As sharp and steady as her blade, Julia Ward is not a woman who is quick to anger – but when it does rise to the occasion it is utilized as a weapon first and explored as an emotion after the fact.
Longevity and impatience are not a well made match. Even in her youth Julia preferred to approach matters from a logical perspective – often finding that the heat of anger was a comfortable reminder that there was more to her than met the eye, but that did not necessarily mean she had to reveal such a truth to anyone around her.
Learning to harness her anger into a honed tool at her disposal as opposed to something under which her wit and skills succumbed did not come easily – and prices steep with blood have been paid for the lessons. Arrogance, hubris and indignation have all driven her into terrible decisions in the past, and those tales have in turn inspired within her a unique stance on the expression of emotion.
In the heat of it, she makes herself breathe and let the spiking drive of the sensation fade from her blood. The situation at hand is then managed with cool and calculative persuasions – be they verbal or violent. Afterward, when the smoke clears, she may allow herself to rage – to seethe and speak bitterly of what transpired, but also to expend her energy in frustration so that she may better focus on whether or not her chosen actions were justifiable.
It has taken her decades to reach the point she is at now, but Julia is aware that her nigh impenetrable calm is her greatest asset now, where her rage was once such a horrible detriment. For now, even that wrath is under her command when it should be at the most tempestuous which, by her estimation, is virtue enough.
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