It’s not even because he regrets it, because he doesn’t. But he does regret some of the things he said, and the fact that he probably should have at least explained why it was necessary because Subaru genuinely did not know better, and the fact that he really did go overboard.

Everyone at first: Why the hell did we get called here to “grant his wish”? Talk about inconsiderate. And at the worst time, too — we were all in the middle of pretty important things, you know! Selfish, thoughtless brat.

Everyone in the middle: Alright… I’m starting to understand why this kid might have wished for help.

Sure I can give you some notes about that:

Begins very fluffy, ends in devastation

Reinhard is beyond delighted to see Natsuki Kenichi, because it “confirms” the assumption he’s had since the start: that Subaru came from an entire world full of Natsuki Subarus.

Anastasia is extremely invested in this world from Beyond the Great Waterfall. She is more interested in the technology surrounding them than she is in Subaru’s family life.

(This soon becomes her actively trying to distract herself and others from what is clearly a Very Personal Set Of Memories actually.)

The idea that Subaru gave up and holed himself up in his room for months like that is met with utter bewilderment because it does not fit with their impression of even the Subaru who first arrived in Lugunica at all. It’s not even a matter of him being lazy or not wanting to improve because he fully dove into his work as a manservant the moment he had the chance, so — it’s pretty clear from the very start that Something Else is going on, here.

Everyone’s impressions of Subaru’s parents are pretty varied. They’re not gonna see them as the Perfect Parents or anything, and different characters will have different ideas about what they should have done or w/e, but they’re all gonna understand that Subaru’s parents wanted what was best for him and loved him very, very much.

Ricardo, Rom, and Wilhelm are all particularly devastated by Subaru’s conversation with his parents, because they all have children of their own.

And then when he finally breaks, it’s to cry and beg and demand why Rem hates him so much and plea for an answer as to what on earth he did to her to get this sort of response, and it’s just like. Holy shit, he really wasn’t hiding anything. He genuinely just wants these people to like him, and that’s it. He helped Emilia because he wanted to help the nice girl who saved him. He saved the kids because he thought it was the obviously right thing to do. He went back for Rem because he already loved her after simply existing in her presence for like. Three weeks? He’s like that big scary pitbull everyone thinks is evil until suddenly it clicks that this is legit just another puppy who loves you, and a lot of people in the theater start feeling genuinely very guilty about writing him off near the start.

It’s also funny because this completely contrasts against their opinions of Rem, who went from a cute, hardworking, loyal, honorable maid to. D:

Everyone at the start: Geez, this is one troublesome personality — and with an ability like that? He’s probably been taking advantage of everyone around him ever since he got here. At least now we can see the truth about this guy.

Subaru, who openly considers wanting to go on a date with Emilia-tan to be shamelessly greedy on his part:

Basically, Anastasia is the one in the theater most focused on Emilia’s role as a Royal Candidate and as Subaru’s liege.

Everyone in the theater is gonna have a different opinion of basically everything that happens on that screen, lol, and for Anastasia, I’m basically largely using her as a way to explore how the wider upper nobility may view Emilia’s role as Lady Emilia within the context of Subaru’s Authority and experiences (and also taking Anastasia’s “greedy” nature into account). And that is, regardless of how fair it actually is to Emilia, not a very flattering viewpoint. This basically means that Anastasia is looking at Lady Emilia as someone who has an active responsibility to look out for the things that belong to her, and Subaru is very clearly one of those things — and more than that, Subaru’s boundless loyalty towards Emilia and the fact that literally all he wants is for her to like him make him an incredibly valuable thing for her to have, and Anastasia feels like Emilia is not treating that value with the care that it deserves. —And that’s not even considering the situation with the twins, who Anastasia really believes Emilia should have been more responsible for, because it should not have been That Hard for Lady Emilia to keep her OWN SERVANTS from murdering the guy who saved her life less than a week ago, especially while the three of them were some of her ONLY servants and they were all living in the same house.

It doesn’t even matter to Anastasia that Subaru’s desire to make Emilia proud of him may be self-serving, because EVERYONE is self-serving as far as Anastasia is concerned, and that is the natural way of the world. In her mind it does not change the fact that this is one of the easiest motivations for Lady Emilia to work with in making sure that Subaru does not do anything to embarrass either of them. Literally all she would have had to do is spend SOME time during those two months actively teaching Subaru what sort of behavior would make her proud/happy and what sort of behavior would make her disappointed in him, and that largely would have been enough — or, at the VERY least, had enough of a mind to actually be able to answer the question “What is Subaru to you?” when the Councilmen asked her to the point where Subaru didn’t assume that her hesitation meant that she was waiting for HIM to take the next step. Everyone else might be focused on how Subaru’s fears, insecurities, desires, trauma, and inability to explain anything he was going through just caused him to crash out in an absolutely spectacular episode of public humiliation that is nowhere near as amusing as they had previously thought, but Anastasia is focused on how Emilia could have easily avoided all of this if she had only taken her responsibilities as Subaru’s liege a little more seriously.

…I’m not going to say anything.