I hated Skylar so much, couldn't connect with him. He was such a dick even after learning ...

for you to say this is rlly ignorant, sure he acted some sort of way w cirrus, but there was a reason for how he acted. cirrus had a backstory too, you js didnt understand both sides of the story

You are dumb

I have sympathy for him. He was bullied and had his trauma, but he said so himself, he was running away the whole story time. With that, I have no empathy. He had half-assed feelings, saying he was in love but not showing it, with one foot in the closet and the other outside. I cannot empathize with characters that have weak resolution.

I don't say he is not worthy of empathy from readers, I just say he doesn't have mine. I didn't like him as character because I hate people like that in real life, too.

Instead of being happy for both characters finding happiness in the end, you criticize one of them for experiencing character development? You seem to accept Cirrus's actions, which included blackmail and bullying, because of his backstory, as if that makes his behavior acceptable. On the other hand, Skyler, who was also dealing with trauma from past abuse, said very hurtful things and initially wanted nothing to do with Cirrus. However, he ultimately apologized and showed genuine remorse, yet you consider his actions unacceptable and unforgivable? So yeah your weird ;)

You are not weird at all. Its ok to feel things for fictional characters lol
I hate the idea that if you don’t like a well written character you are ‘illiterate’ or hate character development and like, you can undertands a story and a character and still don’t like them. and that’s normal, that’s the point of a story

I personally think that the way Skylar acted towards Cirrus was very well deserved lol