The lengths that she was willing to consider going for revenge when scorned or stolen from used to genuinely alarm her acquaintances - and burned more bridges in that life than she built. Of course, that was mostly because the ancient cultivator lived her gray moralled life attracted to the side of 'good' behaving people where possible.
Yet, while the silent promise she remade just then - and the clearer declarations she once wrote on paper for the quietly listening Yecine - probably wouldn't be looked at any more *kindly* by those who once knew her, it mattered little. Nothing mattered more to her this time than the safety and longevity of the one she loved.
'This is hardly a new idea, but for all my memory… I cannot recall feeling *this* strongly about it.'
I guess that makes Elua a semi-reformed yandere?
Or at least one who can do really bad things and realize after that they were wrong.
Then again, if the person had remained normal... she probably would never have felt she had done anything wrong. It's pretty easy to feel vindicated if the ends justified the means.
They say people inherit their humor from their family. Does Anper enjoy dark jokes as well? Do I actually care? Hm...
Also Qat, please, you're killing me with your charismatic sweetlove. My readers are going to get diabetes with me and you're just going to enable your little monster~