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Raphael Hamato ([personal profile] othersdestructive) wrote in [community profile] ya_assemble 2014-12-19 11:28 am (UTC)

"Exactly," Raph said. "When all this is over and Leo's healed up, me and my brothers are heading back to New York because we're some of the idiots that live there. Because we live on Earth, too."

He went on, "Yeah, we wanna save people but don't make it out to be like it's somehow more noble than the kinda stuff you and your team do. And don't think for a second that running away is somehow less heroic than fighting a fight you can't win. Sometimes you have to run to live to fight another day. Sometimes you have to step back and let other people step up if you can't handle something, like all the times we let Splinter take over if we weren't good enough, or how we left New York in the hands of the army so they're least keeping things from spreading while we're away. We left it to them because we had to, because we'd be dead otherwise. Our dad was already gone and Leo was in a coma."

He shot her a very confused look. "You're not somehow less heroic than me and my brothers and our friends. When you're a ninja, you don't fight fair. You sneak, you deceive, you lie, you cheat, you steal, and when you're in over your head, you run. That's how you win and that's how you help other people because you survive to win. I don't know why you've got it in your head that self-preservation somehow makes you less noble or heroic but whoever taught you that is an idiot. It's not some kinda character trait that decides how good or bad you are, it's a tactic."

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