FROM: CLAUDE
You showed some real potential, Kid.
Yeah, when I first met you, I was sure I'd never met a more pathetic creature on the planet… you were more of a child than a man. Everything you did was for the approval of your Godforsaken family and those wretched human beings you call 'friends.' Sickening, it was.
Even so, I actually felt that you might be able to change the future.
Behind those boyish, 'Please-love-me' eyes was a strength I'd never seen before. You really wanted to gain control over what was controlling you, and for that, let me admit I admired you.
I've met a lot of people, a lot of people like you. They wake up one day and they can move things with their minds, or they can manipulate fire, or whatever else. They suddenly feel like they're meant for more, just like you. The only difference between them and you, however, is that, I think you actually may have been.
The world saw you as this pansy 'male nurse,' and yeah, at the beginning, you were. You had absolutely no sense of your own potential, for both good and bad.
But with every day I saw you trying, with every new ability you discovered, you grew a little more into the person you were meant to be. Without, might I add, giving up on those you loved.
I never understood that; I guess certain incidences in my past have left me as the pessimistic person you've come to know.
Still, you really believed in the good of people, and, for some reason I'll never understand, you helped me to begin to do the same.