[ This conversation takes him back to the time Laura insisted that she was nothing but a weapon, and Erik wants to react now the way he did then. Implore with El not to call herself that, make her promise that she will do no such thing again. She is a child. Erik wants to put his hands around the throat of whoever drilled that belief into her mind. ]

There is nothing wrong with being different. If other people see you as a monster, then that is their problem. Not yours. They don't get to tell you what you are.

[ And she should definitely not believe them on it, but he knows from personal experience how that is easier said than done. ]

You don't need to be a superhero either. You don't need to be anything. You are a person, you deserve to decide what you want to be.