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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the other Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other three nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the other Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other three nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-hugging bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Franchise/MetalGear, not Franchise/DocSavage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Franchise/MetalGear, not Franchise/DocSavage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the other Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other three nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the other Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other three nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Franchise/MetalGear, not Franchise/DocSavage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Franchise/MetalGear, not Franchise/DocSavage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the other Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other three nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going to KillEmAll? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
Canon dealt with all of that by actually founding a \\\'\\\'fifth\\\'\\\' nation for those who were more than one element. Vathara\\\'s \\\'verse has most of those individuals as \\\'\\\'spoils of war.\\\'\\\'
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings and other colonies having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords(or the \\\'\\\'other nations\\\'\\\' for that manner) see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics is a failed science.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are a failed science.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are a failed science.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal as opposed to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, especially as due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Waterbenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Watebenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
So what\\\'s going to happen when Vathara\\\'s beloved pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Watebenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Watebenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only emigration-proof waterbenders but the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' trained airbenders. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Cold War Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Watebenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. While insisting that nuclear physics are fantasy.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only leashed waterbenders but \\\'\\\'airbenders\\\'\\\'. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Watebenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. After they claimed to have dumped most of it in deep ocean trenches.
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
Though I\\\'m still wondering how the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdoms will handle the Fire Nations having every bending discipline at their disposal to their own single element - Dragon\\\'s Wings having Earthbenders as citizens, Byakko having not only leashed waterbenders but \\\'\\\'airbenders\\\'\\\'. I\\\'m searching for a metaphor here; Russia having somehow claimed part of America\\\'s grain belt? Or China some of Russia\\\'s mines? And as for airbending, Japan having the only remaining, what - the only weather-controlling Druids in the world?
Back in Chapter 6, Zuko poses the question as it being unfair for the other nations to demand their benders back, because they\\\'re Fire Nation citizens - \\\"his\\\" people. I\\\'m starting to hate that concept - \\\'\\\'he\\\'\\\' may mean \\\"under his protection\\\", but wouldn\\\'t unethical lords see it like Southern plantation owners not wanting to give up uniquely talented \\\'\\\'slaves?\\\'\\\' Controlling benders not of your own element is a pretty big advantage, and due to the unique circumstances of the war, the Fire Nation is the only nation that has it. The Water Tribes don\\\'t have Earthbenders, nor do the Earth Kingdoms have Watebenders, and most believe all the Airbenders to be gone. In global economics, it\\\'s a bit like the Fire Nation has laid violent claim to massive amounts of the world\\\'s oil and steel - and to stretch the airbending monopoly metaphor, 99%+ of the uranium. After they claimed to have dumped most of it in deep ocean trenches.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to incinerate every single living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
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...Azula\'s going to end up a major power post-war, isn\'t she? Because she turned on her father when she still thinks he\'s only going to wipe out the \'\'Water Tribes\'\', people that she has clearly stated that she hates and loves the thought of butchering - because she thinks \'\'he\'s\'\' insane for actually doing it. One-hundred percent PragmaticVillainy.
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...Azula\\\'s going to end up a major power post-war, isn\\\'t she? Because she turned on her father when she still thinks he\\\'s only going to wipe out the \\\'\\\'Water Tribes\\\'\\\', people that she has clearly stated that she hates and loves the thought of butchering - because she thinks \\\'\\\'he\\\'s\\\'\\\' insane for actually trying to do it. One-hundred percent PragmaticVillainy.
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She\'s going to be the friggin\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\'t win(though it\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \'\'will\'\' kill and eat them if she \'\'ever\'\' thinks she can get away with it). \
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She\\\'s going to be the friggin\\\' nuke-waving Nikita Khrushchev of the Vathara!Avatar-verse. Everyone knows that she\\\'s a vicious maniac, but the Fire Nations will put up with her because she\\\'s just this side of invincible, and the other nations will put up with her because they can tell she\\\'s smart enough not to start a war she can\\\'t win(though it\\\'s going to be one-hundred percent ColdWar, given that they all know that she \\\'\\\'will\\\'\\\' kill and eat them if she \\\'\\\'ever\\\'\\\' thinks she can get away with it). \\\"Azula, tear down this wall!\\\" \\\"\\\'\\\'Make\\\'\\\' me, you bear-worshipping bookworm!\\\"
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to kill every living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
So what\\\'s going to happen when all these pragmatic sociopaths realize that Ozai is going for a TotalPartyKill? That he fully intends to kill every living person on the planet who isn\\\'t one-hundred percent loyal to him and him alone? How will the world respond to a post-Comet Fire Nations that tried to murder them all? The big reason you could buy a peaceful resolution in canon is because Fire Lord Zuko ate a metric ton of crow for his actions under Ozai. Here, he\\\'s still an arrogant, brain damaged prick, albeit a smart one like his sister.
...and I just answered my own question. Screwed up as he is, he\\\'s marginally nicer than the cast-iron bitch who\\\'s going to be one of the most powerful post-war Fire leaders. And thus he\\\'ll be the jerkass alternative to his vicious genius sister. The Francisco Franco to Azula\\\'s Khrushchev. Now I know why Vathara isn\\\'t interested in Korra - her post-war Avatarverse is going to be Metal Gear, not Doc Savage.
The only bright note I can see is that Aang is praising Katara as much as she usually does \\\'\\\'him\\\'\\\'. Words are good. Cute blushing!
