"Yeah, it sounds like exactly what a guy like you would go with." Gladio doesn't actually roll his eyes, but the tone of his voice does it for him. "Two thousand years to cook, and the best you could do was burn. Except no, you're not even trying to do your best, because you know damn well what you're doing is stupid and petty and illogical, don't you? You could do better, be better with everything you've gone through, everything you are and everything you're capable of, and you just don't fucking want to."
He shakes his head. "And for what? To spite a guy who's thousands of years dead, by hurting a family he's never known and doesn't give a shit about? He didn't give a shit about the family he had that he did know, and who knows that better than you? Attacking your own bloodline for your own selfish reasons, killing Oracles...you're sinking to his level for nothing. For no payoff or justification except your own tortured logic that this is some grand gesture that somehow gets back at him. And deep down, you know that too. You've been around too long and aren't quite stupid enough that you can sell me on the idea that you believe your own bullshit. But you'd rather burn the world down for the lies you need to tell yourself than to look the truth in the face. And the truth is that the only reason you cause the harm you do is because you think you have a good enough excuse not to have to try to be anything better anymore. As if good is only something people who haven't suffered too much have the luxury to be."
I ate'nt dead
He shakes his head. "And for what? To spite a guy who's thousands of years dead, by hurting a family he's never known and doesn't give a shit about? He didn't give a shit about the family he had that he did know, and who knows that better than you? Attacking your own bloodline for your own selfish reasons, killing Oracles...you're sinking to his level for nothing. For no payoff or justification except your own tortured logic that this is some grand gesture that somehow gets back at him. And deep down, you know that too. You've been around too long and aren't quite stupid enough that you can sell me on the idea that you believe your own bullshit. But you'd rather burn the world down for the lies you need to tell yourself than to look the truth in the face. And the truth is that the only reason you cause the harm you do is because you think you have a good enough excuse not to have to try to be anything better anymore. As if good is only something people who haven't suffered too much have the luxury to be."