So long as the Sylphid don't find out where we are. But this place has definitely been established for some time and it's not like the Witches have been lax in keeping up with whatever the Sylphid might be cooking up.
[He blinks then. It's a fair thing for her to wonder, and not something Donatello's really thought too deeply on, but then the why's aren't something he tends to dwell upon when it comes to how he processes things.]
Well...I'm not sure calling it 'all right' is really accurate- I don't really feel great about someone training you to be some kind of weapon or worse. But I know you're still a person.
My brothers and I...actually if things had gone differently, we might've been in a similar position. Someone wanted to create superior warriors for their cause. That's the only reason we became well, mutants. Our father's the one who saved us from that fate. ...of course we still learned to fight but at least we weren't raised by a crazy obsessed yōkai bent on destroying humanity.
[Creatures, Monsters, Nightmares- having classifications for what Li and others have been trained to be just makes that familiar, uneasy feeling in his stomach form again. There's something very wrong about people who looked for the most part human to be designated as such, and he can only wonder at the purpose for it. Surely nothing good.]
...we'll work through this. I need to think more about it. [She's presented him a problem and it's only second nature for him to figure it's something he needs to fix somehow.] But we've already established that you're still Xiaohu, and you haven't let that go. No one else should choose what you should be.
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[He blinks then. It's a fair thing for her to wonder, and not something Donatello's really thought too deeply on, but then the why's aren't something he tends to dwell upon when it comes to how he processes things.]
Well...I'm not sure calling it 'all right' is really accurate- I don't really feel great about someone training you to be some kind of weapon or worse. But I know you're still a person.
My brothers and I...actually if things had gone differently, we might've been in a similar position. Someone wanted to create superior warriors for their cause. That's the only reason we became well, mutants. Our father's the one who saved us from that fate. ...of course we still learned to fight but at least we weren't raised by a crazy obsessed yōkai bent on destroying humanity.
[Creatures, Monsters, Nightmares- having classifications for what Li and others have been trained to be just makes that familiar, uneasy feeling in his stomach form again. There's something very wrong about people who looked for the most part human to be designated as such, and he can only wonder at the purpose for it. Surely nothing good.]
...we'll work through this. I need to think more about it. [She's presented him a problem and it's only second nature for him to figure it's something he needs to fix somehow.] But we've already established that you're still Xiaohu, and you haven't let that go. No one else should choose what you should be.