I often feel like I need to apologize to Mom and Dad.
They adopted me, put so much time, and money, and energy into raising me as their own, and despite their best efforts, I turned out wrong. Wrong compared to my siblings, my peers, their peers; everyone.
I know they love me. But I feel so much shame for being this way, a failure who refuses to get better, be better; a waste they’re forever tied to. I’m a disappointment to my family and parents, even if they’ll never say it.
And don’t even get me started on the ‘friends’ I’ve made, who I constantly keep mistreating and abandoning because I can’t fucking talk to people anymore, and the guilt of it deepens my silence further.
I sit in a hole I dug for myself, endlessly lying to the few people I have left in my life, giving out empty promises while I know damn well I’m not going to tell them that the voice urging me to end myself keeps getting louder and louder. That the belief that everyone is better off without me is getting stronger and stronger.
I can’t keep trying anymore; it hurts too much to try. I can’t bring myself to. But at the same time, I can feel how much this is slowly killing me, day after day.
I don’t know what to do, other than hold out for as long as I can until I drive off and disappear somewhere with a letter and a cup of bleach. Knowing that they’d search for me, mourn me, even if I don’t understand why anyone would still want me around.
The thing that's so cool about Shadow is that his original motives actually make sense, regardless of Gerald brainwashing him. He went through so much pain on the Ark so that they could find the formula for immortality. So they could cure Maria, his SISTER. And then she was killed. It was all for nothing.
Shadow had every reason to hate humanity. They took everything from him and it was about time he returned the favor.
It was only because of the fact that Maria means so much to him that he changed his mind in the end. Shadow made a promise to Maria and he NEVER breaks his promises. Ever. If it weren't for his pure integrity, Shadow would've destroyed Earth without a second thought.
And he would’ve gone down with the ship. We saw what Shadow was doing when the Ark started falling. He was just standing there, looking out the window. He wasn't trying to save himself in any way. He was just done. So tired of fighting and ready for it to be over.
It was only Amy reminding him of his promise to Maria that gave him the motivation to keep going. To do everything he could to reverse all the damage he'd done.
He had no reason to care. But Maria means that much to him.