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Okay, you know how often times in fiction (fan or real) the healer character will come across an injured enemy and even though said enemy has tried to kill them or their loved ones before, they end up healing them?
Yeah, I'm kinda sick of that trope.
Look, not every set of characters is Zuko and Katara, and they... it was them, okay? And there was build-up, and the writing was A-class and it was just awesomeness.
But I have come across that concept so many times in fanfic, and it's starting to piss me off.
I've always hated the ideas that healers can't kill (let's be honest, they probably know the MOST ways to kill someone - and not get caught, even) or that they're somehow too morally pure to do so or that it would somehow take their authority away to heal if they committed murder. (That Edward/Winry/Scar scene in the manga that everyone loved? I hated it. Yeah, I said it.)
Now I really want to read a fic where injured evil guy (it's always a guy) is brought in front of Awesome Healer and she (it's always a she, because Hakkai already established his street cred what with those thousand murders) INSTEAD of just healing him because she's Truly A Healer is like, "Let him die. Oh, what's that, you've got a knife to my throat? Go ahead and slice, I'm not going to fix him up just so he can go find and kill my loved ones. What? Oh, I should heal him because that will make him more kindly disposed to me? *laughs* That didn't even work for Katara the Awesome. I say, let him bleed to death."
Yeah, I'm kinda sick of that trope.
Look, not every set of characters is Zuko and Katara, and they... it was them, okay? And there was build-up, and the writing was A-class and it was just awesomeness.
But I have come across that concept so many times in fanfic, and it's starting to piss me off.
I've always hated the ideas that healers can't kill (let's be honest, they probably know the MOST ways to kill someone - and not get caught, even) or that they're somehow too morally pure to do so or that it would somehow take their authority away to heal if they committed murder. (That Edward/Winry/Scar scene in the manga that everyone loved? I hated it. Yeah, I said it.)
Now I really want to read a fic where injured evil guy (it's always a guy) is brought in front of Awesome Healer and she (it's always a she, because Hakkai already established his street cred what with those thousand murders) INSTEAD of just healing him because she's Truly A Healer is like, "Let him die. Oh, what's that, you've got a knife to my throat? Go ahead and slice, I'm not going to fix him up just so he can go find and kill my loved ones. What? Oh, I should heal him because that will make him more kindly disposed to me? *laughs* That didn't even work for Katara the Awesome. I say, let him bleed to death."