Unless the problem(s) with the previous holder can't be fixed (monkey's paw wish), but I'm not entirely discounting the possibility that things aren't quite that dire. As for being for or against Hawkmoth, I'm going to hazard a guess at against, and throw in my two cents that that dynamic already exists, and is as old as Hawkmoth's demonstrated capacity for evil/cruelty/coldness, whenever that showed plainly. If the previous holder is who we're both hinting it is, loyalty maintains, but to whom? And could that have been the cause of the current situation? If it was, it speaks *volumes* about Hawkmoth's capacity for cold fury... and an obsessive sort of remorse that's halfway to not qualifying for the name at all, really.

We're talking subtle circles around all the names here, aren't we? XD

Now I'm darn curious who you think's going to end up Sass's chosen! The closest fit I can come up with is honestly probably a better fit for a dragon kwami, and the likely suspect given the usual snake tropes doesn't fit with Sass; he doesn't seem like a jerk, where the most slimy slithery of the possibilities reeeeeeally is. I'm betting the slithery possibility is *not* going to end up with a miraculous anyway. That evil ship has sailed.