TM Response #374 - Strength
My friends, when asked to describe me, would say that I am strong. I'm not sure where they got that idea, though.
It wasn't a strong girl who disobeyed her father's instruction to remain in the tower where it was safe. It wasn't a strong girl who shut the supercomputer down to keep XANA from destroying Lyoko and hurting her friends, even though she knew it meant that she would die in the process. It wasn't a strong girl who didn't want to let go of her past so that she could start a new life after XANA was destroyed.
How am I strong? For the first year or so that we fought against XANA I was the one who always needed saving, always the one who needed to be protected. Odd nicknamed me "Princess", quite fitting given the circumstances. Sometimes I wonder if I've ever truly left that role behind me.
It wasn't a strong girl who disobeyed her father's instruction to remain in the tower where it was safe. It wasn't a strong girl who shut the supercomputer down to keep XANA from destroying Lyoko and hurting her friends, even though she knew it meant that she would die in the process. It wasn't a strong girl who didn't want to let go of her past so that she could start a new life after XANA was destroyed.
How am I strong? For the first year or so that we fought against XANA I was the one who always needed saving, always the one who needed to be protected. Odd nicknamed me "Princess", quite fitting given the circumstances. Sometimes I wonder if I've ever truly left that role behind me.