#coolvoidcomputer

I no longer have enough energy to be cryptic, so you're getting a real answer <3! This is all up-to-date lore!! Though it's subject to change, I don't think it will! Hopefully!!!

"It" refers to the ink curse from the scroll! Though, honestly, calling them a curse isn't correct. They're a binding spell (as they and Red Son will inform you). Its final goal is to survive and get the story right.

Survival is a tangential goal compared to the story. They attached themselves to MK not out of a want, need, or instinct to survive, but out of a drive to fulfill their purpose; a completely logical process. Any desperation they showed in the moment was a replication of the people they've held in their clutches.

It's spent a long while with MK at this point, and they've come to a conclusion: MK doesn't know how the story goes.

If It could feel bad, they would. They forgive him, after this many years by his side. Clearly, MK is lost. Clearly, MK has memory issues or SOMETHING because he cannot remember how the story goes. So, they will just guide him in the right direction, and take over when needed.

(Of course, there is no story they're retelling — no collection of memories beyond the present — but I don't know if the curse would have the capacity to know that. Its job is to make sure that everyone stays in the scroll, and sticks to the script and proper timeline. When there's no longer a scroll, there's no script, but there is a timeline… Where does that leave the curse? To run magic "coding" that doesn't properly function, I suppose.