[Rei doesn't relent on that hug, and if anything she pulls Maka in tighter. One hand gestures to Stella before scooping up the Meowstik with a tendril of psychic power and setting her down on Maka's shoulder so she can give the cat some affection too. Maka's had, by her estimation, never had people quite like Maya and Jinxie in her life. And she didn't have a group of friends like herself, either, but that didn't mean she was beyond help. Punishingly low self esteem was not unfamiliar to Rei Hino, and it calls back her own memories of a time several years ago, when she'd been alone save for a few Pokemon and the other inhabitants of Ninetales Vale.
And she grieves for Maka, for what she's going through. It was hard enough growing up five years ago, but with all the changes? With the gods returning, other civilizations cropping up, and the gods themselves interfering in affairs? She can't imagine what this is like for Maka.]
People who've been hurt feel fear...and anger.
[She knows that feeling well. She'd been the target of suspicion and fear when her abilities had manifested. Nobody liked a small child who could read your emotions or tell you when you were going to get sick next. And they liked it even less when Rei was really honest.]
The people in Sanctuary had every right to feel angry with the people in Gigas. Anger...is sometimes a good thing.
[Anger is the source of misery and destruction, but also of passion, an outlet for healthy people she remembers her grandfather saying when he'd found her trying to bottle up her fury at her father.]
Anger can drive people to do all sorts of bad things, yes. Like war, and violence and verbal abuse, and it comes from fear too. But sometimes, Maka? Anger is a good thing. It can be the spark that causes a revolution, to remove an oppressive regime, or to end a cruel experimental program. Union...at least as I see it? Is full of anger. Righteous anger, and not that misguided sort of rage and avarice that guides Gigas.
Those people you and Stella helped? Had grown up not knowing what life was like without fear, and when they got a taste of it, I'm sure they got angry. I know I would, if I saw what I was missing just by meeting people like you.
[Rei takes a deep, ragged breath, and chuffs out a heavy sigh. This wasn't something she liked thinking about at all. But Maka did need it.]
Maka, do you want to help those people? The normal people in Sanctuary?
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And she grieves for Maka, for what she's going through. It was hard enough growing up five years ago, but with all the changes? With the gods returning, other civilizations cropping up, and the gods themselves interfering in affairs? She can't imagine what this is like for Maka.]
People who've been hurt feel fear...and anger.
[She knows that feeling well. She'd been the target of suspicion and fear when her abilities had manifested. Nobody liked a small child who could read your emotions or tell you when you were going to get sick next. And they liked it even less when Rei was really honest.]
The people in Sanctuary had every right to feel angry with the people in Gigas. Anger...is sometimes a good thing.
[Anger is the source of misery and destruction, but also of passion, an outlet for healthy people she remembers her grandfather saying when he'd found her trying to bottle up her fury at her father.]
Anger can drive people to do all sorts of bad things, yes. Like war, and violence and verbal abuse, and it comes from fear too. But sometimes, Maka? Anger is a good thing. It can be the spark that causes a revolution, to remove an oppressive regime, or to end a cruel experimental program. Union...at least as I see it? Is full of anger. Righteous anger, and not that misguided sort of rage and avarice that guides Gigas.
Those people you and Stella helped? Had grown up not knowing what life was like without fear, and when they got a taste of it, I'm sure they got angry. I know I would, if I saw what I was missing just by meeting people like you.
[Rei takes a deep, ragged breath, and chuffs out a heavy sigh. This wasn't something she liked thinking about at all. But Maka did need it.]
Maka, do you want to help those people? The normal people in Sanctuary?