I previously wrote a post about how unfair Rick C-137 was to Eyepatch Morty in S09E01, considering that Eyepatch Morty literally saved his life and handed his nemesis to him on a silver platter.
But there is another aspect to this mess that I have never seen addressed nor focused on, so I'm gonna talk about it now.
"Rick C-137 is "a little different", Rick C-137 has treated Eyepatch Morty with respect and admiration is S07E05, Eyepatch Morty saw him wanting to avenge Diane and protecting Morty Prime, so it stands to reason EM would want to try again with this grandpa" are the sorts of arguments I've seen on why Eyepatch Morty would do the stuff we saw him do in S09E01.
...Even though Rick C-137 has been repeatedly shooting at him, and also shot at him without hesitatiom when he was being strangled by the enemy they teamed up to face.
So you get how horribly traumatized Eyepatch Morty must have been for his bar of acceptance being so low that even Rick C-137 could pass it.
But there is one more thing:
Rick C-137 is the person who designed the Citadel. His actions have led, either directly or indirectly, to the creation of the Morty Market and the Central Finite Curve.
HE is single-handedly responsible for Eyepatch Morty coming into a world where he is multiversally seen as an object, for him getting trapped into a cycle of child trafficking, for him having no choice but to commit horrible atrocities when he decided to escape.
Rick C-137 is personally (albeit undirectly) responsible for the magnitude of the abuse Eyepatch Morty has suffered through, and all the times he was forced to dirty his hands to get out of it.
Eyepatch Morty knows all this, and in S09E01 he still wanted to try.
And Rick C-137's response was this:
This is unfairness and cruelty to an extreme degree.
And we are expected to cheer along.