Chapter 9: 2.2 — You Are Who You Are Even When You’re Not Totally Sure Who You Are, Aren’t You?

Now, that you gained an understanding of the pros and cons of your transmigration/ reincarnation as a villainess. I am sure you are wondering if you should live your life according to the script, story, setting, or live as you please while pursuing your goals. How you move forward depends on the circumstances of your rebirth.

Does your system, deity, or the pull of local fate (not to be confused with the inherent causality that comes with the creation of options, and the execution of choices) push you to do things you don’t want to do? Do they try and force your hand by establishing character settings for you and provides you punishments for “OOC”s ? Do they limit the options available to you by giving you a set number of choices to choose from?

If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, then: sucks, man.

Among all the kinds of impositions of being reborn a villainess, these are some of the most tragic as they ask you to change fate by following a set path. By limiting your actions, they try and control you. Control is the child of fate, fallen from the boughs of the supposition of destiny. (I mean, if they would be providing you A-B-C-D options then you didn’t have to be the one reborn, even an older lady on her death bed who had never been exposed to the “source material” would have worked.)

If these are the hands dealt with you, do not cry, my doves. Systems, fate, or gods forget that hands may be bound but the human heart is uncontrollable. You are still you even if they want you to act like someone else. Your choices carry your essence. (Besides, all you must do when faced with the threat of punishment is feel out the threshold of OOCs, so you can bend the criteria of completion later on.)

No matter if you’re bound by the forces that brought you to this strange world, or you’ve been abandoned by the singularity that drove you into your situation: you are you just by the sheer act of making a choice based on your values, ideal, or desires. This body is now your responsibility.

So, do not cry. Do not bemoan the hand of fate.

They tell you that a villainess is one of tragic, and violent fate – made for the catharsis of an apathetic audience and a tool to promote the development of self-centered one-dimensional characters.

A villainess, it’s important to learn early on, is someone who challenges fate. They are someone who rebels against the norms of the world around them. You, my doves, must not live with your head hung down just because they call you a villainess. You must live gloriously, never wronging yourself. You can bend and break, but you must not bow. Because if you do, those good for nothing gods, systems, or that stupid numbskull people call fate will win. They already took away something for you, trampled on your individuality, ignored your right to autonomy, and forced you into a life that you did not ask for.

Use it, this life, this body, this status, and this money. Use it to challenge the world they built around your downfall. You may not win; you may not survive but you will still be you. You are you. You are you. Your body is but a vessel but who you are – that person is made of the decisions they make in the present, the lessons they learned form the past, and how their outlook at the future.

You are you. Do not forget that you are you. They will try and make you think that you are your vessel, that this it is only right for you to follow along with their stupid fucking plans. If you go along with them, it will cost you the only thing you have left – your individuality. You are you.

Repeat after me:

I am who I am based on the choices I make today. I decide who I am, what I will do, and how well I am to be treated. I decide. I am who I am based on the things I values; on the path I choose to take. I am who I am.  This body is just a vessel to carry my individual soul. It is a medium of my choices. It is but an extension of my personal expression.

Do not lose yourself in this new body, new life, or new world. You are still yourself, good or bad. You may have hated who you were, you may have resented your old life, and are looking forward to the splendor this new life has to offer. Do not delude yourself – this was not your choice, what was given to you will be taken away. All enjoyment, luxury, and power come at a cost. You come into this world with nothing but yourself – do not lose it.  They’ve already killed you for it once.

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