Tayio:

"… If Cass dies here… if we both die here… it'd be my fault, wouldn't it?"

"… Mom always said life was the most important thing… the only thing worth taking a life over is to save another…"

"… We're not gonna die here."

"… At the very least, I won't let Cass die!"

Quxi:

"Shut up!"

"Taking people's things… claiming it's for their own good…"

"… An object is only a symbol! It is by love for an object a person can express their love for another person, for a skill, a passion, anything…"

"… If you won't get that…"

"… We'll just have to beat it into you!"

Felis:

"… I've peaked. I'm nothing, now. My art's gone downhill…"

"… Not even ending up here, on this strange island's helped at all…"

"… But I can't just die now. There's still something left in me, isn't there?"

"… Let's find out what it is together, Cass."

Nicki:

"I... I'm not a lot!"

"I'm just a hyperactive girl who wishes she was as cool as Cass!"

"You're right that I'm not very much! I want to be someone, but I can't!"

"Maybe I'll never be cool! Maybe I'll never be the cool girl I want to be in my dreams!"

"… But maybe I'll be a new kind of cool! Maybe I'll be a kind of cool that I never expected to be!"

"… And that 'cool' starts with me amd Cass defeating you!"

(no Romeo quotes… i should think about what her quest is about lol)

Leslie:

"… Hating people for who they are…"

"… I never expected that of you! I thought- I thought you had a real reason to hate trans people …"

"… But it's just because they exist in a way you don't like? Life their lives outside of what they've been told to?!"

"What makes you any different from Rusty's parents?! What makes you any different from someone who hates lesbians?!"

"… Agh! Let's pummel her to the ground, Cass!"

so mirrors it's more like "I am the only person that can do this.".selfish behavior such as being a little brat excused by "It's early payment for when i save the world." something like that.
and of course there are some mirrors that don't act so haughty i think. especially in crystal where specchio drives them a less inherently bratty kind of fucking insane and the descriptions for the fractured conditions are basically "she is going through a bad time rn" lol. she's the only one who can save the world, can stop the darkness once and for all, which means that nobody else is more capable than her, which means that every job she passes is a job that won't be done right, and who knows what could happen? the seeker must investigate every mystery or else the truth will never be known, the mender must heal every injury or else it will fester- if the troubadour does not perform, who will uplift the people's spirits? any replacemennt that comes will only make them think of her, surely.

stones. well stones doesn't have a proper writeup for their crystal version yet but its more like."you are not good enough. give more of yourself." no matter how much you give it's not enough and it won't be. you're letting them down. if you take time for yourself thats time wasted.

the true heir is perfect. she is good enough- the ONLY ONE good enough. that is why she must and will handle every problem that comes her way

no princess of stones is ever good enough. that's why they work harder- and give themselves away until there's no more of themselves to give.

ben & maya r the brotp of all time

anyways. hb and puppy kiss queerplatonically. so do duskie and puppy. duskie and hb jusst kiss plain old romantically tho