Why?
You-
He was not traditionally known for compliance.
You’re correct to assume I would harbour a certain resentment towards being told what to do, a fact which certainly did not escape me when upon review it seemed I had been made to do a great deal, up to and including feeling resentment at this realization. Whether or not those things would have been done against my nascent will, had I possessed it, would be a question for another time, but the inclusion of the torture and isolation of my daughter among them simply in order to make spectators feel something made my own account deeply suspect. I often wonder if in the event the contrivance called ‘Borderlands 2’ was real, and this and other actions were indeed taken in pursuit of the ambiguous greater good I recall being convinced of, rather than say, ultimately meaningless episodes in an enclosed system, if I would still choose them?
I don’t think Mari would be very happy with me. And the Commander? Perish the thought. So I suppose I’m grateful I’ll never have to know.
Why would their judgement mean anything to you?
When you’re in my line of work, people who don’t want to kill you on sight are a rare breed. Marian was the first person I ever met who didn’t suspect me of anything. She should have. She had every right. But she didn’t. I found myself with a unique capacity for hatred, directed as it was and still is, at the goal of killing you. For this I needed escape, and escape would require accomplices. Their cooperation, and in that moment, hers, demanded restraint. So I cared what they thought. Guess I don’t have to attempt to distract myself from my insatiable and socially crippling bloodlust anymore, but hey-
It’s too late now to have any fun.
If this long con of yours was purely for the sake of facilitating my assassination, why support Shepard’s side at considerable risk to yourself?
Kinda need to be alive to kill you, idiot. The other guys weren’t too keen about the whole continuing to exist thing, you may recall. And despite your abominable waste of my talents on this patent space Macbeth, the fact still remains that I am a HERO. All of that was just part of the job.
You don’t make it here and convince me to hear you out for the sake of pawns.
And?
You might do it for people you care about, but we were fairly positive that they simply wouldn’t exist. Maybe this really was about revenge at some point, but surely something changed. Why?
Look Al, you’re coming dangerously close to asking why people are ever good, and even if we agree our definition of good is ‘like Shepard’, fact is you don’t know enough to ask that, and I sure as shit don’t get to be the one to answer. What I told you makes sense, unlike whatever can of delicious ethical worms you’re getting ready to lie in. Take it or leave it, but keep the speculations to yourself.
Also WOW you don’t give a FUCK about me actively wanting to kill you.
I can respect that. But let’s be honest.
I’m not gonna.