Although an angel, Myrwann isn't perfect, a result, perhaps, of spending millennia around humans. Much of this comic is about an alien entity interacting with we mere mortals, and the inevitable mistranslations, something that I've often thought about in terms of religion and our understanding of ostensibly divine beings.
Myrwann wants to save everyone they take in. That's undeniable - but what we might concern ourselves with is what "saving" someone means to a divine/alien being. This issue gives us a story of an angel wanting so much to save a human that they keep her alive even when death would be a mercy. Is it possible that an immortal being simply cannot fathom the idea that the release, or relinquishing, of life is something that a human might choose?
We humans go to great lengths to deal with our existential terror of nonexistence. Some go so far as to create vast mythical cosmologies and benevolent all-knowing beings, simply to assuage the personality's paralyzing inability to grasp that, one day, it won't be. Me? I'm agnostically optimistic, perhaps? It seems highly unlikely to me that there is an afterlife, but I'm also wise enough to recognize that the Universe is infinite and varied in ways that I don't have the sense or reasoning capabilities to imagine. If there is an afterlife, it's nothing like anything that anyone has ever imagined, ever. It's literally unimaginable.
It'll be interesting to one day find out, either way.
"So why did I remain there, in a nameless French village on the verge of extinction?"
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