there's something so comforting about eddie literally just being some guy. he's not painted as some wildly successful sex symbol, or somebody everybody envies. he's messy. he stumbles over his words. he's relatively socially awkward.
when he gets depressed, he actually gets depressed. it's not cutesy and sugarcoated, it's gritty and it's unpleasant. same with the way he experiences stress. there's just something so human about the way he's portrayed.
anyway i could talk about eddie brock for hours and never get tired