Talk:Empath: The Luckiest Smurf (novel)/@comment-6593189-20121028142032/@comment-1323688-20121028143519

Because Empath felt guilty for what he has done, and that it wasn't his place to question anything Papa Smurf has done to him, that if Papa Smurf no longer wanted him then he would accept it. Up to that point Empath never really saw Papa Smurf as his own father, and he felt hurt by the revelation because his own father would leave him behind in Psychelia for all those years he lived apart from the other Smurfs. He also felt hurt by the Messiah treatment his fellow Smurfs were giving him, and so he wanted to die, though not without hurting Papa Smurf or the other Smurfs by threatening to take Baby Smurf with him. By his actions Empath disgraced himself, but Papa Smurf understood why he would turn to such desperate measures and knew that he was responsible for Empath reacting the way that he did, because in Empath's mind Papa Smurf treated his adopted sons better than he treated Empath.