Fallstreak: Requiem for my Homeland

[Review contains spoilers for both Centicerise novels] A great prequel. It still leaves some things unexplained, though. I wish we knew who the Church was actually fighting against. Did they just kill anyone who didn't support them? There are clear parallels between Velour and Denise, and Amenae and Mallory. I mean, same thing where 'tough orphan protagonist is soulless and unstable unless it's regarding their one only friend who has a soft and kind personality'. I wonder whether the writers did this on accident or on purpose. I do wonder how the Rue twins got into Mr Damalure's possession, considering that in the prequel he only makes a brief cameo inside of the church. Did Velour sip him the tea? They are seen next to each other in that church. So maybe it's meant to imply that they're together? Maybe they married and took the Rues in as foster children? Maybe in Requiem for my Homeland Velour has an offscreen relationship with him? Also, this is more of a technical thing. But I did not realize that the 'overseer' was actually a separate character and not just a renamed Velour, until Velour saw notes from them. I did not even realize that the scenes with the Overseer were flashbacks. It ended up getting me very confused, as you may imagine. I feel like the studio behind this should use a clearer marker to indicate when the perspective is being switched from one character to another, or when there is a flashback. Because sometimes it can be difficult to tell - especially when both take place in the exact same location. Edit: Retrospectively, I also realized that when Velour seems the experiment girl, that is due to the experiment girl bending reality with CD while subconscious in the tube (just like with the calamities).