Alastor’s use of “excuses and lies seem to still be your speciality” here is way more personal than just calling out the Vox Misinformation Campaign™️ — it’s more like he’s dragging their past and present dynamic back into focus entirely. Even while he’s captured, Alastor refuses to play “defeated” and instead reframes Vox’s win as hollow by pointing out that Vox has previously relied on spin, deflection, and constructed narratives to feel in control (or that he’s in the right) which hits harder