I think part of the reason I'm so annoyed with Sig's narrative direction in Puyo Puyo lately is just that a lot of it was actually pretty preventable if people stepped in and trusted him to make an informed decision about his...condition, for lack of a better word.
I was talking about this with my partner last night but I think the ultimate tragedy is that Sig is told that something is "wrong" and he also knows he "isn't normal" but the actual "how and why" are kept from him. So he expends all of this energy suppressing and masking part of himself, his power/the other Sig, which are synonymous in my mind, instead of taking the time to approach this part of himself with compassion and understanding.
He's SO afraid of losing control of himself because he doesn't even KNOW what this part of himself IS and it feels like the responsibility for dealing with this is falling...on him and Amitie? For some reason? Because let's be real: what have Accord and Lemres and anyone else who would understand his situation even done for him. YES he should be asking for help, obviously, but no one has actually helped him to understand what he IS and what is "WRONG" with him. How WOULD he know how to ask for help?
And this could be interesting if it was actually approached with the appropriate level of tragedy, and if there was a contrast drawn between the Other Sig who has been suppressed and has grown resentful because of this, versus Aya who doesn't want to exact revenge and instead wants a return to her definition of normalcy...they're also at odds in terms of their end goals, which is really, really, REALLY interesting to me! but this current direction kind of sucks and just tiptoes around these obvious compelling storytelling decisions to make a story that just ends up feeling hollow.
