- Internal Exile, AKA the Siberian Option:[list:
- Face it, there were probably a whole lot of cells, fortresses, prisons, isolated islands, even manors befitting one of palatine rank in Fire Lord Azulon's domain where those who needed to be disappeared but for some reason were to be left alive can be stored well out of sight. Doubt she is anywhere in the capital, and the Boiling Rock was far too high profile, but some isolated provencial camp far off the beaten path could easily contain any number of officially nameless persons.[/list:u:
- Earth Kingdom (Biggest and closest dumping ground, with a large and heterogenous population):
- She did not do the high-level defector thing (if she did, word of Zuko's banishment would have reached her and she would have at least tried to get in touch with Iroh) and going by her own name/title otherwise would have gotten her imprisoned or lynched, but with the number of refugees a woman with a plausably vague tale of being some poor soul's half-breed bastard (presuming she needed to explain the eyes at all) could have readily blended in to a number of towns/settlements/slums. She might even get away with a partial truth of fleeing the Fire Nation ahead of a noose for murdering a man of influence to protect her son.
- Of course if she settled down for a new life, the end of the War and rise of the new Fire Lord will turn it upside down as soon as the news hits. In Short: Hilarity Insues (esp. if there is a new family).[/list:u:
- Many have speculated that Ursa is either an impressive firebender in her own right or skilled at fighting. If she fell prey to desperation or dispair as her son did, she too may have used these abilities and resorted to bandity. If this is the case she could well have ended up a brigand, a common sellsword/assassin, or a bounty hunter.
- No, I doubt she is Jun. They could well know of each other though, indeed they may [i:
- Alternately, she may have been right under everyone's nose. "I am Joo Di, welcome to Ba Sing Se...."
- Southern Water Tribe:
- BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA... hey, this is less improbable than one would think. Said tribe was split up among a number of tiny villiages right around the time of That Fateful Night(tm), so one of them holding an outlander as a captive/guest/thrall/adoptee is not to be dismissed out of hand. Still, Hakoda was in contact with all of them and even if she was under an alias once he heard Zuko's story the timeframes would match up enough for the man to would at least pass the information to him. [/list:u:
- Northern Water Tribe:
- Pretty unlikely. There is next to no chance of her fading into the background there, and while she could be under an alias and avoided imprisonment as a spy the place seems small/insular enough for an immigrant that looks like a Fire Nation noblewoman to be at least mentioned in passing while the place is being invaded.[/list:u:
- A shallow grave in the hills above the Fire Nation capital:
- What, would you actually put that past [b:
Discuss.
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