Y'know i haven't been thinking abt this whole moment too deeply lorewise but the contrast between Noelle hesitating for a second but allowing Susie to play Dess's guitar (pretty badly too) and having fun with her, thus not being stuck in the grief surrounding Dess's disappearance and building new happy memories on what's left from her instead of keeping it locked like a time capsule to a time that'll never return vs Carol barging in and taking Dess's guitar away immediately, shutting off that possibility to move on, is something that has been eating at me for a bit




