Thread:ShamelessNitpicker/@comment-7931550-20171117150155/@comment-30053419-20171117175511

True, but we could say the same thing about Hermes, Killjoy, the Colonel of Fort Maleson, the Puritan girls or any of the other murderers in the island's past: the island's corrupting atmosphere doesn't force anyone to do anything against their own will - it simply amplifies what's already there - a bit like Atlantic Island Park in The Park in that regard. In the case of the Infernas, it took natural immaturity and a childish desire for attention and turned them into narcissistic sadism; in the case of Horace, it took his fears of losing his wife and amplified them into the belief that the only way he could protect his wife was by killing her. Horace acted of his own free will when he killed her; he didn't have to do it - in much the same way that Torque doesn't have to follow the prompts of his hatred - he just couldn't imagine his wife being safe without him. Tragic? Yes. Blameless? No.

Plus, he's only helping out half the time: the other half of the time, he's lashing out in pain and getting people killed. As evidenced by his actions at the end of the game, he does have control over his own powers, so we evidently can't just claim that he's under the control of the Electric Chair all the time.