If I may. He's already faced several sets of consequences.
[ getting everyone he might have remotely called a friend killed. failing in whatever it was he was trying to do in the east. losing his job. eating shit tonight. robin's expression is at odds with his tone, one a practiced, kind smile, if wan and distant, the other brisk and no-nonsense. ]
He's learned nothing from them thus far, merely cocooning himself further in denial and doubling down on his belief that it must be everyone's fault but his own. Perhaps it might yet be a distant possibility, but why don't we not get our hopes up for him ever learning better.
[ and then, because he's been noting the trend of phil's general responses this entire time, he'll go out on slightly more of a limb: ]
Seeing your own reflection in the face of every malefactor will not avail you any. By all means, advocate for a bloodless end if you do so for its own sake, but I imagine you will be sorely disappointed should you try to find your own redemption in that of a man such as this.
Some blackguards will simply not repent no matter how much gentle cajoling you do, how many chances you give them. A potentially kind but misguided man acting blindly out of anger and despair is one thing; a self-important fool who thinks the entire world owes him something is another.
[ phil's only going to burn himself and make himself more miserable that way. ]
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If I may. He's already faced several sets of consequences.
[ getting everyone he might have remotely called a friend killed. failing in whatever it was he was trying to do in the east. losing his job. eating shit tonight. robin's expression is at odds with his tone, one a practiced, kind smile, if wan and distant, the other brisk and no-nonsense. ]
He's learned nothing from them thus far, merely cocooning himself further in denial and doubling down on his belief that it must be everyone's fault but his own. Perhaps it might yet be a distant possibility, but why don't we not get our hopes up for him ever learning better.
[ and then, because he's been noting the trend of phil's general responses this entire time, he'll go out on slightly more of a limb: ]
Seeing your own reflection in the face of every malefactor will not avail you any. By all means, advocate for a bloodless end if you do so for its own sake, but I imagine you will be sorely disappointed should you try to find your own redemption in that of a man such as this.
Some blackguards will simply not repent no matter how much gentle cajoling you do, how many chances you give them. A potentially kind but misguided man acting blindly out of anger and despair is one thing; a self-important fool who thinks the entire world owes him something is another.
[ phil's only going to burn himself and make himself more miserable that way. ]