Sun: Um, well…. I don't own Legend of Korra. Here's some angst, I guess.

Noahtak's POV

The first time my father took Tarlock and I out blood-bending I swore that I'd never enjoy it. I swore that once I was old enough, I'd leave that place and never use the terrible skill again, that I'd protect my little brother and forget about that bleak time in my life.

I failed. I failed on all counts. I reveled in the power that blood-bending brought me. I blood-bent the very person I'd sworn to protect, and then I'd run away without him, left him to rot with our monster of a father. I'd failed on all counts except getting out of that god-forsaken place. I couldn't even trust myself with blood-bending. I'd become almost as bad as my father.

My father who'd ruled Republic City's criminal underworld with fear. I was just as bad. I'd enjoyed blood-bending. I couldn't even trust myself with bending. How could I trust the rest of world with this sort of power? Many people were just as corrupt as I. I couldn't trust anyone with this sort of power.

The day that I ran away from home I swore I'd rid the world of bending. I couldn't let anyone else fall prey to the power that had intoxicated me. I couldn't risk it. I'd just have to take that out of the picture, and put all people of the world on equal footing. That was the day I'd renamed myself Amon. Noahtak was corrupted by power, but Amon, he would only do what was best for the world. Amon wouldn't fail. Amon would bring about equality, I said, and many people believed me.

But I broke that promise as well. Amon was a failure just like Noahtak. I lost to Avatar Korra and then I did the thing I do best. I fled. I left and I made a new promise. I ran away with Tarlock and promised him it would be just like the old days. But now, as my life flashes before my eyes in this raging inferno, I know something. I would have broken that promise, just like all the others. Things could never be the way they were.

I thought, "Maybe this is for the best." And I breathed my last.

Author's Note: Is that a drabble or a one-shot? I'm not really sure.