1. That nod to Taking Sights in Chapter 11 of Nobody Dies would have referenced that song instead of 99 Red Balloons:
Someone's been singing at the karaoke machine, a german pop song about the nuclear apocalypse.
Hoshi looks to his right. Hikari smiles, a forced, angry thing on her lips as she pulls up a chair and sits. Across from her, the kid her recognizes from photos as Shinji Ikari sits across from her.
The song finishes, and the singer hands off the mike from his white gloved hands. For some reason, a disco beat begins playing as he walks across the karaoke bar, fixing his black jacket and adjusting his amber glasses.
2. It wouldn't be 180,000 words long and only be up to the Tenth Angel, for starters. I still have about 200-300k more to go before the story is done and that's about a year's exclusive investment of my time. I would probably have just made it a very long one-shot, focused exclusively on Gendo's relationship with Shinji and Rei. Or I may not have written it at all since I've discovered I'm crap at writing Shinji.
3. Without getting into a terrible amount of spoilers, Toph would have ended up leading the Earth Kingdom's version of the Rough Rhinos, Lu Ten would have been held hostage to force a FN withdrawal from the Agricultural Zone, Azulon would have disinherited Iroh for various reasons the foremost of which would be the withdrawal, and Iroh would never have become spiritually awoken.
Assuming the Stations of the Canon are in effect, then one of Azulon's last acts as Fire Lord, before he dies and Lu Ten takes the throne, would have been to banish Iroh with his return conditional on capturing the Avatar. Aang's rescue from the Pohuai Stronghold would have been at the hands of Terra Team... not that they knew he was there ahead of time. They were just there to bust some heads.
4. Nearly all of her ambitions would have been strangled by the bureaucracy of Ba Sing Se. The Dai Li's back would be broken, but on the down side BSS would see a lot more war-related civil unrest. Toph actually might have ended up married to Kuei. If the Gaang had come calling with their DoBS inversion plan, she would have thrown BSS's full weight behind it. If she had discovered Iroh and Zuko were hiding in BSS... it would have been nasty for them. Since there aren't a whole lot of other master earthbenders named in canon, let's say that in such an AU that Aang's earthbending teacher ends up being Jojo the Kissing Bandit.
5. She'd have ended up married off to some nobleman and probably popped out a few kids by the time Aang defrosts. I don't think she'd have joined up with Aang. She wouldn't have even come to his attention.
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Date: 2010-12-03 01:28 am (UTC)Someone's been singing at the karaoke machine, a german pop song about the nuclear apocalypse.
Hoshi looks to his right. Hikari smiles, a forced, angry thing on her lips as she pulls up a chair and sits. Across from her, the kid her recognizes from photos as Shinji Ikari sits across from her.
The song finishes, and the singer hands off the mike from his white gloved hands. For some reason, a disco beat begins playing as he walks across the karaoke bar, fixing his black jacket and adjusting his amber glasses.
2. It wouldn't be 180,000 words long and only be up to the Tenth Angel, for starters. I still have about 200-300k more to go before the story is done and that's about a year's exclusive investment of my time. I would probably have just made it a very long one-shot, focused exclusively on Gendo's relationship with Shinji and Rei. Or I may not have written it at all since I've discovered I'm crap at writing Shinji.
3. Without getting into a terrible amount of spoilers, Toph would have ended up leading the Earth Kingdom's version of the Rough Rhinos, Lu Ten would have been held hostage to force a FN withdrawal from the Agricultural Zone, Azulon would have disinherited Iroh for various reasons the foremost of which would be the withdrawal, and Iroh would never have become spiritually awoken.
Assuming the Stations of the Canon are in effect, then one of Azulon's last acts as Fire Lord, before he dies and Lu Ten takes the throne, would have been to banish Iroh with his return conditional on capturing the Avatar. Aang's rescue from the Pohuai Stronghold would have been at the hands of Terra Team... not that they knew he was there ahead of time. They were just there to bust some heads.
4. Nearly all of her ambitions would have been strangled by the bureaucracy of Ba Sing Se. The Dai Li's back would be broken, but on the down side BSS would see a lot more war-related civil unrest. Toph actually might have ended up married to Kuei. If the Gaang had come calling with their DoBS inversion plan, she would have thrown BSS's full weight behind it. If she had discovered Iroh and Zuko were hiding in BSS... it would have been nasty for them. Since there aren't a whole lot of other master earthbenders named in canon, let's say that in such an AU that Aang's earthbending teacher ends up being Jojo the Kissing Bandit.
5. She'd have ended up married off to some nobleman and probably popped out a few kids by the time Aang defrosts. I don't think she'd have joined up with Aang. She wouldn't have even come to his attention.