If the man you know grew up the way I did... I think you'd find he shares that dream.

[ It's driven him since the day he'd been saved during the plague, that desire to help others. To save them in turn. Yuri can't imagine that, having had that same experience early in life, he could have any different aspiration.

During the war, he'd begun to doubt his ability and reach, sufficing with taking care of the Abyssians who followed him. King Dimitri had changed that, all without knowing it. Was it any wonder that Yuri leapt at the opportunity when it presented itself.

As for the rest... Yuri takes his time in considering what Dimitri has to say regarding his demons as he calls them. His emotions, then, are unresolved. There may not have been the time, he suspects, in the midst of a war. He did say he'd only just begun with reforms, in contrast to the Dimitri he knows.

When he'd apparently taken the throne much later, it makes a certain sense. ]

...What do you do about them? Your feelings.