High fit

Anti-Alias is about refusing to flatten things into simple binaries — good or bad, hero or villain. Esau McCauley had spent years holding his father in a fairly binary frame: the man who left, who hurt him, who failed. Preparing the eulogy forced him to hold a much messier picture — a man who was an addict and a source of real harm, and also a man who was raised to believe he was worthless, who got clean, who kept at least one promise before he died. Esau turned both things on at the same time, and that's what made the eulogy honest.