Maybe. I'd say it's more accurate I got better at being myself more than anything else. Pretending what went on didn't bother me was so as to not give those naysayers the satisfaction of thinking they were right, but it was also to give myself the satisfaction of ignoring them.
[ A roundabout way of still saying the same thing, probably, but it's a distinction Claude feels is worth making all the same. The wyvern soars by overhead with a screech and he glances up to watch her path through the sky for a bit before turning his gaze back to Wilhelm. ]
In the meantime, I think the important part is that you get to practice doing that here. Where no one knows who you were before, and where you can decide who you want to be all on your own with no one to tell you otherwise.
[ Now a smile that's closer to something genuine rather than a placeholder appears on his face, since: as Wilhelm said before, it really is like starting over. ]
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[ A roundabout way of still saying the same thing, probably, but it's a distinction Claude feels is worth making all the same. The wyvern soars by overhead with a screech and he glances up to watch her path through the sky for a bit before turning his gaze back to Wilhelm. ]
In the meantime, I think the important part is that you get to practice doing that here. Where no one knows who you were before, and where you can decide who you want to be all on your own with no one to tell you otherwise.
[ Now a smile that's closer to something genuine rather than a placeholder appears on his face, since: as Wilhelm said before, it really is like starting over. ]