Fascinating, I wonder if those similarities make it easier for the pthumerians to comprehend their chosen. [viktor muses.] If they are creatures that struggle with that creative spark. What better way to attempt to emulate it but by attempting to understand us personally?

[conjecture though, like so much of this ultimately is. he wonders what trait he and megumi share that appealed to dorothea. surviving, self reliance are probably the answers, though he can't guess them.

and he's more interested in that answer, a nod as he digests it piece by piece.] Cursed energy, is that anything like what I saw you using? [he has been curious about that.] I think I agree. Corruption is too inherent now to sentient beings here. It seems... unfitting to see it as some great beast that can be slain in the same violence that likely made it.