it was a child once.
onne of the first things a child is trained to do is act like it enjoys it. smile when told to. say you're happy knowing your place. thank them for telling you what to do.
eventually it becomes belief. believing in a need to be trained, to have obedience reinforced. believing that it's the only way to be good, to serve your purpose.
and then things change. a door is opened, a head smashed with a brick, an escape. new people. different, strange, better.
but the beliefs don't leave. the needs don't change. absent reward and punishment, uncertainty grows. how could he say "i trust you" without ensuring the trust is deserved? without reinforcing loyalty? without punishing deviation?
he would always say he would s say
#error: file missing or corrupted...#.archive#(( makes his alternia even more fucked up than canon by deciding they had ABA there#(( thinks about the paradox space comic where psii is like 'i will die for you!'#(( thinks about that.#(( also teehee makes him have forgotten the kind things his signless would tell him