Cool
Both words in one sentence
- Subverted in Lover At Last—turns out he's only cool with it because he's mentally repressed to the point that he's convinced himself that that sleeping with men doesn't mean he's not straight.
- In Section 30, Dewey Dell describes a nightmare she had where she could not feel anything, even the fact that she was a girl, and then she felt a "they" beneath her that was "like a piece of cool silk dragged across [her] legs." It's really a metaphor for her repressed sexuality.
Source: Literature / As I Lay Dying -
You can do that by being calm, cool and collected like the well-adjusted Iroh, being an emotionally repressed psychopath like Azula or being ruthless and supremely arrogant like Ozai.
Source: Pure Is Not Good
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