doubt that he loves his son.
* HeelRealization: Iroh has one.
* HeroicBSOD: While not exactly heroic per se, Lu Ten has one of these when he is told that the Fire Army is retreating.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Lu Ten with Kenta and Min Lee.
* HonorBeforeReason: People from the Fire Nation are like this. The Dai Li, however...
* InSeriesNickname: Zuzu for Zuko, Zuli for Azula and Lu for Lu Ten.
* InsistentTerminology: It's not an obsession. Lu Ten is a tea ''enthusiast''.
* {{Irony}}: Long Feng loves the idea of [[spoiler:a brainwashed Fire Nation soldier going around complimenting the Earth Kingdom.]]
** Also, the [[spoiler:non-existent]] Fire Nation soldiers that [[spoiler:Shirong weaves into Lu Ten's brain crushed his legs with a rock]] to invoke this trope.
* JerkAss: Yong. Even [[{{WordOfGod}} the author]] thinks so.
* KnifeNut: Princess Janya is implied to be this, as Iroh keeps a set of throwing knives that she used to own.
* LaResistance: Mentioned in passing is an underground resistance in Ba Sing Se.
* LossOfIdentity: Naturally. It comes with the brainwashing sometimes.
* MeaningfulName: Invoked by Delun and Long Feng, who deliberately choose befittingly ironic names for Lu Ten.
** To go into further detail, [[spoiler:'Xiao' means small, while 'fan' would equate to model or example. 'Yu' would mean consent, spelling out 'little obedient one who consents'.]]
*** Also, the farmers in the Agrarian Zone have the surname 'Qiang' meaning 'wall' or 'superior'.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: 'Lee' doesn't consider himself a double agent, as to him, he's simply carrying out the orders of a different master whose goals contradict his previous master's.
* MindRape: But of course.
* MissingMom: Lu Ten. Plus, Zuko and Azula.
* MixedAncestry: Xiaofan. He's got a Fire Nation father and an Earth Kingdom mother.
* TheMole: Or mole-rat. 'Lee' is this to the Fire Nation troops.
** Also it is said that there are several Fire Nation spies in Ba Sing Se during the Siege. Not that all of them are ever seen again.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Lu Ten wasn't actually dead so...''duh''.
* NiceGuy: Yuan.
* NobodyPoops: A month in captivity and not one mention is made to how Lu Ten relieves himself. Probably to avoid Squick.
* NoodleIncident: Several. To name some, the Winter Solstice party (which gets everyone groaning) [[spoiler:which a certain bet was placed]], and the Spiderfly in the Haiku Club Incident.
** No one really knows what happened to the Dai Li agents who were harrasing the first Joo Dees.
*** The 'butcher knife incident' involving a Joo Dee who had snapped.
*** ''And'' the incident when Yong tried to go after one of Shirong's Joo Dees and an epic, all-out bending war broke out that is still talked about among the agents apparently.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Iroh has this moment for Lu Ten.
* OhCrap: Lu Ten has a few. As does Long Feng, [[spoiler:when Shirong brings Xiaofan/Lu Ten to the Director's meeting, as he [[{{PlayingWithFire}}still has the fireplace lit.]]]]
* OriginalCharacters: The fic is rife with grey, flawed and believable OCs. This is nessecary, as the only Dai Li who got a name and backstory was Long Feng.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Huang and Wu Sheng.
* TriggerPhrase: In addition to 'The Earth Kind has invited you to Lake Laogai', there is also a thank you to get the subject out of the hypnosis. This phrase is used for civillians and basically anyone who's not a Joo Dee once whoever's done with them.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu Ten, Kenta and Min Lee, who is implied to be the eldest of Ty Lee's many sisters.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Lu Ten will seem like this to Kenta and Min Lee.
* VillainousBreakdown: {{Downplayed}} with Iroh when his son dies, as it's a quieter realization. Eventually he just leaves abruptly.
* PapaWolf: Shirong to his 'projects'. Though he's in denial.
* ParentalSubstitute: Ursa to Lu Ten. He sees her as a mother.
* PetTheDog: Shirong attends his godson's birthday party and is shown to be a genuinely good godfather and friend in chapter seven. Contrast this with chapter eight, where he is [[spoiler:nonchalantly mindraping Lu Ten. A stranger example is when Lu Ten/Xiaofan is calling out pitifully for his father Iroh, and Shirong comforts him, telling him that the process does not have to be painful, but continues brainwashing him anyway.]]
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:Lu Ten soon has his Firebending robbed from him.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Xiaofan.
-->'''Xiaofan''': "What the ''hell'' are you talking about?"
* RunningGag: Shirong being uncreative when choosing names. Plus, Enlai and spiderflies.
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: Lu Ten, eventually.]]
* SeriousBusiness: Boarqupine roasting for Jouin, tea for Lu Ten, and Earthbending Ball for Huang and Wu Sheng.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shirong mentions in his internal monologue that traumatized war veterans who are Earthbenders are brainwashed as to avoid from them causing mishaps from a combination of flashbacks and out of control Earthbending. Also, war veterans who cannot be quiet about the war.
* ShownTheirWork: The author, Caelum Blue has done extensive amounts of research and even made her own ''calender'' (which can be seen on her profile) for the series using ancient Chinese influence and a hell of a lot of brainstorming.
* SoleSurvivor: Lu Ten is the only survivor found from his platoon.
* TheStoic: Delun, who takes things in stride.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Shirong thinks it's better to brainwash citizens rather than kill them.
* WordOfGod: The author has not declared this series dead, and says it will be continued, but when... is rather unclear.
* WorldBuilding: In particular, Ba Sing Se.
* YouDidntAsk: Lu Ten to Shirong. Shirong simply decides to be more specific.
