"It represents the forced heterosexual narrative...It stands in direct contrast to the healthier, more natural, queer relation the game presents with Susie and Noelle. One that builds through trust and freedom"
This is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life.
1)
There's an unused item called the "GildedRose" which is a ring for Noelle in the files of Ch5, it's basically a fancy thornring but none of the thorns are pointed inwards so it doesn't hurt the wearer.
Noelle's dialogue for it is "Finally, something I actually want to wear!"
Gilded (golden) roses specifically represent
everlasting love.
There's literally a fucking wedding ring in this game that Kris can give to Noelle that she says she wants to wear lmao.
The reason the weird route is bad relationship-wise isn't because it's le hecking heteronormative, a good version of Kriselle
already exists in this game. It's bad because it's an explicitly
abusive relationship. There's fucking rape symbolism involved and it culminates with a murder-suicide.
2)
Calling Suselle "natural" when it's the most blatantly forced relationship in the entire game is wild. Even the game itself comments on how they aren't actually all that compatible and are rushing the relationship (like with Susie brute-forcing the hammer game, or their Ferris wheel only going halfway instead of to the top like when Kris and Noelle do it)
Suselle is not "built on trust and freedom" beyond the most surface level teenager way. They were both hiding their feelings from each other despite it directly harming someone else (Kris) and half the scenes where their relationship developed were either lied about retroactively, built on deception, or sudden happenstance.
In what way is their relationship "built on trust"? At all? They never spoke until fate outright forced them together, their first big scene together was treated like it wasn't real, their second big scene together was Susie distracting Noelle so Kris could snoop around after lying about doing a project together, and their third big scene together was because of a spur-of-the-moment "fuck you" to Carol that Susie didn't even plan.
Even the lake scene has wishy washy shit like "whatever way you like me, I like you too". Even in their
confession scene there's degrees of obfuscation.
The only reason Susie is even telling Noelle about the Dark Worlds NOW is because they made googoo eyes at each other, not because there's genuine trust there. Susie has no idea how Noelle is going to handle learning about the Dark Worlds, let alone how useful she'd be there.
Not only that, but their relationship was LITERALLY FUCKING PROPHESIED. "Built on freedom" my asshole. Suselle is them falling into their predestined roles in accordance with their prewritten destinies in a magical all-encompassing prophecy. It's the polar opposite of being built on freedom.
