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Katara ([personal profile] markofthebrave) wrote2011-09-10 10:26 pm

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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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[personal profile] mistlegacy 2011-09-11 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard to say, without knowing the specific power that you mean. Though anything that overrides free will is something I would avoid.

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[personal profile] mistlegacy 2011-09-11 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
More often than not, yes. I won't say that there aren't times in which it could be useful...to save a life or prevent a larger tragedy, somehow. But even so, that kind of power should never be treated casually.

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[identity profile] kakeravoyager.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Any power can be a wrong power, but yes there are many powers that have less than favorable reasons for existing.
all7seas: (dogwatch)

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[personal profile] all7seas 2011-09-11 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[This is simply a place Jack can go where Buffy isn't. He glances up when Sister of Thunderaxe enters and gives her a rather weak, drunken wave.]

Funny seeing you in this place, Sister of Thunderaxe, what with its lack of waterish whipping things.

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[identity profile] whydidisaverick.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Well looks like this was filtered away from all my muses...

EXCEPT ONE.]


I've actually asked myself a similar question many times. And the answer that I eventually came to is no. I don't believe there is a power that exists that couldn't be used at one point to help or benefit someone or something. Even if it's only once in a life time.

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[identity profile] skinnotmyown.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, this thing allows for writing, too! That's nice. He still hates it, but that's nice.

Sorry, kiddo, he doesn't know how this filtering function works yet, though. Give him another day.
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Power is nothing more than power. Whether it is good or evil is a quality ascribed to it by those who experience it. It cannot of itself be right or wrong.
frost_jewel: (defining duty)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2011-09-11 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I can think of many misuses of power, but...none that seem inherently wrong. From what I understand, power is there, to use or misuse as you will.

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
No. The same power that can destroy, can save and heal and rebuild.

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[identity profile] kakeravoyager.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Think of the worst possible power that your imagination can conjure.

Somewhere, in the limitless possibilities of the infinite sea, someone has that power and is likely using it. Even now.

[Yes, these are the sort of things Bern thinks about commonly.]

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[personal profile] mistlegacy 2011-09-11 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I doubt there's a clear-cut answer for that sort of thing. It really does depend on the circumstances and even then...I'd think anyone with a conscience would never feel at ease with such power. But I think that's a good thing; anyone completely at ease with the thought of overriding someone's will is a person I would never want to meet again.

[identity profile] markofthegod.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[It's been a while now - she's not used to or even fond of this current situation, but she knows she hasn't been performing well and she knows that Katara is the on who was probably the most effected by it. With no idea what a brother is supposed to do, she's actually been sort of pulling at straws for it

Is it that she's not being sympathetic enough? Not being rude enough? She decides, eventually... it's probably both? Which is why when she takes note of Katara getting home from her errands and such, she goes to intercept in the kitchen. She decides what a "brother" would ask is-]


What's for dinner?
all7seas: (I want my jar of dirt)

[personal profile] all7seas 2011-09-11 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
....Swirly. [Jack contemplates the moving rum for a moment, staring intently down the neck of the bottle.] There's a twirlingness to your art, isn't there? A whippy twirling swirly whirling flirr...

My tongue hurts.
frost_jewel: (contemplation)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2011-09-11 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[There is a noticeable pause for thought there.]

Doesn't all power?

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[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I think you can't call power good or evil. It's just power. It's our hearts that decide how it's used, and what it becomes.
whatdeheckisdat: (comprehension)

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[personal profile] whatdeheckisdat 2011-09-11 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
A very good question. There are powers that, by mere virtue of existing, rip through time, destroy reality, and bend the truth, but that does not necessarily mean that they are wrong by principle.

I suppose my best answer would be that any power that alters the way one thinks is 'wrong'. Whether by bending someone to your will, or by manipulating their flaws or thoughts.

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