Dinner time Legend Of The Galactic Heroes thoughts, because I can't help but do this to myself:
Oskar Von Reuenthal, the man who believed himself to be unlovable and unable to love spent his last days acting out of love.
.Love (and loyalty) to his Emperor and therefore his home:
Took the traitor label unjustly pinned on him by scummy people and gave his Emperor one last war to wage.
.Love for his only friend and confidant:
Mittermeyer...
In what I have to call Suicide By Proxy, Oskar took on the role of distancing Wolf from him, most likely to avoid the shadow of suspicious to fall also upon the other man.
The battle against Mittermeyer? Most likely a hopeless attempt at severing ties with him so Mittermeyer wouldn't suffer upon his unavoidable death.
.Love for his son:
Yes, in the end, even against his own belief, he ended up loving his son enough to give the child to his best friend. He wasn't going to survive that ordeal, the child's mother was unstable and unable to properly raise the baby.
His last moments were all us being shown that Oskar Von Reuenthal was actually capable of loving... If only he hadn't been made the scapegoat... If only he'd been trusted... If only the others around him had been capable of loving him unconditionally.
The only person who never truly abandoned him was Wolfgang Mittermeyer... And even he made the wrong choice when push came to shove...
