he could have handled Vile or Ava dying, but not both at once. and definitely not Vile killing Ava. so he's overloading and probably going to shut down in his and Maeve's room like a broken animatronic.
Maeve will come get him if she needs to. She may not have her emotions turned on rn, but she can tell when someone needs to be lightly pushed out a door
She's already emotionally compromised as well, so she doesn't rly want to see that many people either. Outside of Ruby and Marc & Steven...but she can go to them so Max can have peace and solitude
lol that with the NPC comment I was like oh no Ari's an NPC here by this logic. No crazy hair, just trying to look after the crazy hair guys after their crazy battles
To be fair, nothing seems more NPC-like than dropping lore stuff no one listens to, or having speeches people ignore, or trying to explain mechanics of the game to newbies.
When Aiden gets back from college next time, whatever event that is, they're just gonna go to the person whining about someone being killed like: dude it's fine, they'll come back and I saw them plotting on plurk about doing some hugs and hurt/comfort shit. It's fine.
so he's overloading and probably going to shut down in his and Maeve's room like a broken animatronic.