Arthur's knee shifts a little, settling into the contact so Hanna knows it's appreciated.

"If a monster is a person, then it's someone who has discarded their humanity." It's low, and if it wasn't carefully controlled there'd certainly be a growl to it. "People who sacrifice others for their own gain, people who harm others to push themselves up. Who refuse time and time again to make the better choice, the kinder one. No matter their reasons."

His hands tighten to press together completely, with a deep breath in as his gaze skirts across the ceiling for a moment. "I won't pretend it didn't take me a while to... grow to love John. He has the potential to hurt me in profound ways, and in another timeline I know he has. But he always tried to be better, tried to- to learn from me, to listen when I explained, to find beauty and hope and sympathy for anything regardless of my own opinions on the matter. Despite his circumstances he was able to find humanity in what he was subjected to." Even me, he manages not to say out loud.