It is true. Honesty is often better than false humility.
[He raises an eyebrow at the nudge, and considers Varrick's question. He hasn't been asked all that often before, so he tries to summarise it in the briefest way possible.]
My story is not so different from any other in the war. My village was attacked by the Fire Nation when I was a young boy. Many were taken away, or else murdered. After that day, I swore I would become stronger to help protect everyone, and that I would find the ones who were responsible.
[And end them, is the unspoken implication. Although Connor is usually calm and doesn't often show his feelings, there is a raw edge to his voice as he recounts these particular details. Even if the war might be ended in this time, that won't stop the rage he feels towards the Fire Nation.]
My village, on the other hand, did not want to fight back. They preferred to stay in isolation, and to hope the Fire Nation would forget about them. What I feared more than anything was that the past was going to repeat itself, so when I was thirteen, I left the South Pole and travelled to the Earth Kingdom. I found a teacher who taught me everything he knew in how to fight, and how to think. Years later when my training was finished, I left, both to fight the Fire Nation on my own and to lend support to any rebels where I found them. It was a difficult and often fruitless battle, but I was at least able to liberate a few villages and small towns.
...That is what I was in the midst of, when the spirit world decided to bring me here.
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[He raises an eyebrow at the nudge, and considers Varrick's question. He hasn't been asked all that often before, so he tries to summarise it in the briefest way possible.]
My story is not so different from any other in the war. My village was attacked by the Fire Nation when I was a young boy. Many were taken away, or else murdered. After that day, I swore I would become stronger to help protect everyone, and that I would find the ones who were responsible.
[And end them, is the unspoken implication. Although Connor is usually calm and doesn't often show his feelings, there is a raw edge to his voice as he recounts these particular details. Even if the war might be ended in this time, that won't stop the rage he feels towards the Fire Nation.]
My village, on the other hand, did not want to fight back. They preferred to stay in isolation, and to hope the Fire Nation would forget about them. What I feared more than anything was that the past was going to repeat itself, so when I was thirteen, I left the South Pole and travelled to the Earth Kingdom. I found a teacher who taught me everything he knew in how to fight, and how to think. Years later when my training was finished, I left, both to fight the Fire Nation on my own and to lend support to any rebels where I found them. It was a difficult and often fruitless battle, but I was at least able to liberate a few villages and small towns.
...That is what I was in the midst of, when the spirit world decided to bring me here.