“Hope is a delicate thing. Anything can shatter it if you’re not careful with what you place it in.”

“I remember having hope that I could free my mother from Drexl’s clutches and we could live a normal life again. With it, I worked toward freeing her from her contract by any means necessary.”

“Lot of good it did for me. I ended up losing her to an explosion that took the entire Red Light District with her.”

“I had hope that I’d wake up in the Underworld when I woke up. It allowed me to crawl out of the wreckage and get back on my feet.”

“It betrayed me yet again when I saw that I was standing in what remained of the District. I nearly gave up on life altogether when I discovered that I was the sole survivor.”

“On that day, I had hope taken out to the Groves and shot with a twelve gauge. If I couldn’t rely on faith and optimism to help me accomplish my goals, then I needed to replace it with something that could.”

“Vengeance.”

“Instead of spreading hope through bright and shiny morals, I bring order and justice through the uncaring brutality of darkness.”

“People like Chavito cling to hope and old wife’s tales of the Sunbearers. Their strict moral code is so falsely pure and bright that it blinds them to their own incompetence.”

“What good did hope do for you when your family was murdered by someone like Drexl? Did hope tell you that a hero was going to come to not only save their skin, but bring the would be killer to justice?”

“Or did that hope feed you nothing but false promises as they were brutalized before your very eyes?”

“You could’ve done something to save them, you know. You could have channeled that darkness within you to fight off the one that was beating your parents to death.”

“That’s what I would’ve done. Instead, you allowed hope to distract you with it’s shining light and give you misplaced faith in a hero that would never arrive.”

“That should’ve been your cue to abandon hope and replace it with something more meaningful. You should’ve looked away from the blinding light and embraced the darkness like I did.”

“Yet you instead choose to parade that as long as one person has hope, Arcadia can get through anything.”

“You champion the light, but it hasn’t shone ever since Zeus and Ares took over our home. No light shines here or at the end of the tunnel. There is only darkness.”

“And it is willing to do what needs to be done in order to get those power hungry dictators out of our lives once and for all.”

“So shine your light at Warzone. Try to illuminate the darkness within my soul and bring hope back into my life.”

“When that fails, I’ll replace your fragile hope with Vengeance. Maybe then you’ll see that morals mean nothing to the champion of Darkness.”