The difference.
So these are the differences I see in elliot and MM who I do thinks name is actually Elliot. Like how mr robots name is ‘mr robot’ because that’s what Elliot calls him but he never corrects Krista or anyone so it’s assumed that’s his name. So I think MMs name to his is Elliot as well. But that’s a whole other thing. I hope the anon who asked likes this I tried friend.
First: MM
He is much more closed off to touch, to people, to everyone. He is very very touch sensitive. Because I think MM is a trauma holder so he remembers the feeling of what their dad did. So being touched is just a reminder.
MM is much more cynical about the world. I don’t think he sees much good in it at all. I think he sees small pockets of decency but it’s rare.
He needs Krista. Needs her more then anyone else because she is his one place where he can say and feel anything. Because Krista is a therapist it’s what she does. She helps. And Mm sees Elliot and himself in her. As he says in the first season. “I want a way out of loneliness just like you”
MM is lonely, he doesn’t have friends, he has people who are elliots friends, but not really his. We see that with how he acts with Angela, and the small bits we get of how they were before he joined allsafe. And Mm is just slightly off on what they all remember.
MM has Schizoid personality disorder it’s in the way he acts, his lack of emotional range, him not really getting signals of people.
MM is different. But not so different it’s noticeable. It’s just like someone mentally moved the couch 1 inch to the left and now everyone is ramming into it.
Now. Core Elliot.
He I think, from the small scene we saw of him, the one on Halloween when Mm first came to be. I think he was a sort of normal cyber security guy.
He talked about how much the govt sucked, he maybe had an Instagram to follow on what Darlene and Angela were doing but he never posted.
He had a Facebook but he deleted it after he realized how dumb it was. He was normal.
He smoked a lot of weed to keep himself calm, he’s like Mm but way more chill. He seemed to have a strained sort of relationship with Darlene but not one so bad it was weird.
He was normal. Well as normal as he could be. He questioned if Darlene was still having panic attacks so it’s implied he probably has them. Not knowing the reason but having the feelings of it.
I think Elliot core is much more open to sex, he’s not a tinder guy but he’d hook up with someone. The rare one time a year he wanted to go out.
He loves Angela, like he loved her through and through. And Mm took that small part of Elliot and kept it I think.
Core Elliot was for all things a normalish computer hacker. He hacked his friends and anyone he wanted. He wasn’t all about world domination and saving the masses but he would talk about it.
I think before the event that brought MM to the world I think Elliot was not normal, but he faded into the background he didn’t want to be seen he liked his work as a white hat and that was that.
He maybe talked to a few people but he was content with his invisible status.
I think after the events of season 4 it took him longer to process that he was in control, and now is in therapy to understand what happened to him, the year he was gone.
He works on his relationship with darlene, and they become close, like they were when it was MM at the hold.
It’s hard, it’s not easy, but Darlene is his anchor to helping him through things.
I think Elliot, finds someone, maybe in a group therapy that his therapist suggests to help him branch out and talk to more people in a safe environment.
And over time they sort of help each other. Maybe Elliot and this person get married years and years down the line maybe they don’t. But I think Elliot tries to be better, to become himself again.
But MM, Mr robot, young him and mother are always there in case he needs them. When something is a little too much and none of his steps from therapy work. He has them. And he learns to be okay with that.
Core Elliot is a lot like MM but small differences, small things that are noticeable to Darlene and others now.
Core Elliot is like MM but more open to certain things that MM wasn’t. Like touch, Elliot doesn’t like to be touched but he doesn’t always shove people away, relationships, he can see the good in some people. Still hates the corruption but he knows not everyone is evil.
Core Elliot is and was just a normal, awkward, mentally ill hacker, socially awkward and not good with people per say, but he tried at times.
In a way I think he sees he needed MM, even if he doesn’t know why just yet, he knows he needed MM to help him. Just like how Mr robot was always in his corner to make sure no one fucked with him.
Core Elliot and MM are vastly different but also eerily similar. MM is all of elliots inner traits heightened and forced to the surface.
They both need the other.
So I hope this is okay on what you wanted anon. I tried my best because in my opinion MM and Elliot are vastly different but eerily similar because MM is just all of elliots inner traits brought to the surface. MM is all the traits Elliot core had to mask to seem normal in the real world.
