Karrie. I can't pretend that. I don't think pretending helps anything. This is what I am and if you have to pretend I'm something else to want to be with me then...

[...there's your answer. And he wishes it were different, wishes he could be what Wing wanted him to be, what Perceptor wanted him to be. He'd failed because he'd pretended.]

It's not about making me happy. It's about what makes you happy.