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Thanks for making it! In the couple weeks/few updates since that comment my thoughts have become more solid, but I am very scrambled and can't put them together well. I guess it will suffice to say this one will definitely stick with me ♡ Unfortunately it made me remember something... unfortunate that happened to me, but life goes on. I've only read this one and PxP so far, but I like the recurring thing of like "living like you're already dead is hurtful to others and yourself". I really struggle to not corpselive, but your writing has made me want to struggle harder.

I really enjoyed reading this! Panz's chess piece design is absolutely bonkers... honestly the art design works so well. I love reading Katurian and Algie's dynamic. The mounting horror is so interesting because whenever you get a little, there's a little more waiting to sucker punch you just after. The whole fairy research setup is really interesting as a backdrop, it lends Katurian reality that I think would have been easy to jump over. Basically, really good job!

I've been trying to get my thoughts together on this one, and so far, it's been hard to grasp something conclusive. I really enjoyed it, both the VN and the getting-thoughts-together. The atmosphere is really good, it's kind of just cold-on-cold-on-cold; where there could be warmth(Aliska and Misha, Aliska and Sasha, even just in what beauty there is in the world), it's always contorted a little such that the cold seeps in anyway. I really respect the depiction of that, and it's done well. I guess the lack of resolution about how I feel when it comes to Aliska and Sasha is kind of just where the story has left me/them. It's tantalizing to try to imagine more, to try to piece together the morning after the end. I want something more conclusive than "sometimes, if you hurt an animal enough, it stops getting to know what its history means for its future". But how couldn't I? That's pretty much exactly where things end up for Aliska, and arguably Sasha, who chooses to just take even a moment of future and make it line up a contiguous history. Either the pieces can be lined up even if the chain they make isn't one Aliska can accept, or the pieces can't line up into something that works and Sasha falls apart anyway. And there's just no way to know, only hurt in anticipation of the morning. ACHE. I will be turning this one around in my head for a while, very good...