The side characters!!! I'm so in love with each of them. This is gonna be a bit long, sorry in advance! Also, spoiler warning, but I’m gonna be paraphrasing several quotes from memory!
Kuna and the PTPS! She’s so fun. I loved the side quest, and the reveal that the tree was there all along! I always love a character who’s obsessed with something as a coping mechanism. Also, her book being able to be given to Azmidi was so wonderful — when I was playing the despair route and she mentioned wanting a new book I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get it to her, but I wanted sooooo badly to help them out. I had to use the guide a bit for that, and it let me know some fun stuff like the secret passage!
Azmidi, now. Wow, I loved finding stuff out about her through conversations with Lost in particular. Actually, this can be a general analysis para since characters like Lost and Az are so connected. The ten stories got me theorizing like a madman. Certainly, Lost seems to be the one before The First, the one who landed in the sea. And Az’s story was wild — reaching that tapestry in the castle and seeing “That… doesn’t seem right” wrt Vastéri’s backstory had me gnashing my teeth. Ohhhh and “do you ever get lonely?” Wrt lost! And the diary on Az’s nightstand! They probably can’t come live with me. It’s been twelve years, so they should be coming soon. You should go see her! Maybe, maybe. God, this nb/nb yuri (to me) william-year-slowburn romantic drama goes so hard. And they both lost their Shepards, but in completely different ways! Of course they’re different — Lost didn’t even know he had a Shepard, much less lost them. And Az worked so so so so hard to finish their wish, but it wasn’t possible. So Greek tragedy of them.
And the differences between Lost and Mira!!!!! God, my poor friends have been subjected enough to my yapping about this. They both lost their light. It makes me crazy. But Lost wasn’t subjected to the trauma and torture that Mira was, and they eventually had Az! They’re completely different in their relationship with the world and with connections, but so similar in their outcomes — stuck stars, lost light, endless listening. I have a lot of lore questions regarding the eating starlight thing: it could be just a joke about black holes, or it could be about how, after turning into black holes, they are constantly craving connection even more so than the non-turned stars. Also…. Lost knows the difference in taste between Darkness and Star-given starlight. Hm. So many stars fell… I’m curious how he got to taste it before Mira escaped.
Similarly… There are so many darknesses that are turned conscious. And their names: nebula, asteroid, comet, etc etc… are they just unfinished stars that fell, or are they something else entirely? Is it a situation like the tree, where Darkness somehow simply possessed a previously soulless Cosmos-fallen thing?
Also. I don’t know if you count this as a character or not. But The Cosmos. It is what I would consider to be Starlit Void’s equivalence to God, and it is so interesting to me. It’s not kind. It’s not benevolent at all, actually, even when it’s helping. It just is. It follows some sort of logic or rule pattern that it itself is bound to, and it’s not all powerful in that sense. However, it has some level of emotion — it grants the Stars for wishes. It made love. It guaranteed to Az a successful destruction of the Darkness. Still, it allowed the torture Mira went through. And it refuses the Stars back into itself. And it sent every Star from where they belonged down to the earth. What a good portrayal of an imperfect god!
Anyways, I just wanted to say thank you again! I really, really enjoyed this game. Have a good day/night!
Thank you for your wonderful analysis!!!
I love Lost and Azmidi ... Their relationship is very interesting to me. I really want to explore it more eventually! I'm really glad you got the nb/nb yuri vibe!!
For the Darkness, the idea was that it was created by Mira's magic, and it resembles stuff you can find in space (comets, planets, galaxies, etc) because Mira misses the sky, so his magic takes the shape of what he wants the most. Also it just looked cool!
Thank you for playing and giving me your thoughts on the game!! :)