Studentofiroh wrote:
He Who Knows 10,000 Things wrote:
Look at the people of the fire nation, they lived in harmony during the war and their children had a proper education. it wasnt the case for the earth kingdom for example, lots of people were poor and they lived in very small houses (ba sing se).
The fact is, the world's not a perfect place. Someone's always going to have more than someone else. But Ozai was
seriously predjudiced against anyone who wasn't Fire Nation. Plus there was the whole power-crazed, genocidal sociopath thing. Would he really have made things better for the other nations if he had won the war?
Agree, if Sozin was running the show and ended the invasion with the 1st attack, there would be more harmony because of the Fire Nations old vision. But with that, the problem is with keeping it's peace. People affected by the invasion and won't accept the new life would inevetably cause riots. And maybe to keep peace is one of those Hunger Games x Battle Royal style with the 3 remaining Nations and other special regions sending tributes getting at each other's throat! That would be awesome! Imagine the hardcore blood bending and crazy Chi Block x Kiyoshi Style assassin moves!
But with Ozai, he just wants to see the world burn and rebuild it, eventually becoming the ruler. He knows he has superior techonolgy and educated citizens, which means easier rebuilding and easier knowledge transfer, Fire Nation knowledge, which comes to him rewriting history. With a decimated Earth Kingdom, a purged Air Nomads, the Water Tribe can only come and comply, because of their numbers, not to mention, the Southern Water Tribe was already attacked before and left a huge scar.
For the avatar, the next cycle is to reincarnate into the Water Tribe, however with the horrors of the current condition, the new avatar would be either hidden or be found by the Fire Nation. If hidden, the whole Water Tribe would be at the mercy of the Fire Nation, If the avatar is found, then it's either death or captivity. I'd like to think of captivity in a remote area, where he/she cannot bend, and wait till he dies off. If that goes to plan, they would have already established a number of propagandas over the span of decades regarding the Avatar, so whoever is carrying the next Avatar, say an Earth Kingdom decendant, might want to give away their children, making the Avatar somewhat of a curse. OR the more exciting one, they take care of the Avatar, and give him/her Fire Nation Propaganda and made him into a unit for the Fire Nation and an Avatar of fear (or Bad Avatar,lol) into the world. Which somewhat like Sozin tried to do with Avatar Roku. Later, after said Avatar (Bad Avatar) had died, they'll just do it all over again.
But yeah, whether it is Sozin's Fire Nation or Ozai's Fire Nation, in the next convergence if Vaatu was released, it will be a cluster fuck for them. Who knows, maybe Vaatu would defeat the Bad Avatar and become Dark Avatar! or Bad Avatar will neutralize Vaatu and suck him up like Unalaq AND become supreme ruler!