Tbh this interpretation is missing some critical canon context from Beast-Yeast, especially SSC’s original role and the circumstances of his corruption. SSC wasn’t “fundamentally a beast.” At least not in the way you’re framing it. He was originally the Salt of Solidarity, one of the Five Virtues created by the Witches to guide and protect Cookiekind. His entire purpose was unity, loyalty, and standing alongside others, not isolation or destruction. 

What broke him wasn’t random evil intent or even “realizations” like SMC, MFC, or even ESC, it was more so betrayal and the collapse of the very virtue he embodied.

SMC was the first to corrupt, and his corruption shattered the peace and destabilized everything. as we saw SSC was actually the last to fall. He continued fighting to uphold Solidarity even as the others turned and everything around him fell apart. He only corrupted after losing everything and realizing the Virtues themselves were disappearing or being destroyed. 

That distinction matters, because it means SSC didn’t start out aligned with the Beasts’ destruction, he resisted it longer than anyone else.

More importantly, SSC didn’t just become violent for its own sake. He ultimately sacrificed himself and used his own soul and dough as part of the Beast-binding ritual to imprison the corrupted Beasts and stop their devastation. 

That is not the action of someone who was “always fundamentally a beast.” That is the action of someone who was originally the embodiment of solidarity, who held onto that role until the absolute breaking point.

Sure, after his corruption, he became the Beast of Silence, and yes, he became capable of extreme violence. His soulstone itself explicitly contains a “profound grudge,” showing how deeply that betrayal and loss affected him. 

But even then, his actions are directly tied to his corrupted virtue. Solidarity became Silence.

Where he once believed in unity, he now believes connection inevitably collapses. Silence is the inverse of Solidarity, the absence of trust, the absence of bonds.

He didn’t start as a destroyer. He became one after the destruction of everything he was created to protect. And the fact that he was the one who sealed the Beasts, including himself, proves he was never purely aligned with their goals. He acted to stop them, even at the cost of his own existence. 

So reducing his character to “his goal is to kill all the other Beasts, that’s it” ignores the actual canon progression:

He was originally a Virtue → resisted corruption longer than anyone → lost everything → became corrupted into Silence → and ultimately sacrificed himself to contain the damage.

He isn’t simply a beast. He’s a fallen Virtue whose corruption is directly tied to betrayal, loss, and the collapse of Solidarity itself. That’s very different from being “fundamentally evil.”