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ooooughghghghg.... this one punched me straight in the guts. I only did the good ending (sorry <3 I care about Asher and Kylian too much to do that to them haha) but it's a heartwrenchings tory about... anticipatory grief, or however you call what comes before death. 

I especially have to praise it because when it comes to terminal illness, it is so easy to go for the pity route; look at how sad this person is! Aren't you sad too? Isn't it terrible? But the story isn't that... cheap, if you know what I mean. Yes, what is happening is terrible. No, there are no solution. But while death is an oppressive ghost looming through the entire story, the characters aren't solely defined by it. There's the organ. There's food. There's school. Little tidbits to remind us that these characters are, well, characters, with their own lives and interests and mundane problems, not cardboard cutouts from a cancer pamphlet.

The music is baller, the art is real good (BIG fan of homie's sprite getting more and more tired as the story goes on) and it's a small detail, but I really like how the text box fades to indicate a timeskip, I thought it was very subtle and clever.

Anyways. [thumb up through tears] gay autism real. Let's play the organ brother. It's broken, and that's unfair, but we can still play. By god. We can still play.

This is so sweet!!! Making sure that you knew they were characters outside of the slice that's able to be shown here was important to me, I'm so glad it came across <3! That sort of thing is why I added multiple lines that could be taken as throwaway, but establish that the two of them have known each other for a long time. Stuff like Kylian not having changed his favorite color since he was a little kid, and Asher remembering that.

Gay autism real!! (And that last line got me emotional about my own game, hehehe)