[For some reason, this has gotten Emma a bit more insistent here, as she spreads her arms wide here in gesture, still smiling~!]
No no, you don't get it. What I'm trying to say is that you seem to have a misunderstanding about something; you see, there's no such thing as being neither. You're a victim, a wrong-doer... or both at once, and it all depends on what exactly you are doing in the moment. And it's never a permanent thing: a victim can easily became a criminal and a criminal can easily become a victim in any given moment depending on what's happening.
For example... right now, you say that you're neither, but are we correct that the people within this tree [gestures to said flesh tree] became this way because of your influence, right? So in perhaps their eyes and some of my friends here, you're the wrong-doer, while maybe to you, you're the victim if it was unintentional that it happened. And I'm willing to believe in that being true, since you don't want to be destroyed or yelled at for something you didn't want happening just by existing! But that still involves taking responsibility for your role as both victim and wrong-doer here rather than trying to absolve yourself completely and averting your gaze from seeing any viewpoint other than your own.
[And then she pauses, waiting to see if the Shimmer understands now what she's getting at here.]
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No no, you don't get it. What I'm trying to say is that you seem to have a misunderstanding about something; you see, there's no such thing as being neither. You're a victim, a wrong-doer... or both at once, and it all depends on what exactly you are doing in the moment. And it's never a permanent thing: a victim can easily became a criminal and a criminal can easily become a victim in any given moment depending on what's happening.
For example... right now, you say that you're neither, but are we correct that the people within this tree [gestures to said flesh tree] became this way because of your influence, right? So in perhaps their eyes and some of my friends here, you're the wrong-doer, while maybe to you, you're the victim if it was unintentional that it happened. And I'm willing to believe in that being true, since you don't want to be destroyed or yelled at for something you didn't want happening just by existing! But that still involves taking responsibility for your role as both victim and wrong-doer here rather than trying to absolve yourself completely and averting your gaze from seeing any viewpoint other than your own.
[And then she pauses, waiting to see if the Shimmer understands now what she's getting at here.]