:laugh: If I gave any fic the Tom Clancy treatment, I'd shoot myself in the head. I don't want my readers to fall asleep while I'm rewriting the Waterloo.
You have some good ideas in this one, and some misguided ones. Our fever imaginings were closer on your last post. I agree about Iroh--very solid point there. And I would certainly have to have someone be on the look out for the next Avatar; though that really depends on whether Aang is in the Avatar State when he dies or not, I haven't decided.
But I don't ship Ursa, I don't even know if I want her around much less if she's actually going to assassinate anyone, and trains are a definite, definite no-no. I understand the cool factor of what you're saying here, as it could be QUITE awesome to do a train-fight, but the tech of the world doesn't support it. The FN's industry isn't built around coal-powered steam stuff, it's build around firebenders. And if they'd really invented the steam engine, the world would look dramatically different and be in the midst of an industrial revolution. Not viable. But if you are interested in fanfic, I think you should write a steampunk FN story. Sounds like you'd have a lot of fun with that.
Thank you for suggestions, but I really am not at the point where I can consider most of these factors yet. I don't even have a plot. I have a scenario, but I haven't got a plot. Until I figure out how I want it all to go down, I won't know what I need to consider or discard in terms of politics.
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Re: Holy shit dude!
Date: 2008-08-07 03:49 pm (UTC)You have some good ideas in this one, and some misguided ones. Our fever imaginings were closer on your last post. I agree about Iroh--very solid point there. And I would certainly have to have someone be on the look out for the next Avatar; though that really depends on whether Aang is in the Avatar State when he dies or not, I haven't decided.
But I don't ship Ursa, I don't even know if I want her around much less if she's actually going to assassinate anyone, and trains are a definite, definite no-no. I understand the cool factor of what you're saying here, as it could be QUITE awesome to do a train-fight, but the tech of the world doesn't support it. The FN's industry isn't built around coal-powered steam stuff, it's build around firebenders. And if they'd really invented the steam engine, the world would look dramatically different and be in the midst of an industrial revolution. Not viable. But if you are interested in fanfic, I think you should write a steampunk FN story. Sounds like you'd have a lot of fun with that.
Thank you for suggestions, but I really am not at the point where I can consider most of these factors yet. I don't even have a plot. I have a scenario, but I haven't got a plot. Until I figure out how I want it all to go down, I won't know what I need to consider or discard in terms of politics.