Katara vs. Percy Jackson
(Avatar: The Last Airbender vs. Heroes of Olympus)

(Cue Death Battle Intro)

TyForestWrites: Water is possibly the most essential element to mankind's survival in this world. Without good old H20, we'd die within only a matter of days.

H20Flame: I didn't realize I meant that much to people. That's a nice thing to know.

TyForestWrites: That's... ugh, you know what I mean. Best not to entertain it. Your ego's big enough already. But anyways, these two combatants are more than adept at controlling water however they wish.

H20Flame: Katara, the Waterbending Master of the Southern Water Tribe.

TyForestWrites: And Percy Jackson, the demigod son of Poseidon.

H20Flame: He's TyForestWrites, and I'm H20Flame.

TyForestWrites: And it's our job to research their powers, abilities, and weaponry to find out who would win a Death Battle.
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Katara

Background
-Name: Katara
-Age: 14 (ATLA); 89 (LOK)
-Occupation: Waterbending Master
-Wife of Avatar Aang
-She's got on eye on you...
—Water Tribe...

TyForestWrites: Water... Earth... Fire... Air...

H20Flame: Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony... but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

TyForestWrites: Only the Avatar, master of all four elements could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished.

H20Flame: 100 years passed until two Southern Water Tribe teenagers found the new Avatar, a young boy named Aang, imprisoned in an iceberg... and accidentally broke him out.

Katara: I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, NOT PLEASANT!!!

Sokka: (noticing the ice crack) Katara, settle down!!

Katara: No that's it! I'm done helping you! From now on, you're on your own!!

The iceberg: (shatters)

TyForestWrites: And that's how Aang met his soulmate.

H20Flame: Katara was born the only waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe, since all the rest were either killed or captured by the Fire Nation. As such, her very existence was to be kept secret, a secret her mother took to her early grave.

TyForestWrites: Years later, after her father left to fight in the war against the Fire Nation, Katara and her brother, Sokka, went on a regular fishing trip when they discovered the aforementioned Avatar, who had been frozen in a block of ice for the past one hundred years. So one misadventure or two later, the three of them decided to head to the Northern Water Tribe to help teach Aang (and Katara to an extent) how to master waterbending and take one step closer to saving the world.

Powers and Skills
-Waterbending
—Keeps a canteen of water with her at all times
-Icebending
-Plantbending
-Healing
-Adaptability
—Probably the only reason they haven't been caught during one of Sokka's ridiculous schemes
-Bloodbending
-All of her bending prowess is strengthened when under the light of a full moon

H20Flame: Along the way, Katara showed just how adept at manipulating water she was and trained to be. She can manipulate any water in her vicinity, no matter where it may be, to do whatever she commands. This extends to even plants and ice. If it is liquid or even frozen liquid, she can control it. And it goes even further than that. She can actually freeze any water she controls, no matter the temperature, and turn it into ice as well.

TyForestWrites: Waterbending is easily the most versatile of the elements to manipulate. Can firebending heal you from wounds? Nope, it just scars you and sends you on a quest for HONOR. But yeah, that's what waterbending can do. But while Katara can heal others, it's unknown if she can heal herself as well. But nevertheless, all waterbending is at its strongest when under the light of a full moon.

H20Flame: It's also under these conditions that all waterbenders can use perhaps the most dangerous technique in the series: bloodbending.

Hama: (uses bloodbending on a guard to break out of prison)

TyForestWrites: (shivers) Ooh, just hearing the name gives me chills.

H20Flame: While there have been exceptions, most waterbenders can only perform this technique when the moon is full and their bending is at its peak. With it, they can control the very body of any living being, like a twisted puppet master. But due to the sadistic nature of the ability, Katara has seen fit to never use it unless it's a last resort... or on someone she thought was her mother's killer. She even got the ability outlawed in the future.

Feats
-Taught Aang the basics of waterbending
-Held her own against Master Pakku, the waterbending master of the Northern Water Tribe
-Held her own against Zuko
-Helped defeat a giant serpent monster
-Held her own against Zuko, Azula, and multiple Dai Lee agents
-Brought Aang back from the brink of death
-Resisted and even used bloodbending after only just learning about it
-Tracked down her mother's killer with the help of Zuko
-Defeated Azula
-Became a waterbending master

TyForestWrites: Katara is one tough cookie. She held her own against the waterbending master, Pakku, despite having no formal training, and later held her own against Zuko, who only really won because the sun rose. She once helped fight off a giant sea monster, and then held her own against not only Zuko, but also Azula and some earthbending Dai Lee agents, with a little help from Aang.

H20Flame: She resisted bloodbending after just learning about it, and even used it on the insane witch who tried it on her, and that old lady took months of self-teaching to learn it. And after Zuko reformed and helped her track down the man who murdered her mother, Katara helped him take down Azula, whose firebending was boosted, as well as constantly shooting lightning at her! How fast is lightning again?

TyForestWrites: Uh uh uh, not so fast, Flame. While lightning is very fast (about 220 million miles per hour fast), take into account that, while Katara was dodging it, lightningbending takes time to generate when not using lightning directly. So while she was dodging it, Azula gave Katara plenty of time to know when it's coming. Zuko jumped in front of her to take a bolt for a reason. Which brings us nicely into her weaknesses.

Weaknesses
-Refuses to use bloodbending unless it's a last resort
—She even outlawed it in the future
-Loves telling endless speeches about hope
-Still only human

H20Flame: While there's not a whole lot of weaknesses to go off of, all of them can be summed up in three words: She's only human. While she is a bit more durable than most fourteen year olds, she can still be killed through regular means. Getting shot by lightning, stabbed, etcetera.

TyForestWrites: But you still have to get through her defenses, which, let me tell you, is a pretty difficult thing to do. The Avatar always gets the girl, and what a girl he got!

Katara: I know sometimes it hurts more to hope and it hurts more to care, but you have to promise that you won't stop caring.
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Percy

Background
-Name: Perseus "Percy" Jackson
-Species: Demigod (son of Poseidon)
-Age: 17
-Aliases: Son of Poseidon, Hero of Olympus, Perry Johnson, Seaweed Brain (and other Annabeth given nicknames)
-Have you seen his girlfriend? She's not missing, he just wants to know if you've seen how beautiful she is.

H20Flame: Percy Jackson never wanted to be a half blood. Unfortunately, fate always has other ideas. Born to a mortal woman (Sally Jackson) and the Greek god of the seas, Perseus Jackson never had the most stable life growing up, being expelled from every school he went to, as well as tortured by an abusive step father (whose smell was so bad, it actually kept monsters from smelling his demigod physiology). But his world changed forever when he accidentally vaporized his pre-algebra teacher.

TyForestWrites: Eh, she was Fury, don't worry about it. Shortly thereafter, he was taken in by Camp Half-Blood after his mother was captured by Hades (long story), and he learned of his true heritage; he was a son of one of the Ancient Greek gods, who actually stuck around far past what you would call their expiration date. And he then learned his birth father's name: Poseidon. And that's when you learn how dangerous this was.

H20Flame: Yeah, turns out, after World War 2, the gods finally realized that children of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades were pretty freaking OP. Add onto an apocalyptic prophecy about one of the their children possibly ending the world, and we've got a big issue. So the Big Three took an oath to never have children again, of which only Hades kept. The gods found that fact ironic, I find it completely expected.

TyForestWrites: Yeah, Zeus just couldn't seem to keep it in his pants twice, and while Poseidon fell in love with Sally, which was completely understandable, Sally's a pure angel, and out popped Percy. And with Zeus' master lightning bolt stolen, that made him the prime suspect, so he went on a quest with two of his friends, Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood, to prove his innocence.

Equipment
-Anaklusmos
—Also known as Riptide
—Made of celestial bronze
—Disguised as a pen
—Can actually be used as a pen
—Never able to be lost
-Wristwatch Shield
—Given to him by Tyson
—Transforms from a watch to a bronze shield

H20Flame: It was at the start of this quest that their mentor, the centaur Chiron, gifted Percy with a sword named Anaklusmos. But if that's too hard to pronounce, call it by it's translated name, Riptide.

TyForestWrites: I will be doing that, thank you very much.

H20Flame: Anyway, Riptide is actually a more versatile weapon than one might think. When not in use, it's a pen, but once that pen is uncapped, the blade magically springs out. The blade in particular is made out of celestial bronze, a special metal mined from Mt. Olympus itself, one that is super effective on immortals, demigods, and monsters, but has no effect on mortals whatsoever. But as an added bonus for Riptide, the pen is magically linked to its owner so that it can never be lost.

TyForestWrites: Except for when the plot demands it doesn't. Another thing he has that most people might have forgotten that he has is a wristwatch shield, gifted to him by his half-brother Tyson, a Cyclops (again, long story). It looks like a regular wristwatch, but it can expand into a bronze shield. But these weapons aren't all he has up his sleeves.

Powers and Skills
-Hydrokinesis
—Can breathe underwater
—Can walk on water
—Water-boosted physicality
-Master swordsman
-Animal communication
—Can talk to most aquatic life, as well as horses
-Heat resistance
-Geokinesis
-Atmokinesis
-Slight cryokinesis and toxikinesis

H20Flame: There's a reason why the gods were terrified of a child of the Big Three. As a son of Poseidon, Percy can manipulate water however he so wishes, with no defined limit. Not only can he breathe underwater, water also rapidly heals him, as well as boosts his physicality. Add onto the fact that he's a master swordsman, and we got a demigod who's practically invincible underwater. Oh, and he's also heat resistant to the point where lava actually feels only a bit warm before actually getting hot.

TyForestWrites: But wait, there's more! When Percy gets really serious in a fight, a mini hurricane dances around him, complete with lightning and water thick enough to drown out the flames of the light Titan Hyperion, the third most powerful Titan! He can also slightly manipulate snow and poison, but to a much lesser extent than pure water.

H20Flame: BUT ALSO, he has the ability of geokinesis, but hasn't really shown any signs of being able to do this willingly. It's always been accidental, but when it has, it's pretty darn destructive... like, destroying a fifty thousand ton bridge kind of destructive.

Feats
-Percy Jackson and the Olympians
—Was a child of prophecy... twice
—Killed Hades' Furies (some of them at least)
—Killed the Minotaur... twice
—Killed Medusa (with help)
—Held off the Chimera
—Escaped a trap set by Hephaestus
—Traveled to the Underworld and back multiple times
—Defeated Ares, the war god, in combat
—Held off the Cyclops Polyphemus
—Lifted the entirety of the Zephyros Creek
—Killed the Nemean Lion (with help)
—Held up the weight of the sky for a short period of time
—Navigated through the Labyrinth (with help)
—Caused Mt. Saint Helens to erupt
—Survived a dip in the River Styx
—Collapsed Williamsburg Bridge
—Defeated the Titan Hyperion
—Held off Kronos, who could slow down time
—Turned down immortality... twice
-Heroes of Olympus
—Killed the other two Gorgons multiple times
—Survived a fall of hundreds of feet, whilst fighting off a legion of undead
—Killed Polybotes (a Giant, bane of Poseidon) with nothing but his sword and a sentient stone head of Terminus, the god of boundaries
—Became Praetor of the 12th legion after literally just one week
—Fought Jason Grace, the son of Jupiter, to a standstill, though both were hypnotized
—Helped kill Otis (a Giant, one of the two banes of Dionysus), alongside Jason, and held off Ephialtes (a Giant, the other bane of Dionysus)
—Survived a fall into Tartarus with Annabeth
—Survived Tartarus while fighting (and not limited to) the goddess of misery, the goddess of night, the Greek equivalent of vampires, as well as countless numbers of monsters
—Killed quite a number of Giants with the help of the other demigods of prophecy and the gods
-Demigods and Magicians
—Nearly overpowered Carter Kane
—Helped take down a giant crocodile monster
—Helped defeat Setne

TyForestWrites: He's done more than tha-oh, wow, that's... that's a lot of feats...

H20Flame: It's a book series that's been going since 2005, and is still going strong. What did you expect?

TyForestWrites: (clears throat) W-Well, um, let's just go over the highlights, shall we? He killed Hades' Furies, the Minotaur, Medusa, traveled to and from the Underworld multiple times, defeated Ares, lifted up the entirety of the Zephyros Creek, held up the weight of the sky for a short time, navigated through the Labyrinth, caused Mt. Saint Helens to erupt, collapsed Williamsburg Bridge, defeated Hyperion and Kronos, and turned down immortality... And that's just the first set of books!

H20Flame: Later on, he killed Medusa's sisters multiple times, survived a fall of hundreds of feet, killed Polybotes, fought Jason Grace to a standstill, helped Jason kill Otis and Ephialtes, survived a fall into Tartarus, survived in Tartarus, killed a number of Giants with the rest of the Seven and the Greek pantheon, and helped take down Gaia.

TyForestWrites: AND THEN, in the Kane Chronicles crossover, he nearly overpowered Carter Kane, a guy with a whole slew of magical weapons and abilities, and even survived a magical sucker punch from him that would have killed a normal human. He then had to team up with him to kill the Son of Sobek, aka a giant magical crocodile, and then some time later, teaming up with him, Sadie Kane, and Annabeth to defeat Setne, aka possibly the most powerful magician in the world. (takes a deep breath) HAVE WE ESTABLISHED THAT PERCY'S OP YET?!

Weaknesses
-His fatal flaw is personal/excessive loyalty
-Riptide cannot hurt mortals
-Can only control liquid water
-Zeus will strike him out of the sky should he be up there
-Is affected by both mortal and Olympian weapons
-Is still mortal despite being a demigod
-Couldn't escape crappy movie deals

H20Flame: Eh, I wouldn't confuse a massive amount of feats with complete OP-ness, he's still got his fair set of flaws. For example, if he's up in the sky for too long (such as being in an airplane), Zeus will kill him without hesitation. Plus, he can only control liquid water, and no other kinds of water like ice. Maybe mist too, but not like the Mist... oh boy, we better explain that.

TyForestWrites: Oh right... essentially, the Mist prevents most mortals from seeing anything related to mythological beings. Instead, they see something their mind can actually process. But the Mist will not be taken into account in this battle, just so we can have a sense of neutrality. But can we get back to weaknesses now?

H20Flame: Gladly. Every hero has their own fatal flaw, aka a mental or physical weaknesses that demigods, humans, and immortals possess. These flaws can often cause the downfall of the being, but are particularly dangerous to demigods. Percy's is personal loyalty, aka he cares more about the people close to him rather than the world around them. This was especially dangerous for him, since the first prophecy stated that a decision he would make would either save the world or raze it.

TyForestWrites: Wait, isn't raising the world better than saving it, or...?

H20Flame: No, R-A-Z-E. To destroy.

TyForestWrites: Oh... yeah, that's a terrible flaw to have in that kind of situation.

H20Flame: So true... But nevertheless, no matter the odds, Percy has always come out on top in the end, with his friends at his side... ugh, that was so cheesy...

Percy: I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. This is Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. We help out the gods sometimes with little stuff, like, oh, killing Titans, saving Mount Olympus, things like that. Perhaps you've heard stories. So about that caduceus... it would be easier to just hand it over before things get unpleasant.
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TyForestWrites: Alright, the combatants are set, let's end this debate once and for all!

H20Flame: It's time for a Death Battle!!
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Icy crunches sounded throughout the chilly night air of the Southern Water Tribe as Katara made her way through the frozen landscape. It had been a while since she had been home. Seeing her Gran Gran again was a pleasant experience, and going penguin-sledding with Aang again had been all the more special. Even Sokka had been tolerable.

But now... call it a gut feeling, but something was drawing her out of the village and into the night. Sokka would've called it instincts, Katara called it foreboding. She would've gone earlier, but decided to wait until nightfall, when everyone was asleep and the moon was full. That last fact in particular helped ease her tensions. Should there actually be anything, she was fairly confident she could take them in these conditions.

Katara then flinched as she looked back to her front to see the silhouette of a human looking out over a glacier and toward the ocean. A bronze sword was stabbed into the ground next to him, his hand on top of the grip. As her eyes adjusted, Katara could see his light skin, black hair, and orange t-shirt, a completely alien sight for anyone in either pole. And was he... muttering to himself? Okay, this was officially freaky.

"Hey!" the Water Tribe girl called out, "You're not from around here, are you?"

The man spun around quickly at her voice, green eyes meeting her blue ones. She could now see that the front of his shirt had the word "Camp" on it, and the word that was supposed to follow was too faded for her to read. Once he had a good luck at her, he sighed, almost sounding regretful.

He stood up and spoke, "Sup? I assume you are though?"

His casual attitude threw off Katara for a moment before answering, "What's it to you? Sorry, but we don't exactly take too kindly to foreign invaders. Last time that happened, we had to go to war."

The guy didn't even look shocked as he sighed again, hefting his sword over his shoulder, "Yeah, this is definitely the place. Been getting bad vibes from here, the dreams I've been getting helping me none, until now at least. Sorry, but I'm gonna need a look around. The name's Percy-"

He didn't even get to finish as an icicle shot past his ear, clipping some of his hair. He had barely had time to register that some water had spouted from Katara's canteen, immediately froze, and had shot at him.

He blinked, "Well... that was different."

"If you think I'm gonna let a creep like you anywhere near my home," Katara growled as the ice beneath them began to crack, "You have another thing coming."

The ice gave way, the glacier collapsing beneath them. Some ice actually held up though, shaping into multiple perfectly formed pillars, and were the only thing keeping the two combatants on their feet. The landscape essentially resembled a frozen over part of the Earth Kingdom where Aang had fought Ozai. Water began to rise up in tendrils all around Katara's pillar as she glared at Percy menacingly.

"Ah crap," Percy groaned, readying his sword, "Here we go again."

Fight!

The tendrils of water shot at Percy at a rapid pace with a quick movement of Katara's arms. But the demigod merely raised one arm and the water suddenly halted in its tracks, as if it had hit an invisible wall. Katara let out a gasp at the sight just as the liquid turned around and was repelled right back at her. She swiftly made a few motions with her arms, thus casually deflecting the tendrils away and onto the icy ground.

'So he's a waterbender, huh?' the girl thought, 'Certainly doesn't look like one. But I guess this means I've gotta be more careful.'

'With moves like that, there's no way she's human,' Percy mused to himself, 'And since she's not a monster, she's gotta be a demigod, right? But what demigod in their right mind would come here of all places?'

Katara stomped on the ground, five thin, sharp circles of ice hovering in the air for a few seconds as Percy finished his thought, 'Oh right... me.'

She hurled the disc at him like they were frisbees, and the demigod retaliated by swinging Riptide, cleaving the first disc in half before following up the same motions with the rest of the projectiles. He raised his hand up, causing some of the water at the foot of the pillar to rise, creating a pathway for him to run on to get to Katara's own pillar.

'But if she's a demigod, how can she have abilities like this?' Percy continued his thought process, 'As far as I know, Dad hasn't been with anyone since Mom... but would he tell me about any other of his children?'

Noticing his lack of manipulating ice, Katara decided to launch more icicles in his direction in hopes of slowing him down. He swiped at the ice as it came at him, deflecting each one that got too close for comfort. As he closed in on her, the girl got desperate and created an ice wall in between them. But that was in vain, as Percy smashed through the wall, and his sword glistened as he swung. Katara braced herself for the blow. The blade cut right through her waist...

And yet the waterbender was unharmed. There was an awkward silence for the two of them as Percy stared at her in shock and Katara slowly realizing what had just happened.

"No way..." Percy muttered, "You're... You're mortal?!"

"Of course I'm mortal!" Katara snapped, anger momentarily causing her to ignore the previous event, "What's that supposed to mean?!"

Turns out that that was a rhetorical question, as she took advantage of his confused state and shot him up in the air using the ice. Percy landed hard on his back, groaning as he took in this new revelation.

'Okay... so she's not a demigod... Could she be a magician like Carter? No, celestial bronze still works on magicians... So what is she?'

He didn't get an answer, but he did get a giant hand made of water crash out of the ice and pin him to the ground. Less helpful than he was hoping. The hard quickly began to freeze into ice just before he could manipulate it, sticking him to the icy ground. He looked up and saw Katara make a few more hand motions, several icicles forming from the ground and hovering at her side. He then heard more noice and looked around to see the entire top of the pillar was sphered by a wall of icicles, all pointed directly at him.

"Oh you've gotta be fu-"

Katara hurled everything she had at him, the crashing creating a large misty cloud where Percy stood. She breathed heavily as she looked at it, waiting for the mist to clear to see her opponent's fate. And just as she was about to do it herself, a large gust of wind burst the mist out of the way, the icy wind causing Katara to cover her face. And when she uncovered it, her eyes bulged. Around Percy was what appeared to be a mini-storm. Lightning flashed in it, dark clouds surrounding him, rain swirling around. His eyes met her's, and she felt a cold shiver run down her spine.

"My turn."

The pillar began gave way, causing the waterbender to stumble as Percy rushed at her. The storm slammed into her right as the ice collapsed, and the two fell toward the ocean below. Katara tried her hardest to control the water circulating through the storm, only to no avail. It was too chaotic to get a good grip on it. And then she felt the sea hit her back.

In any other circumstance, she would've created an air bubble around her head, but not this time. She was in the middle of a raging storm she had no control over. Percy was quite clearly having no such trouble. She desperately struggled as her vision began to darken, whether that was from losing consciousness or the depth of the water, she didn't know.

And then her body gave up on her.

Minutes later, a body leapt out of the ocean and landed on the icy shore. Percy dusted himself off, not even wet in the slightest. He looked back at the sea, a hint of regret in his eyes, but hey. This was a dangerous world to live in.

"Well," he sighed, "At least I'll have an interesting story to tell Annabeth."

K.O.!
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(Cue "Drowning" by NateWantsToBattle)

Katara
+Riptide is unable to harm her
+Bloodbending
+Icebending

Percy
+Control over water
+Pure power
+Cleverness
+Experience

TyForestWrites: Well... that was brutal. Definitely not showing this on Nickelodeon.

H20Flame: Despite the advantage Percy had over Katara in terms of raw power, this battle actually wasn't very clear cut. While Percy's attacks were more powerful, Katara had finesse, which meant she could deflect pretty much anything Percy could throw at her... at least for a good while. The only thing she couldn't counter was his geokinesis, but Percy's never purposefully done it, so that didn't really matter. And the fact that she's completely mortal proves that Percy's sword isn't actually able to hurt her, which oddly takes her one weakness and negates Percy's prime advantage: being armed.

TyForestWrites: What really helped out Katara, though, was the versatility that her waterbending provided. Her manipulation over ice gave her attacks that Percy couldn't counter. Now you guys might be wondering why we're praising Katara when she's the one that lost. And that's really because while she held a lot of advantages, power would eventually catch up to her.

H20Flame: Yeah, while the powers Percy has due to being a demigod couldn't allow him to counter ice attacks, it also meant his sword wasn't quite useless, as celestial bronze at least affects inanimate objects. And while Katara may be smarter, at least academically, Percy's experience outranks her by a LARGE margin. Katara's faced some powerful benders to be sure, but nothing on level to what Percy's fought. Hell, in the first book, Percy beat Ares, the god of war, in single combat, which already trumps anything Katara's ever done.

TyForestWrites: But all that power would be useless if Katara just used bloodbending to finish him off, right? Well... that's a bit of a tricky answer. For one thing, bloodbending is purely situational, as most waterbenders need the full moon to be able to pull it off. But even still, it should keep Percy down... for a bit. Keep in mind, this is a guy who, when backed into a corner with no way out, caused Mt. Saint Helens to explode. That's twenty four megatons of thermal energy, sixteen hundred times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima!

H20Flame: Let's not forget that, when facing Achlys, the goddess of misery, she used liquid toxins to try and kill him and Annabeth, and when backed into that corner, he rationalized that the toxins were still technically water, and proceeded to choke Achlys out with her own poison. If he can do something like that, we doubt bloodbending would last for very long before Percy broke out of it.

TyForestWrites: I guess in the end, Katara was all washed up!

H20Flame: The winner is Percy Jackson.

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TyForestWrites: Next time on Death Battle!

???: To hell with your opinion! I'll follow my own path, no matter what anyone else says!

???: As the survivors, we carry the feelings of those who've passed away on our shoulders.

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