He'd asked, and he'd gotten his answer: guilt. An overwhelming amount of it.
Well, yeah, that makes sense. Once the fires burn out, all you have left is ashes and death. It's hard to forget the taste, and Locus has more of it than most.
But the basics are still the same.
"You don't have a legacy until you die," he snarls. "Felix's legacy is murder and manipulation and lies, and it is set. You still have a chance, and you're not going to do shit with it until you realize that you can't change the past!" That's the big one. That's the truth that's hardest to swallow and the goddamn cornerstone of redemption once you do. "Those people are dead, and nothing you do is going to change that. So you can either give up and cement that legacy or you can do better!"
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Well, yeah, that makes sense. Once the fires burn out, all you have left is ashes and death. It's hard to forget the taste, and Locus has more of it than most.
But the basics are still the same.
"You don't have a legacy until you die," he snarls. "Felix's legacy is murder and manipulation and lies, and it is set. You still have a chance, and you're not going to do shit with it until you realize that you can't change the past!" That's the big one. That's the truth that's hardest to swallow and the goddamn cornerstone of redemption once you do. "Those people are dead, and nothing you do is going to change that. So you can either give up and cement that legacy or you can do better!"