mani referencing mugm a lot nowadays I wonder if she sees similarities in Quakitus.
Do you think Q will be able continue where mugm failed at with working with mani.
nonnie with all the love in the world "I wonder if she sees similarities in Quakitus" is really funny when mani is kinda looking into the camera and going "QUAKITUS REMINDS ME OF MUGM. I LIKE HER BECAUSE OF THIS. AUDIENCE PLEASE NOTICE THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR" like yeah ur right u dont need to wonder anything LOL
whether Q will "repeat his mistake" is like. i dont even know. feels like shooting hoops from the moon to say anything definitive. but ill try to say my thoughts for u nonnie :3
it really depends on what you interpret mugm's "mistake" actually is. my interpretation is that he simply "got soft"—he started reforming an identity outside of violence, he started caring about people other than wyll, he started caring about mani and what she thought, all of these to the detriment of his own immediate self-interest and he sometimes made himself a little miserable because of it
if mani's criteria for "mugm's mistakes" is along those lines of "impeding your own pure ruthlessness and hedonism out of care" i feel like Q is in equal positions to both repeat it and to avoid it. i say the former because Q already did do something that showed she'll prioritize care over immediate gain—freeing sans from the IOU because silva was upset by it. i wouldn't be surprised whatsoever if she did something else similar and it made mani upset
on the other hand, though, Q's cognition is pretty different from mugm's despite them being so similar. they conceptualize "care" differently, quakitus is far more likely to psychologically lampshade any acts of "care" under "i'm retaining control over them," and Q also doesn't have the amount of emotional baggage with higher purpose and mani specifically as mugm does. i find it hard to see a scenario where Q fawns for her the way mugm did in that gold pocket dimension, Q is simply more independent and confident in his own goals and self-perception. so i can also see a scenario where Q either simply never encounters chances to repeat mugm's mistakes or makes different final decisions when faced with that chance. whatever it is i don't think Q would allow himself to be coerced into a decision by her, or at least be far less susceptible to it than mugm was
