You talking about Mycroft made me tear up a little bit. He's my favourite character from every game I've seen or played myself. I still can't let him go after finishing watching Waterdeep and I sometimes come back to the first episodes. Also, I was trying to "continue his legacy" and tried to make something like him or someone related to him (made three different characters and felt like they weren't what I wanted them to be)
I had to start a whole new campaign because people wanted to prematurely swap characters too much. I let them do what they wanted at first but it ended up getting to a point where I had a story going for a cast of characters that weren't being played anymore so I feel your pain
His talk about absolutism... this is why I like these guys! I’ve see so many people, including crazy and often blacklisted authors who are absolutists and they are the worst.