>>108504071Everything about this makes perfect sense...if you operate under the assumption that Roko is a bad person at core. Roko doesn't see herself as a bad person, and actively goes to extremes to avoid it, but her impulses are driven entirely by a self-aggrandizing egotism. Why'd she get mad at Spooky for doing the exact thing she told her to do a page prior? Because by donating 2 billion dollars Spooky showed her up in a way that she couldn't match. This whole arc Roko has been running around all sturm und drang to get May a new body, showing up Beeps and her advocacy agency, so why get mad when Spooky doesn't even invalidate the work she did? Because Roko is doing this to feel good about herself, to give herself something to point to and pat her self on the back, and Spooky doing the exact same simply because someone asked her to rips that all away. One can go even further with that to Roko quitting the force. She did so despite everyone telling her, including the person who was the reason she quit, telling her it was a stupid idea, and her motivation to quit was contradictory. It's because, even though she didn't act on them, her attitude and thoughts were not those of a good person and she needed to obliviate those thoughts as they were irreconcilable with her self-image. Whereas a reasonable, rational person would accept they're not perfect and that it's okay to occasionally think those things as long as they don't act on them, Roko's ego places an external factor (the "system") that must be avoided as the root cause. Everything about Roko stems from a truth that she herself cannot bring herself to face: Roko Basilisk was a bad cop.
