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Yea, I kinda also feel like it was a stretch to assume that the dialogue tree would mean anything. (I’ve considered that maybe Roddorod was testing out the dialogue tree during the development of that part and either didn’t find a good time to use it again or maybe too cumbersome to have implemented.) In my Alessia post, I’ve taken an angle that Roddorod has consciously made the dialogue tree to be questioned by people who are rereading the story. When going through the game for the first time, the idea of having a dialogue tree wouldn’t be too weird until the revelation in Chapter 2. (Since it doesn’t make sense to have an option because it supposedly is a memory.) This puts suspicion on both how the egg/memory-watching thing works and on the memory itself. I didn’t want to discuss how I thought the egg/memory-watching works until I made a Chapter 2 post, so I decided to try to answer this question: assuming that one of the functions of the egg is to replay old memories, how is it possible for Alessia to have options since the events of the Abbey has already been done? 

It’s pretty much blind faith at this point, either Roddorod has considered all this and only added the dialogue tree at that particular point for this reason, or is not significant to the plot at all. I like to think that it’s the former since it would be amazing if Roddorod has considered everything and implemented it, but I don’t really expect it to since it would be INSANE to plot out such things.

Sidenote, the picture when making a decision is a bit creepy. It looks like a red eye or even a black hole with a red center. What's so weird about it is that there is distortion all around it which is a similar effect that the 'nun' in Alessia's dream had.

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I still wonder why Neru has the ability to have this meta-narrative power in the first place. Assuming that he is just a Shapeshifter, a Great Shapeshifter, how can he possess such power? If he was lucky enough to be born with it, I would think that someone who is as or even more powerful than him will also be born or have the ability to have it also. Someone like one of the Aeon, Voidborn, Archon, or even other Great Shapeshifters and Descendants. The power he possesses seems a bit odd, yet makes me believe that Neru is a bit different from the other Great Shapeshifters.

I don’t like the brothel idea either. This mostly stems from my first time reading through the game, but it has stuck with me ever since. I never could dismiss it though, since it is still possible and could be used to explain the connection between Alessia and Neru. But I wayyy prefer the idea that the chimera was the one that connects everyone in Alessia's dream together. I guess I couldn’t stop thinking about the brothel idea ever since it was brought up in the Prologue.

Speaking of Chimera, the only real mention of it was from Chapter 1 which can be found in Alessia’s second dream.

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Although quite a small portion, it really makes up a lot of my thoughts on Alessia. Most if not all of my thinking relates back to this quote when dealing with Alessia, the albinism, and Alessia's relatives.