bentflame | {VIDEO POST; FAILED LOCK FROM THE JOKER}

[She's lounging on the couch at Cuddy's house, looking pissy and maybe vaguely unsettled-- she's just musing to herself, really, but letting it record because she wants to brag about how awesome the Fire Nation is]

Gotham was a waste of time. I don't even know if he had a purpose in wanting me to come, but whatever it was, he didn't accomplish it.

[Shifting a little, fully facing the camera now]

It's ridiculous how many worlds let their criminals run free. The Fire Nation has relatively little crime, because insane people are institutionalized and other offenders are either locked up or executed. It's ironic how many people here are so quick to denounce us for our worthy and justified war, while saying nothing about other worlds' lazy law enforcement and idle governments.

[This next part is muttered under her breath]

If he does anything like that I suppose I'll just have to take matters into my own hands.

OOC: Reference (which is NSFW, and contains descriptions of child torture), particularly the thread where Crane is threatening to mail nasty stuff to Cuddy. Azula doesn't really care much about the kid or anyone else in that entry, of course. 8(

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It's only temporary, if that's so important to you.

I doubt that.

The loss of their own culture and values if you're successful isn't.

It's true.

Ours are better.

It's not.

That's an unfair statement.

Yes it is. Wouldn't I know?

It's realistic.

No, because you're making things up.

No it's not. You're being entirely too arrogant.

I'm not making anything up. I'm drawing conclusions about what you told me about the war.

I'm being realistic.

You listened to too many lies from others on my world.

No, you're being arrogant. Completely, 100% arrogant. You're blind to the pain you're causing others and naive to how the world really works.

Who else could I talk to from your world? Other than your mother and Zuko-san. Zuko-san wasn't here long enough to tell me anything, and your mother talks about you, not the war.

Naive? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Plenty of people from my world have come and gone the past; it's not just Zuko and my former mother. And if she talks about me, she talks about the war.

I call it how I see it.

I didn't talk to them, that's for sure.

Then you're seeing it wrong.

Right.

I'm not. I'm not the only one who thinks this, either. Who else supports your war, beside your own nation?

Does it matter?

Yes, it matters.

No it doesn't.

You're an idiot if you can't realize how important foreign relations are to running a country.

Of course foreign relations are important-- but soon enough, there won't be any other countries but the Fire Nation. Really, it's irrelevant at this point.