Throughout the entire game, Zoe demonstrates some really contradictory thinking when it comes to how animals should be treated.
She comes across as this sweet and cheerful character, but her actual opinions about animals are pretty disturbing.
Warning - spoilers ahead:
- There’s this backstory where she tells about two adorable pigs having fun adventures with jumping and solving puzzles, but then it ends with them being killed in a really graphic way. That part was seriously messed up.
- When she encounters a cat in the game, her response reminded me of those people online who say they want to hurt cats just for normal playful behavior like light scratching.
- She actually recommends setting the turtle enemy on fire, and when Mio asks her about it, she just casually says something like “Don’t worry, it won’t hurt him”.
Basically Zoe represents that type of person who acts all sweet and caring on the surface, and you’d expect someone like that to be upset by cruelty toward animals, but then you discover they’re totally fine with the idea of harming them.