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[He's still acting like his usual self, for now - very confident, turning up the charm.]

I'm still accepting more nominations for council, and as far as a public forum goes I think we should have one sometime within the week.

[He pauses, and his expression becomes more serious.]

But, I'm afraid I have some more dire news to break right now.

There is a man here who calls himself Nanuq, and he says he's a healer from Republic City. This is a lie. He is from my home world, and went under the name Amon there. He was a wanted criminal, leader of a terrorist organization, and he is very dangerous.

If you don't want to trust me on this matter, there are others from my world who will probably testify to what a threat he is. I'm not suggesting that anyone attack him, but use caution when dealing with him and know that he's been presenting a false identity, and this is not the first time he's done so.

[Tarrlok looks downward for a few seconds, hesitant about what he's going to say next.]

His real name is Noatak. He is my brother. I wasn't aware of this until very recently. For that reason, I ask that you please bring issues concerning him to my attention, if at all possible, and I will deal with it.

I'm not saying you can't use self-defense, but...if it is something that doesn't require immediate attention, please let me know.

Thank you.

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He didn't lie to me.

[He actually told her his real name, mostly because seeing a flying blond woman kind of broke him.]

Has he told you he's a bloodbender?

Has he told you he can use it to somehow take other people's bending away and was planning on doing so to the entire world?

Huh?

[So eloquent.]

He's a bloodbender. He can control someone's blood and bend them to his will.

[Well, better be honest seeing as Korra and Asami both know.]

I am a bloodbender as well. It is a forbidden skill, and something forced upon us, not something we learned by choice. I've used it in moments of crisis before - but I despise it, and would rather be able to forget how to do it at all.

I told you about waterbending, right? Bloodbending is a subset of that. There are also firebenders, airbenders, and earthbenders. Noatak has the ability to remove someone's ability to bend, permanently, and he can bloodbend without even needing to move, so restraining him is useless. I don't know if his bending removal would work on powers from other worlds; I don't have that skill and don't know how he does it.

[Healbending didn't work properly on her because lol half Atlantean and also mutant, but that's not to say Amon wouldn't be able to figure it out in time.]

Why would he want to do that?

Because of the way our father treated us, he thinks bending is a source of evil. Initially his followers took part in mere protests, but recently he's shown his ability to remove bending, and was found to have been amassing an arsenal of weaponry for an all-out attack on Republic City.

I don't believe that he is a bad person, but he has been put through so much that his vision of the world is just...distorted, now. He was lying completely to his followers back home as well, and I'm sure he thought that he was in the right despite everything.

I would like to trust him more than anyone, but I don't think that's possible anymore. I don't want anyone hurting him without just cause but I couldn't keep his identity secret.

[SHE HATES THIS MORAL AMBIGUITY CRAP WHY CAN'T EVERYONE JUST BE GOOD]

What reason would he have to hurt anyone here, though?

I don't know, but he's been lying already, and there is at least one bender here other than me, and she is the Avatar. It would devastate our world if he took her bending away.

The Avatar?

[Nobody tells Nita anything!]

The Avatar has the ability to bend all four elements, and is also the only one able to communicate directly with the Spirit World. They are supposed to keep peace and balance in the world.

That's a lot to put on one person. What about everyone else?

[Recent events in Nita's canon have driven home the fact that some situations are just piles of dry branches waiting for a spark to fall on them.]

The Avatar always has allies, and there are other authorities as well. It is a lot of responsibility, though. But that's how it is.

"That's how it is?" What a cop-out. You can't just...stick someone with the fate of the world!

[This totally isn't about Korra, in case it wasn't obvious.]

I can't exactly give other people access to all four elements and the Spirit World, no matter how difficult it is for the Avatar.

She's not "stuck" with it. She's a...representative of sorts, between our world and the Spirits. She has access to the knowledge of hundreds of past lives. Either way, there's nothing I can do about it. But it's important that Noatak is not allowed to take her bending.

He's my neighbor. I'm not going to let him hurt anybody...or anybody hurt him.

[Nita's royalty, raised in a highly martial, highly duty-bound society, and occasionally it shows.]

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