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I feel warm around him, I may struggle with emotional memory but I know I do feel more in control when I’m with him, more awake. I struggle to relive memories due to my emotional object permanence being ass but I know that he makes me .. feel less congested? It’s like my feelings are a clogged nose, and he’s that first day of it being clear again.

When we’re in the moment, when we’re tangible, it feels like I’ve been wearing tinted sunglasses all my life and I’ve just now taken them off. I love being around him, I love the sensory experience of loving him, it helps.

Example of good video game writing in Scarlet Hollow: the sticker on Kaneeka's laptop. I noticed it in Chapter 2, but others may have gotten to see it as early as the end of Chapter 1. If you don’t know anime, all you see is a cute anime critter, possibly a pokemon. If you do know anime, you’ll recognise Kyubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a dark and bloody deconstruction of magical girl stories. Knowing more about her taste in anime is a poignant piece of characterisation for Kaneeka, a goth anime nerd stuck in a small dead-end mining town. But then I got to Chapter 5 and found out what Kaneeka's actual situation is, and where her plotline has been going all along, and that sticker turned out to be the biggest, bleakest piece of foreshadowing in a game full of big, bleak foreshadowings.