Yeah. People love a boogeyman. It's easier for the masses to make you into some monster than to deal with the fact that they're cut from the same cloth.

[ So he'll be The Dark Man, the thing that came out of the shadows. If he was just another human, then anyone could do what he did and that thought was just too discomforting. ]

It's alright. Water under the bridge. I don't let traitors occupy space in my mind, and difficult as it may be, neither should you.