“not even making an attempt to see Frigg’s point of view.” — he goes to great length to explain why his point of view was wrong, and Frigg’s right. What else did you expect?

“Guy has a serious ego issue.” If it was some foot soldier doing this, I’d share that assessment. But it’s not. Ardaic used to be the Peacemakers’ manager, so to say (as in: he brought the band together and organized their first gigs), and he was about to hand Frigg her ass (or at least he’d have had a chance to do so). He’s also correct to assume that a quick “look, I’m was wrong, really sorry about that, are you mad now?” is not going to cut it.

*Of course* Frigg is the wrong person to tell these things to, and of course he didn’t have to bring the story of his life into it, either. But he’s probably correct to think that he does have the time for a few extra words because noone is going to attack either him of Frigg if they value their lives. Also: I bet this is the first time he’s had an honest straight talk like this. It’d be kinda weird if he got all eloquent about it with zero practice.

The Silver Centurion has never been the champion of anything worth championing, nor is it now. Its first appearance showed it brutally slaughtering a human who had balked at facilitating slavery, whose last words were an entirely sincere “Gods save Gastonia!” Once it was established that the medallion didn’t simply stop working at the name change from Gastonia to Iwatania, it makes perfect sense that opposing the king of Iwatania and agreeing to work toward the nation’s defeat means someone can’t summon the Silver Centurion anymore.

I, for my part, am fed up with non-pologies where someone says “sorry” but you never know whether they understand why what they did was wrong, whether they actually regret doing anything or just believe that it’s smarter in the moment to apologies than to keep defending what they did.

Ardaic believes that what he says in panel 3 may well be his last words, and he has just noticed that he’s failed his in his live’s mission. I think it’s completely understandable that doesn’t go “oh hey, sorry, I guess I was wrong, I’ll be over there if you want to kill me now”. I also find it understandable that he inserts a few words to explain his earlier actions (at least some of which is necessary to believably declare a change of mind). And if those are a few words too many … well, I guess I wouldn’t expect someone whose life just collapsed to apologize like this *and* be more considerate of others’ time than others are of his.

Also: Where do you see him making Frigg his “makeshift therapist”?! Do you have difficulty dealing with the fact that other people have feelings, too? Are you looking for a reason to keep hating him?

Hey, of course that was anticlimactic for Frigg. It kinda feels like he’s taken a hard-earned victory from her. She was about to start another round of exchanging blows with him but can’t now, so she punches back with words instead. Not very nice, but maybe understandable, too. But actually, she could have also just interrupted him halfway through and told him to stuff it because she’s got a battle to end right now. Maybe she’s also a bit jealous because Ardaic, of all people, who up to now was more of an institution than a person, just managed to open up more to her than she managed to open up to her superbest friends, ever.