Deserve
Deserve verb - To be or make worthy of (as a reward or punishment).
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- Aviendha learns at the same time the real problem with this kind of test (which the Wise Ones are well aware of): by acknowledging those and only those who claim they deserve to be acknowledged, the women who least deserve to be treated as Wise Ones are often the quickest to gain the title.
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This eventually comes back to bite them when the Raiders gain a degree of sentience, half the skinjobs decide the Centurions deserve full sentience, and an Enemy Civil War breaks out.
- Fatal Flaw: Lily desperately longs for love, but believes she doesn't deserve it and that her only way to gain worth is to follow the rules that everyone sets for her.
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