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EMBERS SQUEE. <3


With lots of extra Shirong squee on top! Oh Shirong, how are you so awesome.

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I also have that relationship with Embers! Mostly because I read it before I watched the series so I often have a very hard time detaching myself from even the bits about it I don't like.

(Yeah, that A/N was kind of argh all around, though I can see why she might compare Koizilla to a nuclear weapon -- destroyed lots and lots of people with very little warning, spiritually poisoned the area with their ghosts (at least in Embers-verse), that kind of thing.)

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Oh, man - I can see how coming to Avatar-proper through Embers would be ... disorientating, to say the least.

And, yes, I can see the general point when it comes to WMD!Koizilla - it's just the specifics of the Hiroshima comparison are extremely problematic. And while I love the Embers-verse idea of angry ghosts being A Big Problem, I think she was talking about canon!Koizilla, which ... just not nearly as objectionable as she wants it to be, I think. Not that it isn't problematic, of course, oh Avatar and your blissful TV-Y7 glossing-over of massive casualties and collateral damage!

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Thinking about it, Koizilla was actually perfect from a propaganda standpoint. "Mum, why is the Avatar bad?" "Because he's blocking the path for world domination he caused the deaths of thousands of people!" I don't know if they ever brought it up in the show or not, but that had to have been the perfect catalyst for the Fire Nation to really go after Aang.

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Yep, absolutely - I bet there was some rushed-out Ember Island Players version of the brave, doomed Fire Nation liberators being smashed by the Avatar (well, unless it was all swept under the rug as a blow to Fire Nation standing - but that seems unlikely given the sheer scale of the disaster). And, well, Ozai did respond by sending out Azula!