Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-25936766-20160715042327

^IIRC, the time skip was between 6 and 9 months or something like that. Big enough to stop crying in angst, but not enough to deal with the angst entirely. Just enough to not indulge in it every 3 scenes.

Also, like hell it would make him an emo. That is Wangst, when the character angsts too much for too little (not the case here) or just angsts too often (which I fear may happen). Some angst makes sense given what he's been through, even if not as much compared to, say, Ruby or Blake. Lack of angst would be nonsensical, and would make him more unsympathetic.