Oh my spirits can I say how much I love this verse. To keep from comment spam I'm going to put them all here.
Zuko: I love how you managed to nicely weave into the narrative how devastated this world is. That luxury goods (even very small ones) are gone that decent level "practical" goods are the luxuries. And most kids can't even comprehend the idea of luxury or it's point.
Nasty thought, given how rare children are, I wonder if there's significant kidnapping of healthy ones. Might explain why Ty Lee has air nomad eyes (and I really doubt she has six sisters in this verse)
Sokka and Katara: Again I love the. Because for all the ruinous of the world, the ending provides such a nice contrast. It springs with a hope that offset's and balances the piece. I did have a little disappointment that the topic of conversation hadn't changed. But I guesse it has some sense to it, the SWT was a devastated culture already, brought to substantive existence in canon.
Toph: Oddly, in some way Toph's probably a lot happier in this AU. She got a real validation her parents choose her over anything else in the world. And at the same time without the distance the house provides, they can witness her abilities directly (to the point survival depends on it) so they probably respect her more. Less materially wealthy, but happier.
Thinking about it, she might not even go with the Gaang. There's less of an immediate need for Aang to learn earthbending, and less of an incentive for her to get away.
I wonder how everyone else is doing (on the general assumption that the missing chars are the backround ones.
Suki, is her island constantly praying to Kyoshi, hoping for them to deliver them? (I wonder, has she become bitter and doesn't believe, or is she the only one who still does?) She's probably less of a skilled warrior, villages can't afford to spend time training, she needed to help look for food.
Mai: Interesting thought, I wonder if her parents prestige is based on the presence of Tom-Tom? A single child is good, two makes you special. Thought I doubt she's throwing knifes here, maybe she's a really good stone thrower?
On Ji: I just have this odd image of a little village in the corner of the Fire Nation that keeps it's school open. Only one child is there, but it keeps it open. Stubbornly refusing to knowledge the Fire Nation is gone, the world has changed.
Long Feng- There is no starvation in Ba Sing Se. (if Ba Sing Se exists, larger cities, quicker famine, though it does have the advantage it grew it's own food)
Course, Ozai and a bunch of other greedy clan leaders from all over the world could start trying...
You know, if your interested, I'm currently doing a meme* with a premise that amounts to "what if when Aang woke up, instead of having to deal with a nearly victorious Fire Nation, he's dealing with a multi way free-for-all between the NWT, SWT, Ba Sing Se, and the Fire Nation all of whom are out to TAKE OVER THE WORLD**" Not to mention all the the minor factions, including the surviving air nomads....
*http://clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com/1485.html **Okay, the Northern Water Tribe just want to take the world's stuff. And Ba Sing Se just want to reunited the earth kingdom, and, you know, kill every non-earthkingdom and halfbreed polluting their territory.
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Re: Life Spirit: Toph Bei Fong
Date: 2010-10-06 02:13 am (UTC)Zuko: I love how you managed to nicely weave into the narrative how devastated this world is. That luxury goods (even very small ones) are gone that decent level "practical" goods are the luxuries. And most kids can't even comprehend the idea of luxury or it's point.
Nasty thought, given how rare children are, I wonder if there's significant kidnapping of healthy ones. Might explain why Ty Lee has air nomad eyes (and I really doubt she has six sisters in this verse)
Sokka and Katara: Again I love the. Because for all the ruinous of the world, the ending provides such a nice contrast. It springs with a hope that offset's and balances the piece. I did have a little disappointment that the topic of conversation hadn't changed. But I guesse it has some sense to it, the SWT was a devastated culture already, brought to substantive existence in canon.
Toph: Oddly, in some way Toph's probably a lot happier in this AU. She got a real validation her parents choose her over anything else in the world. And at the same time without the distance the house provides, they can witness her abilities directly (to the point survival depends on it) so they probably respect her more. Less materially wealthy, but happier.
Thinking about it, she might not even go with the Gaang. There's less of an immediate need for Aang to learn earthbending, and less of an incentive for her to get away.
I wonder how everyone else is doing (on the general assumption that the missing chars are the backround ones.
Suki, is her island constantly praying to Kyoshi, hoping for them to deliver them? (I wonder, has she become bitter and doesn't believe, or is she the only one who still does?) She's probably less of a skilled warrior, villages can't afford to spend time training, she needed to help look for food.
Mai: Interesting thought, I wonder if her parents prestige is based on the presence of Tom-Tom? A single child is good, two makes you special. Thought I doubt she's throwing knifes here, maybe she's a really good stone thrower?
On Ji: I just have this odd image of a little village in the corner of the Fire Nation that keeps it's school open. Only one child is there, but it keeps it open. Stubbornly refusing to knowledge the Fire Nation is gone, the world has changed.
Long Feng- There is no starvation in Ba Sing Se. (if Ba Sing Se exists, larger cities, quicker famine, though it does have the advantage it grew it's own food)
Course, Ozai and a bunch of other greedy clan leaders from all over the world could start trying...
You know, if your interested, I'm currently doing a meme* with a premise that amounts to "what if when Aang woke up, instead of having to deal with a nearly victorious Fire Nation, he's dealing with a multi way free-for-all between the NWT, SWT, Ba Sing Se, and the Fire Nation all of whom are out to TAKE OVER THE WORLD**" Not to mention all the the minor factions, including the surviving air nomads....
*http://clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com/1485.html
**Okay, the Northern Water Tribe just want to take the world's stuff. And Ba Sing Se just want to reunited the earth kingdom, and, you know, kill every non-earthkingdom and halfbreed polluting their territory.