>>136725372I don't blame you anon, unironically almost everything we were feed in this volume including WHAT THE TREE CANONICALLY DOES [Which once more, Is to kill the personality and memories of an individual and then reincarnate their raw 'soul shit' into a new being - Kinda like what the dreamsleeve does in TES]. seems like its pointing towards that.
Literally all they had to do to make this a better story was to just do what Jaunefags wanted and have him burn the tree or do some Shinji reaching into the angel in 2.22 shit and saving Ruby. Or have all of them do it. Or have Ruby go half-in on killing herself but then having a 'No...Not like this! Im not giving up on life yet! my mother wouldn't want me to do this!' moment.
But they didn't.
They legitimately sleep-walked their way into making some sort of suicide affirmation propaganda.
It's genuinely unthinkable.