"As you said, that's true with a lot of you. Not with all of you. I got put on a leash and chain by a bunch of witches who wanted to meddle in the way I ran my own life, a curse that I still haven't been able to undo. That right there is enough for me not to trust just anyone with seeing past my surface."

Maul was stubborn to a fault and this was one of those times. He just couldn't bring himself to trust people, not even when it was within his own best interests to do so. His motivations were driven by fear, scared that there were people here just like those that were at home who would take advantage of his vulnerabilities. The idea that people weren't as cruel or self-centered as Maul thought they were still hadn't permeated fully through his mind. Despite the attempts of people like Usagi and Varian to help him see that, it was still a holdover from the time he'd spent under his master's brainwashing for so long.

Sometimes, he thought it would never be broken, that he would just go through life always expecting the worst out of people.