#and i'm not even getting into the child outta wedlock part because honestly knocking up one of his followers is like the only normal thing

[doritofalls]

joseph has the GALL to talk to his son about responsibility when he was a COMPLETE deadbeat to him and quite possibly, would have murdered him as an infant had his mother not sacraficed everything and flee. he ACKNOWELEDGES that he would have!!! he has the gall to talk about ethan's pride when he is rotting from the inside out from pride he refuses to acknoweledge. he talks about ethan not understanding his mother's sacrafice, a sacrafice she ONLY had to make to avoid joseph's judgement, like he was god, like he was the nuclear fire, and not just a man who continously refused to take responsibility for both his children and the harm he caused. like... i like joseph and i can see ethan's clunky writing not meshing with fans, but boy howdy he's got a point being angry.

ethan gets a lot of shit from what i've seen of new dawn opinions, but aside from the general air of bad writing the game has, i feel like he is a pretty natural conclusion of joseph's own pride and overall lack of empathy for anything that falls outside of his self imposed circle of self importance. idk.