something i really like about lou's unification chapters that i don't think i mentioned before is just how easy it is to read the character as having a dissociative disorder now, specifically DID
notice how she doesn't interpret what happened to her as a simple change in behavior that she managed to brush off post unbrainwashing, but mentally pictures herself as three different people
aside from this, the chapter also talks about a memory that she had forgotten, but that she can access via connecting with the other lous
it's not lost to me how this page is framed as if she's waking up, and when she does that the dialogue bubble is in a different font
after this, lou's characterization changes and becomes very unlike her initial self. to put it in her own words, they seem like different people. this new characterization is carried over to way after their unification arc
given she says the three lous are now connected, it makes sense that the behavior we'd see would change
now cults work a lot with dissociation, and while that doesn't cause a disorder in everyone who falls victim to one, if lou already entered the manor with a dissociative disorder that started developing prior, it would certainly explain why out of the main five living dolls she's the one who changed the most from her pre selection self
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