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In this episode of galaxy debate we will showcase how a seasoned veteran learned empathy and a naive yet hopeful teenager learned pain and sorrow, how these two grew or were shattered by those lessons

Ruby: mind if I sit here?

Iroh: not at all, my name is Iroh. Please have some tea with me Miss….

Ruby: Ruby Rose. Nice to meet you iroh

Iroh: likewise. I am happy to offer tea to you, especially since I can tell you seem to be carrying some deep stress.

Ruby: how did you know?!

Iroh: I have been around a long time, experienced it myself and seen it in those I cared for

Ruby: you’re right….tell you the truth I’m starting to really feel low

Iroh: what may I ask is troubling you ruby?

Ruby: someone I knew, someone I loved and cared for died and I wasn’t able to do enough to stop it. Then we lost her home, an entire city gone because of my failure.

Iroh: hmmm I myself know what that feels like.

Ruby: you do?!

Iroh: yes. When I was a general for the First Nation, I helped lay siege to the earth kingdom

Ruby: You were a bad guy like Salem!? (Ruby grabs crescent rose)

Iroh: no need to feel threatened young lady (he chuckles) my tyrant days are behind me. In fact, it’s how I came to know loss like you.

Ruby: how so?

Iroh (sighs): during a “grand” battle that I thought was my destiny to win, my purpose….i lost the life of my beloved son Lu ten. I wasn’t there to save him.

Ruby: I…I’m so sorry to hear that

Iroh: Yes. It was all my fault. I envisioned myself as the future king of the world, a great warrior who could overcome any obstacle, yet I failed to notice till too late the sufferings of those beneath my foot nor the plight of my own son. And it cost me greatly.

Ruby: sounds like you do know how I feel a bit. At least a little. When I lost Penny, my friend, someone who saw beauty in all life except her own till she met me, it shattered me. I wasn’t able to be there when she needed me, I felt so weak and useless.

“Iroh: just like how I felt when I lost my son. Life can be cruelest to you when trying to teach you a lesson like empathy.

Ruby: yeah. When I met Blake, one of my bestest friends, I told her my goal was to be a huntress who could save everybody. She said it was noble for a kid but life isn’t like that. I told her we existed to help people defy that reality. I soon became her leader and tried my best to help her and others. But the more I fought, the more I tried to make that a reality the more she’d say she came around to my thinking. Except with each loss and beating I came around to hers, I started to lose hope I could do anything right.

I felt like I was a failure that I couldn’t stand up to the needs my friends and family needed, like I thought my mom could. I saw her as a perfect huntress, and felt like I was letting everyone down.

Iroh: when one leads, or tries to aim for something like perfection, they do feel the weight of expectation from those beside them. I thought grandly of my identity and goals as well, feeling it was my destiny to be perfect like my nation I thought, until war forced me to cast out my rigid views. I once told my nephew prince zuko it was important to draw upon the viewpoints of other cultures, other people as it could help us grow not become stagnant.

Ruby: I was new, gullible little leader who thought being a huntress was like in fairy tales mom and my sister yang read where I was supposed to be perfect and save everyone. The more I listened, the more I hurt because I thought Blake was right and I was wrong all along

Iroh: while life isnt always like a story, story’s are often told from grand experiences by those who lived wonderful lives, through eyes of wonder. You learned from your friend reality is dark but it sounds like she learned from you to hope for something more bright.

Ruby: I wanted to be perfect, for her for Penny for everyone but Salem and cinder those evil witches kept taking from me and ruining everyone’s lives and I couldn’t stop them. There was. Nothing I could do! It was all my fault

Iroh; if there was nothing more you could have done at that time Ruby, why punish yourself so?

Ruby: what?

Iroh: my actions got my son killed, my actions led to my brother becoming a tyrant that spread even worse loss than I suffered on countless citizens. My choices did great harm, because I didn’t try hard enough to change. To change others for the better especially myself. I grew stagnant and immoral, but once I experienced the pain of others I lost my sense of bloodshed and gained a great sense of understanding of them. You did all you could, and even though you failed, it was in the name of love and understanding. I find that admirable, such a goal riddled with kindness I lacked.

Ruby: but how can you accept it? How heavy things feel every time you fail? How heavy you feel when you lose those you care about, fight for?

Iroh: sometimes I just spend time with those I still have and appreciate life rather than dwell soley on what i lost. I still had my nephew and he still had me when he lost everything else. Do you still have anything to treasure

Ruby: my friends, my family. But everyday I’m afraid I’m about to lose them
Too, just like I lost a kingdom. You don’t get it! You invaded a kingdom, I destroyed mine!

Iroh: yes…it’s a guilt I’ll carry the rest of my life. If anything I am glad I failed because then I failed to inflict more pain on the innocent citizens I nearly conquered when I gave up. I do sometimes cry at night, thinking of how my failure hurt my soldiers and my son.

Ruby: maybe….its okay to fail, it’s okay to feel pain. I kept trying to fix myself once but that made it worse.

Iroh: how did you find inner peace?

Ruby: I haven’t…it still hurts. Penny, my mom all the people I’ve lost and failed. But I’m still here like you said. There are still people who need me in my life. It’s suffocating, but I’m still alive to fight for them. I have to fight for them or else everyone else falls.

Iroh: so your saying as long as you can keep getting back up to fight, there’s hope?

Ruby: yeah I guess.

Iroh: then…what happens when your fight is over?

Ruby: I don’t know, I’ve fought my whole life to be a huntress to save everybody. I never thought there was anything else.

Iroh: if it makes you feel better, that’s what life is, not one straight path, but a series of directions for us to take to find our true destiny.

Ruby: my destiny was to save the world I thought. Like the avatar.

Iroh: Destiny isn’t something set in stone, it’s more as the lake at the end of the river, each memory and action we have is like a pebble in the water or a fish floating downstream as they try to make it to the biggest body, their purpose. Ruby, avatar aangs destiny was to bring balance to the world, but he didn’t do that alone. He had friends and loved ones to help him. He met his goal, his destiny through help.

Ruby: for so long, I felt like I can’t ask them for help. I thought I wasn’t allowed, that I had to be the one to help them as leader

Iroh: sometimes, a leader forgets they are still human. That they cannot and should not have everything placed on their shoulders. No matter how the wind howls a mountain cannot bend to it because it has such weight. But if you don’t ask for help, you weigh yourself down and never move towards your goal. Aang embodied not just the air, but the free spirit we needed to freely help others and ask for help in return to get what he needed.

Ruby: I always thought I’d be, weak… a failure to them as their leader if I thought selfishly or asked for help.

Iroh: it’s not weakness Ruby Rose. When we reach our lowest point, we are open to the greatest of change. I went from a conqueror to a tea shop owner because I took the time to look inward, and realize I never thought of others nor asked for their advice and help. It wasn’t until I lost my boy did I try to look at things a new way, like how my nephew does. I thought my goal was to guide and save him from his abusive father for years and saw him more like my son than my nephew since then.

Ruby: maybe then, you didn’t save him. He saved you?

Iroh chuckles: yes I believe you’re right. Isn’t it wonderful when we take the time to stop fighting and talk? Hear other viewpoints

Ruby: giggles: yeah. I always tried to look at the best of the bad times. Yang said sometime bad stuff happens, but maybe….if we stop trying so hard to prevent that, we can be better than those bad times rather than let them shape us.

Iroh: indeed. I could have let the pain my sons loss be all I was, but I traveled, found love again and discovered new ways of thinking than my own that truly shaped who I am now. You don’t need to let the loss of Penny and atlas define you Ruby rose, let your family and friends, your dream of peace and feelings define you.

A love lost by a ferocious predator may yet yield a new opportunity for discovery and comfort

Ruby Rose

Sienna Khan

Both have lost something precious, a child, an identity

From this AU Sienna raises an orphan lost in her way in the ways of Faunus.

Bearing the mark of her mothers stripes Ruby becomes a key enforcer in the White Fang, bearing the moniker of Silver Tiger

But Ruby has yet to kill, she may though get her chance when Roman torchwick infringes on White Fang dust territory in vale forcing Sienna to have her white kitten fight

The truce between the criminal underworld of torchwick and Sienna broken for some reason, she finds another mission for her adopted daughter

Infiltrate beacon to find out what Ozpin, the head of vale knows.

Despite not being born Faunus, Ruby is tattooed with her mothers stripes, and bears the cat ears of one of her fallen adopted brethren (to hide from the most heinous zealots who’d never accept a human in their ranks)

What path will the adopted Faunus take for her tribe? And what discovery shall she make regarding more than her own past?

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