SUCH an icky, dreadful, nauseating story, wrapped up in a beautiful crispy jittery package. i said "this feels awful" out loud like four times while i was playing this. i loved it.
daizy's comment about people with psychosis having strong internal narratives felt key to her character. there's the literal narration in her head, but also, her mantras about the kind(s) of girl she is, her insistence on explaining herself and her actions to the reader... it felt true to all the mentally ill trans people i know & love.
(spoilers below)
daizy's relationship with anisia made me SICK!!!!!! daizy never even names her sexual abuse, because she loves anisia so much, feels she owes so much, that the thought never occurs to her that she could be exploited. and yet the tenderness and care anisia shows her is genuine. it feels soooo fucking real.
fantastic VN, will be thinking about this a long long time