[ His tone is thicker now, deeper, hoarser, cadence slower, showing his serious consideration of her words. This hits home far more than he'll ever say to anyone. So instead she gets a convicted, schmaltzy, projecting pep talk of an explanation. ]
Your destiny is your own — no one else can change it or corrupt it. My father did a lot of really bad things... It took me a long time to realize that he was bad, that I was doing bad things, too, just to gain his love and respect. And it took me a long time to realize that he couldn't decide my fate for me, that my destiny was entirely my own, that my father couldn't touch or take away my honor. I had to look inside myself and make a change. It was hard. But your actions and choices are what lead you to your true self, to fulfill your true potential — or, away from it... And you can feel it when you're astray, because it hurts. All the time. Like your soul hurts.
But when you know you're doing the right thing, you have to trust in that decision, trust in weird coincidences, trust people you get a good gut feeling about... These things we feel but can't explain are often destiny revealing itself. It will always surprise us, it never turns out exactly as we'd imagined, but it always turns out as it should. Everyone has their own path to walk, even if your destiny is linked with someone else to walk with you. And for me — I don't want to be by my father's side anymore. He's led me astray too long — since I was your age, actually. But I changed not that long ago... And it hurts less now, knowing I'm doing the honorable thing despite him. So don't worry about your parents. They didn't create your character. That's on you. It takes time, but... you'll figure it out.
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[ His tone is thicker now, deeper, hoarser, cadence slower, showing his serious consideration of her words. This hits home far more than he'll ever say to anyone. So instead she gets a convicted, schmaltzy, projecting pep talk of an explanation. ]
Your destiny is your own — no one else can change it or corrupt it. My father did a lot of really bad things... It took me a long time to realize that he was bad, that I was doing bad things, too, just to gain his love and respect. And it took me a long time to realize that he couldn't decide my fate for me, that my destiny was entirely my own, that my father couldn't touch or take away my honor. I had to look inside myself and make a change. It was hard. But your actions and choices are what lead you to your true self, to fulfill your true potential — or, away from it... And you can feel it when you're astray, because it hurts. All the time. Like your soul hurts.
But when you know you're doing the right thing, you have to trust in that decision, trust in weird coincidences, trust people you get a good gut feeling about... These things we feel but can't explain are often destiny revealing itself. It will always surprise us, it never turns out exactly as we'd imagined, but it always turns out as it should. Everyone has their own path to walk, even if your destiny is linked with someone else to walk with you. And for me — I don't want to be by my father's side anymore. He's led me astray too long — since I was your age, actually. But I changed not that long ago... And it hurts less now, knowing I'm doing the honorable thing despite him. So don't worry about your parents. They didn't create your character. That's on you. It takes time, but... you'll figure it out.