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As you may know, Mr. Wayne recently brought the idea of a foreigner-lead council up again. This was something I was working on before my untimely disappearance, and I agree that it is a good time to try again. I am in full support of this idea, and the current proposal was one representative from each sector if we get enough volunteers.

I understand some of you have concerns with the idea of a council, so if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. Now more than ever I think it's important that we are adequately represented.

...As well, it has come to my attention that certain events have recently transpired involving my brother. Noatak - or Amon, if you know him by that name.

As some of you were not present for my last warning on the subject: I strongly advise anyone to refrain from getting involved in his affairs. He is extremely dangerous, no matter how he acts. As I said, I am his brother, and I am certain I know him better than anyone else here. He is a bloodbender and he will not hesitate to destroy you if you get in his way, no matter who you are.

I can't stop anyone from getting involved with him, but please use caution.

[Private to Noatak]

I'm sorry, but I believe this is for your own good.

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There are several people here who obviously don't know what you've done. This is not about my campaign.

Perhaps I should start parading your own abuses of power for personal gain.

[ Noatak is still a walking bruice- beaten around the face especially from the beating he took in jail. He doesn't have time for your shit, bro. ]

You've taken everything from me in one world already. Is that not enough?

[ Nope. Not having it. He is way too dead for this right now. ]

I could argue it as a matter of safety to the public; you seem to think I'm not much better than the plague on two legs.

...You may not trust me, but I want to stop you because you're going down a dangerous road. Regardless of what we've done, we're not worse than our father. Yet. And I want to keep it that way. Can't you just leave this revolution business behind and live peacefully here?

I don't trust you, but I do love you. Maybe someday you'll learn that there is a cost to peace and it is not won with a politician's gavel.

[ Noatak spits on the ground; he thinks he would spit in his brother's face after a comment like that. ]

Vive l'égalité

Edited (lmao what is english) 2013-04-23 06:21 (UTC)

You're making war, not peace. My position on city council was the only chance I had of redeeming myself: if you took that away from me you have damned me and I can't believe you have any love left for me.

Ignorance is bitterness it seems. Redemption isn't found at the top of the heap.

[ He can't help but be more than a little frustrated with Tarrlok lashing out at him. Going off while only seeing half the picture.

Noatak took a sharp intake of breath that sound rattled, pained. ]

We were arrested for taking down the stockades at Atamischar; they were torturing people into submission. Do you want to come by the clinic? See where they broke a cudgel over my cheekbone, or where they beat me until my ribs snapped like twigs?

They were going to take us out, one by one, and execute us like rabid dogs. Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Redemption for...someone with as much to redeem themselves for as myself requires something extraordinary. The 'top of the heap' was the only place I could make that large of an impact from.

[He sighs.]

You would not have been arrested had you just stayed here. It's not your job to liberate every suffering nation. I don't condone what they were doing, but you didn't accomplish anything and more people got injured.

Is that it? [ Noatak trembled ] You have nothing left in you where I'm concerned that in your eyes my death would only be proof that my actions were just...a hindrance of your so-called plans of redemption?

Edited 2013-04-28 05:03 (UTC)

I don't want you to suffer, Noatak. [Note that he doesn't say 'die'. Just 'suffer'.]

But I don't know what you expect me to do for you. I'm trying to keep you out of danger, even if the only way I can is by getting other people to stay away from you. But we're not children anymore, and if you want to put yourself in harm's way I can't stop you.

Enough, Tarrlok [ His voice is hoarse and his chest feels pitted and sore. ] You've said enough.

[He just turns away.]

Do you know why I can't support you? Because the circumstances of our birth disadvantaged us more than any non-bender. We could have never hurt another person in our entire lives and we'd still have tainted blood flowing through our veins. We've been less than equal since the day we were born and you don't even seem to care. Equality will never truly exist, and if you would have just stopped this nonsense before it got as far as it did we at least could have been brothers again.

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