#... is relegated to backstory to humanize Rick's character lmao ok wack

[bolly--quinn]

i NEED TO KNOW what u think of unity as a character ! i feel like they r never talked abt but i rly do hate that they were added in for rick's character development and then never talked abt again cuz they had so much potential.

Ooo!!

Unity's interesting to me because like I'm interested in them as a concept? (What were they like when they met Rick? Why did the relationship end the first time?? How many beings did they inhabit at the time???? Since it's implied that they have grown as a hivemind since they used to date Rick, etc.)

However, I'll admit that I wasn't really invested in their episode tbh (I just didn't think it was very funny imo apart from the Beth and Jerry plot, I just felt it was kinda boring???? idk also I wasn't crazy about how they 'resolve' the whole issue that Summer had with Unity either, like I get that Unity was inhabiting 'bad' people or people who had nothing else in their lives but like ??? Summer's initial argument was about free-will ??? So it kinda felt like a cop-out to be like "oh well, they were bad people so it's all good")

I am very interested in their dynamic with Rick though!! It's further elaborated in an issue of the comic where it's kinda like "they're both horribly toxic as a couple and they choose not to care" which I think is interesting (however, kinda counteracts the ending of their ep in which they did chose to care about this toxicity and break up with Rick so idk nothing really matters canonically lol) but I definitely think that they are an interesting character that should've been explored more than just to give Rick Sanchez a heartbreak plot tbh