( his face actually contorts in distaste. what? no. that's not even remotely what he meant. )
I'm not going to say you kidnapped me.
( his standing with the force literally does not need to suck more, okay? he's put up with enough on that front. his once sterling reputation thrashed to tatters by this guy, who by all accounts he should dislike. )
Look, Chief Beifong recruited me after Avatar Korra and I literally went rogue to take down the Equalists. I know you're a good guy who wants to do good things, even if I don't like how you were doing it. Come take the entrance exams for the police force. I'll vouch for you, and no one needs to know you're an airbender.
( he's gone to a considerable amount of trouble to hide it. mako's been on his tail for months and never got the slightest inkling he was a bender of any kind, so... he obviously has his reason for keeping quiet about it. being an airbender is... well, it's a lot more fraught than being anything else. there's a lot more history to it. a lot more pain. mako doesn't feel guilty about what the fire nation did, but he doesn't like what fire's been used for, throughout the years. sometimes it seems like all the ills of the world have been brought about by smoke and flame and ash.
harmonic convergence tore a lot of families apart. most of their recruits for the air nomads were people who had nothing, before, or ones who didn't like their families anyway (something that, quite frankly, mako can't imagine.) he doesn't know dick's name, let alone his story, but mako wants to believe in his inherent decency. )
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I'm not going to say you kidnapped me.
( his standing with the force literally does not need to suck more, okay? he's put up with enough on that front. his once sterling reputation thrashed to tatters by this guy, who by all accounts he should dislike. )
Look, Chief Beifong recruited me after Avatar Korra and I literally went rogue to take down the Equalists. I know you're a good guy who wants to do good things, even if I don't like how you were doing it. Come take the entrance exams for the police force. I'll vouch for you, and no one needs to know you're an airbender.
( he's gone to a considerable amount of trouble to hide it. mako's been on his tail for months and never got the slightest inkling he was a bender of any kind, so... he obviously has his reason for keeping quiet about it. being an airbender is... well, it's a lot more fraught than being anything else. there's a lot more history to it. a lot more pain. mako doesn't feel guilty about what the fire nation did, but he doesn't like what fire's been used for, throughout the years. sometimes it seems like all the ills of the world have been brought about by smoke and flame and ash.
harmonic convergence tore a lot of families apart. most of their recruits for the air nomads were people who had nothing, before, or ones who didn't like their families anyway (something that, quite frankly, mako can't imagine.) he doesn't know dick's name, let alone his story, but mako wants to believe in his inherent decency. )