Yesssssss I was just having this conversation with my paladin. Seifer needs to be the hero. He's an ass, it's true, but he chose his own path. And that path was the one he saw as heroic. He's, objectively, wrong, but i will totally misappropriate a tag line from a book I loved: if all that's good thinks you're evil, are you? I think that must have been part of his thought process.