Ben is upset that his cousin Jojo will likely become the heir instead of him. He seeks out advice from his uncle Sawchuk but becomes interested in learning about their ancestor Cypress Vetinari, a notorious criminal and murderer. Sawchuk warns Ben strongly against learning about or emulating Cypress, saying he only brought death and suffering. Ben remains unhappy with the heir decision and it's unclear if this will end well.

2. Welcome back to the Vetinari Dualegacy! This is Chapter 25: Bad Company.
Last time, some of the kids aged up to Teen, and Tess and Brad died.
Also Cass and Gil had a Moment.
This seems like an opportune time to do a who's who of Gen 9, so here we go!

3. These are the Prettacy kids. Joe Cotton (Jojo) is the one in the pink shirt. He's a Pisces 2/8/10/3/8 Pleasure
Sim whose LTW is Game Designer. Ben Ali is the Child, and he's a Virgo 10/1/10/7/2. The girl is Lawrin; she's
a Leo 5/10/5/3/5 Family Sim with the Education Minister LTW.
Jojo and Ben don't get along particularly well. If you look at their personalities, they're almost completely
opposite in every respect.
Jojo is the heir, because he is random and awesome.

4. These are the Uglacy boys. Giacomo (Jack) is in
the upper left. He's a Libra 3/8/5/10/8 Romance
Sim with the LTW of becoming a Visionary. He's
been Encouraged up a few in Neat and Active.
George Smith and Paul Jones are the twins:
George is the blond (Pisces, 2/3/10/6/10,
Romance, 20 Simultaneous Lovers), and Paulie
has Tess and Stevie's black alien eyes (Sagittarius,
2/7/10/10/6, Pleasure, Game Designer).
Jack is the heir. Paulie's face does some really
unsettling things when he ages up again, but aside
from the eyes, he's a Frances J clone, whereas
Jack actually has a mixture of features from both
Stevie and Francesca.

5. These two are first cousins of the Uglacy boys and of
each other. Gretzky (the boy) is a Pisces 6/3/10/3/7
Knowledge Sim with the LTW to be a Criminal
Mastermind. Katarina (Kati; the girl) is an Aries
8/10/9/9/5 Popularity Sim with the LTW of being an Icon.
Orson-->Larch-->Finn-->Cory-->Coco-->Xander-->
Tess-->Vex-->Gretzky
Orson-->Larch-->Finn-->Cory-->Coco-->Xander-->
Tess-->Abel-->Kati<---Kaylee<--Connor<--Bee<--Indy<--
Raven<--Jonny<--Juniper<--Isaac
The only other thing that happened here was that Vex's
wife Emmy finally went PermaPlat. Yay!

6. These two are the double first-cousins. Maui is on the
top left (short hair). She's a Taurus 4/8/4/9/5 Pleasure
Sim with the Celebrity Chef LTW. Tahiti is on the right
(ponytail). She's a Gemini 5/9/9/5/1 Romance Sim
with the 20 WooHoos LTW.
And that's the first time I've ever caught a Sim
swinging on a fridge door! Yay!
Isaac-->Juniper-->Jonny-->Raven-->Dora-->Rizzo
-->Bell-->Edmund Fitzgerald-->Maui<--Channon<--
AU SJ
Isaac-->Juniper-->Jonny-->Raven-->Dora-->Rizzo
-->Bell-->Wydah-->Tahiti<--Mitch<--AU SJ

7. These are the Landgraab twins. Duncan (blond) is
a Virgo 9/2/6/6/5 Family Sim with the Captain Hero
LTW. Tyler (brunette) is a Cancer 9/2/10/8/6
Knowledge Sim with the Media Magnate LTW.
Isaac-->Sycamore/Malcolm IV-->Malcolm V-->
Ellie-->Duncan and Tyler
The Uglacy boys are pretty frequent visitors, and
despite appearances, Duncan and George are
legitimately best friends.

8. Kinsey Landgraab is the last of the Teens. She's a Scorpio 10/3/9/2/1 Fortune Sim with the LTW to be The
Law.
I didn't play this house too much because Inara has the Fear of Inara Dying, which is probably just an artifact
of the mini-rebuild I had to do, and I checked in SimPE and I appear to have already nuked the problem
memory chain, but I don't want to take any chances at this point.
Isaac-->Juniper-->Jonny-->Raven-->Indy-->Bee-->Connor-->Inara-->Kinsey<--Malcolm VI<--Malcolm V<--
Sycamore/Malcolm IV<--Isaac

9. Over at the Prettacy, things are Business As Usual with two Pop Sim parents. When Lindsay and Nikolai
aren't three-bolt stalking each other, they're either on the phone keeping in touch with their friends or chatting
with one of their kids.

10. This is a pretty common sight too. Jojo, despite his lack of Playful, loves to juggle, and it's a quick Aspiration
boost for him, and Lawrin is almost as hardcore as her Pop Sim parents when it comes to making friends.
The Prettacy needed one more cat, so I sent Jojo out on some errands.

11. “Well, hello there. You seem like a sharp young man. I wonder if you could help me find the lacy
undergarments. I can't seem to find them anywhere.”
“Maybe take off your sunglasses when you're inside?”
“You're so funny! Perhaps you could show me to the lingerie?”
“Um... Turn, like, ninety degrees to your right and walk straight, like, ten feet?”
“I knew you were smart.”
“Thanks?”

12. “I still can't find them! I just absolutely have to buy a black lace teddy! Can't you take me over to the
underwear?”
“...No. No, I can't.”

13. After slipping the predatory clutches of Trisha Traveler, Jojo jumped into the photo booth to take some
pictures, and then wandered over to the pet store, where he ran into Kati, who was nice enough to put up with
the Creepy Smile for a while.

14. Jojo's playing with the new cat, Skip, prevented him from getting his pocket picked by the Unsavory
Charlatan.

15. And in true Prettacy tradition, the cats almost immediately hate each other, and spend their time picking fights.
True story! Once, when Colin was the cat of choice, after going through three potential mates, I locked Colin
and the female cat into the nursery in the hopes that they'd positively interact with each other, and after a
couple of days, their relationship was almost -100/-100.
Now, I just cheat their relationship up to the point where they'll breed. My experience with Colin has taught me
that some cats will just never, ever play nicely with others, and it eventually becomes pointless to try.

16. Ben was finally ready to age up, the last one of Generation 9.
He's quite a bit younger than everyone else. Lindsay didn't want to get pregnant again. Jojo and Lawrin were
almost Teenagers by the time Ben aged up to Child.

17. “Come on, I have to be making you reconsider the heirship, right?”
Nope.
Ben Ali Vetinari (Virgo 10/1/10/7/2) rolled Knowledge, with the LTW of Media Magnate.

18. For a change of pace, Ben remembered that he is, in fact, Playful, and made Butt Geysers in the Water
Wiggler for a while.
He so rarely does stuff like that this that it always makes me smile when I see it.

19. George is friends with just about everyone, including Jojo. And they're both Nice enough that I don't have to
worry about any shenanigans.

20. Unlike Ben, for instance. By now, Lawrin should know not to play punching games with him. Or darts, or
chess, or catch, or anything else, really.

21. “What's the idiot doing now?”
“He's not an idiot! He's just Hula-ing to the strum of his own ukelele.”
“Don't tell me he's rubbing off on you.”
“Maybe you just need to lighten up a little.”

22. In terms of appearance, they're not quite as similar as I'd thought. The most obvious thing is that Jojo has
gray eyes, and Ben's are light blue. For some reason, I'd assumed that Jojo's were blue too, but they're not.
Ben's got a stronger chin than Jojo, and his nose is straighter.
Basically, it's a few very small, difficult-to-see differences. Lawrin's face may be more similar to Jojo's than
Ben's is.

23. “Come here, you big dummy!”

24. “Ow! Hey! Benjy, what'd you do that for?”

25. “I did that because you're dumb! And don't call me Benjy!”
“Okay, I'm sorry!”
“Stop grinning at me!”

26. “Okay! Sorry!”
“You're still doing it! And stop apologizing! I can't believe everyone thinks you will make a better heir than me!
You don't even want it! You don't even care! I don't understand how come everyone likes you more than me!”

27. “I just try to be nice to everyone. Maybe you should do that?”
“I don't want to be some sappy dope with a stupid grin! I should be the heir, not you! You don't appreciate what
you've been given!”
“Oh, I think it's cool and all!”
“It's not cool! It's a responsibility! Don't you get that?”

28. “Well, yeah, but am I not allowed to think it's cool too?”
“You can't treat this like it's nothing! This is why I deserve it and you don't!”
“I don't think it's nothing! I just think I can have fun with it!”
“I should be the heir! One way or another, it's going to be me!”

29. At the Uglacy, Stevie is enjoying being freed from the various crafting benches and the makeover station.
To be frank, we're all enjoying Stevie's freedom from the makeover station.

30. Francie decided to tell Jack about finding a seashell. Except that she wasn't on that vacation, has never been
on a vacation of any sort, and is therefore telling Jack all about the time that someone else found a seashell.
Even better, Jack was on that vacation, so he was there when it happened.
Wait, she's telling Jack a story about a time when someone else did something funny or amusing, when they
are perfectly capable of telling that story themselves?
OMG, FRANCIE IS MY MOTHER.

31. When I installed BV a while back, it reset everyone, including undoing the stuck Smart Milk effect. It's one of
those things that happens to all of my Sims, and I'm not used to trying to skill them without it. It is mightily
slow going right now.
Paulie and George drink a lot of their skill points, thanks to a stockpile of eggplants.
The Rock Hammer is great, though. It skills Creativity even faster than the Awesome Bookshelf of
Awesomeness, plus it makes Paulie look cool.

32. “Hey, look, a toy robot! I wonder if this serves any other--perhaps metaphorical—function!”
A little late for that, Paulie. But thanks.

33. You know it's bad when the maid gags upon walking into the kitchen.
This is not a neat household. Not even a little bit.

34. They may not be neat, but at least they all get along. Jack is only too happy to teach Paulie the Sea Chantey.

35. For a while there, I thought this was going to be my very first ever-burning tree. It got hit right as the rain
stopped, and it just kept burning and burning.
No one really seemed to care that the tree was on fire.
And then it rained again a day or so later, and the tree got hit by lightning again,and the rain put out the new
fire and the old fire, so now it's back to being a non-burning tree.

36. The Uglacy needed another dog, so George went out, and managed to remain unmolested by Trisha Traveler.
He bought an Irish Wolfhound I named Fred.

37. For the first time, the dogs do not instantly get along. It's not quite as bad as with the cats, but it's going to
take some coaxing for Groosalugg and Fred to get a high enough relationship to breed.

38. There's plenty of fun to be had. The pool table's rarely unoccupied, and there are guests over almost every
day of the week.
Everyone is nice! I don't have to watch them to make sure that they don't do terrible things when left to their
own devices. For instance, a favorite trick of Faraday's was to go in with an Argue as soon as Macro...
Socialize... Friendly kicked off.

39. Some guests are more wanted than others, though. Tahiti was chilling out in the hot tub, and the werewolf
Alpha just stood there for hours and hours, waiting for her to get out. I'm not even really sure what he was
waiting for, since she's never met him, and the Alphas won't nip a stranger.
Speaking of guests...

40. “Ben! This is a nice surprise. What's up?”
“Can I talk to you, Uncle Sawchuk?”
“Sure.”

41. “How did you handle Mom being the heir instead of you?”
“I didn't really care. It wasn't anything I desperately wanted. I was more than happy to let my sisters fight it out
—although it really wasn't much of a fight, to tell the truth.”
“But what if you thought Mom would make a bad heir?”
“I didn't. I don't! She's not, and Aurie and I are both happy with the way things turned out. If I'd been the heir, I
wouldn't have been able to be with Howie, and that would be a shame. What's this about?”

42. “Joe! Everyone thinks he's soooo great, but he's not! He's some dopey Pleasure Sim with no attention span!
He's not taking it seriously! And no one's even considering that I'm the better choice! I want it, Uncle
Sawchuk.”
“I'm not sure I understand why you've come to me with this.”
“I need you to tell me about Cypress.”

43. “Absolutely not! All you need to know is that he's a murderer! He may have even tried to kill me and your mom
and your aunt once! Cypress Vetinari is not someone to be idolized!”
“I'm not idolizing him! I just want to know!”

44. “What's with the shouting?”
“I think you ought to sit, Howie.”

45. “Oh, perfect. Another dumb Pleasure Sim to deal with. Just what I always wanted.”
“Watch it, Ben! That's my husband, and you don't get to come into my home and disrespect him. And if you
want to know about Cypress, Howe's been far more affected by him than I have.”

46. “Wait, that's what this is about? You want to know about Cypress?”
“I just want to know, that's all.”
“Stay away and hope he doesn't notice you. There; that's everything you need to know about Cypress.”
“Why?”

47. “Why go looking for trouble? Cypress is the reason I never met my grandfather. He's the reason my mother
had to grow up without a father. Or an uncle. Hell, there's a random ghost in your backyard that might be
Cypress's own son—you know, the one he murdered his wife to get? Yeah, I might be a Pleasure Sim, but
that doesn't mean there aren't things I take seriously, and I've spent my life looking over my shoulder for
Cypress. What you need to know about him is that there's a trail of bodies in his wake, period, end of story.”

48. “And what if he'd gotten what he wanted? What then? Would Larch have killed a bunch of people to get what
he wanted too? If Cypress had been the heir, would all those people have died?”
“Ben. Cypress is not misunderstood. If he'd been the heir, he'd still have killed people because frankly, I think
he enjoys it. He's a sociopath! His father did the right thing by making Larch the heir.”

49. “You don't get it! I don't know why I thought you'd understand. Never mind; I'm out.”

50. “Howie? This is going to end badly, isn't it?”
“Unless he lets this go...”

51. “... Yeah. This story isn't gonna have a happy ending.”

52. As far as Stevie is concerned, unhappiness abounds.
These days, there are two main things happening at the Uglacy.
The first is that the ghosts are on an absolute rampage, every single night.

53. “Aw man! I can't play darts anymore!”
“It's okay, Grandpa! I'm sure you can find some way to have fun!”
“I guess you're right...”

54. “Yeah, this is totally fun!”

55. ...I didn't even know this was a thing. Ghost!Tess mopped up a pee puddle.
Sadly, I don't know whether that's dog wee or the result of a previous haunting.

56. My assessment of Tess as an awesome ghost was fairly short-lived, however.
Nooo, George didn't need that Aspiration, really!

57. It really is ridiculous. It's every night, and almost every
ghost. Finn and Rosemarie are hands-down the worst
offenders, but Tess and Brad have taken to scaring on
a regular basis. Archie, on the other hand, doesn't
come in the house.
Yes. Really. Archie is a well-behaved ghost.
The only person in the house who is seemingly
immune from the parade of hauntings is Francesca.
Yes. The only Knowledge Sim in the house—and
therefore the only one rolling the WANT to see a
ghost, rather than the FEAR—is the only one who
doesn't get scared.

58. The other main thing happening at the Uglacy is George and his LTW (20 Simultaneous Loves).
I saw someone do this with a Teen once, using the Wishing Well—I'm pretty sure it was MichelleFobbs, doing
it with Cassius for whatever reason.
And, well, with George losing 1500-3000 Aspiration a night due to the ghosts, he's gotta rebuild it while the
sun's up, so I may as well see if I can get him PermaPlat before he has to leave for college. Trust me, he's
thanking me for it!

59. I'd rather Wish for Friends than Wish for Romance, though. One interaction, and they're Best Friends, a few
Romantic interactions, and George falls in love, three for the price of one!
All I have to do is make sure that the first one is off the lot before I start flirting with the next one. George won't
take well to getting slapped.
So he gets his first kiss with the Tricou girl, and avoids slapping.

60. He doesn't waste a lot of time. Mathematically
speaking, he needs to gain multiple lovers a day if
he's going to do it before college.
He doesn't mind in the least. When he gets home
from school, he goes on a few dates or makes a wish,
gets a few Loves under his belt, then does his
homework and does some skilling, and when the
ghosts scare the bejeebers out of him, he was
platinum to start with, so he doesn't lose his marbles.
I think the romancing is harder on George's targets, to
be honest.

61. Jack had to revive this poor kid.
I'd say he learned a valuable lesson about going on a hot and heavy date with George and then spending a
few hours in the hot tub, but he's a Townie, so he probably didn't learn a darn thing.

62. George leaves his unconscious dates where they
drop and moves on to the next one.
The wishing well is awesome, and I love how much
easier it makes this sort of thing.
One more wish, a few more loves for George.

63. It's not just drops from the wishing well, though. Any Teen who walks by is a potential target. The blonde girl
actually wandered by when he was on a date with someone else, and Melody Fucking Tinker followed Paulie
home from school.
However, dating at the Uglacy does have some pitfalls.

64. Mainly this.
At least Melody Fucking Tinker behaved herself. Perhaps the tombstone garden in her front yard has
convinced her to toe the line.

65. There was no sense in wasting a couple of friends George already had, and since Maui and Tahiti are
Pleasure and Romance, they won't care that they're not his One Twoo Wuv.

66. By the end of what passes for a rotation for me, George was up to 10 Simultaneous Loves, and was platinum
despite the nightly hauntings.
Yay George!
And now for a word from our sponsors!

67. “Cass, how's that inventory coming?”
“Good, I guess. I think we can afford to change out some of the furniture. The tables are looking a little rough.”
“Okay. Find ones you like and we'll get them.”
“Do we need anything else?”
“Well, I could use a little sugar.”
“Aren't there bags and bags of it in back? I'm pretty sure I just saw some.”
“You'll get it.”

68. “Heh. A little sugar. I see what you did there.”
“I thought you might figure it out.”

69. “A little sugar it is, then.”
“Best kind.”

70. “Well, well. Isn't this interesting?”

71. “Jake.”
“Hello, Cassidy. Come to your senses yet?”
“I came to my senses the day I walked out on you.”
“Do you really believe that?”
“Yeah. I do. I'm happy now, which is more than I ever was with you.”
“That's not what you used to say. Mmm, which is the truth, I wonder?”

72. “If you think I was happy with you, you're delusional! I hated the person I was when we were together!”
“You stayed, Cassidy! You could have left and you didn't! You wanted to feel the way I made you feel. Don't
pretend that I forced you into my bed every night.”
“I stayed because feeling terrible was the only thing I ever knew. You weren't good for me. You were just
familiar. I'm past that now. If you think I'm coming back to you, think again. Now I'm with someone who
doesn't make my skin crawl when he touches me, and I'm never going back.”

73. “Who, him? Your mild-mannered little baker? Does he know how damaged you are? Does he know what you
like? Or have you managed to convince him that you're ordinary?”
“No. You don't get to ruin this for me.”
“I don't need to. You're perfectly capable of ruining it yourself. Or do you really believe you can make this
work?”

74. “Cass, what's going on?”
“The biggest mistake of my life coming back to haunt me.”

75. “Mmm. I'd argue that the bigger mistake was not telling your new boyfriend the truth about the old one.”
“I told him enough. He knows I was an addict, he knows what I let you do to me, and he knows what
happened with my family. I never lied to him.”
“He looks awfully confused for someone who knows the whole story.”

76. “I never asked Cass for more details than he wanted to give. It was clear enough that he'd been abused. He
had a hard time telling me what he told me, and I couldn't justify pushing him to talk about things he wasn't
ready to tell me.”
“Please. No one's well-adjusted enough to not care that they've been lied to.”
“I wish he'd told me you were his ex. Given your reputation, things would have made so much more sense.
But that doesn't change what he has told me, and it doesn't change how I feel about him.”
“And you don't think there are things I can say that might? Mmm, so tell me, does he still do that thing with his
tongue? I always wondered where he learned that. Or is he keeping that a secret too?”

77. “No. I'm not having that conversation with you. Cassidy's past is the past—and so is mine, for that matter—
and I'm not going to dignify that juvenile attempt at cruelty with any sort of response.”
“Are you really going to defend him?”
“Maybe if more people had, he wouldn't have felt like he had to do penance by staying with you!”

78. “Is that what he told you? Listen, I gave him everything he asked for!”
“And if you really cared about him, you'd have given him what he needed!”
“I took him in when he had nowhere else to go. That's what he needed.”
“How many times did you make him earn his keep? How often did you remind him that he owed you?”

79. “He could have walked away!”
“He did! You're the one who's not letting go!”
“Why should I? How could someone as broken as that act like he's too good for me?”

80. “Broken or not, Cassidy's worth a dozen of you. He doesn't delight in the misery of others. This is my store
and I reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, so consider yourself refused.”
“You can't treat me like that! Do you have any idea who I am? I'm Mr. Big! I'm important!”
“You're a manipulative asshole. Now get out.”

81. “I'm sorry, Gil, I'm so sorry!”
“Why didn't you tell me he was your ex? If I didn't care about the things he did to you, why would it matter who
he was?”

82. “I thought if... I thought if you knew it was him, you'd know how bad it really was. I mean, everyone knows
what he's like. And if you knew... You'd know how damaged I really am, and you'd know that I'll never be okay,
not really, and you wouldn't want to be with me anymore, because I need so much help just to even be slightly
less broken, and eventually you'll get sick of taking care of me, and you'll leave and go be with someone who
deserves you.”
“Cass, is that really what you think of me? I'm not kind to you because I want some sort of reward.”
“But that's all I understand!”

83. “I don't know what else I can do to show you that I care about you. I want to help you, Cass, I do, but you have
to let me, and trust me.”
“I'm trying. Every time you don't hurt me, it gets a little easier. And it's not that I don't love you. I do. I love you,
and I trust you, and I want to be with you, and...”

84. “...and marry me.”
“What?”
“Marry me, Gilbert.”

85. “Cass...”
“No. No, it's stupid. You're Romance, and I'm me, and... Never mind. I don't even know why I said that.”
“You said that because you meant it. I love you, Cassidy, and if that's what you really want, then I'll marry you.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”

86. “Oh Gil, I'm sorry I make so many mistakes. I really don't want to lose you. I love you so much.”
“I love you too. Mistakes and all. You deserve this, Cassidy. You deserve to be happy.”
“I am. Right now, I couldn't be happier.”

87. Elsewhere, Lindsay and Nikolai are still pretty hot and heavy, although they don't make the best choices about
where to get their flirt on.
As an example, smooching in the living room is just fine and dandy, since the Prettacy ghosts never come in
here...

88. … but when you go out in the yard to play Catch in the middle of the night as some bizarre form of foreplay,
you're fair game for haunting.
It's not that the ghosts don't come in the house, but I never see them in the living room. Kitchen, sure, and the
bedrooms definitely. Particularly the kids' room.

89. Oh, and also the second floor balcony. That's a pretty good hot spot too.

90. I made Joyce and Brett the placeholders for Havelock House again, at my mini-rebuild, so I invited them over
to make getting Jojo and Lawrin into the family fraternity as easy as possible.

91. Hey! Finally a ghost scares someone who was looking forward to it!
Joyce's dad is a vampire and a huggy robot was her nanny. She doesn't faze easily.

92. The kids manage to make friends too. There's generally an afternoon water balloon fight in the back yard, with
as many people as can stand to get splashed.

93. Sometimes there are ulterior motives for inviting guests by.
Duncan and Lawrin are both Family Sims, for instance.

94. And since neither one of them needs to reproduce, it just makes sense to hook them up with each other, to
keep the whining down to a minimum. They're sufficiently distantly related that it doesn't squick me out.
Did I mention keeping the whining to a minimum?

95. Jojo, as a serious Pleasure Sim, isn't always easy to keep happy. Lots of low-scoring Wants that are almost
impossible to chain into gold Aspiration, let alone platinum.
But dates are a reasonably good way to boost Aspiration, assuming they actually roll date-related Wants on
the actual date. Happily, Jojo did, and managed to boost himself into platinum.
Maui, once again, is a more-than-willing guinea pig.
But what's the last Prettacy kid up to?

97. Now that sounds like a poor little lamb who's lost its way.
Baa baa, little sheep.

98. “Well. Just walk in uninvited, why don't you?”
“I need to talk to you.”

99. “You have my attention. I suggest you don't bore me. You obviously know who I am, or you wouldn't be here.
So who are you, and what do you want?”
“I'm Ben Ali. I'm ninth-generation Prettacy. I want to be the heir.”
“And you're not, I gather.”

100. “No. Everyone's crazy about my stupid older brother.”
“Go on.”
“He's Pleasure! He's never stuck with anything in his whole life! All he ever wants to do is take bubble baths
and sing dumb pirate songs. He hasn't done anything to be heir, and he doesn't even care if he is or not! I
want it. I deserve it. I'd appreciate it.”
“And?”

101. “What do you think and? You know what it's like to be in my shoes. You know what you were willing to do. You
want me to say it? Fine. You help me get what I want, and I'll help you get what you want.”

102. “Foolish child, do you really think I need your help? I've been betrayed by far more clever people than you,
and I've learned the only person I can trust is me.”
“I'm not a foolish child!”
“Did you fail to grasp what I'm trying to do? The time for me to take over the Legacy is long past. Now I want
to stop it. I nearly killed your mother once—would have, too, if it hadn't been for that traitorous son of mine. If
and when I choose to kill your brother, it will be for my reasons, not yours.”

103. “The things we want don't have to be mutually exclusive! I want my stupid brother not to be the heir and you
want to stop the whole thing! Fine! Help me get rid of the idiot, and I'll help you take out the Uglacy. We both
win.”
“There is nothing you can do for me that I can't do for myself.”
“We can work together to get what we want.”

104. “I don't do 'together'.”
“No! Listen to me! I need you!”
“And now you've grown tiresome.”

105. “Don't you walk away from me! You have to help me! We're the same!”

106. “You silly little child...”

107. “...you're nothing like me.”