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The paladin
He doesn't give anyone that, "Oh, well if you truly sorry, then there is nothing i can do" shpeel. He coup de graces the evil, and enough times to make sure, because he is a freaking paladin! That's his job. To destroy evil.
It's not his job to be the shoulder to cry on for every CN, LE, NE, and CE punk out there saying "I'm only doing it because the world is unfair to me."
The paladin's rebuttal?
You know what's unfair? Knowing what kind of a person everyone is before you even talk to them. Just walking up to a person and smelling evil so vile and potent that you just want to start ripping it from his chest until the screaming stops. To have the psychotic urge to murder a complete stranger, because the divine powers of goodness decided to make you their right hand. THAT's unfair.
But instead of going on a killing spree, he just puts on his helmet and sharpens his sword. Walking through the crowds, sensing injustice, but holding back. Seeing good men and women being hanged while evil pulls the lever. Bottling it all up. Because he knows that he is a scalpel. He saves that anger and disgust for the needed battle. The battle that will remove the most important and specific evil.
Their code of honor doesn't bind them from using certain tactics in a fight. Once the fight starts, the Paladin goes hog wild using every trick in the book. The code is about avoiding the fight. Until that fated meeting the great and important evil keystone. This is also why he refrains from working with evil unless absolutely necessary. They'll just waste their power killing their "Ally".
Finally, The paladin does not avoid the fall. He looks forward to it. They don't spend all day trying to avoid evil. They seek out the evil the need to take down. Each time they face evil, The paladin always asks himself "Is this the evil I give up everything to take down? The one i forsake my power and my god to rid the world of?" And when the day comes and yes, it will come, when the paladin falls he will fall hard. He will fall so hard it would shatter the earth if it meant to rid the evil he sought out.
The paladin is a Powder keg full of his hatred and disgust for the world and he will explode. He just prays he is near evil when he does.
why
why is this happening again
why
Oh god dang it. Sorry, was supposed to add this to the other paladin thread.
it is too late, you have summoned Ciretose with your folly, he approaches
*Sigh...* I'll get the popcorn.
EDIT: Actually, this is valid for a fluff thread.