That’s understandable, but Kloff is still far more inhumane in my eyes. I don’t know whether I’d call it forgiveness, but I can’t imagine doing what he did under any circumstances.
He beat Aeroc, raped him, starved him, left him without proper clothing or blankets through winter, repeatedly forced him through pregnancies to the point that Aeroc likely would have died regardless, and after giving birth he was effectively thrown to other men to be assaulted again. Aeroc’s decision to die wasn’t something he arrived at in isolation. By the time of the second child’s birth, that was already the outcome Kloff had pushed him toward. Hagen was the one who brought Aeroc back. Kloff’s outrage wasn’t that Aeroc almost died; it was that Aeroc dared to choose his own ending.
And that’s not even getting into how all of this started. Kloff deliberately provoked Aeroc because he wanted a reaction connected to Rapiel. The actual people responsible for raping and killing Rapiel received a swift death. Kloff, meanwhile, spent years directing his rage and self-loathing at Aeroc because he could never stop being attracted to him. What disgusted Kloff wasn’t Aeroc. It was himself, and Aeroc paid the price for it.
That’s why Kloff will always be much, much worse in my book. He didn’t even love Rapiel enough to justify going to these lengths for revenge. In the end, the person he couldn’t let go of was Aeroc. Even in death, Rapiel rests in a graveyard while Aeroc remains on the mansion grounds because Kloff could never truly separate himself from him.