In all seriousness, however, I do very much relate to him. Like, I've done (kinda, I don't have magic nor did I imprison people) the same things he did. I've been at the point where you feel like you HAVE to do bad things. You HAVE to be mean, to be evil. And it's awful. You feel this horrible eating guilt that nags and nags at you, but you can't stop. Because if you do, then you'll have no one. But because you act that way, you lose everyone anyway. You become your own self-fulfilling prophecy.
"People don't like me already, might as well act like it in a desperate attempt to get some amount of attention!" It never works. I'm glad my dad got me therapy when he did. I would have been a much worse version of myself if he didn't. Tenna needs help and therapy. Everyone was valid to quit and leave him, yes, but man, did it hurt. All he wanted was kindness and love, for people to like him. And they left. He deserved better. And so did his employees.
I don't think Tenna is very emotionally mature. Not to say, "oh, he's minor-coded, he's minor-coded!!!!" No. I mean that he's not as grown up as he should be. And that's valid. Because of his trauma, he never quite got to grow his emotions. He probably bottled it all up, pretending to be fine until they eventually began to explode out of him at the smallest inconvenience. He's clingy, irrational, and constantly relying on other people to help him regulate his emotions. "Oh, you're going to leave? That's fine, I guess, I'm just going to cry over here in the meantime... huh? You're staying? Yippee!! Happiest day of my life!!!" It's manipulative, but it's the only way he can cope.
I want him to get better. To be better. To move on from his trauma that seems to define him so completely and to learn how to live by himself, without the need of anyone else to be his emotion crutch.
