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wholeheartedly agree !! however !!!! i hope u don't mind me inserting one of my own headcanons here : Prime was a consistent source of comfort throughout his life. he stayed devoted throughout all the trauma he faced, clinging to his faith like a lifeline. it's all he has.
then he dies. and the hell he wakes up to does not align with whatever version of the afterlife the Church of Prime believed in. it's wrong. it feels like a punishment. but what did he do wrong ? he stayed faithful despite everything and didn't even expect anything in return. but, what, is he expected to live in this void forever ? it's called limbo, isn't it ? so when will it end ? why is this even happening to him ? he did everything right, didn't he ?
back when he was standing on that pillar, he thought about the warm embrace of his god, but was that selfish ? the thought seldom came to mind that he'd ever get some sort of reward for his faith, but he didn't expect to be punished.
and then he's pulled back, back to the land of the living with little more than some white in his hair to show for it. there are bruises, yes, but he has been beaten before. the bruises on his face don't –can't– account for staring the eternal void in the face with only the taunting voices of what could hardly be called a "host" of ghosts as company. he's kicked back to his normal life with a bloody nose, some white hair, and even more reservations about getting touched than before, all while his faith, his only constant, is in pieces. if all he's done wasn't enough for his god to even look at him, to even acknowledge him, to give him a sign, then does that change how he deals with everything in the future ?
anywayssss yes cTommy was a good religious boy and then he saw hell and it was empty so :]]
hot take or whatever but I don't think ctommy would have religious trauma. prime was, unarguably, a source of comfort for him through the entire story and never did his relationship with it take as drastic of a turn for it to give him trauma
and this isn't about headcanons btw this is about people using this (in my opinion incorrect) take in serious, canon Analisis