Ooh, underground city! Man, I bet there's some awesome stuff down there. And if it was full of spirits, Zuko would definitely go down there and look at them and try to get a handle on what Mai might be dealing with, and looking at wall engravings and abandoned temples, and almost forgetting to take a torch with him.
And of course the Fire Lord's palace would have been built *after* the royal line came into being, possibly quite a while after, so it could totally lack all the ward-patterns and spirit-traps that would have been standard for buildings before then. So she'd have to supervise construction of those, too.
It is pretty disturbing. And also AWESOME. You could probably retire, but I don't imagine you'd want to. They'd have to make sure you didn't spill any secrets, one way or another, and burn your uniform or something. Huh, I wonder what the Dai Li do on their days off?
There would be a lot of spirit attacks at first -- I mean, they'd have several hundred years' worth to make up for, and no one who actually knows how to deal with them -- but after everything was settled down, shrines built, war over, all that, they'd be a lot better off with Fire Lord Mai than with someone who wants to be an academic for the rest of his life. (Come to think of it, her marrying Kuei would be pretty good for the Earth Kingdom as a whole.)
Well, now that we've got Mai and Zuko and Iroh pretty much down, all I have to do is figure out what to do with everyone else. (What do Aang and Katara and Sokka do if Zuko's not chasing them around? Is he chasing them around? Why? Does he have his crew with him if he's not? What about Toph? What about Suki? Hakoda & co? Is Yue just hanging around being a princess, or is she doing something else? What about Jet and his friends? What are Teo and his dad up to? What's everybody going to do about Sozin's Comet? Someone's going to do something during the eclipse; what? When does the assassination happen, and who did it? Aaaaaaa! *hairpull*) But once enough of that's done, I think I'll write Mai and Ty Lee dealing with the assassinations and the spirits trying to eat everyone and hatching a plan to deal with it all.
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And of course the Fire Lord's palace would have been built *after* the royal line came into being, possibly quite a while after, so it could totally lack all the ward-patterns and spirit-traps that would have been standard for buildings before then. So she'd have to supervise construction of those, too.
It is pretty disturbing. And also AWESOME. You could probably retire, but I don't imagine you'd want to. They'd have to make sure you didn't spill any secrets, one way or another, and burn your uniform or something. Huh, I wonder what the Dai Li do on their days off?
There would be a lot of spirit attacks at first -- I mean, they'd have several hundred years' worth to make up for, and no one who actually knows how to deal with them -- but after everything was settled down, shrines built, war over, all that, they'd be a lot better off with Fire Lord Mai than with someone who wants to be an academic for the rest of his life. (Come to think of it, her marrying Kuei would be pretty good for the Earth Kingdom as a whole.)
Well, now that we've got Mai and Zuko and Iroh pretty much down, all I have to do is figure out what to do with everyone else. (What do Aang and Katara and Sokka do if Zuko's not chasing them around? Is he chasing them around? Why? Does he have his crew with him if he's not? What about Toph? What about Suki? Hakoda & co? Is Yue just hanging around being a princess, or is she doing something else? What about Jet and his friends? What are Teo and his dad up to? What's everybody going to do about Sozin's Comet? Someone's going to do something during the eclipse; what? When does the assassination happen, and who did it? Aaaaaaa! *hairpull*) But once enough of that's done, I think I'll write Mai and Ty Lee dealing with the assassinations and the spirits trying to eat everyone and hatching a plan to deal with it all.