Wanda: Don’t speak to me of sacrifice, Stephen Strange.
Stephen: *doesn’t offer up a single word in his own defense*
Stephen stans everywhere: Pain is an old friend.
Stephen stans: I can’t win, but I can lose over and over again.
Stephen stans: 14,000,605 timelines. Which he experienced in real time. Battled beside the Avengers, including Wanda, and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Got to know them all as friends and comrades innumerable times. Watched them die again and again, watched them sacrifice themselves for each other again and again. Made the ultimate sacrifice himself for each of them, again and again–only to start the search anew each time the timeline reset. WITH NO REST OR SUCCOR OR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING OF HIS LONELY BURDEN. Settled on the solution that saved the freaking universe at the toll of a lifetime of guilt for the lives it cost.
