For limbo to be less of an "angst for the sake of angst" fest and more sensible, for lack of a better word, the time needs tweaking. I always hang on Tommy saying that it FELT like months passed by in those two days, and not a guaranteed sped up passage of time. Not only would that make more sense for the revived' mental states but it would get rid of this constant agony of the dead for the sake of, essentially, nothing.
Look I love Wil to death but f.i. Ghostbur existing now just to suffer, constantly, for decades, is just not it, for anyone. It's angst, and not even the fun kind of angst. And it gets worse when you mix in the difference in time passage.
I feel like the moment that hit the most for me is when I saw someone mention that Ranboo spent more time in limbo than being married to Tubbo and that's just...no. It's just not good for anything, story, narrative itself, consistency- whatever else; It's just pointless sadfest which, personally, I think just puts this giant fuck you to those characters for barely any reason :/
Like, I believe that if instead of 13 years Wilbur would've had to spend something around 160 days there - his current mental state would then still make sense. Because, well, spending all of that time alone with nothing but your own thoughts would one, have the same effect, and two, would FEEL like years, still. Same with Tommy: that affected of a person suddenly forced to spend days in a void, to meet with the person who've impacted you most once you've already mourned them, and then be ripped out of it that suddenly and violently? Again, his state then would still make sense.
It's difficult with Ghostbur because there would be either a route of him still suffering, though for less, or him just fully ceasing to exist. (As sad as that is - it is imo the most logical way because of his being a literal ghost, who I don't even know how has a limbo in the first place) Which is where that seeming necessity of limbo's being painful comes to question. Why does it need to be just suffering? You suffer in life and then die, just to suffer through death as well, like- why and why to such an extent as well.
And maybe it's not just all suffering. Maybe I'm fully talking out of my ass right now and Ranboo or someone may introduce something different (feels like it's been hinting at smth to do w afterdeath but ofc idk for sure). Or maybe not and I'm just wasting my time writing this lmao.
Overall: Angst just for the sake of angst is rarely ever fun and often just puts a giant fuck you to any writing. And the difference in passage of time related to the living adds to the needless suffering and complications. But it is just personal opinion, cause it's just been literally pointless sad, and not even the fun sad, so-
Also don't get me wrong: I can live and breathe good angst like there's no tomorrow. It can be undeserving, yes, and it can be poetically unfair, of course- but there is always a kind of line to consider, meaning less of a box you have to fit to or constrict yourself to, but more of a scale you have to balance.
(I probably made like barely any sense: it's the middle of the night and I'm brainrotting)
