View Magnet (Santa/Leo)

Santa wasn't actually 100% sure how she'd gotten here. True, she'd been taking part in a festival. Amidst all of the hunting she'd been doing as of late with the lessons from Tier in mind, she still found the time to enjoy human activities, even when she was outside of the city of light. Ever the wanderer, she'd wound up at a human festival in the americas and some stranger had been watching her for quite some time. Usually people who stared didn't approach her, but strangely enough this one did.

It took a moment to understand just what it was he'd been asking, but once she realized she had accepted. After all she was familiar with Human television, and so why not offer an interview? There were uh... certainly much worse representations. But even more than that? She felt a rush in her chest at the idea.

The public's opinion of arrancar was something that was always tenuous. But an opportunity to be asked about stuff? It was an interesting opportunity. Not JUST to educate humans, but also to learn. what DID they think of arrancar? What sort of questions would they have?

When she was called out, she offered a warm smile and walked confidently to the man as she took the indicated seat.

"Thank you for having me! And uhm, well I admit I'm not really an expert on all of the science portions..." She paused for a moment as she took a moment and did something she very rarely did. She searched through Ajora's memories. "So, Hollows are something like people who have turned into monsters after they died. Their emotions cause them to change. An arrancar is when that same creature manages to regain some of their humanity. The mask that hides our faces breaks, and we no longer are controlled by our hunger." It wasn't the best, and frankly, Ajora probably would have used different phrasing, but she delivered it with a gentle smile and a calm tone.

Santa raised her brows slightly at that before her smile grew slightly sheepish, chuckling a bit before she shook her head. "Well no. In fact that can be a dangerous way to look at things. Hollows can be very intelligent. Dangerously so. Its better to think of them as.... sick. Like a human that has rabies. As a hollow eats things, it can get .... a bit more controlled, and so it can act on intelligence a bit more. And some hollows fake being dumb. Their hunger is the major issue. Once that goes away, some of them can be even friendly. Some of them that is." She added in that last part, internally sweating just a little.

She had to be very careful after all. After all, Ajora had taught her just how dangerous lying by omission was. She needed to get the word out, but more than that educate people. The last thing she wanted was for people to get hurt assuming that all arrancar were nice. Or that hollows were just dumb animals.

She took a breath as Leo took his turn to speak, turning away from the mic, as she'd been instructed and taking a small drink of water before nodding in response to his next question.

"A lot of things! I may not look it, but I've been around a really long time. On one hand, I think that people can be a bit scared when they think about arrancar, and they have a good reason with some of the things that have happened on the news. But understanding is more important than being afraid. If there's one thing that I want, it would be for people to better understand hollows and arrancar. People should be prepared, so they won't be scared."