Kana
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Kana's number one rule (And maybe only rule) before you can call yourself a master, one must master themselves. And before one dominates another, one must learn to dominate their own emotions. We all feel shit, some more so than others, but the mature person, they run their emotions, not the other way around. And the hallmark of an immature person, the sign I always look for, is emotional reactionism. But don't take my word for it. Look at Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Lao Tzu. You know, some of the greatest minds in history. (And just so you know, as a kid I was a violent rageaholic. Almost killing someone in a rage induced blackout scared me so much I decided I had to do something about it before I really did commit homicide. That's what led me to things like martial arts, zen, shinto, buddhism, TM, stuff like that. I had zero interest in spending the rest of my life in prison for a crime I didn't even remember committing.)
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"One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. " HST
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