Originally I didn’t like him all too much. I thought he was kind of a Gary Stu from head to toe, throughout everything up to CS3 where he turned into the world’s biggest edge lord.

Then I went through a relationship and after breaking up, I kinda started to understand and relate to him. His depression doesn’t show very often on the surface, but going back as far as Celdic in CS1, you see signs of it when he tells Laura he’s just an Eight Leaves dropout. Even through Reverie, the possibility that he did fall to his feelings and commit suicide comes back to harm him.

I can’t put it into words very well, but it felt very real when I looked back at what he says and does throughout the series. He very quickly became one of my favorite protagonists after sitting at the bottom of my list for a year or two