[ Archer mulls that over for a moment before he responds. ]

A few reasons.

The first being that…the range of what I can feel has always been…limited. Things that made others happy did not make me happy. And I did not try to find anything that could have filled that emptiness.

[ No, he decided being a hero of justice was the best possible path. Which it obviously was not. ]

Beyond that…after I died, if I had not actively suppressed what I felt, I expect I would have lost my sanity entirely. There was no point in examining any of it because there was nothing that could be done about it, regardless.

So coming here has involved a very slow process of…stretching a very atrophied muscle.