I'm sorry.
No, that isn't snark. This is not going to turn into some backhanded way of criticizing you. I'm actually sorry.
You wanted leadership. You wanted someone to follow. You wanted someone to tell you what was right, what was important, what was true.
And I kept telling you how defend yourself against people who wanted to make you into a follower. So it kinds of ends up looking like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qerer0cvimy
You wanted Gaius Julius Caesar, and got Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.
But that was always my plan for TRP... to help men become unrulable. To help them surpass the need for a father for whose approval they would strive, and instead become their own source of approval, of values, of morals, of... whatever they needed.
When men all started marching in different directions, I was... glad. That was my vision of success. I loved having independence and the responsibility that went with it. I never realized that responsibility would be a burden to you, and make you unhappy.
I apologize for misunderstanding you. But I can't apologize for not accepting the throne, because I never asked for it, and I don't want it, and I have refused it so many times that I couldn't even relate them to you.
I suppose you misunderstood me, too. You're upset that I'm "doing a piss-poor job" of being king. But the truth is that I don't want the job, and I don't want anyone else to have the job, either.
I just don't think it's a job that needs doing. If you disagree, please explain to me what about it is about kings that you think is necessary. I'm listening.
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