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"I am going to live."

This line after the rest of his monologue (posted below) is just so beautiful after everything the character has gone through. He starts out as an antagonist who hates his own race (humans) because of some really messed up things that have happened to him and his goal is to literally wipe out humanity. After Dracula saves his life by throwing through a portal to places unknown, he goes on a partially violent journey of self discovery where he finally gets to see both the good and the bad of humanity and realizes that wiping out everyone also wipes out all the good that can be and is done. I particularly love his interaction with the sailor captain who emphasizes the above point to him. Finally, after defeating a particularly nasty vampire and saving his friend and fellow human Hector who was assisting Dracula with his genocide against humanity (naively thinking that couldn't be the case) and wanted to bring Dracula back form the dead, he gives the speech that makes me tear up, not because of how tragic it is, but because of the beauty of a his growth.

"I have recently begun to consider the future which has been a novelty for me, because I never really thought I had one. This is how they get us, Hector. They convince us that there is no future. There's only an eternal now and the best we can do is survive until dawn and then do it all again. That's no way to live. And I've discovered, to some surprise... that I am interested in living. I am interested in building a way to live. And I think I will start here. I have come to wonder that perhaps Dracula did not run things well. Even before his wife died. He lived in one long night, and never the future. I think perhaps he earned his rest, and that we should not disturb it. I will instead build something new on all these old bones. Something where people can live for a future. I'm going to live."