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im going to be honest if people really expected a super emotional response from ctubbo then yeah of course theyd be sorta disappointed at his reaction to cranboos death but like.
1- canonically he doesnt know ranboo was on his last life, 2- cctubbo wasnt prepared, 3- ctubbos first and main response to trauma is denial and self-justification of his denial, and 4- weve.. seen him react to death before. he takes a while to emotionally process it then latches on to a problem to Solve so he doesnt have to think about it. he latched onto l'manburg to deal with wilburs death and tommys suicide attempt, he latched onto the security breach when tommy actually died, he latched onto the burger business when his grief about doomsday leaving him with a lack of purpose caught up to him, and now hes latching onto finding michael now that ranboos dead and he has to work with one of his enemies.
ctubbo can be emotional, we saw after the final control room, we saw it during his execution, we saw it during exile negotiations we saw it during one year later, etc etc. but hes logical first. hes been getting number and number to bad things happening, hes lost so many things by this point, may arguably be the character to have lost the most at this point. his reaction to ctechno telling him ranboo died (and, by the way, ctubbo has an easier time slipping into denial when hes given information secondhand, his emotional responses come from being in the moment of something stressful happening to him) is not only realistic but very much in character for ctubbo.
we'll get emotional moments from him, for sure, but it's going to take some time both for cctubbo to actually prepare and plan for everything and for ctubbo to properly process and plan for everything. give him some time, dont make this into another repeat of "ctubbo didnt react to ctommys death so he doesnt care!!!!" because i swear to god i will lose my damn mind if i have to deal with more theories about how ctubbo doesnt care about his loved ones