Blazing Trash

but first something silly!

I first had to think about what made prime different from other ricks, since the only example of a toxic rick we've seen from the show is our beloved c137. Prime is a narcissistic prick, what could be possibly hate about himself?

Prime is the first to witness infinity. Infinite timelines and infinite actions, driving him into a state of nihilism, being convinced that since nothing matters, he has to live as if nothing matters to him.

But unfortunately, his attachments and his spite are the underlying motives of everything hes built up, which contradicts this.

The way I tried to represent this dichotomy was with the following idea:

Inside of Prime there are a "seer" and a "doer" two wolves. Prime loves what he does and gloats in his creations, so clearly the "clean" prime would be the parts of him that build and kill, as well as the parts of him that have fun doing it. All that's left then, is his jealousy and his underlying motivations, which are his greatest weaknesses. I compared this to 'vestigial structures' which form evolutionary but serve no purpose, which is how (i think) prime would think of his emotions.

Toxic prime is still loyal to clean prime (which is what makes him different from c137 and his toxic counterpart). He's clingly and incapable because thats the role he plays in prime's mind. He craves validation and is insufferable to be around. Boundaries are a mystery to him.

I added some other physical aspects that i thought would fit this character. I think Prime would connect his regenerative properties to his emotional state as a sort of mental check, requiring him to save face and never falter in front of others, lest he want to physically fall apart. (thus toxic prime has marginally weaker regenerative properties). I also really liked the idea of prime using his cybernetics (intentionally or unintentionally) to physically cling to c137. Considering the fact that we've only seen cybernetic melding in unrickmorten, it must have been a trait of Prime to be able to do that.