It is definitely the type of story written hyperspecifically for its small target audience but it hits so unbelievably hard for me. Its use of godhood to represent subjective reality and nonstandard gender expression and how Charlotte has to explore to 'uncover' this within herself is insane!!!

Unbelievable how I was told this was the most nothing abstract part of the story and yet it's immediately such an unbelievably real and empathetic depiction of living through psychosis and sublimating this through RPG Maker Game References as escapism it's so fucking ghhfjg

The cruelest humans rejoice in being unlike you while they make it a holy mission to seek you out and ruin your life.
I love how at the end, Kiss-Shot says she was once a human too even though that means nothing to a 500 year old vampire, and Araragi replies "Who cares?"
All vampires are transgender

To become a vampire is to be marked and damaged. A monster that can only exist at night, at the expense of 'normal' people. They expect you to give into base temptation anyways, so why not let it out and call it your nature? Nobody wants to be you – even your brethren hate you and will hunt you down

I was ready for thoughtless complaining obviously but this Haruhi one is so fucking funny to me it's like they specifically wrote it to attack her insecurities as much as possible 😭 The "out of the approximately seven billion human beings on the planet" comment is so targeted

Yes!!! I really adore that everything is so downbeat and emotionally believable. The off-kilter tone does a lot for the impression that, while being so chill and cozy, Bee is kind of a sad lonely person who's using her lifestyle to cope in a way?? It's really really clever

I think there should be more stories which deliberately play on mid-2010s internet isolation to create their emotional atmosphere. Chaos;Child was definitely the best ever at this I need to continue that VN really badly

Hi !! I feel like we haven't talked in a while even though I always quite enjoyed your presence in conversations so I hope you've been doing well :)

Hi ily!!

The story is incredibly aware of this. It is a perspective she runs up against over and over from her classmates, even her supposed allies. And seeing the story forever reject this cruelty, to the extent that *they* have to be the ones to change to get through to her, is really beautiful

It's not even like she never gets better! She's always gradually being humanized and unlearning her internalized misogyny and solipsism. But nobody gives a shit; they want her put in her place FAR more than they want her to actually change, and that's just fuel for the fire