Talk:Esdeath/@comment-25372242-20140901040451

And honestly, I don't really blame Esdese for the way she turned out. Earlier in the manga, I was wondering why in the hell she kept saying that "Only the strong live and the weak die". It was as if it was some kind of motto she learned from someone...

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But now seeing her past, I was right. I now can understand why she is the way she is; it's because of her father and his twisted outlook on life. Now most people would say that, "Well, it was because they lived in the cold tundra of the North fighting and killing Danger Beasts that he would think like that." But you see, that's where the problem is. Can you guys just think for a minute how different she could've been if that type of brutal thinking wasn't always being drilled into her head? It surprised me when her father didn't seem all that affected when he told us how his wife died. She got eaten, but he said that "It can't be helped" since she was too weak. What the fuck? What type of reaction is that? Especially to the ones you loved? And her father killed his prey while it was still alive and breathing, so of course she would be fine with the idea of inflicting pain on living things as well. I don't think he realized just how much influence and effect those things had on his daughter, but it's obvious now that it really did land an impact; and a hard one at that.