There was a girl in elementary school who I despised because she went out of her way to make fun of my name. Then in 5th grade, I saw her being bullied by the school authorities in the same way that I had been in the past. I ended up standing up for her and we became friends.

Partial example (?): This troper was indifferent to Xion the BaseBreaker while playing ''358/2 Days''... until I watched the cutscene titled "Xion's Defeat." After that, she immediately became the game's biggest Woobie and one of my favorite characters.

This troper had many kittens from the same litter. She was favouring one which was hers and really hated the other which belonged to the sister she was often quarrelling with. Whenever this kitty came for cuddles she just shushed him, pushed him away or ignored him. One day she heard in school that one of her kittens was run over by car, particularly the scrappy one. She said 'oh well' as she didn't care much. But on her way back home she saw the body...it was indeed the cat..its head smashed. She cried for whole week and this changed her attitude towards people she didn't like.

You heard that one of your kittens was hit by a car and you ''didn't care''?

Little kids can be amazingly apathetic to certain things.

Back in elementary school and junior high, this troper had a often-classmate whom she ''despised''. The two of us were always fighting like cats and dogs; he went out of his way to constantly tease and belittle me, and I responded with nasty insults. During a class trip in seventh grade, I explictedly told him that the only reason he kept provoking me is he ''wanted'' me to hit him, as that was the only way a girl would ever ''touch'' him. A couple years later, I came down one morning to find my mother sitting with the newspaper and this horrible, ''haunted'' look on her face. She asked me if I knew his full name, then explained that he'd been in a car crash -- she'd just read about his death in the paper. Cue the onslaught of shock, disbelief and guilt -- even though I knew ''logically'' that his death wasn't my fault, and he'd been a real {{Jerkass}}, it's hard looking back on that sort of childish behavior and still feeling justified.

This troper acted like a MagnificentBastard towards a person in English II class, using every chance to diminish his reputation and good name, all while constantly wearing an expression like one worn by Sosuke Aizen. It was a VERY mean phase in this troper's life, he had been abused verbally for poor grades, his pudginess gave him the nickname Pokey Minch by that same person, and a lot of BreakTheCutie took place. Two years later, I found out he never quite recovered, he was disqualified from baseball as an unexpected effect of an earlier scheme, and then just this year, the guy was in a deep depression and I wrote an apology letter, which drove the guy even further. I REALLY do feel sorry for the guy. He was a bully, sure, but he NEVER deserved any of that.

This Troper felt that way when Aeris [[ItWasHisSled died in Final Fantasy 7]]. I despised her and knew what was coming and cheered for the moment to finally come, but when I did, it hit me like a ton of bricks.

I never ''hated'' her, but I was mostly indifferent about Kanaya from ''{{Homestuck}}''. Yet for some reason her death affected me the most out of everyone's...

A friend of a family friend of mine got cancer and died. Thing was, she annoyed the hell out of her, she said that she was a lot like a person I know who annoys the living shit out of me: clingy, needy, never shuts up, does stupid things all the time and expects everyone else to pick up the pieces... Anyway, this woman died and some people messed up so she didn't even get the funeral she wanted and they basically ignored her Will... Sometimes I think I might feel the same when the person I know dies but... eh...