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this was really fun! thanks

this was cool! i liked the backgrounds and i liked how you could see the backgrounds through the characters. i also liked the abrupt ending it made me laugh

wow im glad i read this! i loved the whole mood of it between the story and the visuals. chari's got such a precious lil sad face uwu i hope demi will have everyone bowing before her 

i loved the doily UI. so many cool little moments in this game

wow, the characters are really cute! i wanna know more about them all and find out more about what they're all investigating :) good luck finishing this

wowowowow beautiful work! this is going into my wow collection

agree

just wanted to let you know i used some of these in my game noise machine! they were great!! thank you

ahh! thank you :3

omg!! wow 

i read it twice! i wish there was more

beautiful <3

great start! excited for more :)

this was fun!! beautiful weapon gail <3

glad i came and read the other comment here because i had my sound off. played it again to hear the music. Cool!

(it's intended as one!)

weh ;_;

this was sweet! i really liked this.

wow! a lot is packed into this vn. im so sorry i had to skip some of the descriptions because of my attention span, so I didn't totally follow what was happening in the sci-fi plot. but the character interactions, dynamics were really interesting, and some of those CGs really blew me away!! minecraft backgrounds were fun too :) hope these girls are able to resolve some of their problems in act 2!

this was a tough read... everything seemed so ugly at first. but im glad i stuck with it, the journey of gaining insight into the main character, between how she talks to her enemy vs how she talks to her friends, was kind of cool. photo mode was fun too :) i forgot how to get out of it so i pressed every button and accidentally figured out how to make mariette change position

i was able to run the game on the second highest setting, on my desktop! i am not going to try to run it on my laptop.

this was incredible... these characters... the style... omg. i could not get enough of looking at these girls and the world they move around in

omg i feel ill. this was beautiful. thanks for making it. ughafhsjdfhalkjfsdh

this was really beautiful. the color design was so nice, just with the art so lovely to look at. and the um, imagery in the writing was also done really well. and the story, oh, my heart 

liked this! the pixellated font and backgrounds felt comfy. the story was cool. took me a while to start to realize where it was going! but then i got to look back and think... (spoilers) was purple planning this all along? did it engineer what happened with pink to take advantage of blue's response to it? well i'll never know.

would love to see this finished someday, or something else from you.

this was great! the ending surprised me a lot :)

lilith is so cute. i liked the visual effects too, really cool

this was fuckin sweet, thanks for making it

More! More!

damn. DAMN omg i was not expecting this to go *there*. well done, also,  owwww. fuck.

this was really cool

What a delightful fairy tale! we really enjoyed reading.

regret missing out on this one, please let me know if it's still available anywhere. thanks!

beautiful work, loved this!

rly enjoyed this, thanks for sharing!

wow!! this was so good, incrdibl <333

hehehe this was fun

cool!! love a good dream story. really liked the part where they *spoiler don't look* stab each other

this was cool! i liked the alliteration hehe

AWOOO

really enjoyed the demo! would love to see more of the game :)

this was very fun and sweet, well done too! <3

this game has so many fun little touches and the dolls themselves are gorgeous. beautiful work <3

Ah! thank you for reading, and thank you for asking these questions! It's great to have insight into how readers interpret what we wrote and what we ended up leaving out.

There are answers to your questions in my head that I guess did not come through in the text... most notably the details about Garbage Doll's becoming. I really regretted not having the space to do more than hint at the backstory and the origins of Garbage and Neon's relationship, and maybe a prequel would be in order. But  might never make one, so if you're curious about what I was trying to put in the subtext [spoilers ahead]:

Garbage and Neon were involved for a while, when both of them were more human. They were girlfriends who did hypnokink stuff. Neon, who wanted a doll, had talked to Garbage (when lucid) about turning her into one, and Garbage, who was having like a rough family life, trouble with school etc, transitioning, found the idea attractive but had not officially decided. Then Garbage attempted suicide, and Neon decided to save her by making her a doll. It's not right to hypnotize women into dollhood, and Neon could get in trouble with the other witches. However, I think she didn't actually hypnotize Garbage at that moment and instead took advantage of the fact that Garbage was vulnerable and already conditioned to go along with whatever Neon wanted. Garbage doesn't actually have a clear memory of what happened.  

This sort of reflects other Empty Spaces stuff we've read. Many witches are benevolent and seem to live to provide their dolls with whatever they need to feel fulfilled as dolls. Some are flat out evil and abuse their dolls (and some dolls seem to want that).  I wanted something in between for Neon Cat... she's kind of self centered, she thinks she knows best, she does what she wants, her dolls are there for her to use. She does care about them, but once she feels like she's failed them she shuts down and avoids thinking about it. 

(I think in other ES stories the witches often also use real magic. It's not really codified and it's often not the focus of the stories.)

But yeah, I couldn't figure out how to get all of that in at the time since it only really came up during the climax and I didn't want to slow things down too much. Oh well!

Oh, and about the scissors: Garbage Doll needed specifically a witch's scissors to cut the magical stitches on its mouth which is why it didn't buy a cheap pair from the store. The scissors in the medicine cabinet are, after all, the ones Neon used to repair Garbage Doll when they were living together.  (Also, you can't order a hat and wand online, or perhaps you can? But Neon Cat went to a local magic supply shop to get replacements.)

But yeah! Thanks again for reading! Glad you liked the art :)