S u r v e i LL a n c e

But it's the fact that Will is allowed so little happiness compared to the other main characters. I feel like the last time he was really, genuinely happy was at the end of season 1, and even that was tempered by the fact that he'd spent the entire season up to that point being lost, traumatized, attacked, and violated by monsters. Then in season 2 he gets possessed and watches powerless inside his own body as so many people die defending him, protecting him, trying to save him, including the man his mother loved, a good man who had been nothing but kind to him. In season 3 his friends abandon him for romance, and he finds himself alone, stuck in a childhood he is no longer allowed to have, while his friends move to an adolescence which, for different reasons, is equally off limits to him. Then as of the beginning of season 4, he's moved away, lost all of his friends at once, and spent most of his time away pining for them, pining for someone who used to be his best friend who is now actively ignoring him. He gets a friend back just in time to be shot at, watch another brave man die to protect him, and bury that man in an unmarked grave in the desert with his own two hands.