[She's quieter, now, thoughtful; Ray sounds in many ways like some of the people -- one person in particular -- that she knows well, back home.]
I know.
He's lucky to have you, even if he doesn't know it yet. Just ... keep drinking that coffee in his vicinity. And try to separate this version of him a little from the one you know. Because again, if it were me, and my best friend from back home were here, I would have a hell of a time just ... I don't know, foregoing what his expectations would be, for me.
There's a whole side of myself that my friends didn't want me to be. And I was scared of it, because I knew I was capable of being ... bad. Really, really bad. I was mean. I was ... I hurt people. So of course no one who knew me would see Killer Frost -- this other side -- as anything other than a villain, with their friend Caitlin Snow trapped inside. They would just help me perpetuate that belief about myself, that the "real me" was the good girl who followed all the rules, and anything else was just my powers developing their own personality.
But it's not. It's all me. Snow, Frost ... it doesn't make a difference. I can be kind or cruel, timid or confident, anything in between. And I'll admit I'm still figuring all of it out. But I couldn't have done any of it if I had someone breathing down my neck that any part of me was real or not real. Not -- that I'm saying you would do that, or that what he's going through is anything like what I did. I honestly don't know.
But he does strike me as someone who might be concerned with presentation, and expectations, so it might just ... it might be something to watch out for. And it's why I say to try to get to know who he is now -- or who he'll become, because it might be different from the person that you know, in your time.
Re: Private
I know.
He's lucky to have you, even if he doesn't know it yet. Just ... keep drinking that coffee in his vicinity. And try to separate this version of him a little from the one you know. Because again, if it were me, and my best friend from back home were here, I would have a hell of a time just ... I don't know, foregoing what his expectations would be, for me.
There's a whole side of myself that my friends didn't want me to be. And I was scared of it, because I knew I was capable of being ... bad. Really, really bad. I was mean. I was ... I hurt people. So of course no one who knew me would see Killer Frost -- this other side -- as anything other than a villain, with their friend Caitlin Snow trapped inside. They would just help me perpetuate that belief about myself, that the "real me" was the good girl who followed all the rules, and anything else was just my powers developing their own personality.
But it's not. It's all me. Snow, Frost ... it doesn't make a difference. I can be kind or cruel, timid or confident, anything in between. And I'll admit I'm still figuring all of it out. But I couldn't have done any of it if I had someone breathing down my neck that any part of me was real or not real. Not -- that I'm saying you would do that, or that what he's going through is anything like what I did. I honestly don't know.
But he does strike me as someone who might be concerned with presentation, and expectations, so it might just ... it might be something to watch out for. And it's why I say to try to get to know who he is now -- or who he'll become, because it might be different from the person that you know, in your time.