>This character development makes 0 sense, this is turning into quite the dissapointment.
To me it makes perfect sense, in a way. They are static, eternal lifeforms, so it figures that after giving up - away so much change would be this drastic.
I also have an inkling of suspicion that her whole life arc somehow resonates in concepts found in buddhism, but both my current awareness of, and desire to learn about its principles are too casual to be blasting definitive statements about it, not to mention they already are too easy to encounter in fandom.