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Why didn\'t she just say, from the first page, that, \
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Why didn\\\'t she just say, from the first page, that, \\\"I\\\'m re-writing Avatar InTheStyleOf Series/GameOfThrones\\\", to keep the main fandom from freaking out when their kung-fu Indiana Jones flick turned into \\\"[[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F079a.jpg A bunch of deluded boopholes croaking each other.]]\\\"
I\\\'m serious. All my fond memories of the characters are from the canon series. \\\'\\\'No-one did anything genuinely heroic.\\\'\\\' Every action either had an ulterior motive(advance the purposes of their faction) or was just plain stupid and counterproductive(benefiting no-one at all, except maybe the guy trying to wipe out humanity) - and the perpetrator gets chewed out for trying to be a \\\"hero\\\".
And here\\\'s the big thing; the Fire Nation \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'WON THE WAR.\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\' Everyone else got torn to shreds, but the Fire Nation balkanized peacefully, so there\\\'s no-one to pay reparations and no civil war to reduce their power base and prevent further abuses. It\\\'s like a heist flick - they got in, got out, divvied up the loot and ran in separate directions so there is no-one to catch.
The Water Tribes? The South is still decimated(did Pakku lead support South or not?), the North got Blitzed as badly as London did during World War 2. They\\\'re each one good plague away from going the way of the Air Nomads. Foggy Swamp is all right, but they\\\'re allies of the Fire Nations.
The Earth Kingdoms are still crammed to the gills with colonies of various types, from forced-multicultural Yu Dao-types to ethnically-cleansed mining villages - and there are massive units of troops who no longer have a Fire Lord to give them orders. A lot of which are prone to RapePillageAndBurn.
And the Air Nomads? Refugees, all of them. And Aang is not permitted to visit either the Northern Temple or the hidden ones in Byakko. And the desert ones still remember Aang freaking out because he lost his bison and aren\\\'t exactly rushing to talk to him.
Oh, there\\\'s one non-Fire Nation faction that came out ahead; Dragon\\\'s Wings. They have the best farmland in the world, a perfect harbor, a huge population base that thinks their Lord walks on water, and a perfect deterrent in that if their leader dies without an heir the entire world will follow.
And Aang is the one who is supposed to \\\'\\\'stabilize\\\'\\\' this clusterfsck while the most powerful faction - the one that hurt everyone else the most and profited the most - \\\'\\\'\\\'hates his guts.\\\'\\\'\\\'
The people who have caused the most pain and spilled the most blood have prospered the most in the end.
...Holy Fucking Shit. In typing that last sentence, I realized the answer; turn on the news. Vathara turned the Realism dial all the way UpToEleven. \\\'\\\'Because that\\\'s how it works in reality.\\\'\\\' Some people believe in karma, I believe Nixon died in bed. This fic needs a SnicketWarningLabel. Several hundred of them.
And if no-one is planning to click on Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Here\\\'s a trope quote;
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->Liu Bei\\\'s infant son, Liu Chan, was lost at Chang Ban, so Zhao Yun made a selfless charge into enemy lines to bring the kid back. So what does Liu Bei do? He \\\'\\\'throws his kid to the ground\\\'\\\', pissed that he nearly lost a great general. [[spoiler: The kid later grows up and loses the kingdom, and is considered by most readers to be completely useless.]] Probably because he was dropped on his head as a kid. In a major example of ValuesDissonance, \\\'\\\'no one\\\'\\\' in the story calls Liu Bei out on this. Then again, he\\\'s the one who quoted lore as saying that \\\"[b]rothers are as hands and feet; wives and \\\'\\\'children are as clothing\\\'\\\'. You may mend your torn dress, but who can reattach a lost limb?\\\"
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Toph Bei Fong? Sokka, \\\'\\\'Heir\\\'\\\' of Shu Jing? What goes around, \\\'\\\'\\\'comes around!\\\'\\\'\\\'
I\\\'m serious. All my fond memories of the characters are from the canon series. \\\'\\\'No-one did anything genuinely heroic.\\\'\\\' Every action either had an ulterior motive(advance the purposes of their faction) or was just plain stupid and counterproductive(benefiting no-one at all, except maybe the guy trying to wipe out humanity) - and the perpetrator gets chewed out for trying to be a \\\"hero\\\".
And here\\\'s the big thing; the Fire Nation \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'WON THE WAR.\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\' Everyone else got torn to shreds, but the Fire Nation balkanized peacefully, so there\\\'s no-one to pay reparations and no civil war to reduce their power base and prevent further abuses. It\\\'s like a heist flick - they got in, got out, divvied up the loot and ran in separate directions so there is no-one to catch.
The Water Tribes? The South is still decimated(did Pakku lead support South or not?), the North got Blitzed as badly as London did during World War 2. They\\\'re each one good plague away from going the way of the Air Nomads. Foggy Swamp is all right, but they\\\'re allies of the Fire Nations.
The Earth Kingdoms are still crammed to the gills with colonies of various types, from forced-multicultural Yu Dao-types to ethnically-cleansed mining villages - and there are massive units of troops who no longer have a Fire Lord to give them orders. A lot of which are prone to RapePillageAndBurn.
And the Air Nomads? Refugees, all of them. And Aang is not permitted to visit either the Northern Temple or the hidden ones in Byakko. And the desert ones still remember Aang freaking out because he lost his bison and aren\\\'t exactly rushing to talk to him.
Oh, there\\\'s one non-Fire Nation faction that came out ahead; Dragon\\\'s Wings. They have the best farmland in the world, a perfect harbor, a huge population base that thinks their Lord walks on water, and a perfect deterrent in that if their leader dies without an heir the entire world will follow.
And Aang is the one who is supposed to \\\'\\\'stabilize\\\'\\\' this clusterfsck while the most powerful faction - the one that hurt everyone else the most and profited the most - \\\'\\\'\\\'hates his guts.\\\'\\\'\\\'
The people who have caused the most pain and spilled the most blood have prospered the most in the end.
...Holy Fucking Shit. In typing that last sentence, I realized the answer; turn on the news. Vathara turned the Realism dial all the way UpToEleven. \\\'\\\'Because that\\\'s how it works in reality.\\\'\\\' Some people believe in karma, I believe Nixon died in bed. This fic needs a SnicketWarningLabel. Several hundred of them.
And if no-one is planning to click on Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Here\\\'s a trope quote;
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->Liu Bei\\\'s infant son, Liu Chan, was lost at Chang Ban, so Zhao Yun made a selfless charge into enemy lines to bring the kid back. So what does Liu Bei do? He \\\'\\\'throws his kid to the ground\\\'\\\', pissed that he nearly lost a great general. [[spoiler: The kid later grows up and loses the kingdom, and is considered by most readers to be completely useless.]] Probably because he was dropped on his head as a kid. In a major example of ValuesDissonance, \\\'\\\'no one\\\'\\\' in the story calls Liu Bei out on this. Then again, he\\\'s the one who quoted lore as saying that \\\"[b]rothers are as hands and feet; wives and \\\'\\\'children are as clothing\\\'\\\'. You may mend your torn dress, but who can reattach a lost limb?\\\"
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Toph Bei Fong? Sokka, \\\'\\\'Heir\\\'\\\' of Shu Jing? What goes around, \\\'\\\'\\\'comes around!\\\'\\\'\\\'
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Why didn\'t she just say, from the first page, that, \
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Why didn\\\'t she just say, from the first page, that, \\\"I\\\'m re-writing Avatar InTheStyleOf Series/GameOfThrones\\\", to keep the main fandom from freaking out when their kung-fu Indiana Jones flick turned into \\\"[[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F079a.jpg A bunch of deluded boopholes croaking each other.]]\\\"
I\\\'m serious. All my fond memories of the characters are from the canon series. \\\'\\\'No-one did anything genuinely heroic.\\\'\\\' Every action either had an ulterior motive(advance the purposes of their faction) or was just plain stupid and counterproductive(benefiting no-one at all, except maybe the guy trying to wipe out humanity) - and the perpetrator gets chewed out for trying to be a \\\"hero\\\".
And here\\\'s the big thing; the Fire Nation \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'WON THE WAR.\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\' Everyone else got torn to shreds, but the Fire Nation balkanized peacefully, so there\\\'s no-one to pay reparations and no civil war to reduce their power base and prevent further abuses. It\\\'s like a heist flick - they got in, got out, divvied up the loot and ran in separate directions so there is no-one to catch.
The Water Tribes? The South is still decimated(did Pakku lead support South or not?), the North got Blitzed as badly as London did during World War 2. Foggy Swamp is all right, but they\\\'re allies of the Fire Nations in one of the harshest environments in the world. They\\\'re each one good plague away from going the way of the Air Nomads.
The Earth Kingdoms are still crammed to the gills with colonies of various types, from forced-multicultural Yu Dao-types to ethnically-cleansed mining villages - and there are massive units of troops who no longer have a Fire Lord to give them orders. A lot of which are prone to RapePillageAndBurn.
And the Air Nomads? Refugees, all of them. And Aang is not permitted to visit either the Northern Temple or the hidden ones in Byakko. And the desert ones still remember Aang freaking out because he lost his bison and aren\\\'t exactly rushing to talk to him.
Oh, there\\\'s one non-Fire Nation faction that came out ahead; Dragon\\\'s Wings. They have the best farmland in the world, a perfect harbor, a huge population base that thinks their Lord walks on water, and a perfect deterrent in that if their leader dies without an heir the entire world will follow.
And Aang is the one who is supposed to \\\'\\\'stabilize\\\'\\\' this clusterfsck while the most powerful faction - the one that hurt everyone else the most and profited the most - \\\'\\\'hates his guts.\\\'
The people who have caused the most pain and spilled the most blood have prospered the most in the end.
...Holy Fucking Shit. In typing that last sentence, I realized the answer; turn on the news. Vathara turned the Realism dial all the way UpToEleven. \\\'\\\'Because that\\\'s how it works in reality.\\\'\\\' Some people believe in karma, I believe Nixon died in bed. This fic needs a SnicketWarningLabel. Several hundred of them.
And if no-one is planning to click on Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Here\\\'s a trope quote;
-------
->Liu Bei\\\'s infant son, Liu Chan, was lost at Chang Ban, so Zhao Yun made a selfless charge into enemy lines to bring the kid back. So what does Liu Bei do? He \\\'\\\'throws his kid to the ground\\\'\\\', pissed that he nearly lost a great general. [[spoiler: The kid later grows up and loses the kingdom, and is considered by most readers to be completely useless.]] Probably because he was dropped on his head as a kid. In a major example of ValuesDissonance, \\\'\\\'no one\\\'\\\' in the story calls Liu Bei out on this. Then again, he\\\'s the one who quoted lore as saying that \\\"[b]rothers are as hands and feet; wives and \\\'\\\'children are as clothing\\\'\\\'. You may mend your torn dress, but who can reattach a lost limb?\\\"
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Toph Bei Fong? Sokka, \\\'\\\'Heir\\\'\\\' of Shu Jing? What goes around, \\\'\\\'\\\'comes around!\\\'\\\'\\\'
I\\\'m serious. All my fond memories of the characters are from the canon series. \\\'\\\'No-one did anything genuinely heroic.\\\'\\\' Every action either had an ulterior motive(advance the purposes of their faction) or was just plain stupid and counterproductive(benefiting no-one at all, except maybe the guy trying to wipe out humanity) - and the perpetrator gets chewed out for trying to be a \\\"hero\\\".
And here\\\'s the big thing; the Fire Nation \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'WON THE WAR.\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\' Everyone else got torn to shreds, but the Fire Nation balkanized peacefully, so there\\\'s no-one to pay reparations and no civil war to reduce their power base and prevent further abuses. It\\\'s like a heist flick - they got in, got out, divvied up the loot and ran in separate directions so there is no-one to catch.
The Water Tribes? The South is still decimated(did Pakku lead support South or not?), the North got Blitzed as badly as London did during World War 2. Foggy Swamp is all right, but they\\\'re allies of the Fire Nations in one of the harshest environments in the world. They\\\'re each one good plague away from going the way of the Air Nomads.
The Earth Kingdoms are still crammed to the gills with colonies of various types, from forced-multicultural Yu Dao-types to ethnically-cleansed mining villages - and there are massive units of troops who no longer have a Fire Lord to give them orders. A lot of which are prone to RapePillageAndBurn.
And the Air Nomads? Refugees, all of them. And Aang is not permitted to visit either the Northern Temple or the hidden ones in Byakko. And the desert ones still remember Aang freaking out because he lost his bison and aren\\\'t exactly rushing to talk to him.
Oh, there\\\'s one non-Fire Nation faction that came out ahead; Dragon\\\'s Wings. They have the best farmland in the world, a perfect harbor, a huge population base that thinks their Lord walks on water, and a perfect deterrent in that if their leader dies without an heir the entire world will follow.
And Aang is the one who is supposed to \\\'\\\'stabilize\\\'\\\' this clusterfsck while the most powerful faction - the one that hurt everyone else the most and profited the most - \\\'\\\'hates his guts.\\\'
The people who have caused the most pain and spilled the most blood have prospered the most in the end.
...Holy Fucking Shit. In typing that last sentence, I realized the answer; turn on the news. Vathara turned the Realism dial all the way UpToEleven. \\\'\\\'Because that\\\'s how it works in reality.\\\'\\\' Some people believe in karma, I believe Nixon died in bed. This fic needs a SnicketWarningLabel. Several hundred of them.
And if no-one is planning to click on Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Here\\\'s a trope quote;
-------
->Liu Bei\\\'s infant son, Liu Chan, was lost at Chang Ban, so Zhao Yun made a selfless charge into enemy lines to bring the kid back. So what does Liu Bei do? He \\\'\\\'throws his kid to the ground\\\'\\\', pissed that he nearly lost a great general. [[spoiler: The kid later grows up and loses the kingdom, and is considered by most readers to be completely useless.]] Probably because he was dropped on his head as a kid. In a major example of ValuesDissonance, \\\'\\\'no one\\\'\\\' in the story calls Liu Bei out on this. Then again, he\\\'s the one who quoted lore as saying that \\\"[b]rothers are as hands and feet; wives and \\\'\\\'children are as clothing\\\'\\\'. You may mend your torn dress, but who can reattach a lost limb?\\\"
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Toph Bei Fong? Sokka, \\\'\\\'Heir\\\'\\\' of Shu Jing? What goes around, \\\'\\\'\\\'comes around!\\\'\\\'\\\'
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Vathara wrote a [[HobbesWasRight Hobbesian]] Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms-style [[SupernaturalFiction Supernatural]] ConspiracyThriller, with DeliberateValuesDissonance invoked at every turn.
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Vathara wrote a [[HobbesWasRight Hobbesian]] Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms-style [[SupernaturalFiction Supernatural]] ConspiracyThriller, with {{Realpolitik}} and DeliberateValuesDissonance invoked at every turn.
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Why didn\'t she just say, from the first page, that, \
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Why didn\\\'t she just say, from the first page, that, \\\"I\\\'m re-writing Avatar InTheStyleOf Series/GameOfThrones\\\", to keep the main fandom from freaking out when their kung-fu Indiana Jones flick turned into \\\"[[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F079a.jpg A bunch of deluded boopholes croaking each other.]]\\\"
I\\\'m serious. All my fond memories of the characters are from the canon series. \\\'\\\'No-one did anything genuinely heroic.\\\'\\\' Every action either had an ulterior motive(advance the purposes of their faction) or was just plain stupid and counterproductive(benefiting no-one at all, except maybe the guy trying to wipe out humanity) - and the perpetrator gets chewed out for trying to be a \\\"hero\\\".
And here\\\'s the big thing; the Fire Nation \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'WON THE WAR.\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\' Everyone else got torn to shreds, but the Fire Nation balkanized peacefully, so there\\\'s no-one to pay reparations and no civil war to reduce their power base and prevent further abuses. It\\\'s like a heist flick - they got in, got out, divvied up the loot and ran in separate directions so there is no-one to catch.
The Water Tribes? The South is still decimated(did Pakku lead support South or not?), the North got Blitzed as badly as London did during World War 2. Foggy Swamp is all right, but they\\\'re allies of the Fire Nations in one of the harshest environments in the world. They\\\'re each one good plague away from going the way of the Air Nomads.
The Earth Kingdoms are still crammed to the gills with colonies of various types, from forced-multicultural Yu Dao-types to ethnically-cleansed mining villages - and there are massive units of troops who no longer have a Fire Lord to give them orders. A lot of which are prone to RapePillageAndBurn.
And the Air Nomads? Refugees, all of them. And Aang is not permitted to visit either the Northern Temple or the hidden ones in Byakko. And the desert ones still remember Aang freaking out because he lost his bison and aren\\\'t exactly rushing to talk to him.
Oh, there\\\'s one non-Fire Nation faction that came out ahead; Dragon\\\'s Wings. They have the best farmland in the world, a perfect harbor, a huge population base that thinks their Lord walks on water, and a perfect deterrent in that if their leader dies without an heir the entire world will follow.
The people who have caused the most pain and spilled the most blood have prospered the most in the end.
...Holy Fucking Shit. In typing that last sentence, I realized the answer; turn on the news. Vathara turned the Realism dial all the way UpToEleven. \\\'\\\'Because that\\\'s how it works in reality.\\\'\\\' Some people believe in karma, I believe Nixon died in bed. This fic needs a SnicketWarningLabel. Several hundred of them.
And if no-one is planning to click on Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Here\\\'s a trope quote;
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->Liu Bei\\\'s infant son, Liu Chan, was lost at Chang Ban, so Zhao Yun made a selfless charge into enemy lines to bring the kid back. So what does Liu Bei do? He \\\'\\\'throws his kid to the ground\\\'\\\', pissed that he nearly lost a great general. [[spoiler: The kid later grows up and loses the kingdom, and is considered by most readers to be completely useless.]] Probably because he was dropped on his head as a kid. In a major example of ValuesDissonance, \\\'\\\'no one\\\'\\\' in the story calls Liu Bei out on this. Then again, he\\\'s the one who quoted lore as saying that \\\"[b]rothers are as hands and feet; wives and \\\'\\\'children are as clothing\\\'\\\'. You may mend your torn dress, but who can reattach a lost limb?\\\"
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Toph Bei Fong? Sokka, \\\'\\\'Heir\\\'\\\' of Shu Jing? What goes around, \\\'\\\'\\\'comes around!\\\'\\\'\\\'
I\\\'m serious. All my fond memories of the characters are from the canon series. \\\'\\\'No-one did anything genuinely heroic.\\\'\\\' Every action either had an ulterior motive(advance the purposes of their faction) or was just plain stupid and counterproductive(benefiting no-one at all, except maybe the guy trying to wipe out humanity) - and the perpetrator gets chewed out for trying to be a \\\"hero\\\".
And here\\\'s the big thing; the Fire Nation \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'WON THE WAR.\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\' Everyone else got torn to shreds, but the Fire Nation balkanized peacefully, so there\\\'s no-one to pay reparations and no civil war to reduce their power base and prevent further abuses. It\\\'s like a heist flick - they got in, got out, divvied up the loot and ran in separate directions so there is no-one to catch.
The Water Tribes? The South is still decimated(did Pakku lead support South or not?), the North got Blitzed as badly as London did during World War 2. Foggy Swamp is all right, but they\\\'re allies of the Fire Nations in one of the harshest environments in the world. They\\\'re each one good plague away from going the way of the Air Nomads.
The Earth Kingdoms are still crammed to the gills with colonies of various types, from forced-multicultural Yu Dao-types to ethnically-cleansed mining villages - and there are massive units of troops who no longer have a Fire Lord to give them orders. A lot of which are prone to RapePillageAndBurn.
And the Air Nomads? Refugees, all of them. And Aang is not permitted to visit either the Northern Temple or the hidden ones in Byakko. And the desert ones still remember Aang freaking out because he lost his bison and aren\\\'t exactly rushing to talk to him.
Oh, there\\\'s one non-Fire Nation faction that came out ahead; Dragon\\\'s Wings. They have the best farmland in the world, a perfect harbor, a huge population base that thinks their Lord walks on water, and a perfect deterrent in that if their leader dies without an heir the entire world will follow.
The people who have caused the most pain and spilled the most blood have prospered the most in the end.
...Holy Fucking Shit. In typing that last sentence, I realized the answer; turn on the news. Vathara turned the Realism dial all the way UpToEleven. \\\'\\\'Because that\\\'s how it works in reality.\\\'\\\' Some people believe in karma, I believe Nixon died in bed. This fic needs a SnicketWarningLabel. Several hundred of them.
And if no-one is planning to click on Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Here\\\'s a trope quote;
-------
->Liu Bei\\\'s infant son, Liu Chan, was lost at Chang Ban, so Zhao Yun made a selfless charge into enemy lines to bring the kid back. So what does Liu Bei do? He \\\'\\\'throws his kid to the ground\\\'\\\', pissed that he nearly lost a great general. [[spoiler: The kid later grows up and loses the kingdom, and is considered by most readers to be completely useless.]] Probably because he was dropped on his head as a kid. In a major example of ValuesDissonance, \\\'\\\'no one\\\'\\\' in the story calls Liu Bei out on this. Then again, he\\\'s the one who quoted lore as saying that \\\"[b]rothers are as hands and feet; wives and \\\'\\\'children are as clothing\\\'\\\'. You may mend your torn dress, but who can reattach a lost limb?\\\"
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Toph Bei Fong? Sokka, \\\'\\\'Heir\\\'\\\' of Shu Jing? What goes around, \\\'\\\'\\\'comes around!\\\'\\\'\\\'
