[Barnaby gives him a long, incredulous look as he tries to parse-- whatever Gen is claiming.]
I retired from my hero career over a year ago, and I didn't have a partner. What are you talking about?
[He had finished his long quest for revenge, but his victory was a hollow one. The darkness he'd chased down all those years still existed, even with the excising of one of its leaders, and he had no way to find the answers he still needed. So he'd given up, and that was the end of it, and the beginning of his inclination towards believing society was too corrupt to salvage. Continuing his career would have been perpetuating a lie, it would have been continuing a predetermined role handed to him by the man who had made his existence a living hell.
Or so he now remembers, at least.]
Say whatever you please about me or about heroes, but at least keep your criticisms factual.
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I retired from my hero career over a year ago, and I didn't have a partner. What are you talking about?
[He had finished his long quest for revenge, but his victory was a hollow one. The darkness he'd chased down all those years still existed, even with the excising of one of its leaders, and he had no way to find the answers he still needed. So he'd given up, and that was the end of it, and the beginning of his inclination towards believing society was too corrupt to salvage. Continuing his career would have been perpetuating a lie, it would have been continuing a predetermined role handed to him by the man who had made his existence a living hell.
Or so he now remembers, at least.]
Say whatever you please about me or about heroes, but at least keep your criticisms factual.