Quote Originally Posted by Maryring View Post
Except Pat has in every single appearance proven himself to be a selfish, evil, manipulative, murderous monster. Child Pat does not really act differently from how Pat has always acted.
And he literally just got done telling her that he really is that way, and how it came to pass. He committed horrific psychic self-surgery on himself to cut out most of what makes human connection possible. He was a kid and had reasons for doing it, but it doesn’t change the fact that having done it turned him into someone who yes, absolutely would murder someone who was a potential threat to his existence-as-he-knows-it. Even an abstract threat like ‘connected with him in a way that risks rebuilding some of the emotional terrain in his own head that he deliberately burned to the the ground.’