Thanks! I was kicking myself for not thinking about doing the concept earlier, as I think it was my favorite idea of the ones I made, but not enough time to fully flesh it out. A lost plot point on the way was the concept of (Al)pha and (Bet)a brainwaves, but in the course of the story, I couldn't get it to integrate well without a stupid exposition dump, so I left it out, but kept the names, as I was so far into the story by that point.
On my rework, I want to spend more time on the relationship buildup and tone down the exposition dump at the end; I know it's better to see than say, but without time to draw proper cutscenes and additional backgrounds, it did kind of limit what I could make happen.