I know you think I'm an idiot? But what about absolute monarchy didn't work before don't you understand? I know just as well as you do that a government run and controlled by one person and a handful of dignitaries doesn't reflect the will of the people, and usually doesn't have their best interests at heart either. And I'm not even just talking about the Fire Nation. We all need to work together to repair the damage done during the war, or the same cycle of hatred and assumed superiority will just continue.
Things are going to change, and we're all going to work to get that accomplished. You're just too stubborn to see past my family's history.
What you say doesn't matter as much as what you've done. Will you give up your palace, your servants, the title you just claimed? How much will you change and how long will you make them wait?
If that's what they want? I'll give it up in as soon as they ask me to. I don't care about any of that. Not that you'd know, because you're too busy turning me into the generalized face of your enemy or something. You've seen my room. You really think I want to have people wash my feet or carry me around the city instead of doing it myself? It's stupid. It's an outdated system to try and make a small group of people look better than everyone else, and to justify their behavior towards anyone they see as lower than them.
And if they don't know to ask? Or if they do ask, and you never hear of it, because they're kept down by those below you.
It's a system you support by letting them call you Fire Lord, by giving people who would oppress others, even if you say you wouldn't, a system of rank to use to do it.
Vanessa. I left hours after my coronation. When I get back? My only priority is to restore peace and prosperity to the world, and if disassembling political structure and rewriting laws and reorganizing groups is necessary - which it is - it will happen. Stop talking about it like you actually understand the situation or my thoughts on it, because you clearly don't. You're using generalizations based on your own bad experiences to judge everyone.
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Things are going to change, and we're all going to work to get that accomplished. You're just too stubborn to see past my family's history.
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It's a system you support by letting them call you Fire Lord, by giving people who would oppress others, even if you say you wouldn't, a system of rank to use to do it.
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