Its the classical Childhood Friend goes Abroad comes back a diffrent person trope. Deffinetly meant to be Sad but if you want you can embrace it fully. And shes intended to be Pan so do what ever you want shell respect it.

Its meant to be that you stay the same person you used to be but its up to you as well

Dead Dove simply because in one of the Intros there will be the mention of Suicidal thoughts and Suicidal Ideation while passive still there.