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Eh, that wasn't quite what he was looking for.  Points for enthusiasm, but he didn't want to have to wait for anyone else to have some sort of traumatic awakening in order to actually have some emotional maturity -- Towhee could already be enough of a loose cannon.  He shook his head slightly, No, I don't mean the broadest strokes.  Everything that's happened to you shapes your future actions, and leadership spreads them across everyone, when as just a very well-respected pack member, it doesn't have quite the same weight.  There was also the issue the thing that was rushed was also misinterpreted, but Quixote felt like clarifying that would just muddy the waters more.

Maybe Quixote was approaching it at too high of a level.  He'd had plenty of time to overthink everything, so maybe it was best explained with an example.  Like, I grew up in war, I know it can mangle and maim, even in ways you can't see, and that I don't want it to happen to anyone I know.  I aim to avoid dredging up enough ire to have someone coming for our heads.  I saw leaders that were cruel, some of my own blood, so I do everything to make sure I'm not the same monster as them.  He hoped it was obvious he was trying to make sure he was speaking on Tegan on the same level and not looking down on him or anything, but after Niamh he was not really sure if he ever did a good job of showing that.

So how would your history shape your leadership?  Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's really not.  If you haven't done that reflection, you should, and I don't mind waiting if you need to.  Quixote wanted to know that Tegan had awareness of self.  That if something went wrong, that he'd be able to fix his own failures without a huge blowout and again having to play bad guy.  Everyone always had good intentions (usually) and thought they could be amazing -- reality was that everyone was fallible.