This sounds very cool! It incorporates a lot of stuff that I know you love and know a lot about - luxury passenger trains! paranormal investigation! - and I really like the ways you're combining them.
The characters all sound interesting, and I would be invested in all of their various arcs. I really like the "mentor" was actually him before he was out. That's something with so many different aspects to it, especially when it comes to the entitlement of strangers.
And like... I get what you mean about the themes that feel like wish-fulfillment being the ones that are hard to talk about, but I really LIKE that proposed friendship arc, and don't think there's anything cringey about it. Not that it helps with the feeling... writing about things that feel a little *too* revealing sometimes is really difficult.
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The characters all sound interesting, and I would be invested in all of their various arcs. I really like the "mentor" was actually him before he was out. That's something with so many different aspects to it, especially when it comes to the entitlement of strangers.
And like... I get what you mean about the themes that feel like wish-fulfillment being the ones that are hard to talk about, but I really LIKE that proposed friendship arc, and don't think there's anything cringey about it. Not that it helps with the feeling... writing about things that feel a little *too* revealing sometimes is really difficult.