Were there strong hints about Noelle being plural before Chapter 5 came out? Obviously the Weird Route monologue this chapter is a pretty big indicator but off the top of my head I can’t think of anything before that that would suggest specifically plurality. I’ll defer to your expertise though cause I’m probably missing something really obvious.
She's always had a subtle air of being like. mildly dissociated at all times. Weird Route accentuates that while also highlighting the disconnect between herself, her thoughts, and her actions as early as Chapter 2. There are also a few times where she talks to herself in the third person, and I made sure to call attention to that in one of my sillyposts. I'm not going to make the mistake of saying those are Strong hints right now because I never really structured it all into a coherent paragraph or anything before (and normally I like to bounce these thoughts and ideas off of other people before I talk about them in public), and all that can apply to a girl who doesn't have DID or OSDD.
What I *didn't* know until today was that even on the Normal Route in chapter 5 you can get optional dialogue where Noelle explicitly refers to her younger self as if she were someone else, a separate girl who she feels no continuity with, and THAT hits us especially hard because holy shit. That's how it is when your original host goes dormant after traumatic experiences and you're just kinda left there playing their part. I felt that. My whole system felt that.
It all just makes me. ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm not normal about this game TWO of its main characters have dissociative disorders AT LEAST TWO of them are transgender as well. like. are you for real right now? am i dreaming?
