Finishing the game, I screenshot the different passages that show up during the titular Blunt Soul Trauma. The act of comprehending what was wrong with Alexis felt perverted. It put me in the shoes of Ferida and maybe even Haydee to some extent. But after attempting to machine translate some of them, I had realized it was more ambiguous than I realized.
The ritual involving souls unnerved me on a personal level. But with this little experiment, I'd wondered if my efforts to "forgive" or "understand" Alexis was the intentional effect. One would try to make sure they aren't blindly loving an actual criminal. But another would probably want to understand how they got to this point.
Aside from all of that, the world implied outside of the story is really interesting. There's a lot to infer about angels, from how their corpse decomposes to their halos. It played a massive factor in getting me invested in this angel's intentions (while they put Ferida in the human's intestines).
I'm not quite sure what the intent of the story is? There's way too many elements taken from Emesis Blue. Is it supposed to be a homage or a parody? The part with Lebron James told me it was meant to be funny.
But it's a bit hard to tell what the characters are. We don't spend too much time with them other than escaping the slaughterhouse and such. Again, the elements directly taken from the movie confused me as such.
a fine wine expertly crafted, it perfectly captures the transgender feeling of living with this intense hatred in your heart. the intense body horror helps elevate all those awful emotions into something real and palpable, having prior been an abstract feeling unable to be grasped. underneath all the cherry flavor i can sense an aroma of tatsuki fujimoto, especially fire punch. i don't know how intentional that is but that story did change my life so i'm glad to have read the first chapter of something in the same ballpark
this one has a lot of thoughts and concepts i've both been stewing in my brain and also highkey relate to. in the end there's hope that things will get better, even if navigating the sexual trauma of being a weapon makes you burger horny
