mattomatt11kh

I don't mean in terms of the whole "Master plan" plot, so much as thematically. In a story that has very strong opinions on the importance of being able to feel and love, the inability to do that by virtue of missing a heart is extremely tragic, which sort of sets up why the Nobodies are doomed to live a sort of half life. What makes the idea of the Nobodies so compelling is the concept of loss, moreover, a loss that cannot be rectified by natural means. Thus, it explains why they...

. Thus, it explains why they're kind of angry, and why they are tormented: they're essentially ghosts, not really able to enjoy their time still here on earth, but incapable of passing on.

To introduce the idea that they literally could have just waited a year or two and magically won back everything completely destroys the tragic angle of inevitability, and makes the depth of Nobodies much shallower. It's not so much a tragedy to become a Nobody now, so much as it a temporary inconvenience.