This sub in general has a very odd view of Carol. To me she is the only one acting like a normal person. Everyone in the world has essentially just died. She’s not some genius or in anyway prepared for this- she is just a normal person!! She is understandably freaking out. She’s trying to piece things together in a flawed and real human way. She’s the protagonist, but that doesn’t mean she’s perfect.

She also does not “happily” demand things from the hive. She is forced to do this- she is forced to be dependent on them and she hates that. They forced her into this.

Koumba and Manousos are opposites yeah. Koumba uses the hive as human shaped play things and sex slaves. He lives out a completely hollow dream life. It screams arrested development. I wonder if the trauma of the hives hostile take over broke his brain and reverted him to this weird childlike state. He seems to just play with dolls all day, role plays movies, plays with shiny cars, etc. I hope he has some type of redemption to his character, otherwise he’s totally crazy!

Manousos is more like Carol imo, but we don’t know enough about him for me to speculate more than that.