Not a day in my life. The other children simply played too rough... or so I always told her.
[... This is not something he's really talked about before; he's told Akira a bit about how he wasn't the most popular child in class, about why that was, but this is a different aspect of that. Goro slides his hands in his pockets, eyes flicking downwards with a small, rueful smile.]
It would've been better if I'd simply kept my head down the way I generally do now when faced with confrontation of the same aggressive sort, but unfortunately I was a bit of a brat. I'd antagonize them right back by being better in every way, acting as if I had no idea why they disliked me so, and the more the teachers loved me the worse the play became. Thankfully, we moved before anything terrifying happened, but... I wasn't well-behaved, I wasn't particularly friendly, I simply lashed out the ways I knew how.
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[... This is not something he's really talked about before; he's told Akira a bit about how he wasn't the most popular child in class, about why that was, but this is a different aspect of that. Goro slides his hands in his pockets, eyes flicking downwards with a small, rueful smile.]
It would've been better if I'd simply kept my head down the way I generally do now when faced with confrontation of the same aggressive sort, but unfortunately I was a bit of a brat. I'd antagonize them right back by being better in every way, acting as if I had no idea why they disliked me so, and the more the teachers loved me the worse the play became. Thankfully, we moved before anything terrifying happened, but... I wasn't well-behaved, I wasn't particularly friendly, I simply lashed out the ways I knew how.