What the mc meant by "candy bullets don't rlly pierce thru anything" is that sugar coating the harsh reality you face won't change the outcome of it.
At the beggining of the story the MC only seeks out bullets. That means she want to face reality (unlike her shut in brother). That is why she wants to apply for the task force.
The seafoam girl comes along and creates stories about being a mermaid in order to cope from the abuse she faces at home. Everything she says about being a mermaid is just candied bullets.
Towards the end of the story the MC started realizing that and she also chose to seek out a candied bullet, a childish idea, which was to run away even tho the seafoam girl was never going to leave her father or be able to escape from him. She was always going to die and I think she may have known that.
Some things that foreshadowed her outcome: The story she tells about the storm on the beach every 10 years and then repeating that story like twice later on. When she tells the MC about her father, she says she loves him and later on in the story the MC's brother talks about stockholm syndrome. Her killing the rabbits as an act of love, bc that's what her father did to poochie the dog. She has a skewed view of love bc of her father.
On a side note... I think the brother was assaulted by his classmate and as a result he became a shut in? It's only mentioned once but the mc doesn't know exactly why. "He was popular among the girls in his class and one day one came to his room and he changed." I found that he and Mokuzu paralleled each other in the aspect of escapism.
What the mc meant by "candy bullets don't rlly pierce thru anything" is that sugar coating the harsh reality you face won't change the outcome of it.
At the beggining of the story the MC only seeks out bullets. That means she want to face reality (unlike her shut in brother). That is why she wants to apply for the task force.
The seafoam girl comes along and creates stories about being a mermaid in order to cope from the abuse she faces at home. Everything she says about being a mermaid is just candied bullets.
Towards the end of the story the MC started realizing that and she also chose to seek out a candied bullet, a childish idea, which was to run away even tho the seafoam girl was never going to leave her father or be able to escape from him. She was always going to die and I think she may have known that.
Some things that foreshadowed her outcome:
The story she tells about the storm on the beach every 10 years and then repeating that story like twice later on.
When she tells the MC about her father, she says she loves him and later on in the story the MC's brother talks about stockholm syndrome.
Her killing the rabbits as an act of love, bc that's what her father did to poochie the dog. She has a skewed view of love bc of her father.
On a side note... I think the brother was assaulted by his classmate and as a result he became a shut in? It's only mentioned once but the mc doesn't know exactly why. "He was popular among the girls in his class and one day one came to his room and he changed."
I found that he and Mokuzu paralleled each other in the aspect of escapism.