#sidenote‏‏‎ ‎elle‏‏‎ ‎has a soft voice pink hair and talks to birds.

[spacestationstorybook]

okay i finished a playthrough of‏‏‎ ‎hush‏‏‎ ‎hush and while many of the Problems persisted it was pretty cute and i do think the girls' storylines were all well-written and fairly respectful though mileage may vary. i do kind of wish there was more to discover in future playthroughs other than just new endings because usually the fun of dating sims for me is discovering all new paths when pursuing each character but in this one you basically have to be doing all paths at once. i'm still gonna be doing a playthrough for each girl though. anyway under the cut is how much i think each girl's story was coded for sapphics

cassie: she seems to want the most traditionally masc love interest so for people who want to be femme4femme with her you're at a disadvantage but i can see her as the kind of gal who just wants a classic butch/femme relationship with someone to spoil her and act all chivalrous for her. also mel is a suuuper butch name to me so i imagine her as a butch if that means anything. she seems to have been the most significant figure in cassie's life in the past so maybe that did something for her. 5/10

mio: has the most references to liking women on her route, you can talk about dressing up as‏‏‎ ‎samus, and one of her lines on the beach implies you are both wearing bikinis (though likely unintentionally). however her stalker guy refers to you moving in on "another man's territory" at one point which was probably also unintentional but one of those annoying hetero freudian slips that seem to pop up in every dating sim ever made. 8/10 though

iro: i'm biased because i cannot imagine any version of‏‏‎ ‎rainbow‏‏‎ ‎dash‏‏‎ ‎or any character even partially inspired by her liking men but she explicitly mentions having an ex-girlfriend, she flirts with and calls other girls hot on multiple occasions, also doesn't feel weird about accidentally being topless in front of you on your first meeting (though that could also just be interpreted as her being confident in her body). i do feel like the way her dad acts around you is more coded for a guy though if she dated a girl previously he probably already knows she's into girls and maybe that changes things. though i know the real reason was it was probably written by a man :( 8/10

elle: her storyline archetype is suuuuper lesbian coded (i mean they Do do straight versions of it but they're always way more boring. if you're doing breaking tradition and rebelling against your stifling conservative family don't just make the love interest another conventionally attractive cishet white boy who's just A Little Edgy) but dorian feels misogynistic as hell so i feel like he'd treat a woman noticeably different from a man. elle gets bonus points though for having a‏‏‎ ‎crush‏‏‎ ‎crush‏‏‎ ‎line where she awkwardly asks if you like women "in the special way" which is usually not the sort of thing you ask a man you're already in the awkward flirty stage with. 7.5/10

quill: her route has the least references to gender of any kind so it's really hard to make any judgements here. her route makes me a little uncomfortable for Reasons but i would be hard pressed to call it gendered at all. in‏‏‎ ‎crush‏‏‎ ‎crush‏‏‎ ‎when you start officially dating her she says "we are the girlfriends! yay!" which is meant as just a silly line but feels a lot easier to get from point a to point b if there's no guy in the picture. 6/10