>>539832259
The book is a bit weird to be fair, the whole thing is about self discovery, while trying to pretend the main character isn't gay as fuck

>Grow up believing the world is black & white
>Get blackmailed by the whistler, even though nobody would have believed his lie due to reputation
>Wants to fuck your sister
>Your esoteric school friends that randomly "dies" does something about it after proposing going as far as murder
>Kromer shits himself at your sight now, you ignore Demian to go back to black & white life
>Go study somewhere, can't stop thinking about Demian
>Draw the equivalent of a genderbent Demian at some point, see it as your muse
>Grow up doing all sorts of shit trying to give your own life meaning, like venerating and making a shrine for a random girl called Beatrice
>Slowly becoming estranged from family
>Suddenly Demian who's been out of touch this whole time sends a letter
>Go looking for him, but he moved, house had an old family photo of theirs, you see his mom
>She looks exactly like your muse
>Literally turn feral, like a dog chasing a bitch in heat
>At some point find them
>He's part of some cult of intellectuals, with him as leader worshipping Abraxas, join it
>Basically gets given permission to try and woo his mother, still give weirdly specific description of his muscles when you catch him cutting wood without a shirt
>Get drafted
>Get shelled
>Have weird gay dream, with a goodbye kiss from him
>He's suddenly gone
>Now you're Demian 2.0