[ How long can Vanitas maintain that all or nothing attitude? Quite a while, it would seem. It's been a thing for years. Again, he would rather not exist entirely than to have half measures. That's just who he is. ]

Is it really all that bad to keep being surprised? Or is this one of those things that just should be the standard? I never can tell with people when they say things like that.

[ Which means that he can at least acknowledge that some of his paradigms are wrong. That how he views the world may not be right. ]