The silence of Sorrow's temple turns damning the longer he takes to answer. Come on Danse, this isn't hard. His greatest shame? He's got plenty to pick from. A lifetime of bad choices, each one a source of shame. But if he boiled it down to just one, to the source of everything that's gone wrong...well. That's easy, isn't it?
Everything went wrong because of him. Because of his existence. Because--...]
...I failed to execute myself when I found out that I am a synth. I am a mockery of the human race. Technology gone wrong. A traitor to the Brotherhood and everything it stood for. But when I should have pulled the trigger, I ran. I was confused. I couldn't think. My instincts told me to survive, so my legs carried me away.
[His voice is toneless, distant, almost like he's reciting facts rather than his deepest darkest secret. Expression blank and devoid of emotion. But just look into his eyes, Sorrow. Gazing into the past, staring at every painful memory and reminder. Hollowed out with guilt and despair, with self-loathing and hurt and yes, shame.]
Because I failed to adhere to the code, the Brotherhood of Steel was destroyed by the very woman I sponsored into their ranks. My brothers and sisters died. Arthur and Haylen died. I invalidated every sacrifice made by those who threw down their lives for the Brotherhood's cause. The enemy we set out to defeat become the ultimate masters of the Commonwealth.
CW: Suicide ideation | Fallout 4 spoilers
His greatest shame.
The silence of Sorrow's temple turns damning the longer he takes to answer. Come on Danse, this isn't hard. His greatest shame? He's got plenty to pick from. A lifetime of bad choices, each one a source of shame. But if he boiled it down to just one, to the source of everything that's gone wrong...well. That's easy, isn't it?
Everything went wrong because of him. Because of his existence. Because--...]
...I failed to execute myself when I found out that I am a synth. I am a mockery of the human race. Technology gone wrong. A traitor to the Brotherhood and everything it stood for. But when I should have pulled the trigger, I ran. I was confused. I couldn't think. My instincts told me to survive, so my legs carried me away.
[His voice is toneless, distant, almost like he's reciting facts rather than his deepest darkest secret. Expression blank and devoid of emotion. But just look into his eyes, Sorrow. Gazing into the past, staring at every painful memory and reminder. Hollowed out with guilt and despair, with self-loathing and hurt and yes, shame.]
Because I failed to adhere to the code, the Brotherhood of Steel was destroyed by the very woman I sponsored into their ranks. My brothers and sisters died. Arthur and Haylen died. I invalidated every sacrifice made by those who threw down their lives for the Brotherhood's cause. The enemy we set out to defeat become the ultimate masters of the Commonwealth.
And yet I am still alive.