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But I, personally, think their relationship is more interesting if it's not romantic/sexual. If they're just romantic/sexual partners, that's the only reason they need to stick together.

If they aren't? If Remnan feels safer around Raqio's blunt, brusque honesty than others' dishonesty or friendly facades? If Raqio likes Remnan's quiet timidity and bouts of ruthless pragmatism?

If they stick together simply because each is the only person who seems to respect the other? The only person who appreciates the very qualities that everyone else finds distasteful? The only person willing to have a normal, casual conversation with them if they have literally any other option?

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

hi i like this game so i made bad posts about it 👍 bonus remraq edit that was too big and required a cut

Godspeed, patrat girl