Line #40 FanFic/TraitorsFace


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Um, Aang, you might want to turn around...]]
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4	Aang awakes from his century-long hibernation to look up into Fire Nation eyes, and Mai finds that her trip to the South Pole has taken a turn for the exciting. In this Alternate Universe, the only thing more powerful than love is the call of betrayal.
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6	''Traitor's Face'' is an epic by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1723055/Loopy777 Loopy777]], a prolific author of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfiction. It's an AlternateTimeline that gives Aang a new adventure when he emerges from his iceberg, as well as a new cast of allies. The story is a aversion of TheStationsOfTheCanon, with the various "episodes" sharing at most a title and a setting with equivalent events from the original versions.
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8	The story is broken up into separate acts that cover a major subplot. They roughly correspond with the Water, Earth, and Fire themes from the original cartoon, but instead of being focused on the type of Bending Aang learns, they mix the adventure and intrigue with showcases of the culture of the various nations. Spirituality and superstition are a bigger focus here than in the cartoon, and the Fire Nation is less unified in its leadership, leading to more stories with horror elements and political intrigue. The state of the war is also vastly different, leading to different backstories and contexts for the characters.
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10	Due to the storyline drastically differing from the cartoon past a certain point, spoilers aren’t viable, as most of the pages would be hidden. As such, all spoilers up to the end of Act 2 '''are not hidden.'''
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12	Traitor's Face can be found [[https://loopy777.deviantart.com/art/Traitor-s-Face-Prologue-504471584 here]], [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3099866/chapters/6716018 here]], or [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10942328/1/Traitor-s-Face here]].
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14	!!The traitorous tropes in this story include
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16	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Kei Lo's crush on Mai. In this timeline, Kei Lo is an apprentice non-Firebender sage who shaves his head and plays drums in spiritual ceremonies. He's more eager and worshipful than his canon counterpart, putting Mai off.
17	* ActionPrologue: Kuruk confronting Koh.
18	* AdaptationalHeroism: Hama is Katara's benevolent waterbending master in this AU (switching the roles with Pakku).
19	* AdaptationalVillainy: Pakku and [[spoiler: Iroh]] are evil in this AU.
20	* AffablyEvil: Some of the Weapons. They were conscripted for their fighting abilities, not for their enthusiasm for Fire Nation conquest.
21	* AfterTheEnd: The story doesn't begin, and Aang doesn't thaw from his iceberg, until after the return of Sozin's Comet and the end of the war.
22	* AgentProvocateur: Jet's agenda against Mai as the Blue Spirit.
23	* AllJustADream: Zuko's journey through the ashland. Or was it?
24	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Jet to Mai, and then Azula to Jet.
25	* AmbiguouslyEvil: Ozai and [[spoiler: Iroh]].
26	* AndIMustScream: The absolutely inhumane living conditions that the waterbenders have to endure in the prison on Crescent Island. They're locked up in cages in a dehydration chamber that is "drier than any desert in the world".
27	* AndroclesLion: After helping to save the pixiu, it gives a "gift" of coins to Mai... by puking them up on her from the supply it ate.
28	* AntiHero: Jet, one of the rebels operating as the Blue Spirit.
29	* ApocalypseWow: The volcano on Crescent Island, the Ba Sing Se ash monster, the Fire Nation Civil War, to name a few.
30	* ArrangedMarriage: Mai had one planned with Lu Ten (for when she reached an appropriate age), and one of the ongoing mysteries is why Iroh broke it off before it could happen.
31	* AscendedExtra:
32	** Mai goes from being one of Azula's CoDragons to one of the main characters.
33	** Suki is a much more important character, with her own subplots, and even a full episode backstory flashback.
34	* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: How [[spoiler: Toph]] became the Earth King after the destruction of Ba Sing Se- she beat up the Earth Sages and other such until they [[SheIsTheKing declared her king.]]
35	* AuthorAppeal: The story includes enough details to make clear how encrypted fire nation telegram works, even though it's not really relevant to the story. Also, Mai being elevated to a main character; most of the author's past works focus on her.
36	* AwesomeButImpractical: The platinum knife that Mai is given as a token of welcome by Commander Zhao... at least until the special properties of platinum are revealed.
37	%%* BackForTheDead: Kirai in Act 3.
38	* BadassBookworm: Sokka worked in a Fire Nation laboratory in this AU, so he's more educated, especially on matters of metallurgy.
39	* BalanceOfPower: When the Fire Nation's internal balance of power fell apart, war erupted in the Capital.
40	* BarefootCaptives: Katara, Hama, and the other Southern waterbenders are dressed only in ragged tunics and bare feet when imprisoned by the Fire Nation on Crescent Island.
41	* BashBrothers: Mai and Ty Lee, as well as Ty Lee's sisters. The latter all wield tonfa and have been training to try to reach the level of a Weapon of the Fire Nation.
42	* BecomingTheMask: Mai, during her infiltration of the Aang's quest.
43	* BetaCouple: Zuko and Suki seem to be going this way. People have also noticed something between Katara and Ty Lee.
44	* BigBadFriend: What Mai is ordered to become to Aang. She's supposed to be operating as Azula's agent even while pretending to be a rebel joining the Avatar's cause.
45	* BigDamnHeroes:
46	** Sokka saves Mai from the zombies in the Southern Air Temple, wielding an arm from a statue of a past Avatar.
47	** Zuko and Mai lead reinforcements to Ba Sing Se to save Aang from Leng Feng
48	** Sokka frees Katara and the other Southern waterbenders from the waterbender prison in Chapters 17 and 18.
49	** At the end of Act 3, Katara and Ty Lee save Mai from Kei Lo, and the Ty Sisters save Sokka from Combustion Man.
50	* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Fire Royals, even more than in the cartoon!
51	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Aang is able to restore balance to the world and repair the spiritual damage but at the cost of his life. Mai's soul is freed from Koh and she's reunited with Aang, but they have to pass on. With Aang gone, the Air Nomads are extinct. Sixteen years later, even with the spiritual balance restored, the world has a long way to go before any final peace. While the United Water Tribes are growing strong, the Earth Kingdom is still pulling itself together, and the Fire Nation has disintegrated into civil war. However Sokka, Katara, Yue, Ty Lee, Toph, Suki and Zuko are there to continue the struggle. And a new Avatar is ready along with a reborn familiar friend...]]
52	* BlindfoldedVision: Lady Caldera Yu Gerel, the oldest Weapon of the Fire Nation and one of the rare Firebenders to be called a 'Dragon.'
53	* BloodyHorror: At the end of the first arct of Act 3, Toph feels Heiyaoshi bleed out at the end of their confrontation.
54	* BodyguardCrush: Hinted with Suki and Zuko.
55	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Mai's reputation at the beginning of the story.
56	* BreakTheCutie: Mai's betrayal for Aang. It not only sends him into the Avatar State, but links him up with an active volcano!
57	** All the main kids in this AU are broken cuties.
58	*** Fire Nation soldiers murdered Kya and Hakoda in front of Katara and Sokka and then took Katara away to be imprisoned in a Waterbender Prison. [[AndIMustScream For 10 years.]]
59	*** Ty Lee never fit in with her family and ran off to join the circus. And then her fellow circus members died in the Comet Offensive against the Earth Kingdom.
60	*** Zuko got scarred (as per the norm), but [[spoiler:reuniting with his mother just as she dies]] takes the cake. This also sends Azula into a catatonic state of shock.
61	*** Suki was routinely abused by her older sister Kirai ever since she was little. And then Kirai betrays their clan and murders them as her first act of being a Fire Navy soldier.
62	* BrokenPedestal: Mai is this to Aang after her betrayal.
63	* CallingTheOldManOut: Zuko's main mission during the Fire Nation arc in Act 3.
64	* CameBackWrong: The bodies of the Air Nomads were revived as something akin to zombies. [[spoiler:Also, Lu Ten]].
65	* CanonForeigner: Some of the Weapons of the Fire Nation, as well as Suki's older sister, Kirai.
66	* CarryingTheAntidote: In Act 3, averted for Azula after she poisons Kirai, as she herself points out. Sokka concedes that she's smart enough to know better.
67	* CharacterDevelopment: Mai and Aang are the main focus of the story, and their dynamic reflects their growing maturity and the shades of gray they see in the world.
68	* CheerfulChild: The Water Tribe mutts who live with Sokka and Gran-Gran. Katara was this with the other waterbender prisoners, who were adults and elders.
69	* ChekhovsGun:
70	** Koh’s off of a favor for the Avatar is established in the prologue, but Koh has yet to appear in the story itself.
71	** It is heavily implied that Gyatso reincarnated into Momo, and that the latter possesses all of the former’s memories.
72	* ChekhovsVolcano: At the end of Book 1, the gAang infiltrate a Waterbender Prison inside an active volcano. Aang's Avatar State sets it off, and the escape becomes a lot more complicated.
73	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Kirai.]] Full stop, almost the point of being a DirtyCoward. She'll trade allegiances at the drop of a pebble to whomever she believes to have the upper-hand at that particular time. That said, few of the characters are fooled, or even resignedly expect it from her and rarely give her a second chance. Those that do... [[spoiler:don't give her a third.]]
74	* ChildrenForcedToKill: Suki's origin -- she and her sister were part of a Kyoshi Island gang made up children who lethally defended their neighborhood from careless Fire Nation colonists.
75	* CityMouse: Mai, when she first starts roughing it on Appa's back with Aang and Sokka. She freaks out over using bushes and bathrooms and bathing in "wild water."
76	* ColdBloodedTorture: The Fire Nation's imprisonment of the Southern waterbenders. While infiltrating the prison to save Katara, Sokka describes the prison's inhumane living conditions as a "miserable living death" for the waterbender prisoners.
77	* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Suki to Sokka at the first meeting, while the Fire Nation is trying to capture them.
78	* ConflictingLoyalty: Mai becomes split between Aang, who she's getting to know, and Zuko, who she wants to save from his banishment. Likewise, Suki is frequently divided between friends and family on both sides of the war.
79	* CorpseLand: The Southern Air Temple.
80	* CurbStompBattle: Aang versus the Air Nomad zombies, with the help of the Avatar State.
81	* DaddysGirl: Azula, of course. As in canon, this is the root of her downfall.
82	* DamageSpongeBoss: Combustion Man when the Ty Sisters attack him.
83	* DarkActionGirl: Mai and Heiyaoshi, who both wear dark colors and favor bladed-weapons. Heiyaoshi takes this to such an extreme, even using black volcano-glass blades, that Mai is disgusted.
84	* DarkerAndEdgier: And BloodierAndGorier too.
85	* DeathInTheLimelight: In Act 3, Jet.
86	* DefectorFromDecadence: Mai, eventually.
87	* DisproportionateRetribution: Ozai's actions against anyone who puts Zuko in danger. Or looks like they might be putting Zuko in danger sometime in the future.
88	* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Suki ends up this way, to her increasing distress.
89	* DragonWithAnAgenda: Azula gets this way as she perceives that Ozai doesn't trust her.
90	* DressingAsTheEnemy: The Kyoshi Island break-in.
91	* DueToTheDead: This AU plays up the idea that all the dead from the war have made for dangerous, haunted landscapes. Proper funerals are a practical safety measure.
92	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Mai, of course, and also Heiyaoshi.
93	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Fire Nation has an entire powered stronghold in a massive sinkhole.
94	* EldritchAbomination: The Ba Sing Se ash monster, the accumulated debris of the city's burning given life and formed into a single kaiju.
95	* EmpathicEnvironment: It seems to be a side-effect of the Avatar State in some places, like the volcano and the South Pole.
96	* EnemyCivilWar: In Act 3, the Fire Nation Capital's political games deteriorate into a small civil war.
97	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even fallen as far as he is, Iroh had enough sense to not release [[GodOfEvil Vaatu]] from his imprisonment when he was offered power.
98	* EvilCounterpart: Some of the Weapons of the Fire Nation for the gAang:
99	** Lady Gerel for Toph
100	** Heiyaoshi for Mai
101	** [[spoiler:Kei Lo for Mai]]
102	* EvilMentor: Pakku for Katara, in a world where the North Pole has been conquered and colonized by the Fire Nation.
103	* EvilOldFolks: Iroh and Pakku.
104	* EvilPowerVacuum: What would result from Fire Lord Azulon's death, as feared by his military leadership
105	* EyeObscuringHat: Katara wears one to cope with her agoraphobia.
106	* EyepatchOfPower: Zuko wears one to cover his missing eye.
107	* EyeScream: Zuko lost his eye to an infection of the burn on his face in this AU, and the incident itself is seen in the ashland flashback.
108	* FakingTheDead: Sokka pretends to be killed by Fire Nation soldiers (actually Kyoshi rebels in disguise) to get into the Kyoshi base.
109	* FallGuy: Azula uses a fall-guy to take the heat for the arrangements she made for Mai's esacpe from the South Pole
110	* FalseFriend: Mai in Act 1.
111	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In Act 3, [[spoiler: Weapons Heiyaoshi, Lady Gerel, and Kei Lo die as they live: violently and bloodily.]]
112	* FantasticGhetto: The Southern Water Tribe colony, where all of the local tribes are forced to live together as a labor supply for the local mine. They are paid in tokens that have to be exchanged for food supplied by the Fire Nation.
113	* FantasticSlurs: The Fire Nation calls individusal from the Water Tribes, "Tribals." Sokka calls out that while the word itself isn't bad, it's the way it's used that's the problem.
114	* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Aang comes back a year later than in the cartoon, and the Fire Nation has already won the war.
115	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Koh prologue.
116	* ForWantOfANail: The main branching point of this universe is apparently that Iroh decided to become an Admiral in the Navy instead of a General in the Army.
117	* FromBadToWorse: Breaking into the sinkhole base: first the cave collapses, then Sokka gets captured, then the power station explodes, then Mai gets captured, then Long Feng shows up, then Aang attacks Ty Lee...
118	* GambitPileup: What leads to the Fire Nation civil war.
119	* GeniusLoci: The Everstorm and the Crescent Island Volcano, at least when Aang is in the Avatar State.
120	* GloryHound: Zhao, of course!
121	* GoingNative: Mai in Act 2. She starts wearing green and even stops tying up her hair.
122	* GoodFeelsGood: What gets Mai to start regretting her service to the Fire Nation. Unfortunately, it comes too late to stop her from betraying Aang.
123	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Zuko's scar (over which he sometimes wears an eyepatch), and Mai gets a fireball-scar on her side that she usually covers.
124	* HateSink: Kirai is viewed as this by the readers and even the author himself.
125	* HeelFaceTurn: The entire thrust of Mai's first arc in Act 1.
126	* HeroicBSOD: Mai has one after she draws her sword on Sokka in anger, the culmination of her self-loathing throughout Act 2.
127	** After being freed from the waterbender prison, Katara becomes agitated whenever she's captured and placed in a cage ([[spoiler:Chapter 26]]), and becomes downright terrified when [[spoiler:she has to fight inside a Fire Nation fortress with an interior that is similar to that of the waterbender prison]] ([[spoiler:Chapter 72]]).
128	* HeroicSacrifice: Mai and Sokka attempt this several times. Their friends won't let it stick. [[spoiler: Also, Jet does this.]]
129	** [[spoiler: Katara thinks Jet betrays her one last time before dying, but it turned out to be a feint to allow her to get away with the information on Iroh.]]
130	** [[spoiler: Sadly both Aang and Mai end up doing this. Mai sacrifces her face to Koh in order to save Aang from the mutated Zhao, and Aang sacrifices himself to restore balance to the world.]]
131	* HiddenAgendaVillain: Iroh and Ozai may both be AmbiguouslyEvil, but it is really not clear what it is that they are up to.
132	* HiddenElfVillage: The Earthbender village. More sympathetic than usual because Earthbending is outlawed by the Fire Nation conquerers.
133	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In Act 3, Heiyaoshi's volcano-glass knives are used to kill her by Toph.
134	* HopeSpot: In the sinkhole base, when Mai and Sokka find that [[spoiler: Ty Lee]] is alive.
135	* HumanWeapon: The Weapons of the Fire Nation. They were all conscripted, and while they are rewarded for their service, they don't have any personal rights.
136	* IHaveYourWife: Suki's sister is used against her multiple times.
137	* ImperfectRitual: Long Feng's attempt to restore Ba Sing Se.
138	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Mai, of course!
139	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Mai saves Sokka and Aang at the Kyoshi Market by throwing the carved novelty soaps she'd been looking at, including red skulls.
140	* ImprovisedWeapon: Sokka uses a statue arm against the air nomad zombies.
141	* InsistentTerminology: Sokka doesn't like being called a 'Tribal,' and the pirate working for Pakku insisted he was a privateer.
142	* IslandBase: Crescent Island has been made into a prison for Waterbenders.
143	* IWillFindYou: Even after 10 years of separation, Sokka holds it as his duty to find out what happened to Katara, and to rescue her if she's still alive.
144	* ItsAllMyFault: Sokka blames himself completely for Katara's capture by the Fire Nation, even though as a 6-year-old boy there was not much he could do about it.
145	** Aang blaming himself for the state of the world after the Fire Nation's victory.
146	* {{Jerkass}}: Mai behaves like one to both cover her inner vulnerability, and also her lack of enthusiasm for her allies' cause while working for the enemy.
147	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mai, eventually.
148	* KingOnHisDeathbed: Azulon. Everyone in the Fire Nation is making contingencies for it.
149	* KryptoniteFactor: Platinum appears to be this for spirits.
150	* LaserGuidedKarma: The current spirit plagues? The Ashlands and the ghosts within them and at the locations of other massacres haunting everyone? The countless non-human problems that are arising worldwide, requiring even more troop movements and platinum just to keep them in check? All pretty much '''''entirely''''' the Fire Nation’s fault.
151	* LavaAddsAwesome: Did anyone think that a volcano prison wouldn't be exploding at any point?
152	** Oh, Azula ''definitely'' saw that one coming. And she had every intention of leaving the waterbender prisoners behind to get vaporized by the eruption.
153	* LesCollaborateurs: Sokka works for the Fire Nation in one of their labs, when the story starts. The South Pole has been conquered, so it's either that or slave-labor in the mines.
154	* LightningCanDoAnything: Azula's lightning bolt somehow interacted with the platinum spear to kill the Ba Sing Se monster.
155	* LoveAtFirstSight: Aang with Mai, as it turns out.
156	* LoveInterestTraitor: Aang and Mai.
157	* LuredIntoATrap: The whole point behind Mai infiltrating the gAang. She wants Zuko to be waiting to spring a trip so that he can capture the Avatar and end his banishment.
158	* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Ursa, even more so than in canon.]]
159	* MayDecemberRomance: Mai is a year older in this fic than she was in the cartoon (making her about sixteen), but Aang is still twelve years old. Also, Mai's engagement to Lu Ten when she was a child.
160	* MeaningfulFuneral: [[spoiler: The Guru, in the beginning of Act 2.]]
161	* MentorArchetype: The Guru is moreso here than in the cartoon.
162	* MilitaryCoup: In Act 3, [[spoiler: attempted against Ozai after Azukon and Li & Lo all die within a day of him assuming power.]]
163	* MindRape: Long Feng against Mai and Sokka, as he does.
164	* {{Mordor}}: The Ashlands, the holdouts in the Earth Kingdom where the Fire Nation unleashed the full power of Sozin's Comet and left nothing but deserts made of ash.
165	* MyGreatestFailure: The primary three characters (Aang, Sokka and Mai) suffer from their own major failures, and it defines their actions throughout the entire story.
166	** Sokka being unable to prevent the Fire Nation from imprisoning Katara results in him being a somewhat overprotective big brother when he finally manages to rescue her years later.
167	** After betraying Aang and breaking his heart, Mai completes a full HeelFaceTurn and spends the rest of the story trying to make it up to Aang.
168	** As in canon, Aang blames himself for running away and thus causing the world's current state.
169	* MythArc: Aang trying to restore balance to the world. Unlike the cartoon, this isn't a simple matter of winning the war.
170	* {{Necromantic}}: Long Feng for Ba Sing Se, as far as the gAang's perspective goes.
171	* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The gang Suki and Kirai ran with as kids protected the neighborhood from the Fire Nation oppressors.
172	* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Ty Lee, because she died in what would become an Ashland.]]
173	* NightOfTheLivingMooks: The Air Nomad zombies.
174	* NonActionGuy: Sokka, as he got no warrior training in this AU, and only knows what he's been able to pick up from his friends during their downtime.
175	* NoodleIncident: Suki says, "Remember, only one or two at a time, and wash off your paint first. Nagori, that goes double for you. I don’t want a repeat of the Noodle Stand Incident."
176	* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: [[spoiler: Mai, after Azula's BSOD]]
177	* NotAMorningPerson: Mai and Sokka. Aang is relieved when Katara joins the group and there's another morning person around.
178	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Ty Lee, as many predicted.]]
179	* NotUsedToFreedom: After spending her entire childhood imprisoned in a small cage, Katara often feels unsafe in new surroundings after being freed. [[spoiler:Bloodbending helps her to get over this fear, though.]]
180	* OriginsEpisode: Zuko and Suki each get one, via flashbacks.
181	* OurNudityIsDifferent: The Fire Nation are less tolerant of going shirtless than Air Nomads or Water Tribes, as Mai discovers when Sokka and Aang start stripping to put on disguises on Kyoshi Island.
182	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Specifically, the Air Nomad 'zombies' are based on real-life legends of Di Fu Ling and other Chinese monsters.
183	* PartyScattering: Act 2 and 3 both make use of this.
184	* PersonOfMassDestruction: The idea behind the Weapons of the Fire Nation; each one is considered as effective as an army, in the right circumstances.
185	* PoisonAndCureGambit: In Act 3, Azula demands Zuko's return in exchange for the antidote to Kirai's poisoning.
186	* PoorCommunicationKills: In Act 3, Appa is shot out of the sky over the Fire Nation Capital because Ozai didn't remember to say to let the Avatar in.
187	* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Ozai, as it turns out. Ursa replaced him with a magic mask before the story begins.]]
188	* PostVictoryCollapse: After surviving the Blue Spirit's attack, Mai vomits. She did take a pretty hard hit to the stomach.
189	* ProperLady: Mai, whenever she can manage. And is in the mood.
190	* ReassignedToAntarctica: Zhao's initial motivation. He hates being posted at the South Pole and chases the Avatar on a flimsy pretext in hopes of getting promoted or reassigned.
191	* ReformedButRejected: Mai after her betrayal of Aang.
192	* RelativeError: Upon meeting Team Avatar, Hahn thinks that Katara and Sokka are a couple rather than siblings.
193	* RescueArc: The first arc of the story is about saving Katara and the other Southern waterbenders from a Fire Nation prison.
194	* RogueAgent: In Act 2, Jet after he discovers that Iroh leads the White Lotus and Blue Spirits.
195	* SatisfiedStreetRat: Suki as a street rat considers herself no worse off than anyone else suffering under the Fire Nation, and it gave her access to valuable allies and skills.
196	* SaveThePrincess: The overall plot of the First Act is the search for Katara.
197	* SiblingTeam: The Ty Sisters, all trained to fight together with tonfa. Ty Lee is the odd one out for rejecting the weapon, being more of a pacifist.
198	* StreetUrchin: Suki's backstory in this AU.
199	* SuccessionCrisis: What everyone fears, considering that Iroh is Azulon's heir but he hasn't returned to the Fire Nation after conquering the North Pole.
200	* SupportingLeader: Toph, [[spoiler: the new Earth King.]]
201	* TailorMadePrison: The Southern waterbenders are all kept inside a volcano, where the dry air keeps them from having any water to bend.
202	* TakingTheHeat: Azula's fall guy for routing supplies to Mai's deep-cover assignment, whose family is paid off after he 'confesses' and kills himself.
203	* TheAlcatraz: The gAang infiltrates several prisons, each crazier than the last.
204	* TheAtoner: Mai, after the first Act.
205	* TheBusCameBack: In Act 3, Kirai.
206	* TheCaper: The infiltration of the Kyoshi Island base and the sinkhole fortress.
207	* TheClan: The Fire Nation has forsaken its old clan system, in favor of a city-centered system that puts more prestige on proximity to the capital.
208	* TheFagin: In Suki's backstory, Oyaji runs the local urchin gang that gives trouble for the Fire Nation.
209	* TheMutiny: At the end of Act 1, Jet seizes 'The Tub' to make sure it's available to support Aang at the expense of his allies.
210	* ThePsychoRangers: The Weapons of the Fire Nation, a group of Fire Nation warriors conscripted as lifelong servants of the throne for their fighting abilities.
211	* TheGhost:
212	** Yue. She’s been mentioned a handful of times by other characters, but has yet to really appear.
213	** Lu Ten. Justified – according to Iroh, he’s been driven insane by the spirits.
214	* TheStarscream: Zhao. It backfires and he winds up having to work for Iroh. Not that he stops looking for opportunities...
215	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Yon Rha's grilled eel dinner is served just before he hears that the Unagi is attacking his base.
216	* ThouShaltNotKill: Mai tries not to kill Fire Nation soldiers while operating as a mole. Azula gave her permission to do so, though.
217	* TunnelNetwork: The old smuggler tunnels used by the Kyoshi rebels.
218	* UncannyAtmosphere: The Ashlands, caused by the imbalance of so many violent deaths.
219	* UniquenessDecay: After Mai is introduced as a Weapon of the Fire Nation, two Acts go by before the story brings in the others.
220	* UnusualEuphemism: Water Tribes have "slush" as a swear word (Gran-Gran scolds Sokka anytime he says it), and the Fire Nation has "ash". After spending enough time with the Gaang, Mai comes up with "slushing ash" for the most dire situations.
221	* UngratefulBastard: Iroh killed Chief Arnook even after Princess Yue revived Lu Ten.
222	* VillainEpisode: Whenever Zuko's crew gets the focus in the first two Acts.
223	* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler: Azula, after the truth about Ozai is revealed.]]
224	* VolcanoLair: The Waterbender prison on Cresent Island. The Fire Nation created what Sokka calls a 'dryness engine' that uses conduction to superheat the whole place and dry it of all moisture.
225	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mai after the fight with the Blue Spirt. She took a hard hit to the stomach and then had a bad flight with Aang.
226	* WeaselCoWorker: Zhao to Yon Rha.
227	* WelcomeBackTraitor: When Mai is allowed to return to the gAang.
228	* WhamEpisode: The 'sinkhole Fortress' arc in Act 2 where Sokka and Mai are captured, [[spoiler: Ty Lee is found to be alive, and new Airbenders are found.]] Also, the Fire Nation Civil War at the end of Act 3 where [[spoiler:'Ozai' is revealed to be Ursa]].
229	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Katara has gotten agoraphobia (fear of the sky and wide open spaces) as a result of spending most of her childhood locked up in a cage underground.
230	* WonTheWarLostThePeace: What happens to the Fire Nation. Of course, the Avatar doesn't return until after the war in this AU.
231	* WouldNotShootAGoodGuy: Mai tries not to kill Fire Nation people. By the end of the Fire Nation Civil War, she's purposefully going for kill shots against her fellow Weapons.
232	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: When Aang visits the Southern Air Temple in this AU, not only does he find more corpses than in the cartoon, but the spiritual imbalance in the place raises the corpses as something like zombie monsters that eat people's souls! Defeating the monsters and saving his friends does not feel like a victory to Aang.

Context FanFic / TraitorsFace