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Now I'm prepared to ask questions about Family Ties and Enigma's relationship with the

Deltas.
I understand that Enigma has to love the other Whites but I don't think he has to like them
or approve of what they've done or are doing. In fact there are a lot of things that contrast
love but are often present in family relationships. Chief among them here is resentment.

Enigma can't figure how destroying the world is an acceptable thing.

Even more so when they admitted to keeping his identity a secret because he would try to
stop them.

Second to that he was left with no identity because it went against their agenda.

He suspects the previous King White was a plant and was bumped off to await the arrival
of Enigma who can sit in the throne and execute the wishes of his siblings.

Yes' dodgy answers only reinforce the notion that Enigma is just a patsy.

The fact that they need an army and won't tell him why makes him think about the
destroyed Earth.

And if he comes to the conclusion that they felt it acceptable to sacrifice one of *his*
team just so Matt can have his girlfriend back... oh man.

In his eyes right now they are looking increasingly evil and how could he not want to
stop them?

This is where I'm unsure about the weakness.

He won't physically fight them except where it's a matter of safety (knock out Legion so
he can be removed from a burning building).

Can he be compelled to fight their soldiers?

Foil they're plans?

Depending on what they do I could see his inclination verging on vendetta.

Now having said all that Enigma's vice is Envy and much of his growing negativity
toward Delta is amplified by his sense of ostracism.
He's one of them in name but in practice he doesn't get to sit at the big kid's table.
Moreover, he perceives that they see him as a tool, a resource, and little else. If they
accepted him and treated him as a brother I could see him being more inclined to look the
other way at their atrocities and maybe even indulge them. I think that would make a
compelling moral tragedy.

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