[The eyes are still creepy and he's honestly glad that orange glow isn't fixed on him, but he's not really focusing on that right now.]

Yes, plenty of people have difficult lives. But there's a difference between "difficult" and what you went through in your past life. I'm sure you could ask everyone involved with Retrospec and not a single person would have had an experience as terrible as yours. That doesn't excuse your actions, it was just a horrible thing to go through.