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Redflags? If they exist I haven't noticed them yet and nor have the MC, Nami, Maja or Mila by the look of things. Even Bella was civil to Victoria when they met. Of course it could be that Victoria has a schizoid "Fight Club" personality, beauty on the outside, beast on the inside, with a collection of hitchhikers heads in jars in her cellar. Or maybe she's a bunny boiler set to get murderously jealous when the MC forges relationships with other girls later, stalking them from her wheelchair like a psychopathic lunatic. Or maybe she's an Amish girl, brought up idyllically on a farm, sheltered from the evils and temptations of society, until she left her community on rumspringa to experience the world before committing fully to the Amish way of life which is why she is so guileless. Or perhaps she's a transsexual adjusting to her new gender after transitioning, a little flustered, a bit confused, feeling her way towards womanhood which might explain her extreme excitement about her date with the MC. Yes? No? Maybe? Who knows? Maybe Victoria and Maja were once an heterogeneous couple until the male partner in the relationship decided to change sex, transitioned and became Victoria, who does sometimes seem a bit like a person undergoing a process to learn how to be a girl. The Victoria/Maja dynamic is unusually intense, even a little concerning, and it will be fascinating to gain insight in respect to that relationship as Summer's Gone grows and continues. Based on a few things Maja said to the MC at the physical therapy centre it seemed that Victoria and Maja had different parents, who all died young, but share the same surname (Frohn). What's that all about?
The plot thickens.(Victoria is studying at college so obviously an intellectually capable person and seems quite socially adept, if a little gauche, otherwise I might suspect that she was at the high-functioning end of the Asperger's spectrum because she does have a touch of endearing Aspie wide-eyed unworldliness and naivety about her.)
Just joshing.
That said the real reason why I like the Victoria character so much is probably because she reminds me of a real girl who befriended me and helped me after something awful happened in my own life and I went into a tailspin for two and a half years. I never understood her properly because, as she said, she was "wired neurologically" in a different way to me. (She was most certainly very different from me and, truth be told, a much better person than me in every way that matters.) This girl's personality was so much like Victoria's you wouldn't believe it and yet despite her apparent simplicity and innocence she was academically absolutely brilliant with a genius IQ. I'm not going to get all autobiographical here and only want to point out that girls like Victoria really do exist although suppose that they must be pretty rare because, so far, I've only met one. No wonder that someone like that would seem a bit peculiar and weird to "normal" people who meet them because, probably, most neurotypical people crossing their paths won't have met anybody quite like that before.
I could continue speculating about the characters and plot of Summer's Gone all day but won't. With Summer's Gone it's not so much a case of the more you see the more you know as the more you see the more there is to see. Which makes the visual novel endless! Which is great in my book because I can't imagine ever getting tired of it.
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