Don't read this one if you are a bliss member I am SERIOUS THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!! I MEAN IT!!!!!!!!! pretty please :D but like fr I'm actually serious
I Do think quakitus is being completely truthful about intentionally manipulating people to gain friendships and have people rely solely on her because she can only conceptualize herself as being wanted if she is The Only Option Left, that mindset being basically the logical conclusion of the trust and abandonment issues caused by repeated betrayal trauma. HOWEVER: I think quakitus conflating this with them having "never cared about anyone [since gilded breakup]" during the speech to sans is a Coping Mechanism (post-q stream edit: or an intimidation tactic I guess? I still think my interpretation I wrote down yesterday is more interesting so I'm rolling with it unless I get bashed over the head for it later SORRY)
it's a coping mechanism to both emotionally distance himself from people, (being emotional, being sentimental, q believes those traits have no use in a world like bliss, or atleast have no use to Him. so she (tries to) cut off those traits) and to rationalize their actions within their own black/white mindset—you are either a Good Person or a Bad Person, and more importantly, you are either The Controller or The Controlled.
and to be Affected by the actions of others, in this case specifically the actions of silva, that is the direct opposite of what he wants. in their black/white mindset there is very little room if not none at all for any exceptions, so admitting that silva has Any sort of power over q's actions, no matter how small, would mean that she does not have the ultimate authority over silva that she would prefer to have. and q is extremely preoccupied with asserting himself as The Controller—'control' being the main thing that quakitus is seeking at the core of it all—which is why he says he doesn't care about ANYONE, including silva.
this is going to be a Liiitttle bit of a tangent but I see a lot of ppl hung up on this specific point so. I don't believe this is really False but I don't think this is fully True either (letting sans go at this point from a purely logical strategic standpoint is kinda. Bad? so it shows q does prioritize 'keeping' silva to some extent.) but to be clear, this is #MyPersonalTake on "Is Quakitus Lying About Not Caring?": I don't think it matters!!!!!!!!! :D
quakitus being "not genuine" for all this time doesn't really necessarily discount any bonds that she has on the server and I think it's a little bit reductive to say it does. like. um. ok I can't figure out a way to word this 'objectively' so personal anecdote: I consider myself to be someone with low empathy and doesn't really "naturally" care about people, so I have to consciously on purpose put in Effort to care about people. and I keep friendships because I Like Attention. that's just kinda how my brain works? and this is Basically the same way I view quakitus's character conceptualizing "care". what's the difference between lines of code and chemicals in a brain? where does the 'human' end, and where does the 'robot' begin in a cyborg? if a robot becomes indistinguishable from a human, does its origins still matter? (the 'isolating somebody until they have nobody but quakitus left' part is still fucked up tho that's like the actual. like. evil bad villain action LMFAO) (ok back to the control thesis)
also, considering that q says that the origin point of this mindset was Gilded Breakup, which is about as close to a canonical Traumatic Event as one can get, I think gilded breakup just kinda. broke. something in her head. and all the "lying", all the "manipulation", whatever you want to call it, it's all ultimately a trauma response to that event. the lesson that quakitus learned on that day was that useless things are to be thrown away by powerful people. the only way to prevent being left is to become the person who can leave. what makes you powerful isn't to have a hoard of mythics, but to have the ability to discard them once you're done Having Fun. power isn't strength, power is control.
