There's something so sad to me about how Gurathin spends the entire season so distrustful and on edge, about both the survey itself and SecUnit, because how can anything involved with the Company have good intentions? But the second Leebeebee tells him Mensah is dead, he immediately breaks down sobbing. Leebeebee had no way of knowing whether her plan even worked and for all he knew, she could have been lying. He could have held out hope Mensah survived or that Leebeebee was lying about SecUnit being dead to get them to cooperate, but no. Instant despair. Because since when has the universe ever been kind? When has idealism ever triumphed over corporate greed, or good over evil? Why wouldn't his favorite person die at the hands of someone using violence for their own gain? What else is new?
It's so much easier for him to believe in deception, violence, and tragedy than to even entertain the idea of a stranger acting kind, because to his experience that's just what the world is. Mensah, and by extension, the PresAux team, are anomalies. Cruelty is the norm, kindness an outlier. And what's really sad is how many times he's right. No wonder he cried when SecUnit left. He finally realized he had found someone who both understood and defied what his trauma had taught him.
Gurathin let me love you
Ok, so I saw this post and decided to illustrate it with gifs.
Exhibit A. Gurathin's immediate reaction after hearing Mensah is dead. No denial, no bargaining, just instant acceptance. He doesn’t even question whether Leebeebee might be lying.
Exhibit B. He's so devastated by the news he literally started leaking from the nose and then sobbing. At first I thought it's because of the pain, but now I beilieve OP is right.
Exhibit C. Gurathin's reaction when he sees Mensah alive and well. This is the face of a man who has just witnessed the resurrection of Jesus.
