Trope: I Just Want To Be Free
Time: 9th Century; After Her Death
Character: Lady Gecko; In Her Point of View
All I wanted out of life was freedom.
I spent every day with the same routine, the same people, and the same suitors trying to swoon me.
I had been taught at a young age that the people who lived outside of the walls were different from me. They almost became like another species that I had never seen or touched but knew not to go near.
Murder and theft were explained to me by my maids, so I became disgusted at the cruelty the peasants could inflict on each other. When I did see the world outside of my home, the poverty only caused me to abhor the outside world even more.
Maybe that was my mistake. I was raised in a blissful ignorance of life's cruelty. I didn't see the world in the way Yamato-sama did.
I am still overwhelmed with the cruelty and swiftness I was murder by Ultimo. That wrong he inflicted on me hasn't faded yet, and I doubt it ever will. I can guess that his motivation was caused by my ignorance though. My ignorance killed me in the end.
Still, despite my disgust for the outside world I felt the urge to gain my independence.
I was tired of living in a sheltered environment. The cage used to protect me also kept me from flying. I longed for my champion to save me from my cage, but I almost ended up trapped with Emperor Kotsutsubo.
Like any good samurai hero, Yamato-sama saved me just in time, and later he accepted me as his wife.
Despite how it ended, those few short months I was with him were the best days of my life.
Yamato-sama was my freedom.