In Fair Spirits

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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this was really sweet!!!!

i loved the art, and i really liked how edmund was potrayed-  usually when i see the "person from another century" or like, an animal becoming human it feels like they always play into the embarassment humor and they loose alot of their character, but i didn't feel that way AT ALL with edmund! he was obviously from a diffrent time, it always felt like his speech patterns and knowlege of the word stayed consistent with where he came from and where he is now- and also consitently grew throughout!

 i always noticed the speech patterns and habits with both of them and they felt very human! i could tell throughout the story how able was influenced by his "old friends" and acted like them despite resenting them. i like how you could tell what ables rude moments were based on, and how some of them felt so baseless until you think about what he's been going through. (Able: its been five months since my sister died! i should be over it already! me, who grew up with a grief counseler: oh, honey.)

i love exploring grief through characters, and found it very interesting from a narritive perspective on how able and edmund's sisters haunted the narritive. able talks about how his mom brings up kea constantly, and i feel like the narritive does a good job at making the reader feel that way too- exept a lot more satifying. and edmunds sister feels alot more distant, like how edmund is trying to make her feel. they are both trying to do the same thing in diffrent situations and i find that very interesting. 

their diffrent experinces i feel meshes together quite nicely- edmund loved his sister so much she felt over beared, but she loved and understood him enough that she wanted him to live now that she was gone- she might even describe him as "free" from her. kea loved her brother, but they started to not get along not because of them, but because of the people who were comparing them. Able wanted to be free from his sister, but realized that wasnt what he actually wanted when it happened. able never got to say goodbye to his sister, edmund did, and neither of them are satified. 

they both feel like such individual people, that complement eachother well, able needed someone to show him uncondicinal love, and edmund needed someone to show him how to love himself- or perhaps undersand himself is the right word. maybe those two things are synonomus? 

i really enjoyed this story, it felt really nice to read and i like the dynamic of these two! and the other charcaters of course (who could forget about ms L!!! iconic!!!) very nice!!! thank you for sharing and i will DEFINITETLY check out the other stories in this series!!!

(also THE LAST PART OF THE LAST SECNE??? WAS THAT WHAT I THINK IT WAS???????????????????)

This VN really gave me a lot to think about. I've always been conflicted about what it means to be selfless: is it selfless if you get satisfaction from helping people? do you need to be on equal footing with someone to love them? is it wrong to want something in return?

I've never read a story that addresses these ideas so directly. And that's not even the half of it: there were a ton of thought-provoking dialogues (I won't list them because I don't want to spoil it for anyone reading) that got me thinking about things like self-esteem, sexuality and validation, and how respect plays into romantic relationships. I actually got so engrossed in it that I stayed up reading until 4 AM when I had work the next day lol.

Really great story. So real.

This is a lovely VN! Adorable people who are slowly growing tender feelings to each other. The dramas and resolutions were enjoyable, it was a nice experience! The art is so beautiful and the bgm is also very relaxing. Very nicely done! Now I want to read the other Fairy stories. ^~^

Will I understand the story if I play this one first?

I saw, I bought. Very cute.

10/10 would buy again.