Illyria doesn't actually care. She'd met souled vampires, fought beside them, tolerated them, disliked them for the most part, but not much more than she'd disliked humanity at the time.
But let it never be said she doesn't have an opinion if pressed for it. A souled vampire was as much an abomination as she was in this form. Some things, if they could be left alone, should be.
If had voted the way his old heart had called him to, it might have been a surprising vote coming from the old general. But then, he had killed far more men (and innocents) than Harth had. He had scarred far more nephews and sons and fathers--and daughters...
Perhaps he hadn't been wantonly cruel, but did it matter? Did it matter when women wept regardless, and the fires burned, and children grew up without their fathers and brothers--
--When parents grew old without their children?
The Dragon of the West had been a Devourer.
Iroh wanted to write "Yes." He believed in second chances.
But blood was blood, and loyalty was loyalty, and Zuko...his own son, in his eyes...would always come first. Iroh knew his scars almost as well as he did, every hurt had been committed to his memory the day Zuko had been brought back, and so had the feeling of intense and profound loss--even if temporary.
He wrote, with one of those confounded ballpoint pens:
Biff wants to write no. He doesn't like the little asswipe. He doesn't like that Harth was there, right under their noses. He doesn't like that he killed their leader.
But if he's learned anything, he's learned that it's not always best to go with what he wants.
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But let it never be said she doesn't have an opinion if pressed for it. A souled vampire was as much an abomination as she was in this form. Some things, if they could be left alone, should be.
No.
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But not all of him.
The Avatar swallows hard.
Yes.
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Perhaps he hadn't been wantonly cruel, but did it matter? Did it matter when women wept regardless, and the fires burned, and children grew up without their fathers and brothers--
--When parents grew old without their children?
The Dragon of the West had been a Devourer.
Iroh wanted to write "Yes." He believed in second chances.
But blood was blood, and loyalty was loyalty, and Zuko...his own son, in his eyes...would always come first. Iroh knew his scars almost as well as he did, every hurt had been committed to his memory the day Zuko had been brought back, and so had the feeling of intense and profound loss--even if temporary.
He wrote, with one of those confounded ballpoint pens:
No. What must be done must be done.
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But if he's learned anything, he's learned that it's not always best to go with what he wants.
He looks at the paper a while before writing Yes.
He deposits it with no hesitation.
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Irene is thinking about the army she killed.
Irene votes yes.
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