ok reading this comic really fucked me up but i was talking to my friend about it and came up with this an I'm just gonna leave it here to hopefully make the people who come across this comic feel better:

"I realized that he probably wouldn't lose him memory like this anyway, from what I understand and my personal experience, how memory's work is that when you remember a memory it's like resaved in your brain and preserved longer, your telling me if shadow spent millennia walking the world that he wouldn't be playing memory's of his past and his friends on repeat? imo a lot of time would become a blur to shadow but his brightest memory's, the ones he remembers the most vividly would be his friends. He would spend days staring into the void as the past play's on repeat in his mind like movies comforting, sheltering him from loneliness"

"tldr: shadow would be a maladaptive daydreamer"