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I was disappointed about chapter 58. It just doesn’t feel like it makes sense for someone with severe depression and suicidal ideation from the age of 10 to magically realize that everything is fine because someone told them that life was actually good.
That level of depression doesn’t work like that. It just sort of cheapened his character because he was someone who was still experiencing that ideation his entire life and after building happiness with a partner, but all it took was him basically saying “life isn’t as bad as you think” for all of that to go away. If it was that easy, it would have happened before the story started.It would have been better for him to choose to live while fighting his depression than have it magically poof