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This one hopes, with earnest sincerity, that the rules you must use to live your life become easier and easier. That the game you play lets you live in hope, and that the agony of despair never clings overlong to you.

For anyone that feels this way,  this one encourages you to try to write the rules to the game you play. Understand the design. You can change anything you understand intimately enough.

It’s okay, because it’s a nightmare you can wake up from any time. You don’t have to stay as ashe, it might only be a short journey for you in understanding, or maybe you already know well what it means to be ashe.

We had the deepest, most wonderful pleasure of reading this through live with the creators, and after having sat on the feelings for a moment, find it difficult to describe the emotions that bubbled to the surface whilst reading it. Perhaps it was prescient, then, that we were voicing Oberhau. 

Words ill suffice to describe it, though we shall try regardless. The story depicts the freeing experience of seeing, of being seen, of knowing, of being known. It's how it feels when finally someone has managed to look beyond the bars of the cage that you built about yourself and learnt to see the "I" behind the thing you had to become. It's that in spite of it all, the choices you make to be the person you want to be are the right ones. It's how you finally get to meet someone like you. It's how you get to reach out to that person, through thorns and differences and all, and ask them in one act of vulnerability to be your friend. It's a beautiful and enchanting fairy tale that depicts people that don't get depicted. It's a tale depicted so sweetly, so kindly, so softly. And that's all without speaking to the incredible quality of the art, music choice, and writing. Each character is charming and dynamic, expressive and full of life. This isn't a story or an experience we'll soon forget. 

We are endlessly thankful for permitting us the privilege of performing alongside you as your character, and for creating a story that resonated so deeply with us. 

the tender wisdom in learning how to realise you've been numb for too long and that you're letting yourself lose parts of you depicted here was very resonant. it's hard to learn how to keep that fire alive, but it's worth it.

thank you very much for the story.