''This game contains references and depictions of sexual assault, violence, misogyny, transphobia, grooming, childhood sexual assault and more.''
I'd also add that it contains forced feminisation and nullification (OF COURSE), but I'd say all of that is more of a kink than an actual trauma for these people.
Without getting into how the writing is trying really, really hard to be symbolic and edgy and cool with the ''protagonist'' a total badass, so much so that the rules and laws of real life don't apply to them, the story is bleak and boring as it can be.
It's sometimes very hard to tell exactly what's going on since the author insists on using long-winded sentences with the excessive use of fancy synonyms (think
skinship instead of sex), and that, in my opinion, mars the writing. Unfortunately, I also see my younger self, who really wanted to write with people but also wanted to use words other than 'say' in roleplay, so Thesaurus was my best friend. But when making a game for the public (yes, this game is publicly accessible over itch.io, which is surprising considering the purge they went on not too long ago), your writing should be clearer, at least in my humble opinion. Then again, my first language is not English, so take this criticism with a grain of salt.
The story follows Periwinkle, a troon woman who, presumably, kidnaps a young woman and her boyfriend and locks them in an apartment as, presumably, an act of revenge of some sort. The young woman, later re-named Petunia by the perpetrator, is seemingly just in the wrong place at the wrong time, as she doesn't seem to have any ties to Periwinkle other than currently dating her ex-boyfriend, who also gets renamed after a flower—Passiflora Eia Popeia, shortened to Eia.
The characters have actual names, but when they rarely address one another by their former name, the text is blocked out, so I'll refer to them by their in-game names; Periwinkle/Peri, the main character, Petunia, the young woman, and Eil, Peri's ex-boyfriend.
The story is surprisingly slow for a game that has like a half-hour of playtime. The game starts with the definition of certain words, such as;
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We start off inside the world of Peri, who we learn is currently drunk and medicated. She stumbles upon another drunk woman and saves her from a group of leering men, taking her back to her place. There, we learn that the inebriated woman is a girlfriend to a man who used to be Periwinkle's boyfriend, who we later come to know as Eia. It is stated that Eia has groomed Periwinkle at a young age and took advantage of her at some point. As to what Eil exactly did, it's not stated outright—obviously, grooming and SAing a minor is terrible, but it's not clear if he did something more to Peri or if that was ''all''.
Peri wants to exact revenge on the man, and the woman tries to leave, but Peri doesn't let her. That's where the pair gets their new names—Petunia and Eia.
The game does this bizarre thing where it starts each ''part'' off with a redacted Bible quote. As such, this exchange between the three of them ends and the next beat of the plot starts with;
(Song of Solomon 2:2-6:9)
Peri administers estradiol to Eil, basically estrogen. Where exactly does Peri get these drugs, if she's using her own supply on the guy, how does she manage to keep two people from bulldozing over her and escaping, hard to say. The game doesn't exactly go into much detail, but for now, what the game says, goes. There's not much dialogue, and we spend the majority of the game reading flat monologues from Peri's point of view. It could've all been a one-shot on AO3.
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(An etymology of the word periwinkle, the word blocked out here is ''evil''. Very subtle.)
Next part is just a ''progress report'', going in-depth about the estrogen affecting Eil and a bit about Petunia, who really gets the short end of the stick here (not like Eil's any longer, ha). There's not much about the two victims in general, which I presume is partly because the author doesn't care to use them any further than to further their own kinks, and partly because the story is mainly told from Peri's point of view, who is a massive asshole. I need to point out, once more, Petunia had absolutely no part in grooming Peri; she was just there.
The next part is about the three of them doing some sort of ''content'', which I'm not sure I understood right. There's a mention of camming later down the line, so I presume it's that. Peri proceeds to assault Petunia and then Eil. I wrote down what happened in more detail, but if you want to subject yourself to that, I recommend playing the game yourself. It's not worth it, really. The important mention here is that Petunia has scars around her hips and private areas, suggesting that she is a victim of FGM. It's not outright stated, but considering the artist sought out Fanny specifically, I wouldn't be surprised that's the case. I also want to point out that, despite being a trans woman, the game seems weirdly focused on Peri's use of her penis to violate the two victims. I'm not trans, so I don't know what would go through the head of a mentally sick troon, but you tell me.
Peri then speaks vaguely of some procedure, which I immediately guessed to be nullification on Eil, and of course, I was correct. Before that, we have a scene of Periwinkle surveilling the apartment with cameras (when did she get them, and how?), with Petunia attempting an escape, which Peri halts. It's then revealed that, before the game's events, Peri posed as an older sister figure to Petunia on some website for ''survivors'', which further lends credibility to the idea that Petunia is an FGM survivor.
We then move to the day of the procedure. I assume the creator is intimately familiar with the steps, so the game goes into detail on how that operation works, which I won't be doing. The procedure is a grand slam success, with the next part of the story describing recovery in detail while the text pans over the image mentioned by Pickle. It's of Eil, after his surgery, kneeling on the ground, with the scar from the nullification visible. Peri then starts using she/her pronouns for Eil, but I'll continue using he/him, because I don't consider this to be a transition in any sense of the word.
Eil is, obviously, pissed, and calls for Petunia (by her real name, which is blocked out), to ''get the gun''. Periwinkle responds:
Comedy.
The game then ends with the report of two people going missing, presumably Periwinkle kidnapping Eil and Petunia. To do what? We don't know. Maybe they ran off to La La Land, where they can all be troonish lesbians forever, or maybe Eil shot himself in the face after being forced to undergo a surgery that ruined him permanently. I sincerely hope for the latter.
