all of those mentioned- possesion, incubation, connection to supernatural, hyper villagance-what he endured shapes him and is a core of his role as a character. it matters in understanding his development but also any societal, gender and queer alegories.

if you pay attention to him as an autonomous character, his development through subvertings those tropes, you'll realise he learns to accept vulnerablility-that he's not weak but not by proving it externaly. he protects ppl out of love, not the need to fit sm role or be in charge

a lot of you want to deny will femininity in every sense, even in narrative and it is serious bc you deny him character development and relevance in doing such. he occupies most (trafitionaly feminine) narrative positions in horrors and subverts some in such beautiful ways