#screenshots taken from various classpect analysises people have made over the years + the official writeup on the heart aspect

[thegreatyin]

scoundrel assigned dirk kinnie.....

look. in my defense. i have sources.

it just works.

the central theme of a prince of heart is someone who either destroys emotion and one's sense of self, or destroys through emotion and one's sense of self.

the scoundrel's core narrative theme? identity destruction. self destruction. having such an unrelenting need to throw away everything that it literally ruins them both inside and out.

they even have a tendency to splinter! to create doppelgangers! to literally shatter their identity into a thousand tiny pieces!

look at their reflection. the tracklayer's city. the false yearner. self destruction, and thus self replication, is practically all they know how to do. and it's all they want to do. they've convinced themself they need it, and they need this, and they don't need anything else. not feelings, not friends, not family, not love, not identity- nothing, but this. nothing but the thing that will make them happy.

and yet, at the end of it all-