[locked to new hires] post-babadon't

[princesspower]

[ Adora fidgets with her communicator, staring at the screen, her brow furrowed as the video feed starts up. She's in a bed in the infirmary, with some bandaging on her head where she's was previously bleeding from the scalp. She looks tired, mostly. ]

Hey everybody. I just - I guess I wanted to say that I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let myself get taken out like that. Everyone had to deal with that because of me. I screwed up. I won't let it happen again. Uh - I guess that's about it.

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[walkingballpit]

It’s not your fault, Adora. There’s no such thing as a perfect hero.

[ Robbie sounds rather muted, but it’s because he’s really making an effort to not sound mean, or cold, and that’s hard when something doesn’t give you a warm fuzzy feeling. ]

You can’t train it, you can’t be born with it. You can’t heap responsibility and guilt on yourself to teach yourself a lesson and make yourself be better. It only makes it worse the next time.

I know you’re probably not going to still be listening at this point, but you can only do your best. It’s okay to get beat - obviously it sucks, and I hope you’re not hurt too bad. But you don’t owe anybody here an apology for “letting” it happen. I bet you didn’t “let” squat. Wouldn’t and couldn’t are two different words.