Every kid for better or worse takes after their parents in some way or another. And I was no different.

From the first moment I can remember they were my heroes, I wanted to be like them. Selfless, pure, noble. The heroes that Arcadia truly deserved and I spent my entire childhood trying to live up to those lofty heights.

I stumbled, I fell, I failed but I never gave up. Because I knew they never would.

I never took my own path, I never walked in my direction simply following their footsteps the entire way through to the bitter, cold end.

Even as the heavens themselves opened and showed doorway after doorway of salvation, I refused to open any of them because being a hero is what us Rijens did.

But becoming the savior I thought they wanted me to be meant I killed the man I was meant to be. Because their overbearing influence meant I never had a choice to not follow in their footsteps.

Just like your daughter wouldn’t have had a choice not to follow in yours.

And what a path you would have lead her on.

Being the lesser of two evils in a world of monsters for a few measly months doesn’t wash the waterfall of blood from your hands, it doesn’t erase a lifetime of darkness and it sure as shit doesn’t give you the right to say you’re making this world a better place when you’re one of the fucking reasons its broken in the first place.

You should be thanking George for taking Michaela away, for giving her a life you couldn’t, for giving her a choice to become a better person then you could ever dream of being. Because you want to know what happens if she stays with you and your influence creeps into her soul?

Narcissa. Calypso. Aurora. All good people originally before something wicked worked their way into their hearts and corrupted them from within. And she would’ve been no different, another scum sucking monster following in her daddy’s footsteps.

Tell me I’m wrong Harold, tell me you would’ve raised her right and I’ll tell you’re a fucking liar. She would’ve ended up just like me, another child forced down a path they despised and I had it easy.

Because you are not Sarah and Maxwell Rijen, your name shouldn’t even be said in the same breath as theirs. You are a sociopathic monster who refuses to look in the mirror, accept the role of reaper you played willingly and acknowledge the truth about Michaela.

That she is and forever will be better off without you.

But something tells me Nobody won’t listen, that Nobody is a selfish prick who needs her by his side regardless of what she wants. And Nobody will stop at nothing to bring his daughter home.

You might be Nobody but I’m the result of nothing left and one last time I’ll do with Rijens do best and save your daughter from the monster who doesn’t deserve her.