I ACTUALLY HAVE MORE TO SAY HERE!!
In qftim: Mickey had ONE interesting quality that fly and i liked; he was so scared of getting attatched to someone who he knew he’d lose, and in the end refused to treat quest bendy as a person. He treated him as a tragedy instead.
He refused to provide any comfort or care towards bendy, hell he barely recognized him at all. Even in what they thought may have been bendy’s final moments did mickey STILL refuse to provide bendy with any sort of comfort. because he was scared of getting attatched to someone he knew was going to die. Because in mickey’s eyes, bendy was already dead.
At his very core: he was still selfish.
Refusing to even acknowledge boris’s autonomy simply because he was a 12 year old with a dying brother. He refused to treat bendy as nothing more than a tragic tale his brother will tell when he’s older, and refused to even listen to boris at all. He was protecting himself from sadness and deluded himself into thinking he was protecting boris by pushing away a DYING TEENAGER. It was purely selfish.
AND THAT. THAT WAS INTERESTING.
Because it is a realistic (albeit dramaticized) depiction of how some people react to a dying man and his family! Boris is 12, it was easy to see him as idealistic and naive, something we sorta kept in myth.
So when we finished the series, fly and I IMMEDIATELY knew what we wanted for mickey. We needed a mouse who TRULY understood loss, someone who saw everyone and everything, including himself, as numbers on a chart. It doesn’t matter how many people have the blot or are going to get it, what matters is he’s doing something about it, as the man with all the power.
Everything will be better as long as we get through this dark period. He will have everything under control. He worked so hard to keep everything alive and in line, whats a few more deaths to add to the list if they are so close to the end.
he’s still selfishly ignoring everyone who is suffering to make sure that HE doesn’t suffer, because he truly believes that he is the key to ending this all if he just stays alive and keeps going.
He’s still the same as quest, but he’s realistic now. He’s climbed his way to the top and he’s staying there. Because when you’re so far at the top, its easy to ignore everyone at the bottom.
out of sight, out of mind.
