[ Action, Written ] .052

[markofthebrave]

[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.]

Comments

[eyesofstrength]

It seems you are conflicted about what is more important- protecting those you care about or doing right with all your actions. And that may well be the reason for your original question.

How about a hypothetical situation to help with it. The person you most care about is in danger and you have to do something you know very much is wrong and would never do normally or this person would die. There is no other option to save this person's life. You either must commit an act you feel is evil or the person dies.

[Of course Leonhardt is keeping quiet that he was put in this exact situation, and he chose the loved one, and sometimes he wonders if it would have been better to choose to do right. Though he knows very well that had he chosen that route, both of them would likely not be alive today.]

[markofthebrave]

I'm not conflicted about that. I know what I'd do.

[I've done it before.]

What I'm conflicted about is the nature of these types of abilities themselves. And what it says about the people who'd use it.

[eyesofstrength]

If you are not conflicted then why do you say one thing, and then contradict it soon after? It shows a weak mind that is easily deceived. Pick how you feel and stick with it.

[And at that point, he's just going to close the journal and stop responding. This is just too much of a prime example of why he hates humanity as a whole.]

[markofthebrave]

[And unfortunately, since this is written and the audio is off, Katara won't pick up on the fact that he'd closed the book. And she'd hardly let such an accusation stand.]

I haven't contradicted myself. You aren't understanding what I'm saying. You asked me what I'd do, I said I knew what it was, and then I clarified what I was conflicted about. There isn't any contradiction there.