"There's a chance that how goddamn idiotic and ineffectual the old gods have been is a product of the traitor, too," Bakugou grunts, almost seeming unwilling to concede that the old gods might not be intentional bastards. "They could be spreading condescension or shit-talking us new gods behind the scenes, which could explain how little the old gods give a shit about us and how much they've been looking down on us. Especially if whoever it is got to be on the decision-making committee for having us clean up every goddamn mess that comes down the pipe, with no help from any of the old gods.

"I don't know if the old gods need any help or encouragement to be assholes to us, but if getting the old gods and new gods at each other's throats is what they want, it's a possibility. It's definitely a fucking fact that if the old gods were trying to make us resent them, they couldn't be doing a much better job than they already are. So the million dollar question is how much of all this bullshit has been arrogant stupidity, and how much of it was someone trying to piss us off?"