[He was closer to Ivar, when he was 16. Nine years can do some serious damage.]
Empathy is equally pointless. It just makes you feel what others feel when you see them feeling it. Feeling sad when others are sad. Happy when others are happy. If you're good at mirroring expressions, you don't need it anyway.
[Objectively, he doesn't believe feelings have a point outside of manipulating others into giving him what he wants. But in practice... it doesn't work as well as he'd like, which is partly why he values the ability to ignore empathy so much.]
no subject
[He was closer to Ivar, when he was 16. Nine years can do some serious damage.]
Empathy is equally pointless. It just makes you feel what others feel when you see them feeling it. Feeling sad when others are sad. Happy when others are happy. If you're good at mirroring expressions, you don't need it anyway.
[Objectively, he doesn't believe feelings have a point outside of manipulating others into giving him what he wants. But in practice... it doesn't work as well as he'd like, which is partly why he values the ability to ignore empathy so much.]