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[restoringhonor]

I'm not sure what's worse. Being a kid or being a ferret.

Or an old person.

... I'm not affected. How often do floods affect our ages, anyway?

[Private to Vanessa and Narvin, separately. Narvin's comes much later.]

I have your knives.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Should it be my style to be happy with no more than whatever scraps of my own coin you decide to allow me? You'll have a long wait if you think so.

[Somewhere between anger and snark, leaning mostly towards snark.]

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[restoringhonor]

I don't think that. I'd be surprised if it was.

[He was tempted to ask about what she'd heard about the war, and what details she'd been given about it, and after a pause, he asked.] Who told you about the war?

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

The thing about not being given everything you want whenever you want it is you learn how to do your own research, Fire Lord.

[Which is, of course, an asshole way of saying she's not going to reveal her source in case he has more to say later.]

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[restoringhonor]

What did you hear? [Because he's like 99.9% sure you didn't get an accurate/detailed version. :|]

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Why does it matter? The results are the same no matter whether you use swords or fire. Or plague.

[They should probably make a Godwin rule about Arthas comparisons.]

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[restoringhonor]

[Probably. :|]

My great grandfather started the war. It was continued by my grandfather and father, for over a hundred years.

It was ended by the Avatar. I taught him Firebending, and stopped my sister from being crowned Fire Lord while Aang defeated my father.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Your sister the ex-inmate. Should I ask how you stopped her?

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[restoringhonor]

Do you know what an Agni Kai is?

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

[She hates admitting this, but it's information... and any information about him might come in useful] No.

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[restoringhonor]

It's a traditional duel between Firebenders. She challenged me to one. I accepted, and we fought until she tried shooting lightning at my friend. I intercepted, but could only redirect some of it. The rest was enough to do some serious damage, maybe even almost kill me. Katara trapped Azula and healed me.

[There's a short pause.] She's in a mental facility. She was losing her mind before the Agni Kai, and her defeat pushed her over the edge. I don't know why she was on the Barge, but she was from before the end of the war.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

So you didn't stop her. "Katara" did. Are most duels in your country two against one?

[Not that she's taking Azula's side. But.]

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[restoringhonor]

Katara wasn't a part of the Agni Kai. Azula attacked her because she knew I'd try to save her.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Which wasn't an honorable thing to do.

[It would be sarcasm but really she's been so consistently snarky that there's no difference.]

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[restoringhonor]

No. But that's not why I did it.

[He loves his friends, okay. :c]

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

[She thinks that if this Katara could trap Azula afterwards, she could probably take care of herself in a fight, and therefore... Zuko "saved" her because he was being an idiot. Not that she didn't think that before.]

If you'd been prepared, you wouldn't have had to let someone finish your fight for you.

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[restoringhonor]

I guess. I thought Azula would be so focused on killing me, so she could be Fire Lord and get revenge, she wouldn't consider attacking Katara too. She was unstable. And I didn't realize Katara was that close, there was no way she could get out of the way in time. I know how to redirect lightning, I didn't want to watch my friend get killed by my sister, and so I intercepted it.

I don't care who stopped Azula. We're alive, and she's not in control. That's all that matters.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

But when I say that I don't care what I had to do to keep my Brotherhood alive, that it was the only thing that mattered, somehow it's a problem for you.

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[restoringhonor]

Loyalty to the people you love isn't why you're here, Vanessa.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Then what is?

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[restoringhonor]

Your methods.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

My methods were only what I had. If all I'd had to do was challenge one person, if I'd had the chance to...

[Her grip is shifting slightly on the knives before she trails off, forcing herself to calm again.]

If I had even had the chance to learn to fight like my father could. But they took that all away from me. How can any method of ending that be wrong?

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[restoringhonor]

Maybe you can get a second chance at it here. You were obviously brought here for a reason.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

A second chance. You still believe that.

I'm here, stuck in a cage with a monster like Arthas, for a reason, while the man who threw tournaments and feasted in Northrend while we starved to death walks free as a warden.

Tell me, what reason is that?

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[restoringhonor]

I don't know. Your file only has information about your life specifically, not a comprehensive history of your world.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Right. [This is the sound of Vanessa not believing a word of that.]

Fine. You want history? Arthas was the prince of Lordaeron before he betrayed his people, slaughtered cities, murdered his own father, and tried to kill every living thing. Everything. He raised his enemies from the dead to make them serve him and watch them suffer. There are countries where nothing is left but the undead.

And he was the King of Stormwind's oldest friend.