#theres no walking away from omelas there's no fixing the basement the empire in its totality must fall or it will be like this forever

[loveandlegacy]

anyone else ever think about how one of swain's in-game lines to darius is 'no daughters, only soldiers' and how in the blood of noxus the daughter darius didn't know was his daughter but did know as his soldier and who was perfected as a soldier killed the woman he loved ie her mother right in front of him for daring to question noxus's obsession with soldiers and loyalty and how swain was not there and how there's 0% chance darius ever talked about this except to say that quilletta was killed in the rebellion but basilich was brought to heel but obviously swain knew because of raum like he knew darius was in love he knew invetia was his kid even though darius didn't and he knew what darius elided and just never says anything about it other than a thing that if you aren't in the know could be taken to mean that darius literally has no children except the soldiers he leads to all be do-or-die like invetia but swain knows and darius probably suspects that he knows at least about quilletta and they just go on ruling the empire like that like greek god levels of demented morality because that's the noxus they built and there's no other way for it to be because i think that's one of the closest moments the lore gets to acknowledging that all empires are evil empires