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((OOC: catchall post for further Mary Sue fever threads! Mm, delicious self-indulgence. POST IS OPEN TO ANYONE))

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[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

Making sacrifices. That seems to happen a lot in our family. Sozin, Grandpa, Dad, Mom...

It's practically in the blood.



You should be afraid. You were always afraid. The question you need to ask yourself is why are you still hesitating?

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I want to be different.

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

How can you be different when both sides are telling you this is the only way. Because Roku let Sozin live, he allowed the war to happen. Are you going to make the same mistake our ancestors did?

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No... no.

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

Then you know what you have to do.

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I don't know if I can...

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

Can as if you're able or if you're willing to go that far to save the world?

I'm not going to surrender peacefully, I'm not going to change. Uncle has practically told you "she's crazy and she needs to go down" so what's stopping you from doing what's right!

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If I can't change my own sister, how am I supposed to change the whole world?

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

And if you don't stop me there won't be a world left to save.

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... What would Mom think?

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

[makes a disgusted noise and looks away]

Mom thinks I'm a monster too.

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter what she thinks. You know she's just like the rest of us! Why else did she suddenly disappear the night when Grandpa died and Dad took the throne? She killed him to save your life!

...she abandoned us.

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She didn't! Dad banished her!

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

He banished you too.


...but killing the Fire Lord isn't really something that can be forgiven, I suppose.

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No one had to know. She could have stayed. It's Dad's fault.

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

She made her choice. She sacrificed Uncle's throne and our family to save your life.

But that was the only way, wasn't it? She couldn't have just stopped Dad, or taken you with her. She could have thought I was lying to her, like I always did...

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Stop it!

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

Maybe she should have offered me up instead.

Then you wouldn't be having this little dilemma.

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... We'd all be better off.

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

[smiles wide, and a little manic ala Southern Raiders not that you would notice the difference]

Exactly. So why don't you finish what our great-grandfathers started?

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Azula...

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

[gestures to the mirror behind her]

The only way out of here is through me, brother. What are you going to do about it?

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[slips into a fighting stance]

[sharpasfire.livejournal.com]

[slips right back into an identical stance]

Come on then...