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That guy who acts like Gold Meddle is a piece of shit, but I don't at all see why you're supporting his notion that Thorax is transacting with or exploiting Twilight.
He is completely in character for himself in the show, guileless and empathetic. There really isn't any ambiguity to why he does what he does for Twilight. At first, he hopes she's doing well and goes to check on her out of worry. She isn't doing well, is dying of a disease he knows how to treat, and he helps her because that's what he'd do for any of his fellow changelings. His recognition of gut rot and reaction to it is transparently empathetic, and the most recent scene where he empathizes with Twilight's hunger could not be more obviously so. He enjoys being in her presence because she's nice to him. None of that has any additional layers to it.

When Thorax seemingly withholds kindness from Twilight, it only reads to me as though he doesn't recognize that she's in need. She's barely surviving in the cave, in a way that's pretty familiar to the way changelings live.

The rest of the story is just the author being bad, not otherwise knowing how to nerf Twilight so that she stays in the badlands long enough for the two of them to build a friendship.

No, they're just being nice to each other because they're nice and they keep trading favors because that's just how they are. Maybe that's why he finds Thorax unsettling.