i do think there's something poetic in how the image of sankta miksaparato before EN could actually read the event was that he's a cool funny action movie grandpa and then you actually see patrizion in the story and he's a casually racist conservative grandpa who doesn't understand why being the most lauded cop in the force isn't enough develop and maintain his personal relationships. not a hateful person per se, but one who lives in a world so incredibly small that he closes himself off to anything that doesn't match his own experiences and convinces himself it can't be helped when this makes him pathetically lonely. just a deeply pitiful loser really, and not even in the fun poor little meow meow way.
something so excruciatingly mundane about this type of emotionally helpless old person. we all know people like this, if not in your own family then in someone else's, and there's not much cool or funny about them even when they try to act like they're cool and funny. you can't seriously expect peepaw to change his own behaviour to accommodate others right? he's the most lauded cop in the force, he's always done everything right, he'd rather isolate himself than face the much scarier alternative that maybe he should reflect on himself sometimes.
well, to his credit he does reflect on himself and attempt to change his behaviour by the end of the event, and it only took getting shot at by each of his individual personal relations that he previously destroyed in the name of duty and the entire world order that he justified his self-isolation with being upended. I'm afraid it's probably going to take around that much for many of the patrizions in our own lives too.
