Tonight's The Night

Honestly this was so cool. One of the things I was stuck on is WHY Purple (the purple haired girl) has a gun. They're in a hotel, so why does she have a gun unless she brought it with her for safety. But why so? Don't they trust one another even online? MC makes it a point to say that they're both the same being trans lesbians but for some reason as soon as MC possibly went out for her shell to meet up with Purple (metaphorical or literal) she instantly turns on MC with a gun she brought. I'm assuming that deep inside purple she never once trusted MC (which, fair given it's the online world but wow is it unfair in this scenario) but not just that, she uses degrading and offensive language to refer to MC even though MC herself doesn't seem to be overly aggressive towards Purple. 

It all seems rather hypocritical of Purple to do so, especially when we can see that MC still has her rationality as evidence that she can communicate and even joke about what's going on, yet Purple won't lower her defenses and think of MC. It's quite interesting and sad to see so.

Interesting short visual novel with a somewhat subtle, yet important message.

https://www.wraithkal.com/tonights-the-night-review/

A very intense short story between two characters! We think it was very effective not to show the transformation, so it let the viewer think about what it could be. Well done!

An interesting short story, and despite not really being long enough for more than one character with a few expressions to be shown, well done art. I also really appreciate the music and the distortion effect on the vocals. Since this is almost entirely story the rest of the comment below this is going to be very spoilery so I hope it's ok if I just put a gap here, if the dev/devs mind (or even see this) please let me know and I'll edit it to just end here.

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The main thing that grabs me though is just how awful the purple text character is to the protagonist. I don't know if it's intended as the focus of the story but it really drives home a theme to me of how brutal it is when oppressed people reach out to others of the same community and the worst happens and they simply find more abuse. 

She acts as if *she* has somehow been betrayed dispite yellow being the one going through somthing nightmarish. Treating her like somthing evil and wrong just because of things happening to her body outside of her control, this is a trans girl who finally found the courage to be with somone, to try and find others like her and fight against a world that wants people like us dead, that puts us through agony and terrifying threats to our lives to try and prevent us from control of our own bodies, and after suffering through and surviving all of that her body is ripped from her control again.  And instead of comforting her or even just fleeing, despite the fact that yellow is still herself and clearly has no intention of hurting her, purple fucking forces her out of an 8 story window at gunpoint.  My urge to offer this poor girl a hug a blanket and some tea is a credit to the quality of the writing. Or possibly me being an emotional mess. Probably both.

P.S. of course I typed this all up in a comment instead of a review and now itch.io won't let me paste it into one. Oops. Anyway gave it 5 stars.