>>38007750i was thinking along the lines of unreliable narrator because he knows what the weight of his actions are for her but is in denial that he did it, i can imagine some unsaid internal conflict like
>i know something happened and it wasn't consensual but theres no way i could have instigated it, im not a bad person!hence the schizo third person talk, so he's framing the pirate but at the same time he's doing it not to put the blame on her to save face in front of other people, but its to convince himself that he's still a good person. i love this trope, poor hada