Sighs. Tell me you haven't read Journal 3 without telling me you haven't read Journal 3
IT'S CALLED AN ARC. HE IS NOT A STATIC CHARACTER AND I'M BEGGING Y'ALL TO UNDERSTAND THIS.
In journal 3 the WHOLE ENTIRE POINT of his character is that he's a kind of a meek pushover who can't stand up for himself and follows Ford's lead against his better judgement! He's a damsel in distress TWO SEPARATE TIMES! The whole tragedy of his character is that he was this very normal dude who was consumed and corrupted by madness! THAT'S THE POINT! OF HIS CHARACTER!
And nobody better accuse me of trying to woobify him or absolve him of wrongdoing. Multiple things can be true at once HE'S A COMPLEX AND GREY CHARACTER THEY ALL ARE!!!
Anyway hot take i just don't think the correct answer to the (perceived) erasure of one half of his canon characterization is to instead erase the other half