[Somehow, he gets the sense that his answer to this will be pretty important.
He works his jaw, then slowly places Flora next to him on the bed. She makes a motion to climb back onto him, but then he holds up his hand, giving her a very clear 'stop' signal. His other Pokemon take the hint and move away to give him a little space, and Elle just climbs off his lap into Mio's. Reid can deal with touching them, but he's about to talk about something personal, and he was starting to feel claustrophobic with so many animals crawling on him.]
To forgive... that would require that I was angry in the first place.
[Flora might be trying to climb on Mio's arm now.]
In my line of work... I regularly see the depths of depravity, and I have to find it in myself to understand why it is what it is, and in doing so, empathize. Amanda isn't an evil person. She was a girl who hurt herself as a cry for attention when she was alive because she felt unloved, and when she did it in my body, she thought the only person she was hurting was herself. She was wrong, and even if she was in her body, she would still be hurting other people by doing that in front of them, but she doesn't understand that because she didn't get a chance to mature before she died.
She made a mistake and I got caught up in it. She feels remorse, and she's offered anything to make up for it. What do I have to be angry about after that?
[Well, besides the fact she was disrespectful towards his friends, but again, teenager. He disapproves and is upset his body was used as a vessel for that, but he's not angry.] So my limit for forgiveness... no, she didn't reach it. Not by a long shot. People have done much worse to me, and they've done it purposefully. To this day, there is only a handful of people I have ever had difficulty forgiving.
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He works his jaw, then slowly places Flora next to him on the bed. She makes a motion to climb back onto him, but then he holds up his hand, giving her a very clear 'stop' signal. His other Pokemon take the hint and move away to give him a little space, and Elle just climbs off his lap into Mio's. Reid can deal with touching them, but he's about to talk about something personal, and he was starting to feel claustrophobic with so many animals crawling on him.]
To forgive... that would require that I was angry in the first place.
[Flora might be trying to climb on Mio's arm now.]
In my line of work... I regularly see the depths of depravity, and I have to find it in myself to understand why it is what it is, and in doing so, empathize. Amanda isn't an evil person. She was a girl who hurt herself as a cry for attention when she was alive because she felt unloved, and when she did it in my body, she thought the only person she was hurting was herself. She was wrong, and even if she was in her body, she would still be hurting other people by doing that in front of them, but she doesn't understand that because she didn't get a chance to mature before she died.
She made a mistake and I got caught up in it. She feels remorse, and she's offered anything to make up for it. What do I have to be angry about after that?
[Well, besides the fact she was disrespectful towards his friends, but again, teenager. He disapproves and is upset his body was used as a vessel for that, but he's not angry.] So my limit for forgiveness... no, she didn't reach it. Not by a long shot. People have done much worse to me, and they've done it purposefully. To this day, there is only a handful of people I have ever had difficulty forgiving.