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This was beautiful. I think I may like it better than the canon ending; the peace that comes out of this is clearly going to be messy and complicated and very, very difficult in some ways and very easy in others. I like that the way Zuko and Katara died is not Huge and Meaningful; they're just two people whose absence affects very nearly everyone else.

The part where Aang flies away to clean up the Air Temples (almost) all by himself, and then sorts out that dispute very neatly but with a lot of work, that's one of my favorite parts. Especially because I'd never really thought of Aang having a family before. I just assumed he was an orphan, or that his parents gave him to Gyatso, or that the Air Nomads didn't do that sort of family structure. But I like that he has sisters and parents, all long dead and their bodies unrecognizable. And I like that he keeps Gyatso's beads.

The skeletons were all anonymous, so I prayed for all those nuns as if they had been my mother. That's one of the lines that really gets me.

Azula. Azula Azula Azula. I love her. The way she's the Fire Lord but Ozai still has so much power over the country and her, the fact that she doesn't go to the Spirit World but it comes to her. Her signing that paper to give Ozai control of her son, because she has no other choice at all. The semi-agreement with Chan Li, a decent guy and a far better consort than Ozai probably intended to give her. I love that the voices never really stop and she gets angry over little things and she's pregnant at fifteen and she's not trained to think in terms of food and crops and money but she's damn well trying her best to be a good Fire Lord.

And I have stuff to say about Mai and Toph and that house, about Ty Lee and the way she just disappeared, but I can't think it all out right now. This is a beautiful piece of work.