Consistently chooses to deal with his feelings on his own instead of with others; if you tell him the Rite of Thorns has completed, he says he needs to go be alone. In the deleted scene where you could collapse his portal, he would have gone off to be alone before leaving the party. He mentions after the Shadow Curse that he'd became fond of lonely nights alone with honey mead.

Laments his lack of peers, stating that his forced leadership role stole away the few the Shadow Curse didn't kill, and even cites this as part of the reason he began to "gild undeserving memories of his youth" and romanticize being a sex slave as he had been before.

Has had unique traumas that the other tadfools don't always understand, being frustrated at times with his laser-focus on the Shadow Curse, and sometimes not understanding the significance of him saying he won't drink except on very special occasions anymore (despite being very well-meaning when they suggest breaking his dry streak).

Repeatedly relies on you as the player for physical safety (rescue from the goblins, protection from the portal, potentially rescuing from Orin), emotional intimacy whether romantic or platonic, sexual intimacy if the player is interested, and the ability to be himself and be pulled from what he describes as the "fog" that fell over him with the Shadow Curse (which ftr is absolutely a metaphor for depression, almost all of us who have had it will describe it the same way)

Loves you so much if you pursue a relationship and yet doesn't believe for a moment you'd actually want to go with him to his new commune, to the point of treating it like a forgone conclusion that you won't and being completely taken aback when you say of course you're coming; even after living together for six months, he still believes you don't actually want to stay with him forever, and that the instant seeing your old friends reminds