cquackity has gone through so much trauma, loss and betrayal. his attitudes of "trust no one", "humans are assholes", "create no emotional attachments", etc, are a result of all of that, and i don't blame him for thinking that way.

but then he projected that onto cslime. he not only told cslime that humans were assholes, but showed him. and that hurt cslime. a lot.

(im going off on a tangent here but bear with me) my own dad has been through a lot of trauma in his life, and he's put it onto me. he's taught me about the genocide and dehumanization that our people have faced for centuries, but he's gone beyond that and taught me to feel his raw emotions. he gets angry, almost violent sometimes. he's hostile, doesn't show his feelings a lot. and when he does, it hurts us all. the trauma he's been through was absolutely not his fault, but it was his choice to open me and my sister up to his raw, unprocessed emotions when we were so young and malleable. we love and care for each other, and we have a good relationship, but there will always be that trauma that he chose to put onto us rather than healing, and i won't forgive him for that.

in the same way, cquackity felt real love for cslime. he didn't want to hurt him, but instead of coping in a healthy manner, he passed his trauma onto cslime, which was a conscious choice. you are not responsible for what others do to you, but you are responsible for how you treat others.

of course, cpunz, purpled and dream had significant roles to play in cslimes trauma, but cquackity's treatment of him is what started it all.

cslime's anger was completely justified. while killing cquackity isnt the way to settle his grievance, his emotions are understandable.

But I was thinking about how I (like most ppl) find his character endearing in a naive kind of way, where I’d usually see his style of humour as a little awkward and cringey. It’s all because of his place in the story, that’s the interesting part.

Quackity’s lore is dark, edgy, and you really get a sense of how alone and unloved he feels. But then comes a cheerful comic relief character who knows him in his own weird way and is happy to follow Quackity around (Like a sort of imitation of an emotional relationship). I don’t think on his own you’d see Slime as endearing, we just latch onto the innocence of his character. That’s because most of us can’t relate to Quackity to a meaningful degree so we fall back on rooting for the happy little bundle of joy that brings some human connection into his life (ironic cuz he a slime).