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this is a complicated one. this is definitely a significant tone shift from what I'm used to from this sort of content, but I enjoy that contrast.
other people have talked about how nica is uncharitable towards chun towards the end, and I think it's a mutual sentiment throughout the VN; neither is understanding the other's viewpoint until they absolutely have to. when one feels they're in a position of relative power, they try to press it, because neither of them understand how a relationship should function. this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but often leads to behaving poorly. 
nica wanted chun to be some kind of hero to take her away from her bad home life, her unpleasant experiences streaming for escapism. but she doesn't humanize chun in the ways she should. she fundamentally doesn't understand relationships.
chun wanted to be that person, but doesn't know how, and violates nica's privacy and basic human decency in the process. she fundamentally doesn't understand relationships.
I think it's honestly really well sketched. and I'm happy with the trans experience portrayed. we're just as messy, just as wrong and hard to build things with as anyone else. not because we're trans, but because we're a perspective others may not understand, like any other. this VN did a really good job showing that. we all get stuck in our heads.

I don't think the end of the VN is meant to show a perfect relationship taking form. it's meant to show two messy people trying to do better. the emotional climax of the novel is nica lecturing chun, but...idk. I think she deserves it, because she won't say any of the things nica is finally willing to. one of them has to talk. chun won't. she starts committing graphic self-harm in front of nica instead. and nica's response is to lecture her pretty brutally while she's clearly in an extremely delicate place. neither of them are healthy. they can, maybe, get to a better place. 

that all said it was kinda messed up for chun to take her new trans girlfriend to the vagina museum LOL. hey baby wanna see what you weren't born with :3

finally, I also want to say that although I don't think the previous commenter's view is invalid, I don't agree with them as someone who is also autistic. I have had the same things weaponized against me, but from the other perspective. lashing out like this makes sense to me. being autistic does not free you from culpability in emotional harm. nica and chun both hurt each other in very similar ways. I have had other autistic people try to justify emotional abuse as autistic ignorance. at the end of the day, you always have to communicate and put the work in to try to help each other rather than hurt each other. nica fails at this, but so does chun. our protagonists only start doing this at the end. I am deeply sorry that they went through that and I hope that neither of us experience anything like it again, but we took away different things from this VN.

thanks for making me think about what sounded like a very traditional GL VN on its head. please continue to work together and make games like this.