Which means you had to make peace with, or tame that darker side of yourself. Reach some sort of personal epiphany through horrible trials to unlock a power deep within yourself?

[Sorry about that, Violet. She'd been doing this shit to Ren for a while. there were just some tropes of ancient fables and heroes that were so timeless that she'd just flat out call them in public. She winked back at her.]

Kind of jealous of you, getting to master part of yourself through a personal journey, if that's what went down. But, I guess I sort of mastered my darkness. I became it, after all.

And I more or less stayed 'me' so it wasn't like some mindless zombie or monster, so it's not all bad. Just not as good as what you can do. But we don't have to compare. I just... do it naturally. That's all.