pragnificent:

“Will is, ultimately, an inherently good man,” is such an a shallow reading of the character and the narrative that he inhabits. 

Worse, in a fundamental way it denies him self-agency. 

No one is inherently good or bad. We are the choices that we make. 

The choices that Will makes are complicated, because Will is himself, complicated. 

He’s neither “good” or “bad.”

He’s good and bad and everything else all at once, all of it tangled up into such a complicated mess that even he himself can’t make sense of it – in fact, he spends a lot of time willfully refusing to understand himself, for fear that he is at his core bad.