#the point is these are all petty ineffective old men obsessed with attaining a kind of power that is purely spiritual and not at all worldl

[weepylucifer]

idk man i think there's a delicate balance to writing tedesco, whereas one can totally fall into rushing a redemption arc and writing him too soft, but on the other hand people who write him as a completely self-aware moustache-twirling villain end up making him look way more effective and important and a bigger deal than he is