I'm curious as to where exactly that conclusion was drawn from re:personality section conflict, because after rereading it multiple times in its entirety, I still can't seem to figure it out. In fact, I'd actually written that his interactions with his mother helped him to gain the empathy that he currently has now (albeit in different terms), so I'm not sure if it was just a miscommunication within my writing, or something else that I just can't seem to pick up on by myself. I hope you all don't mind clarifying that better for me.