anybody who comes away from this sympathetic to syril should be isolated and studied in a lab.

I'm sympathetic to him in the sense that he clearly grew up with a narcissistic mother and I think his whole embracing of the Empire's ideology was essentially him trying to replace her structural control over his life with a new one but one that made him feel less emasculated. Plus clearly at the end of it all he realized he was being used and didn't even know why the fuck he was so stupidly dedicated to an Empire that didn't give a fuck about him.

Still a total piece of shit and I'm glad he got-got, but he definitely had a human side to him.