"Then, I was a newborn who was trying to figure out if I was a monster or not. My choices seemed to be 'be a monster that kills innocent people' and 'be a monster that kills monsters,' and I wasn't even guaranteed to consistently be the latter, because my control had proven to not be perfect.

"Now, I'm a vampire who's pretty firmly of the opinion that I'm just - myself. I have a set of abilities that are different than what they were, and a set of downsides that I need to account for, but I'm whatever I choose to be if I work at it long enough. With superpowers."