THINKING ABOUT HOW CECILIA WAS THE ONLY PERSON TO BE 100% AT FAULT AND THE REST OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN HER SCAM, WHILE HAVING FREE WILL, WERE VICTIMS OF HER MANIPULATION. AND HOW SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAME OUT UNSCATHED. AND SHE PARALLELS JOHN AND HIS APPRENTICES AND WHILE THEY HAD FREE WILL HE STILL MANIPULATED THEM INTO A LARGE PART OF IT.
I think today’s encounter with Ron could be a hallucination but the only thing that makes me hesitate to agree is Ron’s info on the federation. Info that we as an audience know is probably accurate but that q!Bad would have no actual way of knowing. He can’t hallucinate new information. Also, said information was exactly what he didn’t want to hear. If he was hallucinating a fantasy world where he didn’t accidentally kill/eat Ron, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me for his brain to include made-up federation info that actively upsets him. If it was a scary, negative hallucination maybe - it wasn’t though. Buuuut you never know I suppose. Either way I’ll enjoy it.