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[@Scribe of Thoth] Out of curiosity, how much interaction does Tao have with the populace of Ba Sing Se? He basically lived as a normal kid through his upbringing there or was a he mostly aloof? I'm not certain how much connection to some of the existing NPCs he may have without understanding this better!
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He was fairly normal but he kept to the hoity-toity rich areas as an ethnic minority among what I assume was an increasingly jingoistic population during Wei's reign, so he wasn't exactly popular. He'd definitely know any officials that his father would've interacted with openly, even if in a "say hi to Minister Zhong, Tao" capacity, and he'd at least be passingly familiar with other kids from the upper ring, with a probable preference for nonbenders since earthbender kids were basically a sour reminder he wasn't an earthbender.