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We were never a real family. We were our father's creation, family in name and smile, but not in fact. In the end, after our brother Ben had died, there was really nothing connecting us. We were just strangers living under the same roof, destined to be alone, starved for attention, damaged by our upbringing, and haunted by what might have been. We all wanted to be loved by a man incapable of giving love. Our father never missed an opportunity to remind me that I was ordinary, a hard thing for a little [kid] to hear. If you're raised to believe nothing about you is special, if the benchmark is extraordinary, what do you do if you're not?

“Man is as a rope stretched between the animal and the superhuman. A rope over an abyss. It is a dangerous crossing, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.” As much as you must strive for individual greatness, and strive you must, for it won’t come to you of its own accord, you must also remember that there is no individual stronger than the collective. The ties that bind you together make you stronger than you are alone. They make you impervious to the pain and hardship the world will thrust upon you. And believe me when I tell you, life will be hard. It will be painful. We can accomplish anything when we accept responsibility together. This is what creates trust. Together, you will stand against the reins of evil. 

Look, you wanna blame me, blame us for leaving... that's okay. But maybe you're asking yourself the wrong question. Maybe it's not about why we left. Maybe it's about why you stayed. You stayed because you couldn't let go of the way things used to be. The Academy. Dad. [...] Dad's dead. Mom too, now. We're orphans again, dude. And things are never gonna go back to the way they used to be.

You do whatever it takes to survive, or you die. So we adapted. Whatever the world threw at us, we found a way to overcome it.