[She continues to frown in concern, but ultimately drops her hands to her side, fingers clenching and flexing again-- maybe partly she hid her hands because her hands gave her away more than anything. She could hide their twitching under her sleeves, but--
She clenches her fingers again and clasps them behind her back to stop the temptation to keep poking at scars--literally and perhaps figuratively.]
Ahah, well... I don't believe that. It doesn't matter what a person is, it matters what they do; That's what I told my version of Gojyo once. [She smiles fondly] Just because you think you're a bad person, if you do good things... That's what's important, right? I think you're fine just the way you are!
[Hesitation; she doesn't really talk about this much, though she sort of drunkenly babbled about it to Gojyo at some point] And beside that... I'm always being told that I'm 'too good or 'too pure.' People would be afraid to approach, no one would touch me because they were afraid they'd 'dirty' me somehow. Even the people I considered my friends, or, at least, wanted to be friends with...
It's lonely, being 'Genjo Sanzo.' It was different when I was traveling with everyone, before I became well known. It was easier then. [She really wishes she had that simpler life back, even if it meant constantly looking over her shoulder for an attack. She'd take that over this 'holier than thou, perfect princess on a pedestal' life she had to adopt since.] So being told 'you're a better person than me' is just a little...
[She doesn't like it on principle--she's not better than anyone--and because she doesn't like to hear Hakkai putting himself down like that anyhow. Even if he's just beng honest.]
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She clenches her fingers again and clasps them behind her back to stop the temptation to keep poking at scars--literally and perhaps figuratively.]
Ahah, well... I don't believe that. It doesn't matter what a person is, it matters what they do; That's what I told my version of Gojyo once. [She smiles fondly] Just because you think you're a bad person, if you do good things... That's what's important, right? I think you're fine just the way you are!
[Hesitation; she doesn't really talk about this much, though she sort of drunkenly babbled about it to Gojyo at some point] And beside that... I'm always being told that I'm 'too good or 'too pure.' People would be afraid to approach, no one would touch me because they were afraid they'd 'dirty' me somehow. Even the people I considered my friends, or, at least, wanted to be friends with...
It's lonely, being 'Genjo Sanzo.' It was different when I was traveling with everyone, before I became well known. It was easier then. [She really wishes she had that simpler life back, even if it meant constantly looking over her shoulder for an attack. She'd take that over this 'holier than thou, perfect princess on a pedestal' life she had to adopt since.] So being told 'you're a better person than me' is just a little...
[She doesn't like it on principle--she's not better than anyone--and because she doesn't like to hear Hakkai putting himself down like that anyhow. Even if he's just beng honest.]