The short answer is that she's not dealing with them.
Legitimately, she's pretty ... terrified + awestruck by her former self. There's a weight of years on her that Lace herself simply doesn't have - the way I inflicted amnesia on her this time was to wipe away all the decades she's been alive, and I actually did do enough back-counting on the math for that to be confident in saying she's at least fifty years old, the first time she appears in canon, and close to sixty when she finally "dies", so she had a pretty long life! Which is something that factors into how she plays without total memory loss, because at the end of her life she's a lot more ... playfully aggressive, and very bored, and even at the point in her life when she's still a claymore she's perceiving everything through a lens of cheerfully pragmatic but oh so very malicious solipsism.
Riful (not Lace) is a power-hungry gravity well where something like empathy should be. And some of that's her natural inclination - she will always be someone who finds it difficult not to be self-serving, even if the option occurs to her - and some of that's, well. The circumstances taking those natural inclinations and cranking them up to Violence Level 11.
Lace, on the other hand, comes to her memories by way of actually being Sword, from Aather, and thus getting ICly mindfucked into empathy. Which means she has ... fffeeelings about horrible things, especially if it's hr job to do them, and a gut sense of "hurting others is bad because I wouldn't want that to be me" that Riful herself never had. Which is a fascinating arc to play out for me - because there's really no way she won't still end up at the same place since ... I'm not playing her for a goddamned redemption arc, I'm playing a fall, it'll just take some more interesting turns getting there. There's a lot of self-hate - her initial reaction to eating Gin's arm was an internal one of revulsion, that she quickly suppressed in favor of being cheerfully homicidal for her own sanity's sake. Getting her second memory was such a shock to her - the casually remorseless way Sword tormented Echo simply because she found her interesting/attractive was legitimately 180 degrees from how she saw things, she frightened herself. I mean she also hungered for the same confidence and power and ability to inspire fear in others, so she's perfectly willing to - and instinctively kind of built to - slip into that mindset to defend herself/get what she wants, but she found herself disgusting and is afraid. SHE IS A KID WHO WANTS TO BE LIKED AND THAT ... THING DOESN'T ACT LIKE HER AT ALL.
What if she really is a monster who deserves to die. She can tell herself she's not, here, but what if her memories prove it to be a lie. What will she do. So she's avoiding her memories completely in favor of doing her own thing and defying herself. Who I was doesn't define me! Nyah! I'll be my own kind of awful person! Which will, ultimately, be hard to tell the difference from the old kind, short of actually looking at how they perceive it inside their own heads, because even amnesiac Riful is a creature of frightening willpower who will keep on keeping on and bull in a china shop her way through her own potential morality to get power, whatever reason she has for getting it.
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Legitimately, she's pretty ... terrified + awestruck by her former self. There's a weight of years on her that Lace herself simply doesn't have - the way I inflicted amnesia on her this time was to wipe away all the decades she's been alive, and I actually did do enough back-counting on the math for that to be confident in saying she's at least fifty years old, the first time she appears in canon, and close to sixty when she finally "dies", so she had a pretty long life! Which is something that factors into how she plays without total memory loss, because at the end of her life she's a lot more ... playfully aggressive, and very bored, and even at the point in her life when she's still a claymore she's perceiving everything through a lens of cheerfully pragmatic but oh so very malicious solipsism.
Riful (not Lace) is a power-hungry gravity well where something like empathy should be. And some of that's her natural inclination - she will always be someone who finds it difficult not to be self-serving, even if the option occurs to her - and some of that's, well. The circumstances taking those natural inclinations and cranking them up to Violence Level 11.
Lace, on the other hand, comes to her memories by way of actually being Sword, from Aather, and thus getting ICly mindfucked into empathy. Which means she has ... fffeeelings about horrible things, especially if it's hr job to do them, and a gut sense of "hurting others is bad because I wouldn't want that to be me" that Riful herself never had. Which is a fascinating arc to play out for me - because there's really no way she won't still end up at the same place since ... I'm not playing her for a goddamned redemption arc, I'm playing a fall, it'll just take some more interesting turns getting there. There's a lot of self-hate - her initial reaction to eating Gin's arm was an internal one of revulsion, that she quickly suppressed in favor of being cheerfully homicidal for her own sanity's sake. Getting her second memory was such a shock to her - the casually remorseless way Sword tormented Echo simply because she found her interesting/attractive was legitimately 180 degrees from how she saw things, she frightened herself. I mean she also hungered for the same confidence and power and ability to inspire fear in others, so she's perfectly willing to - and instinctively kind of built to - slip into that mindset to defend herself/get what she wants, but she found herself disgusting and is afraid. SHE IS A KID WHO WANTS TO BE LIKED AND THAT ... THING DOESN'T ACT LIKE HER AT ALL.
What if she really is a monster who deserves to die. She can tell herself she's not, here, but what if her memories prove it to be a lie. What will she do. So she's avoiding her memories completely in favor of doing her own thing and defying herself. Who I was doesn't define me! Nyah! I'll be my own kind of awful person! Which will, ultimately, be hard to tell the difference from the old kind, short of actually looking at how they perceive it inside their own heads, because even amnesiac Riful is a creature of frightening willpower who will keep on keeping on and bull in a china shop her way through her own potential morality to get power, whatever reason she has for getting it.
MARCH. DID YOU BREAK YOURSELF AGAIN.