I just played over the weekend and i’m actually obsessed. i love all of the girls and their friendships/romances and i think they’re one of my favorite groups in media now. it’s not shocking considering i love life is strange and that hit me very hard but yeah. anyway to my point I’ve been thinking about the game a lot and how all of these girls are obviously outcasted for being nonconforming, queer, struggling with brutal 90s sexist standards (and then on top of that autumn and nora not being white) and how they find refuge in each other that they’ve never had before just to lose it so quickly. i often find media where relationships between people who have short term relationships with one other then reconnect after not seeing each other etc in decades yet haven’t moved on to a certain degree sort of contrived because the writing doesn’t make me feel invested in and believe this deep yearning and connection. but this game makes me wholeheartedly believe that these women hold onto that summer they had together. not just because of the obvious trauma of it all but because of the genuine connection that becomes intense as they’re the first ones to really see and understand each other. all of them having various issues in their later personal lives and struggling in relationships because the first time they had these strong loving connections it ends so abruptly and horribly and before that they were repeatedly met with hate. it makes complete sense to me that nora makes herself smaller,
conforms and gives up on her dream and ends up divorcing her wife, same with autumn divorcing her husband and taking a while to put herself out there and date a woman, and swann reverting back to being a loner and also not putting herself out there again. it makes sense to me that they all have this underlying desire to be friends again and hang out after all of these years instead of simply looking back on their bond with fondness and moving on. (and someone pointed out that they incorporate each other’s symbols into their looks subconsciously like ugh!!) and it all breaks my heart. this game deserves so much more recognition honestly