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Now that I'm more awake and have had time to process this horrific thought, let me try to elaborate what I think I mean.
Speaking from personal experience, being vaguely suicidal doesn't necessarily mean Senku is actively trying to kill himself or is looking for ways to do it. It more likely means that if he died, he wouldn't care. There would be no panic, no fear of what happened next.
Senku would close his eyes, and let it happen.
Thats not to say he has nothing to live for, he very much does, which is why he hasn't already thrown himself off a cliff or something similar. But if you recall my thought about Senku and emotion, having big heavy feelings shoved further and further down can be extremely poisonous to your psyche.
Senku has lost his birth parents, his adoptive father, and the world as he knew it. He was forced to figure out how to surive and save everyone else in the world because as far as he knew, he was the only one that could. And he hasn't processed any of those emotions in a healthy way.
When Tsukasa kills him, Senku has no way of knowing if his revival plan is going to work as intended. What he does know, is that he'd be fine dying regardless.
When he's shot by Stanley, and is suffering through fever and fighting potential infection, he passes the torch to Chrome knowing that even if he died, science would live on, and he's okay with that.
He's okay not seeing the world be totally recreated. He's okay not getting to see his middle age and elderly years. He's okay losing his life, because he honestly is tired of living.
I say again that Senku isn't actively suicidal, so he's not going to kill himself on purpose right now. But if he got the chance to die? He'd take it.
Besides, whatever afterlife exists is where Byakuya is, and he has a lot to say to his father.
I just woke up in a cold sweat with the words
"Senku might be vaguely suicidal"
In my head, and now i want to curl back up and cry because why would my brain do that to me