A Background Character’s Path to Power

Yeah, that’s just who I was. Before, now, and in the future.

And I’m not gonna change, not that easily, and certainly not into some heartless bastard who betrays his own principles.

I’ve ’read’ enough stories where many characters, hero or not, turn into the very monsters they swore to fight - those who started with noble ideals, only to become worse than the villains they despised.

Sure, they might have had circumstances, ones I couldn’t even imagine, and certainly not want them to happen to me or anyone else.

But that’s no excuse. Not really.

Because at the end of the day, it’s always a choice.

And I made mine a long while ago, from the beginning of my new ’life’.

But I made and will make mistakes.

I’m just an ordinary human after all.

I will say stupid or embarrassing things like calling Cassandra ’honey’. I’ll hesitate when I act, or act when I should think.

But I won’t cross that line.

I won’t start looking at the weak and thinking, "Their suffering isn’t my problem", when I clearly have the power and the ability to help. Nor will I justify cruelty as "necessary evil".