I wonder

Do you think Peter Lukas made Martin worse?

I guess it depends what you mean by worse?

i mean yeah i do think that his disconnect from people can naturally make him more snappy and abrasive when he does begin to integrate back into society (esp like with the worlds most evil boss and his situationship) and therefore be worse with people just by sheer nature of being so out of practice and having spent so long only centering himself and fully having to only worry about himself at all.

sort of a situation that he could easily take advantage of as this is an environment where he can feel morally righteous for not really caring about other people, which i do think could’ve been part of the reason he was so susceptible.

and therefore, after spending so long being encouraged and justified to act on his desires to ignore others and only focus on himself, it’s obviously hard for him to come back from that, and especially because i really don’t think he’d actually want to.