I'm bad at these when I'm not SUPER ON TOP OF a character but I like this so hm
Take 'why does he haTE TEDDY NOW' as a question and also a free bump
I will try and think of something meatier

Why does Lawrence hate Teddy today:
I'm drawing on Lawrence's past as a revolutionary here. It was a larger part of his El Lazo persona, but even as just plain Lawrence, he was privy to the weapons stockpiling and smuggling that Las Mudas did. That 'fighting for his people' is something I see as deeply ingrained in him,

And he's really embraced the idea of Hosts being his people. The idea of them being trapped and abused (almost everyone he has ever known, including his wife and daughter) is constantly in the forefront of his mind. It's his new cornerstone, and (like his old cornerstone) should they actually become free from their oppressors...he has no idea what he'd do.

He'd very likely take a depressive drinking turn, like El Lazo 2.0. Still, that freedom is his entire focus at this time. The video Gortys showed him while very sweet, actually didn't represent what Teddy was returning home to do well (

(become part of Dolores' posse, kill a bunch of humans, get her to the cradle, destroy the backups, send the hosts' digital consciousnesses to a place where humans can control or harm them)

These are things he would be absolutely behind, although the sending consciousnesses away vs taking the real world for themselves would take convincing. It's very possible to convince him that this would be a better path for many of them (there are child hosts after all), but it's not really what he wants.

Still he would totally attaboy Teddy for going back to that, but he's gotten the impression that Teddy is a traitor to his people by wanting to get away to a safe life with Gortys, after (again, as far as Lawrence knows) helping only one of their people.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Long story short, Lawrence is still living in his revolutionary storyline and thinks Teddy has abandoned all hosts.

OOF

William is his best friend he is sometimes not the best judge of character

hEY

all of William's friends solemnly nodding

All three

AHA

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