⚠️GORE/BODY HORROR⚠️

alexia is the one who guides justine into fitting in with the rest of her peers even if it meant doing extreme and humiliating things because she had to do the same. she also guides justine through her cannibalistic urges by trying to teach her how to kill and feed and never get caught. alexia knows the ins-and-outs of what she needs to do to survive, both socially and physically, which reminded me a lot of kizami and his ability to mask successfully. the only difference being that alexia revels in the social aspect, rather than resenting the effort it takes like kizami does.

meanwhile, justine never learns either and fails to assimilate in her new social life and fails at being able to navigate her urges. how much that reminded me of morishige is pretty obvious.

the familial aspect of the movie is definitely incredibly important, but I also don't think they need to be literal siblings either for the concept to work and my aus are mostly about the bigger picture of a concept. the two scenes I redrew where alexia takes a bite out of justine's cheek, and later on where she's the one cleaning and taking care of the very same wound she inflicted really stood out to me. it shows that even when they hurt each other, at the end of the day they're still sisters. for me, it's reminiscent of how I interpret kizashige where the push and pull between them can culminate into something so violent and painful, but they still will always have that connection with each other. focusing on that juxtaposition of violence and tenderness that I see a lot in kizashige.