He nodded. "I know that. People keep wanting to put it aside, saying it wasn't me or it wasn't my fault. But it is. I chose to go on that mission. I chose to try to be a hero. I made all those decisions that hurt people. I keep thinking that maybe if I had been a better person, more like Aang, that I would have still been a decent person even without my soul. But the truth is, I was already on my way to becoming that before I died."