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Fiend Angelical by Ransomed Heart
"Oh, serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honorable villan!"
-Juliet, Romeo and Juliet
I think sometimes the line between good and evil blurs. Black and white blend together into shades of impenitrable gray, like a fog. In wars, both sides are simply doing what they beleive is right. Each force has honorable intentions for their own people. Who are we to judge the boundaries between right and wrong? Sins can be pardoned, people redeemed. Wrongs are forgotten, fading wordlessly into the annals of history, vanishing before our very eyes.
Sokka would probably argue with me on that. His view of the world is rather cut-and-dry, and I'm not sure he would entirely understand. He would probably laugh at me or ask if I was sick. I don't mean to undermine his intelligence, Sokka is my older brother after all, but I have seen things that he hasn't.
Aang probably just wouldn't get it. He is horribly innocent for someone who is technically over one hundred years old, and rather naive as well. That isn't to say that his insights and slyness don't shock me at times, but there are some things even the Avatar doesn't get. It's part of his charm I suppose, and it must be the reason I love Aang so much.
But Aang's personality is focused. He has one way of thinking, a mind of childlike opinions and conclusions drawn from seeing only the harsh sides of his enemy. He has seen that men have both good and evil inside them, but he has never seen the two cross before. He will someday, I think that will come with time and experience as the Avatar, but if I were to speak my mind now he would be as mystified as Sokka.
But I know that good and evil are not separate. They exist as dark and light, you can't have one without the other.
Each of us has good and evil inside of him. Even our enemies.
After the incident with the waterbending scroll, Zuko never gave me my mother's necklace back. I didn't realize it until we made camp that night, and I didn't want to trouble Aang and Sokka with it, they were exhausted enough as things were. It seemed almost silly to worry about a necklace after a near-death battle, so I went to sleep without my mother's necklace for the first time in months.
The funny thing was, when I woke up the next morning the necklace was placed neatly above my pillow. Kind of like someone had come up during the night and placed it there.
Maybe it's just me, but Prince Zuko may know what it's like to not have a mother around. Even the enemy has a good side, I suppose. I never told Aang and Sokka, it would freak them out to think that Zuko could get so close without them being aware of it.
Even evil has a heart, and villans do have honor.