>>97239881>objective enoughThere's no such thing, all criticism and analysis of media is inherently subjective. If you're not literally being paid or bribed to think a certain way, don't even give that a second thought. If the ending got to you, that just means you've got something worth saying.
As for the rest of what you wrote, even if what he did was selfless it doesn't really change the fact that the vehicle for that heroism was suicide. It was a conscious decision on Pasqualo's part to end his own existence and let Aurora take over his body, his place in the world. And for a comic that centers so much around dealing with depression, the main character being celebrated for killing himself comes off as disturbing if you think about it too much.
That's kind of a dangerous message to send out to an audience that may have related to the protagonist, planting the seed in someone's mind that maybe everyone around them would actually be better off if they were gone. So I keep trying to find some other interpretation that can definitively say it totally wasn't suicide, because as it is as much as I enjoyed how bittersweet the ending was I can't help but feel uneasy about it.
>>97242267I hadn't really thought about that angle. It's consistent with the idea that Pasqualo needed to focus on being better to those around him to help himself, so deciding to stop hoping for salvation from Aurora and save her instead makes for a pretty good bookend. If only he didn't actually an hero.
