>>149565519*through repeat reads I think you can basically judge the different characters based off how they were removed/thrust into the real world.
MM adjusted the best for thinking it was all a strange dream for years after he fully built a human identity. Eventually he sinks into a deeper depression as he sees his powerfantasy life bleaken the world around him he used to have
YN went completely crazed because he was used for pure powerfantasy in Zarathustra, and when confronted with the horror of his real life could only madly continue to lash out with power the only way he knows to in the dream workd where it all made sense
KM’s a middleground, thrust completely out of his element, alone, with only his own unstoppable power to rely on to sustain himself. Despite not being born into evil like YN, became hateful, misanthropic and got a god complex over time, because he couldn’t adjust, being just a young kid who saw fit to always protect himself he eventually saw everything in the real world as a threat to destroy
MW had the easiest exit, though because of her sad and disgusting human life where she is raped by Gargunza. She forsook a human life entirely, instead only seeing herself as Miraclewoman and accepting her godhood easily. Reingorced by Gaiman’s planned ending to Silver Age where she works with Gargunza to take over, because she wants to be a total goddess, and not a benevolent overseer. Essential mindbroken into being thankful Gargunza improved her life so much
There’s a lot of insight to take from their characters, but emotionally it’s weakened when we see so little of their nostalgic happy lives in the simulation.