[ he's trying not to sound bitter about it, but it's a simple fact that the galra enjoy letting their gladiators get roughed up. they have the technology to repair major injuries and they choose to let him be carved up like hamburger, just because it entertains the spectators. shiro doesn't think that he's a particularly vain person, but every scar, every laceration that they allow to build up on his skin is turning him into someone that doesn't look like takashi shirogane. he looks like a monster. he looks like a killer. the other stablehands that are afraid of him don't even know him, they just know that he wins in the arena and that he looks horrifying. ]
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[ he's trying not to sound bitter about it, but it's a simple fact that the galra enjoy letting their gladiators get roughed up. they have the technology to repair major injuries and they choose to let him be carved up like hamburger, just because it entertains the spectators. shiro doesn't think that he's a particularly vain person, but every scar, every laceration that they allow to build up on his skin is turning him into someone that doesn't look like takashi shirogane. he looks like a monster. he looks like a killer. the other stablehands that are afraid of him don't even know him, they just know that he wins in the arena and that he looks horrifying. ]