Shine Brighter

Summary: Karna-Parshuram interactions changing Karna and the course of the epic.

(Outburst chapter is:
A different ending to the Dyut Sabha.
Karna saves Draupadi and Kunti reveals the truth.)

(Suppose) Karna spends at least a decade under the tutelage of Bhagvan Parshurama, not only for weaponry but also for his daily teachings about righteousness. Unlike the actual Mahabharat, where Karna learns almost everything about weaponry from Drona and his only motive to go to Parshurama was to get the Brahmastra to use against Arjun, all modern adaptations want to make Drona reject Karna, make him Parshurama's (favourite) student and still want him to call Draupadi a "whore" at the Dyut Sabha - and this is what I refuse to accept. Any person, especially a child, who spends this long in the presence of, let alone learning from, an avatar of Vishnu himself, a student of Mahadev, cannot turn out to be evil.

Update: returning back to this story because I have more free time now, hopefully aiming for something like biweekly updates.