I finished the game and had to sit with everything it gave, its engaging. it took me till halfway through the game to realize there were no quotes around Mairi's words. i also found it funny that as a human reader you also dont expect that Mairi plans to kill us out of distrust. it compliments their relationship dynamic that Amelia's outburst about Mairi feeling like a task is applicable even without Mairi being a fish, the thing she was fearful of Amelia focusing on. she just treated her like a human, ironically. i like how relatively fast she accepted the situation, that not only do mermaids exist, she took one home and has to nurse her. it has something to do with Amelia's lonely life and its a fitting reaction. i feel like some writers would've added a whole denial section despite the character.
i forgot to save and go through each ending, or it wasn't on my mind at all, regardless, i actually like it that way.
"It's hard to be afraid of ghosts once you've seen a monster".
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Originally Amelia was going to be much more unsure/unbelieving of her situation, but due to script changes I ended up cutting this because I couldn't find a way to make it fit. I don't think that it would make sense for her character to be in outright denial anyway - it was going to be more like her being scared that someone else will see Mairi as something other than a mermaid and break the sort of illusion around her.
Thank you for playing and for sharing your thoughts!