She's done everything awful that Makima's done, the assault, the manipulation, the murder, the abusing Denji into relying on her physically and emotionally, only with a layer of stupidity and self-centeredness beneath all of it that makes me find her actions even less palatable

he kept himself going because he had something real to live for, to fight for, to love for. now he's in a mental headspace where the only thing keeping him going is his shallow base desires. in part 1, against makima, that was enough. in the more complex world of part 2, it's not even close.

she lacks all the subtlety of makima, she's just brazenly manipulating him right in front of everyone. and its fucking working

his wanton violence, his sexuality, his framing of events around shallow events that are barely even pleasures - look at what he cites here as being the stuff keeping him going. eating sushi for barem right before finding nayuta's severed head, and getting assaulted? he's so broken