For the first three hundred years, other people hated me, and I lived a sad life only causing trouble to myself and those around me if I didn't stay in hiding.
The next three hundred years I spent harboring a grudge against this world, and was able to preserve the faintest sense of identity by immediately dispatching anything that crossed my path, youkai or otherwise.
Cage in Lunatic Runagate - Chapter 4: The Eternal Flame