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Elisabeth eating all the food


Is Elisabeth’s excessive food-eating supposed to have a negative effect on Sue? Sue gets upset when she wakes up to find the condo covered with dirty dishes, but does all that food effect the quality of Elisabeth’s essence that she drains from her, especially when Sue has that nightmare about the chicken leg inside her ass cheek? Makes me wonder too if Elisabeth could make Sue ugly just like how Sue makes Elisabeth ugly.

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If Sparkle extended her seven day "shift," I reckon some similar detrimental effect would manifest in Sue, but we never got to see that.

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Yeah, I was anticipating there being some scene where Sue would wake up to find herself ugly and try to take excessive revenge on Elisabeth.

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Oh, didn't address the first part of yr post: even though "they are one," I'm not sure I saw any indication that Sparkle eating a lot would make Sue gain weight, but Sue did leave the place a mess the first time.

One thing jumped out at me: weird that someone with such long-term success like Elizabeth Sparkle would seemingly live in a 1 bed 1 bath condo. Great view, though...

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Yeah, and it’s interesting that Elisabeth is not shown to have any (ex-)husband/(ex-)boyfriends or kids, which someone as huge of a star as her would have significant relationships in her life. Also would imagine that she has siblings/parents who would keep in contact with her.

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The negative effect on Sue is psychological. Self-disgust, regret, horror at her "past self's" actions. It's the same thing that would happen to you the morning after a self-destructive binge, only the physical effects probably only extend to Elisabeth's body.

The most pronounced effect is Sue having to clean the apartment afterwards, which does directly eat into her time to enjoy being Sue.

I feel like everyone is somehow forgetting that they're the same person. How many times does that nice man on the phone have to spell it out for you to understand it's all just Elisabeth self-destructing and fucking over her future-self time and time again.

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