#But Drayton seems to be harder to read on the purpose

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Tl;dr Drayton is rigid and dishonest about himself and it fucks up his relationships with people

With how accusatory and intrusive the way Drayton talks with the player is I always felt like he harbored a little resentment towards us for changing Kieran. Not even by turning him into an edgelord but changing him in general.

He definitively has a problem with stagnation, so whenever change occurs he wants whatever change happened to be gone at all costs.

And it's probably because he was lowkey infatuated by a person that he'll never see again.

This is so sentimental, he's seriously pining for the old Kieran here.

In the japanese version he even tries to recompose himself only to fawn over Old Kieran again.

So ever since the start of the DLC he's been using us for his goals since we kinda "caused" this change to happen and also because we're literally the only ones who can fix this issue. But the way Drayton goes about it is frankly pretty naive?

Like he's so sure of his plan that he thought the "Ex-Champion" line would bring Kieran "back to his senses again". That he genuinely would respond to that burn with "You're right Duwurayton I'm not a champion let's be bfs besties again".

It's only when Kieran starts crying that he sees that not only did it not work but this whole scheme might've worsened their relationship in the long run.

No wonder he feels a bit bummed out at the end, in his mind all of this(using the player, getting the others to mistrust him, mocking Kieran) was for nothing. Kieran is no longer an edgelord but he still changed. No matter how hard he tries the exact version of the person that he so desperately wanted won't come back and he has to accept that.

And yet he still has to maintain the status quo aka his pretend "idgaf" attitude.

It's probably why in between the Ex-Champions he genuinely asks Kieran if he's been eating or if anything's wrong. Even if he's changed Drayton can't bring himself to hate him no matter how he's like.

So when Kieran asks why he keeps doing this he can't bring himself to talk about his true thoughts. So he masks with a cool one liner to maintain the Drayton Image.

Credit to Calem MrNazreenni for the playthrough screencaps.