Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
Because V is, quite literally, saving the world at that point when the hard choice had to be made. There isn't a RL analogy for that.

Pick me or your career is the tension before the ABD issue arose for the family. It appears to have been a long running problem for their relationship.

Pick me or pick saving the world is what V was facing after the ABD had been dispatched with.
No. After dealing with the ABD, V was faced with the choice of doing something to help and comfort the traumatized children, or of doing something to save the world, or of taking time out to torture a dead dragon.

V chose the third. If there was time for that, there was plenty of time for something ACTUALLY IMPORTANT and non-evil. But nope.

Then V ran away to claim to be saving the world, but actually, by V's OWN ADMISSION, to rush in and attack X solo to try to show off his power. After V LOST the power, V had a week or so to arrange to cast a sending to try to explain, which would have cost nothing from saving the world, but nope, still not showing any concern for the family.

V didn't need to choose one or the other between saving the world and talking to Inky, but in fact V did choose and chose not to talk to Inky. There was time for everything else, including plenty not done to save the world, but no time for talking to V's spouse or asking after the children V abandoned with serious injuries.