[ Gil's own parents are presumably alive somewhere, a little estranged but present... He now briefly thinks of them and the fact that they had to outlive him. Oops. ]

Zala killed her father. With him gone, she'd have had a perfect chance to change the country that made that tragedy occur in the first place.

[ Maybe that's why her absence has always frustrated him. A convenient power vacuum for him to take advantage of, yes, but also an entirely unrelatable course of action. Gilbert Durandal is a man incapable of stepping away. ]

The PLANTs are far from ideal, but letting that fester does nobody any good.

[ "My eugenicist government broke my heart? Clearly the eugenics weren't working good enough yet. We need more of them." ]