[unhinged barking]

when it was precisely this inability to perceive Breakker and Reed as their own people and not just extensions of himself that caused the betrayal

Seth, babe, I will be the first to agree that your karmic punishment is often disproportionate and that you are often blamed for things outside of your control and have your sins dragged back to the present in a way that other people don't and that that's not fair but in this case the damage was entirely self-inflicted

you ignored them, excluded them, disappeared and left them holding the bag multiple times. they forgave you the fake injury, they forgave you the public humiliation and manipulation and neglect, they forgave you when you wandered off to go have a foursome with CM Punk, and they might have even forgiven you Cody

except YOU

YOU had the gall to come out of a multiple week episode where you had to be carted around like a puppet, where they took care of your business and of you

YOU, on the day after Bronson Reed's career-defining victory against Roman, had the gall to plant your feet before his hometown crowd and declare you've never needed them

and were there steps that could have been taken in between "not telling you that he's mad" and "death by spear"? sure. has the Vision gone to shit in your absence? very much so. has everyone lied to you about the reasons? has Paul Heyman spent the last few months twisting the narrative in a way that completely demeans you as a person and wrestler? absolutely