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[Filtered 100 percent AWAY from: Sokka, Toph, Zuko, Yue, Suki, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Shino, Naruto, Sasuke, Itachi, Trafalgar, Nami, Sanji, Luffy, Chopper, and anyone else she thinks might recognize her handwriting, despite the pains she's going to in order to disguise it, or show the journal to people she really doesn't want to see this - Raine and Temari and Iroh.

All replies will be written unless stated otherwise. The camera is obscured by a wrapped around piece of brown cloth.]

Do you think that there's such a thing as a power that is wrong, not because of how it's used, but just because of what it does?

[After staying holed up in her room with the door shut - quite an unusual break of habit for her - Katara decides to head into town. She wants to check out that night club that she'd heard about - she heard there would be music!

From there it's the usual errands, like the grocery store and the Item Shop. Dinner tonight will be Something Spicy, but she hasn't figured out what yet. Maybe it'll help get Sokka out of his funk.]

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You could always have tried wearing a mask.

[What do you mean, 'My, what trivial topics you seem to be sticking to today, Katara?']

Tch. I thought about borrowing one of Shino's trench coats more than once.

[Uh-huh. Well. Sometimes we need trivialities in our lives again.]

Yes.

Say for instance that you're in a place like Luceti. Okay well I mean you are but...okay well. A place like this brings together a bunch of people from different worlds and that means that not everyone is familiar with all of the powers people possess. If a person's only familiar with a power based on what they see from another person, how are they going to know it's a bad power? Does that make sense?

What about the people who take away your free will, your ability to be afraid and let them do things to you, because they put it in your head that it's okay when it's not?

[ she's a bit of a hypocrite on this issue. caroline will use her ability to compel people as needed, from her mother to girls at school to people telling her yes when they'd otherwise say no. the vampire whose blood turned her, however, used the same talent to use and abuse her when she was still human and she's still not okay with that -- she'll never be okay with that. one of the suckiest things about being a vampire is remembering all that which he compelled her to forget. ]

Busy doing what? [He's ignoring that question completely. He wasn't doing anything important.]

While some might wish those powers don't exist or be used, it's really up to how they're used.

[Okay. He kinda did wrote that earlier, under different words, but still.]

Things that's normally 'evil' can be used for good, even if other people see it as bad.

[Hmm.]

Thank you for asking.

Come back........

You think she will? Come back?

[HE IS GOING TO BE HANGING ON YOUR NEXT WORDS AS THOUGH HIS LIFE DEPENDS ON THEM KATARA.]

In some cases, yeah. That's what I think.

Darkness and light are both forces present in the world. Darkness has a great tendency to draw its wielders toward evil. To those of weak will, it is inevitable.

[Ew.]

Really? That's... pretty desperate.

It makes sense, but... even among all the people who answered here there seemed to be some concensus. For everyone who felt that there were powers that were bad, they felt that the line was when something overrode free will.

[Seriously, Zuko?

...]

Research. I don't just fall into new recipes, you know.

[There. Two completely disconnected truths.]

That sounds horrible. [Like one of her worst fears.] But that sounds like it's something that the people are doing. Not something about the power itself.

...not that I can think of any good use for a power like that either.

I've never heard of anything like that before.

What do you mean, 'even if other people see it as bad?'

[Her earlier conversation about 'other people being the arbiter of right and wrong' may be factoring in here.]

Things rarely happen as they should. It is often circumstance that brings such power to those people. Though Luceti seems to attract them, they are rare enough.

Oi, oi. I said thought about it.

It's still pretty desperate! Who knows how many of his bugs just... stay in there.

[She is seriously not letting you get away with this.]

[Sorry, Trafalgar. Her journal entry was filtered away from you for a reason, you know.]

I'm fine. [Quick smile.] Just make sure you don't stay on the ocean too long. This isn't a good place for you guys to always be on your own.

[You could totally end up falling in love with each other, and wouldn't that be awkward.]

Maybe. Although... a lot of people have said that the power doesn't matter as much as if using it is done to help someone. Do you think there's anything to do that?

[But - but - he's already in love with the ocean!]

Oh, don't worry. We'll be fine. [He'll have Bepo there - hopefully.]

...

... are you sure? You look tired.

[Yeah, not dropping that quite yet.]

[...okay. That's horrifying.]

I'll think about what you said. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I appreciate it.

Probably not a lot. They live inside him, not his clothes.

[YET ANOTHER POWER THAT IS JUST PLAIN WRONG.]

Your world is so disturbing.

[Slight note of unintended serious there, may go unnoticed.]

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