Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
The big talent is persistence.