[Oh... huh. He's met a few shadows before, seen what lays beneath the layers of people and how genuinely horrible they can be. But he's never seen a shadow behave like Dave's. He feels like it's an outlier of sorts, and... honestly]
I wouldn't say Dave's is the norm, dude. And who knows, it's probably completely chill with other people approaching it, but because it's me... Eh, you get where I'm goin' with this.
True self is also kinda a weird thing to think about, since. Us persona users don't have shadows, right? But I don't think that any of us particularly had our shit together. We're just more inclined to deal with those problems, or something.
And even if you don't ever manifest a mask, that's. You know. It's cool, too. But just because it ain't like, a PHYSICAL MASK you can peel off, you still wear one. Everybody does. There are things you think or things you know that you probably don't want people to know about. That's, like, completely normal dude. It's impossible to go through life without one, is what I'm tryin' to say. But if you get too attached to that shit, then it also makes it really hard to grow as a person.
Man, I'm probably talkin' your ear off, sorry man.
But I'm gonna tell you the same thing I told Dave, I guess. That it takes time. The easy solution's stealin' a person's heart and taking their masks away from them so that they can't hide anymore. But that ain't always the right way to go. You gotta work through shit and that's cool. It's completely okay to not be okay.
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I wouldn't say Dave's is the norm, dude. And who knows, it's probably completely chill with other people approaching it, but because it's me... Eh, you get where I'm goin' with this.
True self is also kinda a weird thing to think about, since. Us persona users don't have shadows, right? But I don't think that any of us particularly had our shit together. We're just more inclined to deal with those problems, or something.
And even if you don't ever manifest a mask, that's. You know. It's cool, too. But just because it ain't like, a PHYSICAL MASK you can peel off, you still wear one. Everybody does. There are things you think or things you know that you probably don't want people to know about. That's, like, completely normal dude. It's impossible to go through life without one, is what I'm tryin' to say. But if you get too attached to that shit, then it also makes it really hard to grow as a person.
Man, I'm probably talkin' your ear off, sorry man.
But I'm gonna tell you the same thing I told Dave, I guess. That it takes time. The easy solution's stealin' a person's heart and taking their masks away from them so that they can't hide anymore. But that ain't always the right way to go. You gotta work through shit and that's cool. It's completely okay to not be okay.