User blog comment:Zurre2004/PE Proposal: Majora/@comment-39032584-20190609145708/@comment-39032584-20190609154048

Well, that's definitely one possibility. On the other hand, it may never have considered befriending him to begin with and just went with possessing with since that was the most convenient and straightforward way to carry out  destroying Termina, without thinking of it any other way, like making the Skull Kid look like the villain. In other words, it may not have been capable of that kind of thought process, and simply saw the Skull Kid, like you described, as a puppet to act through, and nothing more.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying one interpretation is correct over the other, but that's probably why there's so much ambiguity as to whether it truly has the moral agency to qualify; because there doesn't seem to be solid, unshakeable evidence of it possesing that, but rather, it leaves it open to one's personal interpretation, which is bound to make it a divise character in this respect. I still think it's worth bringing up both for that reason, and because I haven't seen it discussed on this wiki before, and I still lean slightly towards yes for the strong impression it makes... but I just can't pretend that I'm confident about it when clearly, it's moral agency is ambiguous enough that others haven't been comfortable enough to vote it up in the past.