Yes, the newer colonies are definitely forfeit, but their producing resources the earth kingdom doesn't have the facilities to process or the factories to feed those resources into. An arrangement can likely be come to for those communities to change hands, with trade agreements that sees the resources overall tend to keep flowing into the colonies and finished goods from the fire nation flow into the earth kingdom at cost.
Good luck trying to explain that concept to the Avatar with the Harmony Restoration Movement happening (in at least some form).
That could require earth kingdom contacts to facilitate or at least make easier. But that clashes with fact that option with them lack backing/cooperation of other faction leaving us somewhat stranded in court
If we work it right we can get the backing of factions interested in keeping access to those resources to keep their factories running, and in the militarist by offering an alternative avenue of employment for the soldiers by having them guard the caravans in the rapidly descending into banditry earth kingdom, obviously while out of uniform.
While militarist backing could be useful, the stuborness and being earth kingdom unrest-supresing officer and being Old are unlikely to mesh with new fire lord well.
While double s at the end is problematic, as a whole this version of MC is quite good and would mesh well with nature stweardship. Midle age could cause some small issues with team Avatar seeing as she would be the same age as their parents.
My personal favourite for cooperation with team Avatar while age gap is still big, her passion could help with presenting our position in way that they can understand. Being popular debutante will probably help with spreading support for Zuko's and ours plans.
Lack of backing in home isles makes this choice difficult, but earth kingdom contacts could help a lot to smoother partcial decolonisation. Intrigue will also be useful to detect threats at home.
Is needed for health of a national culture/soul and we or rather Zuko has everything to mange this transision. It will hopefully create an opurtunity to make the army smaller by raising standards.
We don't have money, but it could be useful to placate the public. Quite useful.
Good for Scholar-Bureaucrat who could manage the transition to it, but difficult for the rest. Probably will help with spirits.
This to me is least urgent thing on the agenda, sure many people will be sad over this, but it won't kill that many people or help prevent the civil war. To me at least this is oh that's nice kind of agenda
Initial colonies were established in areas that were believed to meet the strategic needs of the Fire Nation; resource-rich areas were targeted, but the Fire Nation also seized a number of western ports to facilitate extraction and source workforces for their new endeavors. The first colonies were on largely uninhabitated islands, something that the Earth King at the time attempted to fight them on... which is how Sozin justified the seizure of the port cities.
I'll fix that, thanks!
The family code is interesting because it's a document that very much reflects Sozin's personal and political positions. The divorce laws were intended to cement strong familial relations in the hopes of increasing population growth though have mostly had the effect of trapping people in unhappy marriages. The laws around domestic abuse would be considered progressive in some limited ways, recognizing and criminalizing things like marital rape, while also providing proscriptions around the appropriate circumstances and methods to apply corporal punishment to a child. The ban on homosexuality was entirely political and targeted primarily against his sister, a gay woman, who was attempting to undermine his rule and plot a coup.
It really isn't, that would be bending based on anger and wrath.
It has 1 really bad thing banning of homosexuality (which if we assume everything is the same as in our world would dirrectly impact around 10% of population) with 1 bad (restricted divorce could've been intendent to prevent person in power from abandoning their spouce, but it still needs to be changed) and one midily bad (1 child inheritence is like contributing factor towards military recruitment and desire for more land but given the age of soldiers being probably bellow 30 we have at least a decade or more to fix that, but problem could remain given culture already stablised around one kid gets all so even without mandate most will probably still do that)
I think the spy character is very cool and I do think they could so some very useful things. But I don't think they'd be great as a leader.
Honestly the single child inheritance thing is IMHO as bad as outlawing homosexuality since it basically encourages Azula types and leads to a lot of people joining the military since they have no chance of inheriting anything
No, to use it we need earthbenders Toph is willing to teach and I very much doubt she would teach someone who worked for Dai Li. Not to mention how Dai Li would be more useful as sacrificial offering to earth king who they betrayed.
I don't think 2 people make a powerbase but even if they did every other character is also guaranteed to have it (for the start anyways)
Doubtful considering the... anti colonial fervor the quest itself and the Firelord and Avatar in universe find themselves in. Still i think even if we "hold on to some of the colonies" they would be very autonomous and use the various states of the EK as balance act against us, i'm not sure how much we can "parcel out to militarists". I'm doubtful on the usefulness of the EK contacts compared to having contacts right here in the Fire Nation basically.
Earth kingdom contacts, the merchantilists who want to keep receiving valuable resources for fire nation processing plants and factories to process, the militarists who can avoid having all of the fire nations soldiers shifted to other careers by reforming portions of the army into a new caravan guarding corps as the earth kingdoms now defunct armies go increasingly bandit now that the war is over.
A reminder that Zuko is the guy who has, infiltrated the north pole to abduct the avatar, infiltrated a fire nation fortress to free the avatar, infiltrated ba sing se to try and start a new life, infiltrated the fire nation capitol to appear in the last minutes of his sisters coronation to challenge her to an Agni Kai. Him having a problem with spy methods isn't particularly likely as long as we aren't resorting to particularly despicable methods, rather than simple exchange of information and sneaking about.
Yes, she has no allies to start with, and no one intrinsically against her either, and a descent likelihood that the various factions will be at least interested in feeling her out as a potential ally. A neutral start is a flexible start, not an outright poor one.
