tbh the bubbles falling out with the celestial metals theory has a lot of groundwork so far so imma rant about it
1. the expedition for the healing herbs (that granted he wasn't initially apart of) and how he was basically doing all of the fighting since 2/4 of the cm weren't helping, then to end up with a herb for each of the cm and nothing for bubbles and lastly them not noticing she'd vanished until right before they recalled
2. the star iron trip and how ambear and him were literally called fourth and fifth wheels to the cm, but at least they had each other that trip (god please reconnect when ambears back pleaseee)
3. i feel like the cm (specifically sausage i fear) do tend to treat bubbles more like a cat then a person with opinions (not intentionally obvs), even if it's him being weird and suspicious
edit: a good example of three to me is sausage saying even if they find bubbles real name he's still gonna still call her bubbles, like buddy no there's a reason he's still letting people call her what they want 💔
4. not standing with her during the corrupted cow incident, despite her concerns being very valid and everyone else acting like he's being cruel