This is beautifully written, making a closeted MC an actual ghost is fitting symbolism to how it feels in real life. The way it kills a person slowly and causes you to ignore other injusticies and your own feelings. Nour being the only one MC has opened up to about their pain, being the black sheep of the family helping them understand in a way the other members of the family can't/won't. I can understand how they would be willing to help the MC now that they are a ghost, it's a sad and heartwarming dynamic.
S with the carving and the memories, devastating to loose a friend that way. In my canon playthrough definitely planning to help them not sacrifice their education for the restaurant. Goodbye tradition, if it keeps hurting people it should not go on but be reformed or let go. Although I do love this family restaurant dynamic and the culture should not die! It is possible to have a family and still be yourself, but it takes more than one person.
Specifically I'm very happy that this is a canonically not white and a queer story. I think more games where you can somewhat create the main character should still force you to be queer in someway, so this has been something I've been very much looking forward to seeing in interactive fiction spaces. Excited to read the whole story, I expect a lot of crying and bittersweetness but also the liberation of self autonomy.
Love the whole cast so far - the different forms of grief - and MC's emotions are very relatable. It is hard to realize you're experiencing panic attacks when you've come to believe that you can't be vulnerable. Had a very similar realization myself when I was younger. I wonder if we will know how the MC died?