Sort of. [Mark finds himself fiddling with his hands, sliding one over the other in a circular motion.] My dad's side... can be a little short-tempered. [UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY. However, he was not going to say "a race of bloodthirsty warriors who punch anything they can find into submission."] I'm good most of the time, I mean I don't freak out at most things, but... if I see something I perceive as "wrong" I can fly off the handle a bit. [Understatement of the year.]
[Mark moves from circling his hands around one another to just gripping them so tightly his knuckles turned white. Were he holding onto the hand of a normal human it would have snapped like a twig.] I've done some things I'm not proud of. I'll admit that. But my family and friends back home are incredible; they've helped me more than I can ever repay them for. So I'm making an effort to work on it... for their sake.
I'm not a kid anymore, I can't go flying off the handle if I see someone... littering or something. Life's not black and white, as much as I used to think so. Sometimes people do something that looks bad, but really isn't. I need to better understand the bigger picture.
[Finally lets go of his hands and lets them drop to his sides, smiling slightly for the first time in his monologue.] Eve knows. She knows everything. She's incredible and-- [It suddenly dawns on Mark that, while he likes Korra, he has just given a lot of emotional baggage to someone he barely knows.]--and that really heavy, sorry about that.
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[Mark moves from circling his hands around one another to just gripping them so tightly his knuckles turned white. Were he holding onto the hand of a normal human it would have snapped like a twig.] I've done some things I'm not proud of. I'll admit that. But my family and friends back home are incredible; they've helped me more than I can ever repay them for. So I'm making an effort to work on it... for their sake.
I'm not a kid anymore, I can't go flying off the handle if I see someone... littering or something. Life's not black and white, as much as I used to think so. Sometimes people do something that looks bad, but really isn't. I need to better understand the bigger picture.
[Finally lets go of his hands and lets them drop to his sides, smiling slightly for the first time in his monologue.] Eve knows. She knows everything. She's incredible and-- [It suddenly dawns on Mark that, while he likes Korra, he has just given a lot of emotional baggage to someone he barely knows.]--and that really heavy, sorry about that.