The question puzzles him, and for a moment he fights with his mind for the right words, honestly struggling on what to say. His lips part and then press together a few times, staying quiet until he finally figures out what to say. In his opinion — there was no person on this entire Earth that could be born wicked. It was influenced upon them. Thrust upon them, as she spoke. He believed that a person had to be influenced by another person — another being.
His thoughts wander back to his past, to his own wickedness he had once overcome. This wavered his thoughts a little, because Kris could not recall what exactly had caused his own… wickedness. Had he been born like that? He had no recollection of ever being any different than cruel and wicked back then, before he had… changed. Had he truly changed…? He liked to think it had simply been some sort of phase — being power hungry. Selfish. Spoiled. Like any other king. Weren’t they all mad and hungry for power in the end? A frown ends up settling over his lips as he finally speaks up.
“Depends on the person. You know that saying… ‘some are born great, blah blah
blah, and some have greatness thrust upon them’? It’s sort of like that, I suppose.”
Was that even how the quote went? Kris doesn’t really know, nor does he care too much.
“And what do you think, miss?"
The only thing she can do is watching him while he tries very hard, at least that is what it seems like to her, to come up with an answer and although her question hasn't been specificially directed towards him for she does not know the male, making both strangers to one another, it's pleasant to strike up a conversation with someone else. Especially when the café is nearly empty and there are only three customers that need to be served, one sitting at the counter and watching her clean up the dirty, empty glasses.
The student's head tilts slightly up at his words but her eyes are still focused on the task at hand and she takes a minute to process what he's trying to say that people are born innocent; greediness, wickedness and all the other bad things were thrust upon mankind bit by bit.
Her world does not contain these kind of problems; it's more of a struggle between two different worlds and what she could be and what she wants to be but has to deny herself. It's hard and complicated and thinking about it makes her head hurt but she manages to push the thoughts aside if it's too overwhelming.
❝ I think I agree. Evilness cannot be born out of goodness
and neither can hate. For people to turn into wicked
creatures
it requires someone else to teach them how to be
vicious in the first place. ❞
