[He heaves a few angry breaths, knuckles white with how hard he's clenching his fists, restraining himself from lunging at the other man no matter how useless.]
Then why fucking do it? If you didn't want it, why the fuck are you torturing everyone?!
[Because whatever he might have been, and Gladio doesn't like to think too hard about what he might have been in another time, that he wasn't always this monster. It's so much easier to hate him when there's nothing redeeming about him. But past regardless, no one's been forcing him to manipulate and mutilate and destroy everything good in the world.]
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Then why fucking do it? If you didn't want it, why the fuck are you torturing everyone?!
[Because whatever he might have been, and Gladio doesn't like to think too hard about what he might have been in another time, that he wasn't always this monster. It's so much easier to hate him when there's nothing redeeming about him. But past regardless, no one's been forcing him to manipulate and mutilate and destroy everything good in the world.]