While Phillip is exactly the kind of younger sibling who delighted in doing things to annoy his brother (even more so after he became Emet-Selch), grief is more the emotion to attribute to things here. He knows now, without a doubt, that he will never see his home again, and even if Rejoinings somehow continue happening on their own, the lives lost will never come back. If he's going to say goodbye to it all, he may as well do it in a way that will hurt less, masked by intentional reminders of what has risen from those ashes.
"Mm, and I love you for it." Like most of the rest of this conversation, it's both teasing and not. Gustavain knows well enough to be able to guess that the very uniform nature of Amaurot likely drove Phillip, a stubbornly individualistic soul, completely mad. Reverence would not, and likely never will be, something he looks for.
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Date: 2021-09-23 09:39 pm (UTC)"Mm, and I love you for it." Like most of the rest of this conversation, it's both teasing and not. Gustavain knows well enough to be able to guess that the very uniform nature of Amaurot likely drove Phillip, a stubbornly individualistic soul, completely mad. Reverence would not, and likely never will be, something he looks for.