Reasons. Logical insane reasons that you won't be talking him out of. Mostly because no one else went through what he did so they don't deserve to speak towards how he does his life. You're not the boss of him! Either way, he'll lash out at him both physical monster and inner emotion. Not that he's gonna be happy with someone diving that deep into his mind without fucking asking. (He's rude normally and doesn't care what relationship of mutual exploitation ya two have.)

Yep! I'm not adverse to him getting scarred up, but will leave that for future things.

Naaah, it can be lazy to kill someone. Far more effort to keep them around and make them suffer. That takes planning.

I do plan to top level for this. Just unfortunate the "day of top leveling" happened on friday, which is a busy night for me elsewhere. So I'll be getting my TL up today most likely, tomorrow if I can't dig out of my inbox. I'll link you to the starter there. Thanks for the link to yours!