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Do you think that it's possible for people to be inherently bad? Not all the way, necessarily, but like maybe there's a bigger chance of messing up if you come from something bad, or like you've got some kind of latent seed planted deep that could burst someday.

I don't think that's true, if you look at it objectively. It still makes me really nervous sometimes, though, so I wonder if some part of me thinks it's a real possibility. I can't shake it off, so I get frustrated with myself sometimes.

I'm sure other people must feel like that. I'm sorry if you do.

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Then... How did you go so long without correcting yourself? How did things go as far as they did?

All sorts of reasons. I liked myself the way I was and didn't want to change. I was confronted by things that were worse than I was, so I could at least comfort myself that I wasn't that bad. Sheer stubbornness.

There's plenty of answers, just take your pick.

Have you still not changed?

Now this is the point where I'd say 'you need to get to know me better,' but really? You're one of the few people who knows more about the ins and outs of Dorian Gray.

[ because of that creepyass pheromone power that, based on his slightly testy tone, he's still pretty peeved about ]

... I didn't do it on purpose, you know. Not really.

And that doesn't really answer the question.

I know you didn't. Just like Kaneki or Simon didn't either. But that doesn't change the fact that it happened and I said some things I really didn't want anyone to know.

Which, is another reason why I'm dodging the question.

Avoiding it... That makes it look that you haven't changed, you know.

Maybe nothing from back home can count against people here, but... If you're still the same kind of person, the fact that you're here and walking around is scary.

I can deal with scary.

I didn't think it would bother you. I guess lots of people here are scary, and it doesn't seem to bother anybody very much.

... Why did you try to help me?

A misguided attempt at heroism.

Wanting to help isn't misguided, you know. It was just bad luck that it was me and not somebody who really needed it.

How sentimental of you.

Not really.

... I don't know what I'm supposed to do about any of this.

That all depends on what this is. The fact that you were possessed? Not entirely sure about that, try not to let it happen again. But with what happened when you were possessed...needless to say, if you did to other people what you did to me, you'll have to do more than apologize.

I didn't. You're the only one who-- My powers didn't work very well on the raccoon.

There wouldn't be a way to fix it, if I'd actually killed anybody. I don't know if there's a way to fix everything as it is now. I am sorry for what I did, even if... I'm not sure you deserve the sympathy, exactly.

[ he....is just not touching on the raccoon bit because what ]

You're right: I don't deserve it. [ he can't help but laugh a little at that, small smirk on his face. ] Clever girl.

Saying something like that doesn't make me clever, it just... I mean. You told me yourself.

Still, possessed or not, you actually had the means to make me spill my secrets—something that not many people here have done, despite the superpowers and the whole 'I'm Dorian Gray' thing.

I'm not sure that has much to do with cleverness. Maybe if I was actually smart, I'd know what to do with the information.

I'm sure you'll think of something appropriately fitting.

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