#skye rambles

he had twelve years to process everything that went wrong in their relationship, come to terms with the fact that they were both young and full of insecurities and handled things poorly, and forgive her for what she did. it's what makes the ending of the story believable. like, these characters are older, they've learned from their past, there's been time and space for empathy and forgiveness, which are the core themes of the book.

Kris is the type of person to be extremely self-sacrificial and self-harmful. We see this in them literally ripping out their soul in one of the most painful self harm allegories I’ve seen. We see them grab the suspiciously chara shaped flower seeds with warning labels that we have no idea what they plan on doing with them. They try to cut their flower statue thingy in half while only trimming Susie’s at the start of ch 5s darkworld. The promise to house the soul and give up their agency likely comes from a place of guilt. I could go on, but suffice it to say Kris is usually the last person they think of when doing anything.

So cut to Susie and Noelle’s relationship. Kris knows Noelle has a crush on Susie most likely since the start of the game. At the very least they do in ch 2, as during the Ferris wheel scene the dialogue options give the vibes of Kris trying to wingthey for Susie and Noelle. Maybe they don’t have feelings for Susie yet, maybe they do. But either way, they’re not going to get in the way of Susie and Noelle getting together.

Now it’s ch 5. Susie and Noelle very clearly have feelings for each other more than in ch 2. We see at the end of ch 5 Kris has feeling for Susie. But would they ever get in the way of Susie and Noelle at the festival? Hell no.

I firmly believe that if we the player choose all the suselle options, Kris will go along with them and play the best wingthey there is. Not bc they are forced to, we’ve seen them go against our orders or speak things quietly enough no one can hear them on multiple occasions. But bc they don’t want to get in the way of their best friend/crush and childhood best friend(/maybe childhood crush).

Like I said before, Kris is the type of person to put everyone else before themself. So, provided the soul chooses the options, Kris will wingthey the best they can for suselle bc they care about their friends happiness more than their own. Besides, in their mind it’ll be easier this way for when they inevitable betray Susie. She’ll have someone else to fall back on, right?

Kris istg your self sacrificing bullshit is going to send me to the fucking grave. But I digress

Kris would never get in the way of suselle. Even tho it hurts them to watch those two get close, they wouldn’t stop it from happening. Hell, at the shorted weird rout hot spring, they’d rather dive headfirst into the water than allow the soul to tell Susie “don’t get between me and Noelle”.

But now they’re at the hot spring with Susie on the normal route. Susie, the girl they have a crush on, the girl who’s their first real friend in a long time, the girl who’s been there for there whole adventure. The girl who said “I gotta practice giving this to someone” and then threw a goddamn flower at Kris’ face when they scared her. No I am not ok about this. And the two of them are sitting together, and Susie’s worried her and Noelle won’t work out. And…

Kris can’t say they will. Looking at her, as the soul picks that “you and Noelle will work out”…Kris can’t say it. They mumble the words low enough Susie can’t hear.

Is this bc they don’t think Susie and Noelle will actually work out? No. In fact, id bet the opposite. They think the two will work out, but some selfish part of them, probably a part they hate, wants them to not. Not bc they want the two to suffer, but bc that single, selfish part wants to be with Susie. And when it’s the two of them alone…they can’t fully ignore that part well enough to tell Susie what she wants to hear.

And then the chapter ends, and it’s just the two of them again. (Given the right option is selected) Kris rips out their soul and it truly is just the two of them as they walk back to castle town. Susie reassures Kris and reaffirms their bond, but at the same time says that “the dark world can’t just be a you and me thing anymore. It needs to be Noelle’s thing too”.

Even tho she tells them they still matter to her, even tho they know that, Kris is still hurt by this. Ignoring the various reasons Kris probably doesn’t want Noelle in the dark world, her getting included is getting in the way of their Kris and Susie thing.

Like obviously the two aren’t alone the entire dark world and Kris still cares a lot about ralsei, for example, but at the end of the day, when the fountains are sealed, Kris and Susie are the only two left who know what happened. Who experienced king, queen, tenna, the knight, the titan. Who experienced that dark world in its full capacity. And they did it together.

Kris knows Susie still cares so much for them. But seeing their face at the end of the chapter as they walk home all alone, and just how fucking sad they look. It’s not hard to imagine they feel like Susie is drifting away from them too.

First dess, then Noelle, then Asriel. Now Susie too.

Some sprite sketches of the female love interests for the eah visual novel idea! These are just sketches meant to get their poses, proportions, and faces down, as well as a base so I can sketch out all their different expressions on (which I have done for Raven but not the other two yet). Aka the details are not ironed out whatsoever lol

More eah vn ramblings under the cut!

You can have two women. You can have the pretty girl that kicks ass AND the tomboy with the typically masculine hobbies.

Different girls in society have different expectations. Some women think that the only way to get ahead is to be masculine, so the typically feminine woman who is cute and can still beat your ass is for them.

Other women are told they HAVE to be hyper-feminine to be a “real woman,” so the tomboyish girl is for them.

God, god, is Sky’s full first name supposed to be Skylar and not Schuyler?