Going through tsumihoroboshi now and holy shit I see how ya came to Rena falling into Q. Question is: did she fall into Q in more recent years or did she fall into the reactionary current earlier with something like gamergate or even earlier with something like Wakefield's vaccine scare?
The term 'Pastel QAnon' refers to, specifically, a conscious attempt on the part of QAnoners to reach out to and recruit new agey and more "crunchy" audiences. It feels genuinely surreal to point this out but even like 10 years ago being a New Age type/embracing nonsense about vaccines etc wasn't uniformly coded as "right-wing." QAnoners actively worked to bring them into the fold. To put it mildly, this aesthetic, of new-agey health stuff, pastel instagram infographics, etc, is all extremely heavily coded as feminine, or at least used to be. Rena, coping with previous traumas, superstitious by explicit ideological choice, and armed with a battery of complexes about her femininity, is ideal grist for this mill. I have very little trouble seeing her falling down a social media rabbithole sometime during the pandemic. This is arguably what we see happen.