If Arthur left to depression triggered by echoes, did the depression ease up/vanish when he left the echo boundaries: I'll say yes, with a catch. Arthur was depressed and lonely to begin with, so even if his depression over realizing that 'Arthur Pendragon' killed someone who loved him, he would have forgotten that. Since he lost his echoes and along with it his 'good' memories, he wouldn't have had a reason to be depressed--except for the fact that he was definitely depressed before he got the echoes.
Did he leave notes to himself? In short: why did he stay away?: He stayed away because without his echoes, he's kind of a creature of habit. Arthur's whole mindset when he left home and into the city had been to stay away from folks, because Kyle would weasel his way into things and try to make Arthur look bad just to keep his ego as low as possible. So, he would have thought that living with his adoptive mom as a good break and--well, he would prefer 'living naturally without stress' over 'looking over his shoulder' in Locke due to his brother. Arthur's cowardice without his echoes is related towards not wanting to be humiliated anymore than he already has been.
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but no really i like the questions so:
If Arthur left to depression triggered by echoes, did the depression ease up/vanish when he left the echo boundaries: I'll say yes, with a catch. Arthur was depressed and lonely to begin with, so even if his depression over realizing that 'Arthur Pendragon' killed someone who loved him, he would have forgotten that. Since he lost his echoes and along with it his 'good' memories, he wouldn't have had a reason to be depressed--except for the fact that he was definitely depressed before he got the echoes.
Did he leave notes to himself? In short: why did he stay away?: He stayed away because without his echoes, he's kind of a creature of habit. Arthur's whole mindset when he left home and into the city had been to stay away from folks, because Kyle would weasel his way into things and try to make Arthur look bad just to keep his ego as low as possible. So, he would have thought that living with his adoptive mom as a good break and--well, he would prefer 'living naturally without stress' over 'looking over his shoulder' in Locke due to his brother. Arthur's cowardice without his echoes is related towards not wanting to be humiliated anymore than he already has been.
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Arthur went back to being Wart for awhile! 8D