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So. It seems I'm alive after all- which, I'm sure, is an unfortunate thing for most of you. Rest assured, you all have my sincerest apologies.

OOC: Yue, I'll still finish that RL, but Azula would get back on her feet pretty quickly. XD

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Well, if that's true then I'm glad of it.

As you should be.

I just wonder if they're only tell you that to pacify you while they sharpen their knives, that's all. You're not exactly a people person, Azula. Do you care about your subjects?

I care for my country, as do they.

For your country, or your people, Azula? There is a distinction.

And that distinction would be what? I don't care for each and every one of my people on a personal level. I would think that that much would be obvious. My people don't want a bleeding-heart ruler who spends her time visiting orphanages and petting small, fluffy animals. They want someone who actually gets things done.

Getting things done is admirable, and no one expects you to know and love each individual person in your country.

But a ruler should care about the well-being of those within their country, and not just the political prosperity of the country as a whole. That is what I was getting at. A country can be expanded, or make its nobility rich, but if the people don't benefit, then they will still be resentful.

Rulers can grow fat on the backs of their subjects, the country becoming rich and prosperous, while the commoners that you are so contemptuous of starve and suffer.

The well-being is directly related to the political prosperity. If the people are starving and suffering, than obviously the ruler isn't doing a very good job, and the country will eventually fall in one way or another. People here like to say that that will happen to me, but the fact is, my people are happy. They don't want to overthrow our government, because they have no reason to.

Honestly I wasn't intimating anything about you personally, Princess. You haven't impressed me with your empathy, but I don't know enough about your governance to do more than speculate.

I'm pleased to hear all of this. I have become cynical over my own life, and I have personal reasons to loathe the trappings of aristocracy, so don't take my words personally.

"Empathy" is hardly a useful thing for a someone to have- especially someone in my position. Those in charge should rule with their heads, not their hearts.

I can assure you, I don't.

I couldn't be accused of having a lot of empathy, myself, and I don't disagree with you.

Good.

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