Michael

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

... aaaand it's already slightly wrong, because I found and fixed a few more typos and iffy word choices earlier this evening, after I got home from doing the Mother's Day thing. Which is why I'm not in the alternate formats business myself. :)

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Of course you aren't. That's what the RCWs are for. ;)

Anyway, I have the corrected version ready now. I even found a cool image for the cover from the Wiki:

Michael

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

(Jon Stewart) Go on...

>but the bit
>that cracks me up every time is your description of Azula and Ty Lee's
>reactions to the train derailing. 'they were more or less always
>prepared for such things to happen by this point in their lives.'
>Freaking professionals.

Heh, yeah, I enjoyed that when it came along, as well. It was about there that I decided they've been around so long now, and had so many unscheduled crazy adventures (jointly and separately), that their standard reaction to many situations that would send normal people into a mild-to-moderate panic is to think, "Oh, not again." :)

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Ty Lee was one of the close circle of friends (for a 'close circle' of two people) of Azula and Zuko from the very early days of their upbringing in the Royal Palace of the Fire Nation. She was one of multiple siblings (so sought to be her own person), and in her early teens 'ran away' from home to join the circus, until Azula drafted her and used her as one of her two henchmen during the pursuit of Aang and the Gaang. She and Mai finally got fed up with Azula after Zuko had fully joined "Team Avatar", and stayed out of the way for the rest of the war. Afterwards, she joined the Kyoshi Warriors (finding that -being- a Kyoshi Warrior was more fun than pretending to be one), and helped serve in a bodyguard capacity for Zuko once he became Fire Lord.

Ty Lee lived out a long and fulfilling life in Diqiu for her natural lifespan, and ended up in Valhalla after all was said and done.

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In fact, she had the unique distinction of being the only actually nice person who liked Azula (which confused the living crap out of Aang and his crew when they first encountered her, and is why Azula wryly accuses her of being a poor judge of character in Royal Progress).

>She and Mai finally got fed up with Azula after Zuko had
>fully joined "Team Avatar", and stayed out of the way for the rest of
>the war.

Indeed, like anyone with any sense (and a few without - looking at you, Zuko), she abandoned the Fire Nation's cause by the end of the series, on account of she wasn't actually evil and had presumably ended up on that side due to a clerical error when the teams were selected. This... didn't go over well with Azula at the time; hence her apology for the way she'd treated Ty Lee, and Mai, in Tyrants If They Could.

>Afterwards, she joined the Kyoshi Warriors (finding that
>-being- a Kyoshi Warrior was more fun than pretending to be one), and
>helped serve in a bodyguard capacity for Zuko once he became Fire
>Lord.

This neatly illustrates how screwed Zuko was at the end of the war: he was safer hiring foreign mercenaries from a country his father had attempted to kill everybody in, than using guards from his own goddam army. :)

>Ty Lee lived out a long and fulfilling life in Diqiu for her natural
>lifespan, and ended up in Valhalla after all was said and done.

Like many Einherjar, she earned the right to return to mortal life through her service in the Ragnarök.

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Not going to mention the fact that Zuko himself tried to burn their village down the first time he was there?

It was just a little misunderstanding with 147 Mexican cops. He thought they were soldiers!

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Short answer: One of Azula's friends/minions from the bad old days, who stepped over to the side of the angels, earning a measure of redemption.

Long answer: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Ty_Lee

(Hey, I think I can put an edge down here... or maybe here?)

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Unable to save the day: File is read-only.

That's not a typo, it's a reado. :) You missed the paragraph in between in which it's mentioned that Azula is (at that point in her life) bilingual.

"Part of that was because, though she turned out to speak two languages, neither was one Rhian understood. The other, Laura reported when it appeared in fevered ravings on Thursday night, was Japanese, of an archaic quality similar to her Mandarin."

When she first regains consciousness, she's speaking to Laura in Earth Kingdom Tongyu, the common language of all educated people in Dìqiú, but when delirious with fever, she reverts to her first language, Fire Nation Kokugo.

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Not directly, but well spotted. I suspect one of Rose's early adventures with the Doctor involved a visit to war-torn Powell, and possibly bearing witness to part of Colonel Lewis-Porter's defense.

Of course, later in life, Professor Tyler will be much more familiar with the 25th-century work of Brigadier Lewis-Porter, but that's all far in both of their futures at that point, and isn't directly linked to Azula having participated in the relief of the 3CDF's forces in 2388.

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Ace.

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I'm not sure why, but I just enjoy this Freudian slip a lot.

>but what is the Phoenix Module?

The PHOENIX module (also known as a Monocyte Breeder) is a cybernetic implant from Fallout: New Vegas. Its in-game effect is to cause the player character to slowly but relentlessly regain hit points - too slowly to be tactically useful, but fast enough that you'll be at full health again after any activity that takes an in-game hour or two (using the "fast travel" function usually does it).

In the UF universe it's a piece of 21st-century black-ops technology, mostly forgotten in the wider galaxy; Azula acquired hers while she was stranded on Mojave in the early 2380s.

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