So I've been seeing a lot of that one audio from Isle of Dogs and I can't stop thinking about how that audio could apply to the albatrio when looking at it in different ways. So I want to break down the quote by how I think it would fit each of them because I'm so normal about these characters. Also idk if it was too long for tumblr or something so this got split up into separate parts.
For Gillion I feel like it's the most obvious because of his training as the chosen one. "
"My friends" -Chip and Jay
"think I like to fight" -especially early campaign when they'd mess with Gill. For example early laughenlot with the bugs, or with the paramount tournament arc. He was always seemingly the first to start a physical fight, he's always been act first think later which has then lead to Chip and Jay seeing him as a violent or destructive force, even if it's subconsciously.
",but it's just not true. Sometimes I lose my temper and blow off a little steam" -The ice arena incident of episode 15 is the clearest example of this I can think of. Gillion feels, at least to me, like a character who spent his entire life being told that any emotion that isn't useful isn't one worth feeling. Pride and anger were the only useful one's to the elders, from what I can tell of current cannon. So Gillion has learned to blow off that steam in the useful way of fighting 1. for his honor and culture as Chip has used it against him and 2. His anger at the realization that to an extent he was being used at the time, this accumulated in the arena.
"but I never enjoyed it. I'm not a violent dog. I don't know why I bite." - This ending aligns more with what we've seen with Gillion as of recent. He's spent his whole life being a guard dog. Guard dog's aren't violent for no reason, they were brought up that way to protect, to guard. Something that has been consistent with Gillion's character is that he will take hit after hit for Chip and Jay. There's no way he enjoys the pain, but he does it because he feels it's his duty and the only way he can repay the others for their love and kindness. And if he bites them I feel it's still out of protection, only this time for himself, and even then we don't see it often if he does he immediately feels bad for it. He's been taught he's not worth protecting, he's only worth as much as he can protect others. All of this then accumulates in not knowing why he bites. It's been so deeply engrained in himself that he isn't worth protecting and that violence is the only way to protect others that when others call out his violence and his tendencies he can't exactly place why he does them. They're just nature for him.
