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My brother thinks I'm being too harsh on Qifrey.

and it's like.

He is a complicated character, clearly a traumatized character (I would not be surprised if it turned out he was Ordinary like Coco before he was found in a coffin, but I am not caught up in the manga) and he has a time-limit (due to diminishing eyesight) but he will stop at nothing to achieve his means which I think are LESS About stopping the Brimmed Hats and MORE About revenge.

I mean it's like yeah I think he took Coco in partially because he sees a kindred spirit in her, but also 100% because he's hoping she can lead him to his revenge.

Also. Let's not forget: He has a hidden incomplete (to quickly complete) spell in his hat for targeted memory erasure!

So far where I am in in the manga he has done t to the stationer and to his BEST GODDAMN FRIEND.

and the thing about his best friend? Super fucking observant and was willing to ride or die for him in a "damn the rules" way because friendship or possibly love (you can certainly interpret it that way, I won't tell you not to ship it! though that is SUCH toxic yaoi rn)

And the really scary thing is that occurred to me when I reread that chapter relatively recently. For all we know they've had that EXACT conversation before.

And that's what really terrifies me!

Like. I LOVE him as a character. But he is definitely morally gray. I'm not gonna bother defining him as "Good or bad"

also the brimmed hats / caps (cannot remember the right term) fascinate me in a "it'd be easy to write them off but society IS fucked up the way it is currently" I mean they're doing fucked up shit to seemingly make Coco a Messiah and I'm not defending that, but also? Current Status Quo? FUCKED UP