[ Steph shrugs. As far as she's concerned, all of that is in the past. This is the behavior of an emotionally healthy young woman who has adjusted well to her own trauma and has no personal issues to address. She just has trouble stringing thoughts together sometimes, that's all. ]
Because I'm me. I don't know when to quit, or when to ask for help. I just... do the best I can. And sometimes that goes sideways.
And...
[ She looks down, trying to pin down a thought. She thinks back not to the day she 'died' or the long months of recovery, but to her decision to come back to Gotham. To the way she thought, and the way people treated her. ]
It's not something you can really discuss with people, or... think about well. Something like that, you can't think clearly. When you hate yourself so much, you don't want to give people the chance to join in.
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[ Steph shrugs. As far as she's concerned, all of that is in the past. This is the behavior of an emotionally healthy young woman who has adjusted well to her own trauma and has no personal issues to address. She just has trouble stringing thoughts together sometimes, that's all. ]
Because I'm me. I don't know when to quit, or when to ask for help. I just... do the best I can. And sometimes that goes sideways.
And...
[ She looks down, trying to pin down a thought. She thinks back not to the day she 'died' or the long months of recovery, but to her decision to come back to Gotham. To the way she thought, and the way people treated her. ]
It's not something you can really discuss with people, or... think about well. Something like that, you can't think clearly. When you hate yourself so much, you don't want to give people the chance to join in.
[ She meets Minako's eyes again. ]
People don't give you the benefit of the doubt.