[...there's a part of him that still wants to reject this, the part that's been overriding any desire to keep this civil instead of being bitter and angry about the whole thing... but he's tired. He's tired, and maybe he does want to believe people can change. Even if he still doesn't actually believe it, he wants to.

Maybe not even for his own sake.]

...The more I look at myself, the more I realize I've just been doing the same things as him. It's been a touch more legally sanctioned, sure, but...

[sigh.]

The Avatar confronted me about it and I apparently wound up bloodbending her and kidnapping her.