I don't think I can deal with the idea of a world without either Toph or Katara. Especially at the hands of some kind of Zuko/Azula/Fire Nation death trap. Oh my God, the pure amount of heartbreak. At the end, do you think Katara is desperate enough to try Bloodbending? Because that, oh my God.
how his failure is changing him.
Jesus goddamn Christ. Oh, Zuko. Zuko. He had this tiny little thought, from wandering in the Earth Kingdom: maybe this war should be stopped. Maybe we should hold onto what we have. And then, he goes into his first meeting with the economic advisors, and they lay out for him exactly how the entire economy of the Fire Nation is based on war. It has been, for three generations. What would Zuko like to replace it? Trade? Who would the Fire Nation trade with? Agriculture? Has he forgotten that only a relatively small portion of the Fire Nation is suited to agriculture, and that it can feed only half of the mouths in the nation?
Oh Zuko. And then, the first time assassins come for his children -- the legitimate children.
And when Mai catches the assassins, more or less alive, and it turns out they were from Ba Sing Se, ostensibly acting without --
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Date: 2010-09-22 10:01 pm (UTC)I don't think I can deal with the idea of a world without either Toph or Katara. Especially at the hands of some kind of Zuko/Azula/Fire Nation death trap. Oh my God, the pure amount of heartbreak. At the end, do you think Katara is desperate enough to try Bloodbending? Because that, oh my God.
how his failure is changing him.
Jesus goddamn Christ. Oh, Zuko. Zuko. He had this tiny little thought, from wandering in the Earth Kingdom: maybe this war should be stopped. Maybe we should hold onto what we have. And then, he goes into his first meeting with the economic advisors, and they lay out for him exactly how the entire economy of the Fire Nation is based on war. It has been, for three generations. What would Zuko like to replace it? Trade? Who would the Fire Nation trade with? Agriculture? Has he forgotten that only a relatively small portion of the Fire Nation is suited to agriculture, and that it can feed only half of the mouths in the nation?
Oh Zuko. And then, the first time assassins come for his children -- the legitimate children.
And when Mai catches the assassins, more or less alive, and it turns out they were from Ba Sing Se, ostensibly acting without --
Yes.