sometimes people are like "wwx never suffers the consequences of his actions :/" & every time I'm like [that Tumblr post voice] they very much did kill jesus

pre-timeskip cql could be subtitled "wwx suffers the consequences of his actions"

like are you mad he ALSO gets a happy ending bc you'll be glad to know he definitely has brain problems his whole life bc of *checks notes* complications related to dying

The thing I think people are hung up on is that OTHER PEOPLE also suffer the consequences of wwx's actions, & for most of those people things are never quite resolved -- wwx doesn't anything to "fix" it, or at least doesn't do ENOUGH, & so his happy ending doesn't feel ~deserved

but like that's not bad writing? It's good writing. It's how things work--this is not a morality play, it's a story about a flawed and traumatized person making a whole lot of choices that affect a whole lot of people, & how the people around him feel about those choices

That's going to be messy! But it's not our job as reader to decide whether wwx has sufficiently apologized or redeemed himself or regretted his actions or whatever to "earn" his loving marriage. He's loved because of the person he is, & that person has a lot of unresolved Mess