He had found it hard to stop caring what people felt about him, until one day he had grown tired of trying to find some beauty in a world that only saw him as a monster and started to embrace the way the world had always seen him. He had become what the stories said about him. Mostly. He's entirely human, after all, not the demon some described him as.

"I've found that rumors are often not true, even if there is some truth to them."