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I just realized the reason I'm (very slowly) writing this Zuko-in-Ba-Sing-Se!fic is a) to fulfill my narrative kink of Destined Hero abandoning their destiny for a happy domestic-ish life, b) to write something about the Dai Li, and c) to get Zuko/Li* to go to university. And get all angry about them not having certain scholarly works in their collection, since, seriously, just because you happen to be at war with someone's country is no reason not to have copies of everything they ever wrote. Also maybe he will get offended that they only have the modernist version of Love Amongst the Dragons and spend weeks trying to find someone who has the one written in pre-Reformation Vulgar Fire Nation. Oh gods I am not equipped to be turning Zuko into an academic. Why am I trying? Oh right because I am secretly trying to write the most idfic-y Zuko ever. Okay then. :D


*I don't know if Zuko is the kind of person who thinks of himself by name in his head. But I personally would find if everyone I met knew me as Li and called me such then that would be pretty effectively my name whether I was given it at birth or not.



Also Wade-Giles romanization can go DIAF. *glare*

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[branchandroot]

just because you happen to be at war with someone's country is no reason not to have copies of everything they ever wrote

*laughing a lot* I can totally see him thinking this way! I will be waiting to read this fic, when you're done.

Also Wade-Giles romanization can go DIAF

*holds up a box of matches with a helpful expression* I'm so totally with you. I suppose it's more linguistically consistent, but it's so freaking unintuitive it's nearly useless for anything /but/ linguistic notation.