pengychan:

“What?! But I’m your family!”
“And Héctor was my best friend.”

One thing that really gets me is how Ernesto didn’t just say “yeah, and Héctor was my friend”. He straight-up says that he was his best friend, to make the point that see, this is how much I’m willing to sacrifice. He thought it was something admirable instead of, you know, fucking horrifying.

Ernesto de la Cruz is absolutely convinced he’s the hero of his story. He’ll kill his best friend, forever tell himself it was a personal sacrifice he had to make, and believe it.