[open, THNMY] Live seconds as a lifetime//Time it does not matter
[Open to anyone and everyone foreveeeeer. For more info, see this post in the ooc community.]
Mio Hongo is in a bar. Or perhaps a restaurant. Or a mall, or a theatre, or--anywhere really, but the point is that she is not in her office for once. She's taking the night (or afternoon, or morning) off and doing something that would be construed as ( Read more... )
Mio Hongo is in a bar. Or perhaps a restaurant. Or a mall, or a theatre, or--anywhere really, but the point is that she is not in her office for once. She's taking the night (or afternoon, or morning) off and doing something that would be construed as ( Read more... )
Mio's much the same way about alcohol. It's way too easy for her to lose control of her powers if she's been drinking, and control has never been something she could afford to lose. Mostly, the only thing she allows herself to drink is the occasional glass of wine with dinner, but never more than a single glass at a time and she doesn't do it very often.
She nods. "I think it's also a cultural thing, to some extent. Propriety and tradition is a lot more important in Japan than it is here. A well-known person like Paris Hilton would never be able to get away with the kind of behavior that she displays in public here.
"And especially so because she is a woman. There is a certain amount of...misbehavior expected from men. But a woman is always supposed to be demure and polite and charming no matter what." Mio grimaces. It's really not hard to tell Mio's opinions on that subject.
"And what made things worse is that Misao, my sister, was supremely talented at manipulating people. Even as a child she could wrap people around her little finger just by smiling and fluttering her eyelashes. And my parents thought this was a good thing and encouraged that kind of behavior." Mio rolls her eyes.
"Granted, it could be fascinating to watch sometimes, if you were able to avoid the inevitable fallout." However, being Misao's sister meant that it wasn't always particularly easy to do so.
"So, the more my mother harped on me about every little thing, the more I resented her, and the more I resented her, the more I did things to annoy her, which caused her to be angry at me even more. It was a self-perpetuating cycle. Now that I'm an adult, I'm able to recognize that a lot of what she had to say about people's perceptions of you was absolutely true and I've used that knowledge to my advantage in many situations. But at sixteen, I didn't really care about anything other than the fact that my mother was an uptight bitch."
Mio snorts at her teen self's self-centeredness. "...I still think she's an uptight bitch, by the way. I'm just a lot more able to appreciate her redeeming qualities now that I've managed to put the distance of time and several universes between us."
[OOC: One of the reasons I love Revenge so much is that Victoria Grayson is almost exactly like Mio's mom. It's actually kinda creepy sometimes, how similar Victoria and Charlottes relationship is to the relationship Mio had with her mom.]
She takes a few sips of her drink. "But that's really enough with the angsty moaning about how awful and terrible my privileged upper-class childhood was, because it makes me sound ridiculous and it'll just ruin the mood."
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