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[cultivatingsin]

What's the worst thing that has ever happened to you?

[Please, go into detail. Hearing about the misery of others is a bonding experience for him.]

How did you handle it? Did you get revenge? Could you get revenge?

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[cultivatingsin]

We're friends now! I don't care if you have a stigma or whatever. If anyone gives you shit about it, I'll make them eat their eyes. How's that?

[No, Xue Yang. That isn't being friendly.]

When I was a kid, a man promised me treats if I delivered a letter for him. I could never afford candy, so I rarely got to taste it back then. I delivered his letter like he asked and for my trouble I was pulled out into the street and pummeled. I didn't care. I knew I would be getting my treats. So I went back to the noble who sent me on the task in the first place, begging him to give me what he promised. He instead hit me with his whip and then drove over my hand with his cart.

Years later, I killed his entire sect.

[kokuryuu]

Oh, I can see that you are trying to be kind, but, I do not think anyone will bring up the stigma here. I have never seen anyone from my world and nobody outside my race would care about it. Outsiders just don't have the same religion. Everyone I talk to seems to believe in things like
"you change change for the better if you want" or "it does not matter how you were born, you can choose things for yourself" or even, "it really only matters what you think of yourself"

These people do not know what a bizarre world this is for me

Anyway.

Your story is a very unfair one. I am sorry that these men lied and treated you creully
It sounds slightly familiar to the kind of things in my village
You did not deserve that to happen to you.
In context of your world, why do you think they did this?

Was there something such as, they did not want to see a child who looks a certain way? In my village I was often abused for my skin color. I have seen children hated for their parentage or their culture too, in the empire lands. They beat them or scold them
Or is it a stupid custom, like, because you spoke to them with plain words? Or were they just strange people who like to hit children?

After you killed them, did it help settle things? within yourself

[cultivatingsin]

It would be nice if my world was like this one in that case. I've been struggling for some kind of foothold since I was a kid. No one wanted me, but what could I do? I had to survive. Maybe that's why I understand you.

As for why they did that to me... [How does he phrase this nicely?] I was an orphan and they were nobility. To them, I was less than garbage.

[The last question is good and he does give it some thought.]

I was happy it was done, but it left me feeling empty. The man responsible... He died before I could kill him. So I had to settle with his family. [And his sect.]

[kokuryuu]

Oh... I am so sorry to hear this. Incomplete revenge can fester in the heart. I think it too bad that you could not deal with the one whose fault it really was. He deserved a punishment.

My world has some similar system of making people garbage. It is sickening.
Sir, I will tell you... I think, if you keep open mind, you may find your foothold in unexpected place. I think there are many here who want someone
Maybe, someone needs help you can give
Maybe there is a friend who needs a shoulder to cry on
or a stranger who could use a listening ear
Someone needs a strong hand to hold that they know won't hurt them
Right now, there are many children with unfair life crying in the side streets, from the ruined cities
They miss their mother, father
I remember I passed a girl holding a very small brother and small brother said "when is father and mother coming, when, when"
She didn't say anything at all
I realized later why. Those people are never coming... they are dead
I think... it may be easy for people like us to imagine, if we were them, what would make us happy or give relief for a moment
Maybe warm food?

[cultivatingsin]

Where are the kids? I'll take care of kids. Daozhang and I can find food for them and beds can be made out of almost anything.

I might be a monster, but I wouldn't toss a kid out. [He used to be one of those kids. It's remarkable he survived - as scarred as he is from it.]

They don't eat much and I've got candy to spare now. They would like a treat, don't you think? Daozhang and I just need to work on finding a big enough place for all of them to get cleaned up and rest.

[kokuryuu]

See? I believe you can help a lot. Even if our past is not very good-- mine isnt-- we can do something good for this world.

I work at a children's care center at the Kaika Theater. They have space outside for the children to play safely. They like to laugh and run and play. Some games are like the type children play where I am from-- chasing or hiding games. It is so interesting.

I work whereever they need me-- usually, I care for one or two babies and a small group of children. But there is always need for more help. If you and Daozhang (I am guessing you speak of Master Xiao Xingchen) care to join me at work I would like that? You can give out treats and show them games.

Children are always a good reason to help!

[ooc: if you are interested I will put up an open log for daycare disaster hijinks]

[cultivatingsin]

That's pretty laughable. [All the same, he's thinking about all of those kids. How many have died because no one cared? There's also something...something...about imagining Xiao Xingchen caring for a bunch of bratsbabies. It would be...cute.]

We'll be there. Where? What time? I don't mind looking after babies. Even if they're fussy.

[And this will definitely help his image in the daozhang's eyes.]