"I guess not," he says. "But it pretty much always is when I hear it like that. Except this time I actually had the chance to do something about it before it could be."

There's something meaningful to that. For much of his life, Sollux has felt as if he was powerless to change these things, with the way it had always worked out on Alternia. The fact that he actually stopped something - it's important to him. Even if it all just sounds like the same bullshit to someone from the outside.

"Point is I don't give a shit about what they're doing. You've got guys supporting you that are tougher, so fucking use them."