Lera would have made Acher into a better person, where he eventually got over a lot of his problems and started valuing being a good person for the sake of that. The problem was he wasn't a good person when it happened. That said, he would have always been an intense, violent sort of man deep down. It's likely that -- because, frankly, Lera's a mediocre writer -- Acher would have, if he turned real later, eventually snapped anyways. He is an ends-justify-the-means type of person, who thinks in absolutes. He'd be a devoted fanatic to something besides the cause of destroying Earth's influence on Zenderael.

If Missie found out that Lera's a bit closer to Vati than she is to Missie, would she be a little hurt or happy about it?