while i am not a huge fan of its' ending, I appreciate that the story keeps things grey. Like, Hades actually does what an abusive parent who wants to get better ~should~ and that is not in a thousand years expect their relationship as parent-son to be okay. He still tries, but it's clear in subtle ways that he absoLUTELY knows he fucked up and isn't necessarily even trying to reverse it all and be "A Good Dad", he just wants to be a better person?
I have enough disconnect from my own experiences to recognize that Yeah, zag does have a choice and in this particular case it works.
but I'll be damned if i have some gripes about the story putting that forward as "The Right Thing" to more or less patch things up with an abusive parent.
because I was, quite literally, a Zag that tried for years to patch up an abusive parental relationship that was absolutely not going to get better.
honestly, I get it, but I wish Zag just left with Persephone and never came back