I love the imagery of Connor, previously convinced in his absolute superiority, crumbling to pathetic mess before Markus whom he previously despised and seeked to destroy but now accidentally puts on a pedestal above himself, because that’s what Connor does – seeks a hierarchy in which he positions himself right below what he considers to be the top, at selfless service for which he will hopefully be praised and compensated. Always seeking to serve something greater than himself to feel a pride in this relation, but never quite ready to demolish this idea of hierarchy in its root.
Caretaker been lying to whumpee. They’d been lying to whumpee every step of the way. And the worst part was that upon finidng it out, whumpee realized they didn’t care.
It didn’t matter to them if caretaker was actually whumper. It didn’t matter what things whumper had actually done. It was in the past. With all the things whumpee had done to defend ‘caretaker’, wasn’t whumpee worse than them now anyway?
If whumper was happy to go on lying and playing caretaker, whumpee was happy to go on living like they believed it. What did the truth matter in the face of desire?
