>>536862579
Nobody kills themselves for someone they see as an objective. If he didn't love her, he wouldn't have a bout of depression in a field of flowers like this. Shadow 100% has the capacity for love, but not the capacity to express it normally.

>>528224169
>I like the idea of Shadow imagining what could have been with Maria, but never getting it.
Isn't that just canon though?
I like to think about hypotheticals. What if Maria lived? How would their relationship have developed? How would Shadow act?
The bittersweetness of him never getting it just makes me love it more.