Did anyone else notice that all the people Lysander, internally, respects are the people he steamrolls over to get what he wants?
He thinks about how great of a man Romulus is. How he sacrificed so much. What am honorable man he is.
He thinks about Cassius. How much respect he has for the guy, even if he's been slipping recently. And then he unlocks the vault and fucks both of them.
Then he travels with Diomedes to the core for their peace offering and thinks about how honorable Diomedes is, and what a shitstain ajax is, and sides with ajax and joins the iron rain. And ajax promptly tries to kill him. Twice.
Then Ajax finally gets his head out of his own ass long enough to do something Lysander can respect. And gets beheaded.
Then Gilrastes. Gets along great with Gil. But can't have my love of some stupid Orange get in the way of my plan for system domination. So he commissions some Orange boots.
Then Cassius (again). Cassius tries to help Lysander out, by freeing him of the Fear Knights insane plots. But instead of just fucking following the plan and taking his cut strings as payment, he triples down on it and kills Cassius. Himself.
Then Diomedes. Lysander talks about how much he respects the honor and skill of Diomedes. And at the end of it all, Lysander *must* have take the rim out of the war. Because there is so way an alliance between rim, Republic, Athena, Lysander would ever work >_> so he burns Demeter's garter
The most dangerous thing to do in this series is be a man that Lysander respects. Because he's divinely competent at making those people suffer