Is it mind control if you're willingly being manipulated by a being who you become a part of? Since (half of) Gamzee forms LE.

Exactly, that’s the thing that some people wonder. Like… Is he being manipulated if he’s being indoctrinated? We’ve seen Gamzee either completely High, or following in the footsteps of his Ancestor, or following LE- Is he a victim of his environment? Yeeeah, but the thing is, a Gamzee who’s Sober and not doing something Not Good, regardless of the reasons, kinda doesn’t exist, so. There’s a big gap to fill there, and debate to be had by people who like Gamzee.

The deal with him is, I feel, not what Gamzee IS, but what he COULD BE, and given we don’t know what he could be, it’s all very much fanon ideas and hopeful thinking. Something like that could only be possible if, you know. Gamzee’s half that wasn’t sucked into LE was resurrected, for example, in a world without Caliborn or LE and brought to Paradise Planet.

And even then I kiiiinda wouldn’t trust him.