#modulus verse

[ultranos]

Hey, does any of your AUs have Azula/Ty lee pairing?

Currently, they do not. I'm not opposed to the pairing, mind you, but if I'm writing it, I really like exploring their dynamic without the romantic relationship.

There are sometimes when I do write Ty Lee as bi-leaning-straight or actually straight, mostly because it does subvert this expectation. But I've also considered scenarios where Azula and Ty Lee were mutual "almosts" or "what ifs".

(There was one idea I was tossing around for modulus where some of Ty Lee's massive disassociation and dissonance wrt to Azula (reminder that Ty Lee's memory plays revisionist history on her) not only has roots in guilt/regret over Azula's "demise", but also that Ty Lee had an unacknowledged crush. And at the time, Azula was assumed straight. So when Azula shows up very much not dead, but also very queer and very much married to a woman, uh...let's say there are Issues And Feelings.)

[ultranos]

Ooh, Shujiao's asshole moments, are you talking like being an ass to Azula or more in general?

More in general.

If she's being an ass to Azula, either Azula very much deserved it or Shujiao is going to get paid back in short order.

To be entirely fair, they might be a couple where "jackass" is a term of endearment.

[ultranos]

so if Yasuko calls Tatsuki "dad" then does that mean they tell dad jokes?

I think it would be a crime if they didn't.

[ultranos]

in the modulus verse, has zuko tried hiring June to find azula?

Good question. Possibly not, because June operated more in the Earth Kingdom and colonies (that become the United Republic in modulus) and Zuko is pretty convinced that Azula never left the Fire Nation. After a few years of no word or sightings, he concludes that it is far more likely that she's dead than hiding out somewhere else.

(There also becomes the question of how cold a trail gets. Even if Zuko did hire June, any trail would start in the Fire Nation and eventually go into the sea. And once it's there, that's probably too cold for even June to track. It's much more likely that Azula drowned for all they know.)

[ultranos]

Okay, but the idea of Zuko stopped from finding Azula by bureaucracy is mind-boggling. This is a person who as a powerless teenager wandered the world for 3 years to find the Avatar to restore his honor, then spent another season chasing him from the South Pole to the North Pole. But when he's Fire Lord, with so much more power, bureaucrats can stop him. A testimony either to the power of the UR bureaucracy, or to Zuko's haplessness in the face of bureaucracy (or his lack of motivation) or both.

Not really? In the case of the modulus, it makes sense because it entirely becomes a sovereignty issue. Remember, in the modulus-verse, the United Republic is founded with treaties that actually have teeth. They have national sovereignty rights that are stronger than the ones implied in LoK. For example, the other nations do not have a say in how their capital city (Republic City) is actually governed.

In the real world, nations do not have the right to just ask each other for information on random citizens for no reason. Trying to get the personal information of another country's citizens is usually called "espionage". Which Zuko would be engaging in since he really has no idea that Azula is even there in modulus. He thinks she never made it out of the Fire Nation.

In the KS!verse, this is very much a slight-of-hand legal loophole misdirection intersecting with a slightly archaic system that had been hastily modernized. (The person filling out the forms, for very good reason, filled them out as if Azula was a random, parentless war orphan. If someone was looking for it, they could figure out that the young teenage firebender taken in as a ward was actually the missing princess. Otherwise, the officials filing the paperwork are going to miss it because it looks like Just Another War Orphan.) It very much causes a legal headache once Zuko finds out it happened. He's not happy for a lot of reasons.

[ultranos]

Will Minh meet Ursa and Zuko? (I can't see this going too well)

if Iroh got in the equation, I believe he would be met by a protective father ready to slap a bitch

In modulus, I'm going to claim spoiler territory.

In KS!verse, yes, he absolutely will. He may or may not be on his way for a visit (entirely unrelated to this mess, just because it's his kid's birthday) when Izumi walks into that toy shop for the first time. So he'd walk into this situation after it's had a few days to grow into a rather large problem.

Minh facing down Iroh would certainly be something. (He'd lose against the Dragon of the West without question, but that absolutely would not stop Minh from trying if it meant getting between Iroh and his kid.)

[ultranos]

Yasuko gets in less trouble for bullying Zuko than she does for doing it to anyone else. This means in typical grandparent behaviour Tatsuki actively encourages Asami to bully Zuko

This is 100% percent true. It's not always successful, but that doesn't stop it from happening.

Izumi finds this hilarious.

[ultranos]

Is the 'filled out properly with your name and age' thing true in Modulus verse too? Cause wow, does that set a different tone for no one in the fn having really noticed, not even the people processing the paperwork

Yes, but in the case of Modulus, it happens in the colonies, which shortly thereafter become the United Republic. So all the records become property of an entirely different country and explicitly out of the FN's hands, meaning they lost all access to the paperwork that would tell them. Furthermore, the UR in the modulus-verse tend to make it as annoyingly difficult as possible via bureaucratic red tape for other nations to dig up random information about their citizens without damn good reason.

So in modulus-verse, someone in the UR government almost certainly noticed exactly who the Kanuchi clan had adopted. It's kind of a source of amusement for them.

In the KS!verse, the clan ends up moving back to the FN before the end of the war, so all the documentation would remain in the FN. So yeah, there's a lot less of an excuse here. Hence Azula's reaction, which is less about the loss of a legal identity and more about that.