Thanks so much for the detailed feedback!
I'm glad you enjoyed, and that you picked up on some of the story implications! There's a lot that the demo-demo sets up for the full game, like first impressions that will be used later. For instance, I did want the "violence vs mercy" thing to be on the nose, so that 1) the player can underestimate Despra and the game in general at least a little bit, so they can be surprised for what it has to offer later and 2) I'm using the whole "violence vs mercy" thing as kind of an outdated and old concept, and this game will touch on themes of older concepts like those being obsolete (like how the whole aesthetic is based off of an outdated yet classic Pokemon gen). A little spoilery, but yeah... I'm experimenting with using those Undertale-like qualities to make a point later on.
I'll look back at Despra's easter egg, I partially wrote it in to troll speedrunners lol. And as for Ally, I knew about that bug and I thought I had fixed it... I was praying it wouldn't show up in this release but here we are!
Anyway, I hope this clears some stuff up. The next release is the actual Demo, which isn't coming soon, but it's coming nonetheless!