[ Sonia mayyyy have an idea but it mayyy or may not suck her into a hell portal if she ever figures out the opening part...she is debating how fast people would take it away if they heard this haha...
But that is not the current topic she wanted to talk about! She will take a seat, though not on the same couch as Korra. She isn't sure how close Korra will or won't want her when she's finished speaking. ]
...Yes. I...hm. You have heard pieces and parts of it, so it is hard to know where to start, but - I shall just start, shall I? And if you have questions, you may ask them.
[ If she doesn't force herself through this, she won't be able to say she's moving forward. She can't just let Hinata and Komaeda tell everyone; it...feels like taking an easy way out, and Sonia never wants to pretend her past did not occur. That would be too much like going back to it. ]
I told you about Hope's Peak, I think. And how you become a student there. You must be a high school student - that is, ah, a level of education...teenagers, mostly - and you must be the top of your field in something. You can be recruited from anywhere in the world because that title means you are the best there is, anywhere in the world. For my part, I was extended an invitation as the Super High School Level Princess.
I had always loved Japan. The country where Hope's Peak is. It seemed a dream to go there. And to have peers, classmates, outside of my own country...I had never had close friends, you see, for even when there were those close my age, they were people from my own homeland, and the weight of the crown always hung between us. So, I was...glad, that I would get to go and meet people.
I do not know how it went. My last memories of that world are of stepping up to Hope's Peak's doors, and then...the island. You see...there are years missing from my memory. I do not know how many. Several, at least. All the years I attended that school. I do not know precisely what occurred. I have to assume that everything did not go as I hoped, that I was...isolated somehow. You know what happened on the island, somewhat - I told you of the game, the mutual killing game, no?
[ But this isn't the part she needs to get to. She's just setting up.
...Sonia isn't sure how to do this, for all that she is usually so good at speaking. She just plunges in, therefore, her hands clasped tightly in front of her so she doesn't fidget. ]
Those games, set up by Enoshima Junko. Super High School Level Despair. I also...I also told you once that her followers had the same title, and that they helped her tear our world down. That they fell to Despair. They killed countless innocents, all for the sake of Despair, and made that world into something...something I find it hard even now to imagine, though I know it to be true. I did not tell you the names of those people. I do not suppose I know all the names, but...I do know several. My own name appears among them, as do those of all of my classmates save one.
What I became that day when I attacked you was not simply "Enoshima Junko", and it was not...simply my worst fear. That is a woman I once was, even if those memories are locked to me at the moment.
[ Even now, she's trying to keep the story simple, when it's anything but, to communicate the part that matters most. ]
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But that is not the current topic she wanted to talk about! She will take a seat, though not on the same couch as Korra. She isn't sure how close Korra will or won't want her when she's finished speaking. ]
...Yes. I...hm. You have heard pieces and parts of it, so it is hard to know where to start, but - I shall just start, shall I? And if you have questions, you may ask them.
[ If she doesn't force herself through this, she won't be able to say she's moving forward. She can't just let Hinata and Komaeda tell everyone; it...feels like taking an easy way out, and Sonia never wants to pretend her past did not occur. That would be too much like going back to it. ]
I told you about Hope's Peak, I think. And how you become a student there. You must be a high school student - that is, ah, a level of education...teenagers, mostly - and you must be the top of your field in something. You can be recruited from anywhere in the world because that title means you are the best there is, anywhere in the world. For my part, I was extended an invitation as the Super High School Level Princess.
I had always loved Japan. The country where Hope's Peak is. It seemed a dream to go there. And to have peers, classmates, outside of my own country...I had never had close friends, you see, for even when there were those close my age, they were people from my own homeland, and the weight of the crown always hung between us. So, I was...glad, that I would get to go and meet people.
I do not know how it went. My last memories of that world are of stepping up to Hope's Peak's doors, and then...the island. You see...there are years missing from my memory. I do not know how many. Several, at least. All the years I attended that school. I do not know precisely what occurred. I have to assume that everything did not go as I hoped, that I was...isolated somehow. You know what happened on the island, somewhat - I told you of the game, the mutual killing game, no?
[ But this isn't the part she needs to get to. She's just setting up.
...Sonia isn't sure how to do this, for all that she is usually so good at speaking. She just plunges in, therefore, her hands clasped tightly in front of her so she doesn't fidget. ]
Those games, set up by Enoshima Junko. Super High School Level Despair. I also...I also told you once that her followers had the same title, and that they helped her tear our world down. That they fell to Despair. They killed countless innocents, all for the sake of Despair, and made that world into something...something I find it hard even now to imagine, though I know it to be true. I did not tell you the names of those people. I do not suppose I know all the names, but...I do know several. My own name appears among them, as do those of all of my classmates save one.
What I became that day when I attacked you was not simply "Enoshima Junko", and it was not...simply my worst fear. That is a woman I once was, even if those memories are locked to me at the moment.
[ Even now, she's trying to keep the story simple, when it's anything but, to communicate the part that matters most. ]