Wash just folds his arms and gives Locus a long, unimpressed look. They are way past this point, and yet here Locus is, trying to argue for his sanity.
"You partnered with someone who spent years lying to you and manipulating you," he starts after a solid fifteen seconds of judgmental silence. "You gave up your humanity to try to absolve your guilt. You committed genocide. More recently, you got roofied by space Cthulu, literally turned into a monster, and when you got the chance to get out of hell, you didn't want to leave. Any one of those would break somebody, and you're trying to tell me that you're fine." The judgmental silence returns for a few seconds, because holy shit, this is just stupid. "I don't believe it, and I'm pretty sure you don't believe it, so can we skip the bullshit denial phase?"
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"You partnered with someone who spent years lying to you and manipulating you," he starts after a solid fifteen seconds of judgmental silence. "You gave up your humanity to try to absolve your guilt. You committed genocide. More recently, you got roofied by space Cthulu, literally turned into a monster, and when you got the chance to get out of hell, you didn't want to leave. Any one of those would break somebody, and you're trying to tell me that you're fine." The judgmental silence returns for a few seconds, because holy shit, this is just stupid. "I don't believe it, and I'm pretty sure you don't believe it, so can we skip the bullshit denial phase?"