The Thorn Ring and Noelle wanting to go to the Festival with Kris

Case #2 that we've fricked up her brain

WHY WOULD ANYONE THANK SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO STAB THEM?! (Yeah it's a thorn, but still)

Y’know you don’t need to say “frick”

You’re choosing to do that

Personal preferences go brrrrrrr

You’re saying you like the word “frick”

And also doing the “brrr” thing at the same time

Whatever it doesn’t matter

No the personal preference is not swearing

waiit what
what does brrr mean exactly?

Then why don’t you just say something else or not do it at all instead of doing a fake version of swearing that 12 year olds use

It’s like a meme from like the 2010s that just means basically that a thing exists I guess

Considering the fact that I'm only 2 years older than that I think it's alright

I just realized that Noelle smiles before the player makes Kris “equip” the thorn ring to her holy shit we’ve genuinely screwed her head

That’s definitely like just an anxious smile I think

I think I’m pushing back on all of this because I don’t want there to be like a cliche thing where like Noelle becomes evil and I want it to be more psychological

But like it genuinely makes no sense for her to be happy in that scene either way

She’s not

We be making her evil tho

No

I dunno maybe I’m being knee jerk to your opinions or something but I feel like that’s such a like flat idea of what’s happening

Maybe I’m not being fair

Maybe I just have a problem with the way you’re describing it

I mean it's not AS simple as "We be making her evil now" but when you boil it ALL the way down, that's what it is.

We're psycologically manipulating her into (presumably) our new Vessel, and then we'll leave Kris behind to be evil.

I see evil as typically like

Somebody who does terrible things on purpose, like somebody who likes hurting others

and I don’t think that Noelle will be like that, I think with things like her saying “Thank you” it’s that we’re breaking her will, convincing her that what we’re doing is for her own good

Honestly I really might just have had a problem with the phrasing maybe, like I said

We probably don’t disagree fully

AND IT'S NOT! That's the evil part, we're lying to her and manipulating her just because we CAN. We never had to do the Weird Route. We went out of our way to do it.

And that? I think that's pretty evil.

I think as a vessel she doesn’t need to be evil, more hollow, obedient, not resistant to our ideas

okay?

I’m not Noelle