This (Act 3) Scene Saved My Life, and Now My Spouse's
I have royalty fucked up my life in the past few years. Outcast from my family because of a boneheaded comment that unknowingly bashed head first into a close family member's traumas. For privacy I won't disclose what happened, but my efforts to understand what happened only dug my grave deeper because it looked like I didn't care. Time passed agonizingly slow, and bitterness petrified into resentment. I remember thinking over and over what's the point if all I do is blindly make mistakes and hurt people who will never consider forgiveness.
Withers broke me, with words that are simultaneously obvious and blunt, and majesticly poetic.
Do better. Right now.
Not to the people you hurt. To the whole world. Don't wait for your moment. Be a good person in every big and little way you can. Not in spite of any belief that you are a cruel and sinful creature. Not because a god is telling you to. Because you can simply choose to. It very well may be a never ending crusade. This is your new life now. Starting today.
My Oathbreaker Paladin swore a new Oath immediately. The same Oath I started with, and broke because of a mindless actions. The same moral lesson I've always strived for.
Sometimes, history repeats in terrible ways. Now my Spouse is struck back by the traumatic consequences of a boneheaded mistake. I hold them close while they cry and beg the world what's the point of living if all you are is a monster that hurt others. I don't even hesitate, the words escape my mouth as though it were a fundamental fact of the universe.
Do better. Right now.
Thank you, Larian. You will never know the lives you have saved writing this story.