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I totally agree! I feel like the "death depends on your appearance" mechanic just takes away the creativity and joy while customizing your character. I wish Petal would add events where we can pick up items and use them to stay alive instead of unavoidable death from the beginning. Of course, to keep the game from being too easy, the events could highly rely on reaction time or a memory test with randomized answers every time. Anything would be better than confirming the player's fate at the character customization stage, where it's supposed to be fun.

Go shopping for the pillow and then choose stay home. This worked for me