markofthebrave | [ Action, Written ] .052

[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.

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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're human aren't you.]

Does a bird believe that flying is a power?

[pause. he hopes that a non-Pokemon example gets the same idea across.]

A 'power' is an additional limb. Creatures do not have them needlessly. That is what I know. And I know that a hunted creature fears a hunter's teeth, and what poisons one creature may nourish another.

So you think there's a need for every power that exists. And that's what makes it okay?

Not exactly. I believe that a power is without right or wrong, because it is not aware of itself or able to make decisions. I believe that creatures that have a certain power will find another power exceptional, and think of it differently than the creature that has it.

[.....]

If a human were to punch someone with a fist, would it make sense to say that fists are wrong? If you were a creature without hands, it might. But a human cannot let their arms always hang loose at their sides for that reason. It would be foolish.

That is what I know in my own world. I can think of how it might be different, in so many worlds.

[Well, when whoever this is puts it that way...]

So you think there's no way to separate the ability from the person.

[But she's still turning that over in her mind... did bloodbending seem so wrong, because Hama was the first one to come up with it? It probably wouldn't bother Ino and Shikamaru at all. But... hmm.]

It is theirs to use, as much as any part of their body, for communication or combat or any necessity. And when they use it, they are seen by others, who decide what they think about that person for all they do.

I think it's a dangerous thing to say that other people can decide what's right and wrong... but then, I guess that's what I'm trying to do about this, isn't it.

Right and wrong does not exist if there is not a creature to act, and one to appraise. It is only and ultimately an invention of beings with minds.

[Right and wrong does not exist if there is not a creature to act

...]

That makes a lot of sense.

[if there is not a creature to act.

to act]

Thank you. I'll think about what you said.

[Hmm.]

Thank you for asking.

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