Touch starved Toki is canon for me, but also I think he is really just… sort of attention starved? (Sorry if I don’t explain perfectly, English is not my first language) I mean, he starts trusting people and considering them friends really easily (which is not always good for him, e.g. Magnus). He looks like the type of person who has been lonely for a long time and tries to make up for it.
Oh absolutely! In his childhood, adults were likely treated as perfect mature beings who could do no wrong, so as he grew up, he likely never quite grew out of the notion that adults always know what’s going on, and being around an older adult like Magnus was probably really cool to him for that reason.
I doubt he ever got very much positive attention from his parents, the only childhood interactions we really see are them punishing him. All the good stuff he did was likely never praised because to his parents, it was simply “meeting expectations” and that’s absolutely heartbreaking 💔
When he joined Dethklok his whole world lit up in more ways than one, he realized positive attention was a thing too and he couldn’t get enough of it! I think that’s why we wants to be lead guitarist so bad, it would be the ultimate positive attention!
I’d also argue that Toki is so attention starved he even likes negative attention. Wait nvm I don’t need to argue that, it’s literally canon in “Doublebookedklok”😭😭😭
Toki is deeply lonely, all he really wants is closeness and to be known and truly loved no matter what, and deep down, I think Skwisgaar is deeply lonely too and wants the same thing.
Except Skwisgaar thinks that if he is truly known, he can’t be loved, and that’s where all the distance comes from. Toki thinks that too to an extent, but I think his fear of not being lovable is overridden by his desperation to be loved, so he puts himself out there in hopes that someone sees him and loves him anyway, because there’s got to be at least one person, right?
Thank you so much for the ask!! It was very articulate and well put together, I love hearing people’s thoughts and I love yapping about Metalocalypse 🔥🔥🔥
