#labru if you squint but this is genuinely about them in general

[holmsister]

The thing about kabru is that a lot of his conclusions are right DESPITE the fact that he starts from very faulty basis.

Example: his conclusion that the Toudens don't really care about people in the dungeon that much. He's right. But he comes at this conclusion by observing them giving away like all of their money in charity and assuming NO ONE can authentically be that generous/bad with money and therefore assuming that there is something darker at play.

But like. His assumption is wrong. The Toudens are just genuinely that fucking bad with money and just actually frankly don't care to learn to be better because they are here to explore the dungeon and nothing else.

They dont really care about the people they're giving the money to. They just don't really care about the money either.

And like. This fascinates me. He's utterly convinced that Everyone Is Out To Get Everyone Else All The Time. The Toudens seemingly go against this basic conviction he has about how the world works, so he NEEDS to reveal their true nature, so he can confirm his worldview to himself. That is such a fucked up way of looking at reality. Who hurt you, baby.

And then when he eventually meets Laios and realises that no, actually, he is truly just that simple, he cycles through the stages of grief like fifteen times before finally resigning to the truth: he needs to be his friend. He needs to know more about him and understand him. Because he is living proof that the world can be a simpler, kinder, more genuine place, in a way. That's why I think he is so sure that Laios can be a good king.