If one asked Talon, what was perhaps the most painful moment in his life? He would've answered with no hesitation that it was his mother's death. Even though she had died weeks ago, the pain was still as vivid as the first moment he got to know about it.
That pain changed him from the ground up. It brought him a harsh realization that life wouldn't always go his way even if he worked his hardest. Some things simply aren't meant to happen and one of them was him saving his mother from death in time. That fact birthed something in him that he wasn't aware of.
It birthed in him a small ember of darkness, something he would've been repulsed by before. That ember of darkness affected his mind down to how he even fights. His swift, elegant and effective fighting style had been mixed with a strong hint of brutality.