Yes, I agree that his insanity is appealing, but insanity alone doesn't kill people.

I can just imagine what it was like when the world changed, a little girl, with a pretty bow in her hair, screaming in terror and agony as she plunges into a fiery abyss... ahhhh.

And the look on Cyan's face when he realized that everyone he loved was dead; that was priceless! The pain and the agony that he must have felt... UWEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!