The optional "Snowgrave" route of chapter 2 has the player emotionally manipulate the character Noelle in a dynamic strongly implied to be romantic or romance-adjacent, but regardless it is certainly a toxic and dubiously consenting dynamic. If the player did the aforementioned "Snowgrave" route, there will be a scene in chapter 4 where Noelle talks to them about what happened in the 2nd chapter. Noelle believes the events of the chapter 2 and the emotional abuse she experienced were a dream, and the player is given the option to psychologically torment her by saying they can hear her thoughts and it wasn't a dream. If the player choose to do so, the scene ends with them forcibly putting a ring on Noelle's finger. The ring in question is called the "thorn ring," and it damages Noelle during battle.