@crypticide said, "maybe we're being punished for something our parents did."
❝ we're definitely being punished for him, ❞ he says dryly, because while it's so easy to drown in his own guilt over the things he's done with the capabilities he has, he's not allowing himself to be naive anymore. he can accept the things he's done while also understand that reginald is the one who put him in this situation to begin with — just as reginald is at fault for the way they grew up, despite how easy it was for viktor to resent his siblings for leaving him behind back then. ❝ i actually used to care about what he thought of me. like it mattered whether or not he saw me as a real person. ❞ he used to think that was the case: that viktor was just nothing compared to his siblings, but he knows now that he barely saw his siblings as real people, either— more like test subjects. ❝ guess that's the ironic part. he's the one punishing us. he's always the one punishing us. ❞
