Do not give that Neo creation so much credit. [Is he gonna be spiteful for a second? Absolutely.]

He echoes your mistakes but is willingly beyond reversal of them, whatever the reason may be. It was no retribution, it was an attempt to toy with us. To make us feel powerless.

You are allowed to feel fear, Viktor. It does not have to be seperate from what parallels are drawn. Perhaps... it may even be for the better, to know it as such.