Even if it's not directed at Wirt, it's still pointed and sharp and he instantly takes it as his own fault for not understanding. When Louis goes on though, Wirt is stunned into silence.
It was explained clearly enough for Wirt to have a clear idea of what happened. It adds up to the scene, with Louis sending some kind of message and his mother yelling from another room, and is by all accounts a logical explanation, but...every ounce of empathy drains from Wirt's face. He knows what happened now, but knowing did not bring understanding and knowing has flung sympathy out the window entirely.
He looks at Louis, and even though Louis is clearly filled with regret and anguish over what he's done, Wirt feels like he's looking at a stranger. How can this person who's been so kind to him have done something so awful? How could he have wanted the thing that tore Wirt's childhood apart?
"...Are you serious?" he asks, even though he already knows the answer.
His own parents are by no means perfect people. There are things they both did that contributed to things going sour, but Wirt can't imagine a single reason he would have wanted them to get divorced. If it had been up to him, they would have stayed together. They would have been able to make it work and solve their problems and they would have been happy to be raising him together. There isn't a single thing they could have done that would have made him want to sabotage them that way.
Wirt is no longer coming from a place of comfort, but hurt. There's a knee-jerk change in his tone that is just as involuntary as the scene playing out in front of him. It's a betrayal of everything Wirt thought Louis was, one that strikes a personal chord, and without thinking he lashes out in return.
"What's wrong with you?! Why would you do something like that to them? Who would even think to do something like that?!"
He can't understand. He's not sure he could ever understand.
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It was explained clearly enough for Wirt to have a clear idea of what happened. It adds up to the scene, with Louis sending some kind of message and his mother yelling from another room, and is by all accounts a logical explanation, but...every ounce of empathy drains from Wirt's face. He knows what happened now, but knowing did not bring understanding and knowing has flung sympathy out the window entirely.
He looks at Louis, and even though Louis is clearly filled with regret and anguish over what he's done, Wirt feels like he's looking at a stranger. How can this person who's been so kind to him have done something so awful? How could he have wanted the thing that tore Wirt's childhood apart?
"...Are you serious?" he asks, even though he already knows the answer.
His own parents are by no means perfect people. There are things they both did that contributed to things going sour, but Wirt can't imagine a single reason he would have wanted them to get divorced. If it had been up to him, they would have stayed together. They would have been able to make it work and solve their problems and they would have been happy to be raising him together. There isn't a single thing they could have done that would have made him want to sabotage them that way.
Wirt is no longer coming from a place of comfort, but hurt. There's a knee-jerk change in his tone that is just as involuntary as the scene playing out in front of him. It's a betrayal of everything Wirt thought Louis was, one that strikes a personal chord, and without thinking he lashes out in return.
"What's wrong with you?! Why would you do something like that to them? Who would even think to do something like that?!"
He can't understand. He's not sure he could ever understand.