[My friend who loved it so much is an animal behaviorist who said she felt like the main character is very believable as an animal behaviorist. She also said, fabulously, that she thinks it's a researcher's movie for the academic in us all. So maybe it's part of even more fistbump for older fandomers in general! I definitely support the making of a journal though! I'm wondering if I might be inspired by one of the characters when we see it too.]
"The question is not 'do you fight,'" Aurus said, raising his voice loud enough for it to cut through the bickering before it could gain too much steam.
The sylvari could, when he wanted to, have quite a commanding presence--he was, after all, a person of some seniority and authority, and he could present himself as precisely that when he wished to do so. So he was absolutely not going to let this discussion devolve into a back-and-forth between two sides in a debate that was obviously already well entrenched.
When he had the children's attention again, he continued: "The question you need to be asking is how you can fight so that your actions do not inadvertently undermine your goals. If the fighting that has been done so far has made the non-mutants fear you more, then it is fighting of poor tactics, poor strategy, poor vision.
"That does not mean, however, that fighting itself is wrong."
Given the very mixed audience he had before him, Aurus was aware that he needed to speak carefully here, but he also believed in being honest and frank. The older students in the group were easily the age that Hakkyuu had been when Aurus began to teach him. They were very well old enough to hear things said bluntly which would likely upset their younger peers.
"I have no wish to frighten you when I say this, but Suzanne, your faith in the safety of your lives is clearly not so self-evident to everyone here. That does not make you wrong, but it does tell me that there is a seed of doubt. I suspect," he looked around the assembled group, "that it is there within you all.
"You must be very careful of that seed. When it germinates, when it ripens, it can grow a fear which can strangle your heart. You begin to feel certain that your enemies are bent on destroying you and that your only option is to destroy them first. If that happens, the seed of doubt becomes a seed which grows the tyrants we were speaking of before.
"But that seed can also be cultivated into something insightful, something sharp. It can help you learn to stay alert and aware. That is a skill you will need to see the real threats evolving early on, to differentiate them from the distractions, the chimeras. There may be times when you will fight with your bodies, with your powers, but you can also fight with your wits.
"'Never leave a wrong to ripen into evil' does not mean that you scorch the earth. And it does not mean that you ignore how wrongs might ripen to evil or sorrow within your own hearts. These are dangers of which you must be mindful. Remember them in all your actions."
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"The question is not 'do you fight,'" Aurus said, raising his voice loud enough for it to cut through the bickering before it could gain too much steam.
The sylvari could, when he wanted to, have quite a commanding presence--he was, after all, a person of some seniority and authority, and he could present himself as precisely that when he wished to do so. So he was absolutely not going to let this discussion devolve into a back-and-forth between two sides in a debate that was obviously already well entrenched.
When he had the children's attention again, he continued: "The question you need to be asking is how you can fight so that your actions do not inadvertently undermine your goals. If the fighting that has been done so far has made the non-mutants fear you more, then it is fighting of poor tactics, poor strategy, poor vision.
"That does not mean, however, that fighting itself is wrong."
Given the very mixed audience he had before him, Aurus was aware that he needed to speak carefully here, but he also believed in being honest and frank. The older students in the group were easily the age that Hakkyuu had been when Aurus began to teach him. They were very well old enough to hear things said bluntly which would likely upset their younger peers.
"I have no wish to frighten you when I say this, but Suzanne, your faith in the safety of your lives is clearly not so self-evident to everyone here. That does not make you wrong, but it does tell me that there is a seed of doubt. I suspect," he looked around the assembled group, "that it is there within you all.
"You must be very careful of that seed. When it germinates, when it ripens, it can grow a fear which can strangle your heart. You begin to feel certain that your enemies are bent on destroying you and that your only option is to destroy them first. If that happens, the seed of doubt becomes a seed which grows the tyrants we were speaking of before.
"But that seed can also be cultivated into something insightful, something sharp. It can help you learn to stay alert and aware. That is a skill you will need to see the real threats evolving early on, to differentiate them from the distractions, the chimeras. There may be times when you will fight with your bodies, with your powers, but you can also fight with your wits.
"'Never leave a wrong to ripen into evil' does not mean that you scorch the earth. And it does not mean that you ignore how wrongs might ripen to evil or sorrow within your own hearts. These are dangers of which you must be mindful. Remember them in all your actions."