Aw man, it made me feel so... I wanted them both to just really sit, think, and talk and maybe be friends instead of being a trainwreck together. T_T
But anyway yeah, wonderful music, very interesting style - I did find that the dark room with the giant mural (compared to the character) was difficult for me to "see" and appreciate the art, but I did appreciate it was in the ending credits.
I see you've already discussed how the technical mechanics weren't really your focus here, so I'll just note the same as others that the platforming didn't seem to mesh very well with the narrative generally. But I did very much want to mention that you might want to check out GMTK's video that talks about subtitles, because you might want to bake that in differently if you decide to update it later. ^_^
Anyway thank you for the experience! Cheers.