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why do they say bluebird is dead?
#zero escape#ze spoilers#zero time dilemma#ztd#Diana ztd#my art#caption from bluebird is dead by electric light orchestra#aka sigdi song ever#i love her#cried. crode. etc#thinking about how she knew she was going to die slowly but chose to go to the moon anyways#grrrr#Uchikoshi when i get you
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time passes us by
#okay this is gonna be the last one for a bit I think 🥹#anyways... do you ever think about name meanings#and do you ever get slightly frustrated at going in circles when trying to research symbolism stuff#I missed drawing flowers 🧡#zero escape#zero escape spoilers#999 spoilers#9 hours 9 persons 9 doors#akane kurashiki#aoi kurashiki#my art#did you know archeologists found hollyhocks besides skeletons as far as 60.000 years ago indicating burial rituals from neanderthals#they were also found in the coffins of egyptian mummies#and rose madders were called ''herb of mars'' by herbalist and physician Nicholas Culpeper#sorry but I had to roleplay uchikoshi character dialogue for that how could I not put the wikipedia diving to good use
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Kinda weird question- do you have any links to people talking about Mira from ZTD and ableist stereotypes? I mentioned that I was uncomfortable with her portrayal but kinda fumbled it and made some other ND people in chat uncomfortable. I searched for various keyword combinations but most of what I'm finding is like "and not to mention the ableism with Mira" and doesn't elaborate lol.
Not weird at all! And uh, you see, there's a recent post I made where what I complain about is the very fact I've never seen anyone post too in-depth about her at all, I'd love to see posts that do elaborate on that but I do not have any that I know of right now, sorry :/ hopefully someone else who sees this can point to one? Okay!! After some tag searches I have found exactly one post who kind of gets into it I like this take still would love to see. more than just one but hooray
And like though I complain I couldn't elaborate much on it myself I don't think, I believe most of the posts people make about Saito from aitsf would apply since it's a different uchikoshi take on the very same trope of "emotionless characters who cannot function without killing others" I guess he's a worse portrayal though since she's at least not stated to get reward brain chemicals when killing people and I guess her case also has the added layer of "femme fatale" to it? Which either makes it less bad or worse depending on where you approach it from As I said I am not doing a good job of being coherent on this oh and also there's her being "redeemed" and "cured" in the epilogue which in on itself is kinda not great to imply it just goes away like that and honestly I personally don't even buy it I think she'd just be like oh okay Akane over here has like a thousand reasons to hate me after all that oh and what's that she's the leader of a super wealthy underground organization who's organized one of these death traps before yeah no I'm better off going to prison I'll be fine there lmao bye
But I'll say as an autistic person with relatively low empathy I usually see a character who just doesn't understand other people's feelings and wants to feel them too and is just trying to survive despite getting no help and I just kinda go hm. yeah. shout-out to roxas kingdom hearts shout out to mary from ib shout out that's why I started hyperfixating on media art helps me with understanding others a great lot and Mira is just in a story too badly executed for me to care or even begin to wrap my head around tbh like god she's so fucking terribly used as a plot device in every conceivable way that it makes it difficult to see past it and into what she could possibly be if it weren't for the stereotype of equalling low empathy with no compassion what's with her killing off screen in ways that wildly deviate from her stated m.o? why or how was she even in cahoots with Zero why was that a thing? Honestly her dynamic with Sean could have been better fleshed out could have done something interesting about robot child and his aspd big sis but we just kind of don't get any attention brought to the subject of emotions and the authenticity there of except for the "reveal"...
YOU KNOW WHAT that's probably one huge reason it feels so fucked up actually! Like the whole fucking game is written so you could experience it in whatever order you want and therefore Mira being a serial killer at all is something that though not very well hidden it also cannot be a topic of discussion or explored Ever ever because the player may not have seen the fragment where that is revealed yet- problem being the menu design of that game sucks so bad and practically everyone gravitates towards the same few more interesting looking thumbnails first and then the rest is kinda just there, I mean that is part of the reason A Lot of characters feel half-baked I think but also I think it definitely does impact perception of her character specifically probably The Most and then there's just the general not being given nuance not being able to see the minutiae of how that disorder manifests in her character aside from the killings about how she acts aside from being overly flirty trying to lure in Eric but that affects pretty much all of the new cast we don't have last names and in her case we barely have any backstory at all like Saito is a harmful stereotype sure but we get So Much Context for him that people still love talking about him and delving into different aspects of his life since we have that very well telegraphed in the narrative meanwhile for Mira all we can do is fill in the blanks guesswork that only highlights the worst aspects of the surface level portrayal we got and ultimately that people just don't care enough to dissect because there isn't much there character wise once you remove it
#oh to be miraposting on a sunday evening instead of catching up on schoolwork#I love how you can see the exact moment while writing this that I had a brain blast akdhks#me: sorry I can't elaborate also me: types out. three paragraphs#also if you're comfortable with that I'm curious what you could have possibly said that it'd be considered fumbling#dms are open if you send it into an ask I'll answer privately and again only if you want to share#cause like I want to see different perspectives on this so bad even if they're not eloquent#especially since it's not really something that ever got to me much? but that I can kinda see why it'd be upsetting#my suspension of disbelief is just too tanked for it to get an emotional reaction of me especially with the rest of the cast for contrast#I'm too busy being annoyed at everyone else's portrayal in that game not to mention idk it feels like#like schlocky hollywood no thoughts character archetype go brr type ableism#not the really insidious woven into the narrative stuff that I usually want to rant about cough cough youtube video I'll probably never mak#like pretty sure it's stated somewhere that the idea for her character was uchikoshi going hm. there's been femme fatales in these games#but none of them have been Really “Fatale” you know? he literally just wanted the big booba character to also be the stabby character#zero escape#ztd#mira ztd#if this should be under a readmore. let me know#zero escape spoilers
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Kazutaka Kodaka teases ‘Limit x Despair’ title announcement in ‘not-too-distant future’
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Danganronpa series and Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE creator Kazutaka Kodaka will announce an “insane” new title in the “not-too-distant future,” he said in a tweet today.
“The game I’m working so hard on right now—the scenario is so insane and so enthralling that I end up working more than anything else,” Kodaka said. “Even when things get difficult or troublesome, I end up either working or writing scenarios rather than playing or resting. This may be the first time I’ve become so obsessed with a work. I wonder if I’ll burn myself out. In any case, the announcement as well as release are in the not-too-distant future, so I’d like everyone to look forward to it. And well, I’m tired, so I hope you can cheer me on. #Limit #Despair”
Back when Too Kyo Games announced its establishment in September 2018, it teased four projects in production with concept artworks. Of those four projects, only one has yet to be officially announced—“A Game with a [Kazutaka] Kodaka x [Kotaro] Uchikoshi Joint Scenario! ‘Limit’ x ‘Despair.'” Here is the artwork that was included with the project description:
In December 2023, during an end-of-year interview, Kodaka teased that he was working on an “insane” project that he hopes to announce in 2024.
Kodaka said, “[In 2023], we released Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE, and while in the past I would have been able to take some time off after a project launched, now that I’m the president of a young company, I don’t have any free time, for the sake of our finances, and am already at the critical phase of our next project. Additionally, the project after that is also nearing its critical phase, and new projects are starting up. The reason why I work so hard is because I want to release as many works as possible to the world. We’re not cutting corners with any—if anything we’re putting in more than 100 percent of our effort. When that happens, what’s the result? Naturally, it places a heavy burden on all of our staff. However, the ‘too kyo’ in our company name Too Kyo Games means ‘too crazy.’ We exist to go crazy making new works, and for that reason I will work even harder next year. I will make sure of it. Our next project is particularly befitting of the name ‘too kyo’ (too crazy), being a game that can only come off as insane, and I hope to be able to announce it next year. It’s a game that we’re all extremely passionate about, and are all vomiting blood while making, so please support us when the time comes.”
Zero Escape series and AI: The Somnium Files series creator Kotaro Uchikoshi, who works at Too Kyo Games with Kodaka, also teased he was working on something “insane.”
“Sorry that I can’t officially announce it yet, but I hope to announce a crazy-insane title that will go down in video games history during [2024],” Uchikoshi said. “Stay tuned!”
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Helloooo ZE fandom! Remember this post I made back in October? Here's your explanations!
Spoilers abound for all games!!
Secret Old man is a plot twist 3 different times
1st secret Old man: Tenmyouji being Junpei
2nd secret Old man: Sigma not knowing he's in his old body in VLR
3rd secret Old man: Delta's existence in ZTD
“If two guys were on the moon and one killed the other with a moon rock”
Character becomes a Schrödinger's cat in 2 games.
Akane in 999 and VLR
Fireman third wheels two people with incinerator trauma
C Team, would also like to point out that not once do Akane or Junpei mention the incinerator (or even joke about it) around Carlos
Santa is a punk that's into the stock market
Someone's dismembered Arm is microwaved
Junpei’s refrigerated arm is essentially put in a microwave to solve the last part of the Pantry in ZTD. Specifically, it had to be warmed to be open enough to activate the palm scanner
Someone decides killing ¾ of the population is best course oaction to kill 1 dude.
Delta's motive for releasing radical 6 was to kill an unknown terrorist that would otherwise kill the entire population on earth
At least one character gets their hand chopped off in each game
VLR and ZTD are easiest to explain. Sigma uses the 9 door to chop his hand off and prevent his bracelet from injecting him in Quark end (also has his hand chopped off by the other characters in Sigma’s bad end). Carlos looses his hand after being attacked by Akane with the Chainsaw in the “Suspicion” fragment.
999 was less obvious but in the Axe end, toward the very end, Junpei sees Clover walking off with his bracelet, since he was still conscious when she left, this leaves two options. First being that his heart stopped and allowed his bracelet to come off while still conscious, OR if Clover didn't want to wait for him to die and just chopped his hand off before leaving him to bleed out.
A character gets injected with a lethal poison from a needle on a book cover.
This one is the fake answer!!
I actually asked the Uchikoshi's Somnium discord server for a fake answer and this is what I was given first!
A lot of y'all appear to go tripped up on this and that might be because of the Bio Lab in ZTD. Part of the puzzle involves Sean, Mira, and Eric getting their fingers picked on something (don't remember exactly what rn but it was definitely not a book), but this was set up for the game's decision regarding Radical 6 (75% fatality rate) and Fanatic Bio R (100% fatality rate).
This decision was based on Newcomb's Paradox
Ice Cream server has one of the highest kill counts in the series.
Look at any route where Eric finds a gun, when not counting the Zeros, Eric has killed more characters directly than most of the other cast. (I think the only other characters in the higher range aside from Eric are Mira, Ace, and Dio)
I have a Google doc I've been working on with a list of rules for a solid kill count. Hopefully I will post that by itself soon.
Every Event in the Series happens because of a Snail.
Saw someone in the tags say they refuse to believe the snail caused 999 and I hate to break it to you but in the Apocalypse fragment in ZTD, Delta clearing states that if the initial incident that killed 6 people, including Akane’s parents, didn't happen, she wouldn't have gotten involved in the first Nonary game that Ace ran that was covered in 999.
Would also like to note that it was confirmed in VLR that Ace is a member of Free the Soul. How much he knows about the snail is debatable.
A character canonically has a 9” dick (18” when horny)
If youve been in the fandom for over 6 months, I think you know what this is
If there is anything else you would like clarification on, feel free to reply to this post or send me an ask!!
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Vee’s Steam Summer Sale 2023 Recommendations
as always these are just personal opinions etc etc please look up some real reviews before buying a game if you aren’t sure and remember that steam will give you a full refund if you have less than 2 hours played in under 2 weeks.
im going to try to recc stuff i havent shilled every 6 months for the last 5 years but the VNs are going to be the same as always honestly
Fighting Games
Guilty Gear -Strive- Ultimate Edition 2022 ($55.99)
yes im specifically saying buy ultimate edition because it has all the dlc as of this writing. buy the base version if you want but i hate playing fighting games with incomplete rosters.
anyway this is my favorite fighting game, bar none. this is the game that after years of screwing around on a bunch of other games finally got me to really want to get better and actually play against other people. there’s a super active playerbase and at least another year of support from arcsys on the way. the best time to start playing strive was a year ago but the second best time is right now.
Idol Showdown (Free)
yes im shilling a free game here. idol showdown is a good fighting game and the result of like three years of hard work from a small team. try it out and give them some love
Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel ($4.99)
this is not a good game but it is a funny game. saber is in it.
Narrative Games
AI: The Somnium Files - $7.99
one of the finest mystery games you can play imo. maybe uchikoshi’s best work. a perfect blend of mystery, character, and style. every character and conversation is compelling in its own way and every little thing builds up to the huge moments which makes them all feel totally earned. as always uchikoshi is a genius in the way he blends his signature branching timeline style with the themes and core concepts of the game. the twists and turns this game goes down are so crazy that weeks later you’ll still be realizing how all the little things you thought were just quirks were actually foreshadowing. cannot recc this enough tbh.
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games - $11.99
another uchikoshi joint, also extremely good. ive only finished 999, the first game in this collection, but i can recc it just based on the strength of that alone. whereas somnium is a murder mystery, 999 is a visual novel about being trapped in a murder game interspliced with escape room segments. whatever you think you know you dont, 999 will take you down so many twists and turns you’ll be fucking dizzy when you’re done with it. big recc.
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action - $10.04
i could probably talk about this game for as long as the others, even though its way way less complex. va-11 hall-a doesnt have a huge sweeping story with insane twists and massive reveals, but what it does have is an extremely personal narrative about loss, healing, and just living your life the best way you can in a horrible dystopian world. the cast of characters feel utterly real and you learn about the world they inhabit through interactions with them, rather than being infodumped by exposition. everyone has their own story and everyone is just trying to get by, including you. one of the best small scale personal narrative games ive ever played.
Night In The Woods - $9.99
another vn i would consider “small scale” but equally as impactful. nitw is a story about a disillusioned and struggling college drop out returning to her economically declining home town. nobody is secure, nobody is happy, everyone is suffering through their daily lives. you follow mae as she struggled to readjust to her childhood home and the people she left behind. until something happens that changes her priorities radically. all ill say. despite how i just made it sound, nitw is not all depressing. theres lighthearted moments and wacky days to cut through the bleak fog, as well as genuinely heartfelt moments that feel very earned. nitw is a game i think that everyone struggling through their 20s should play.
Grim Fandango Remastered ($3.79)
i know this is an old school adventure game and you might yell at me for sort of grouping it in with the VNs but i dont care. its a classic, its a beautiful game, everyone should play it. its old, it controls like shit, the puzzles are obtuse, but the experience is wonderful and memorable. its cheap as hell just go for it.
Action
Assault Spy ($4.99)
this goofy ass game is fun as hell. its a very dmc style character action with upgrades and moves to buy, and it actually has a pretty goddamn good mechanical system in place. the gameplay loop rules. only warning is this is not well optimized so watch your computer doesnt explode.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered ($40.19)
i shouldn’t even have to shill. a must play for any spider-man fan. one the best spider-man stories ever hands down. such an incredible experience seriously. i cant even say enough here, if you haven’t played this yet you should do it asap.
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales ($33.49)
everything i just said for the first game goes here too. a MUST play for miles morales fans. the combat is even better than the first too. you won’t regret playing this trust me.
Marvel’s Avengers - The Definitive Edition ($5.99)
no i’m not joking. ok well i kind of am but this game is getting delisted in september. it is an unforgivably mid piece of shit but if you have an interest in game preservation or playing something so bad they’re killing it forever, well here it is. they made all the microtransactions free btw.
Others
Tinykin ($13.75)
its like pikmin but its legally distinct! i like this game a lot, it has a very cute art style and its got easy to enjoy gameplay. i find it very relaxing. there’s a demo.
System Shock 2 ($2.49)
i will never stop shilling this game. fucking play it. its a cornerstone of video games. one of the most influential pieces ever put to pixel. you owe it to yourself to experience this if you feel any interest in it. maybe read a guide though its unforgiving if you screw around with your build.
Dead Space [2023] ($41.99)
exceptionally good. i dont have to shill the old shitty pc port of the original anymore. an A+ remake, i think it improves on the original in every conceivable way.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night ($11.99)
such a goddamn good metroidvania. its almost like the platonic ideal of a castlevania game. a true spiritual successor to SOTN. this isnt your dime a dozen soulslike vania, this is a true vania game in the best original style made by basically one of the core founders of the genre.
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ ($3.49)
its a fuckin classic rpg. one of the best of the era. get it on pc so you can get that extended content mod they promised to import to the console version and then cancelled.
Save Room - Organization Puzzle ($2.09)
this is just a cute puzzle game. i like it.
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Happy Munday! Just a few quick things, plus some cosplay photos from a recent convention (under the cut, in order not to clutter the dash with OOC content).
I am still accepting starters for this starter call! I'll close the call on Saturday, November 18. Until then, I will not have a cap on starters beyond writing one per mun/blog. This will likely be my last starter call from now until the beginning of 2024, so if you'd like me to write you a starter that isn't attached to a meme, this is your chance! I will still share memes when I have the time in my schedule to start new threads, but for those of you who don't like memes and prefer starter calls, this is the best way to interact with me through the holiday season.
I'll be a little quiet around here from today until Friday: I've got two long days in the office and then I'm celebrating my wedding anniversary on Thursday after work (with a considerable amount of food and champagne), so my writing and chatting time will be limited this week.
That said, I've finally had some time to look at my cell phone photos of my costumes from my last anime convention. I'm still waiting on photos from my private photoshoots, but in the meantime, I'll share a costume I haven't posted here yet. I predict some of you may recognize her (hi Bubblez!).
Did you know that I've either played or watched my husband play both AI: The Somnium Files games (because watching me try to play through the somniums is a stressful experience for everyone involved)? Now you do!
Actually, I've had my Boss costume for about a year now and I haven't been in a happy place with it until last month. Admittedly, my dress is a bit oversized after I lost weight and I need to take it in in a few places before wearing it again. That's the only thing that has stopped me from doing a private photoshoot with Boss.
In any case, she was my favorite out of the games and one of the very few (maybe only?) character I cosplay as who is older than me. How is this woman in her forties? I thought I had amazing skincare and genetics but Boss is on another level.
The jacket and gloves are both leather, with the dress made of a cotton/poly spandex and the boots being custom pieces that I ended up repainting to be a closer match to my jacket. The Ai-balls are from Lemon Penguin, who loves Uchikoshi games and produces a few Uchikoshi-related items to vend at conventions (and they conveniently end up at the cons I attend!).
But let me say: I love this wig so much. It was a custom piece after I was hating my own styling attempts, and comes with her 'hair donut' ponytail holder, her slicked back tendrils, and a stubbed ponytail that keeps the weight of the tail and wig lighter on my head. When I get a professional shoot of this done, I definitely want more shots of this incredible wig from the back.
And finally, the AiTSF cosplayers I've met at conventions have all been so friendly and kind! I had to miss the photoshoot this time around but I participated at one at a previous convention: we were a small group but we were mighty. Even if we either weren't recognized or called by some other character name (I get Misato Katsuragi in this one quite a lot. Ironic, as I also have a Misato costume).
#more-than-a-princess musings#(I can't believe I've been married a year already)#(also can't believe I'm narrowing down my 2024 costume list but that starts earlier each year at this rate)
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999 Week 2022: Ace
“At one point, he risks his own life to try to save the others. I’m sure if you follow him, there will be no problems” - Kotaro Uchikoshi
Happy 999 week 🎉
I recently got into the zero escape games (I'm part way through VLR and totally spoiled myself as per usual orz) and I really wanted to join this 'week' event for as much as I can ✨
9 hours 9 persons 9 doors really surprised me with how good it was and how much I loved all the characters (tbh I shouldn't be too surprised I got attached to them as I always end up clinging to a good death game's cast). I can't wait to finish / play the other games in the series 🍀
Ace Appreciation:
Ace is just such a character, when I saw him I fell into the stereotype he's presented as, selfless old man who is lawful good. After my first play through (axe ending) I started to get suspicious of everyone and then started to think deeper about his character - I didn't expect just how involved his character would be.
Though I think his true reasoning for doing everything could be done a bit better I still think it was an interesting twist and I liked that the team kept him alive and bundled him in the trunk - That's so Scooby Doo Mystery Machine Team of them.
For this drawing I wanted him to look culty based on Uchikoshi's quote, I know in my first playthrough definitely I would have followed him to 'the end' (and perhaps the second because I am gullible as hell). Also I seem to have chose this week's prompts as a chance to practice my hand drawings.
Anyway!
I'm buzzed to do the rest of the week but I'm doing it as it's happening so I might end up running behind :') I have a schedule to try and follow.
Looking forward to seeing all the stuff this week 🎊
#999 week#999week#9 hours 9 persons 9 doors#9 hours 9 persons 9 doors spoilers#999 spoilers#999spoilers#ace#ace 999#gentarou hongou#zero escape spoilers#I’m excited to take part in this week :)#eye strain#tw eyestrain#eye strain tw#zero escape#my art
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Acclaimed 00s Visual Novels Never 7 and Ever 17 are getting Confirmed Remakes
In a recent interview with Dengeki, Makoto Asada, the director of MAGES (a prominent VN company) confirmed Never 7 and Ever 17 remakes are currently in process. A translator at Noisy Pixel translated pieces of the interview related to the remakes in an article here. According to this article, a staff member at MAGES asked Asada for permission to work on a remake of the Infinity Series (specifically the first two), and when he was told yes, started on gathering the old assets from the original games. From there, they looked at fan response to the Xbox 360 release of Ever 17 and decided to hopefully stick with 2D art, rather than 3D models. Asada also confirmed he has reached out to staff members who worked on the original games, likely to keep the games true to their original roots. More details will supposedly come in the future, and the new games will have a focus on both maintaining the original mechanics, while still making them easier to play on modern systems. A remake of Remember 11, or any of the offshoots of the series like 12Riven and Code_18 were not discussed or confirmed.
However, when news about the remakes was tweeted yesterday (2/27/23), Kotaro Uchikoshi, the original writer of the Infinity Series, now known for Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files, publicly stated that he had nothing to do with the remakes and that he had not been contacted by MAGES.
More Info on the Infinity Series and my personal views under the cut
The Infinity Series was a series of visual novels developed by the defunct VN company KID, and written by Kotaro Uchikoshi. The series’ first entry, Never 7, was released in 2000.
The Infinity series is heralded as an incredibly influential and well made VN series, with its characters, BGM, and plot being widely commended. Each game takes place in a different story with wildly different settings, however they all center around themes of time loops and time travel, the morphogenetic field, and supernatural events. If you enjoy visual novels at all, I strongly recommend them! I’m particularly partial to the first three games.
In regards to my personal views on the topic, I seem to be in the minority by being excited. I’m of course disappointed that Uchikoshi is not involved in the production, but I have some hope from the fact that MAGES seems to have a heavy emphasis on maintaining the games’ stories and vibes. If anything, I just hope it’s a chance for more people to learn about the series. I’ll stay positive, at least until we get more news on the subject.
#Kotaro Uchikoshi#infinity series#zero escape#ai the somnium files#Never7#ever17#Remember11#visual novel#not games#.txt
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im gonna do a bigger writeup on this eventually , but i wanted to scratch out some quick notes on light + his blindness + his amputated arm , mostly in the realm of how i plan to write him v. how he was originally written in 999 ( all the love in the world to my bestie uchikoshi , but his disability rep is occasionally ... lacking )
his hearing is great , yes , and definitely better than almost anyone else . this is not a substitute for sight -- he still has to map out rooms the first time he enters them , and when out in public he generally uses a cane . ( even with clover , although he doesn't need it when with her )
his apartment with clover ( and previously , their parents' home ) is meticulously laid out , and that layout absolutely must not be messed with . stubbed toes will ensue at best ; light could actually hurt himself at worst . he navigates his home entirely without aid , and expects it not to change .
he can still run backwards down stairs tho
he can't recognize a person just by their scent , or the sound of their breathing , or the sound of their footsteps . he can recognize most people by voice , as long as he's heard their voice a few times before .
( semi - related : do not , under any circumstances , sneak up on him . it's triggering for obvious reasons , but also , he won't know it's you , and is very likely to hurt you before you can get your identity across to him . )
he still gets occasional phantom pains with his left arm , and deals with a lot of chronic pain in general . the phantom pains are rarely an issue , but can on very rare occasions be downright debilitating . also , he occasionally deals with obnoxious phantom itching . it's the worst and unironically makes him intensely irritable .
by virtue of not being able to see light ( haha ) , his circadian rhythms get fucked up real easy . it's also hard to stick to a schedule when you're a bookworm with ptsd , so ... he sleepy . all the time .
#❀ ooc .#｟ 𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 ｠ ⸻ ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴ ▻ 𝘴𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘬𝘶𝘭𝘭 ; 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 ; 𝘸𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦#tl;dr: light is disabled and this does affect his life to a certain degree
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OH LET'S FUCKING GO. goro akechi, amame doi, fuka yamagishi, gyu-hyuk lee, maya fey, mukuro ikusaba :3
yippee!
goro
Sexuality Headcanon: this is a gay man. we all know it to be true.
Gender Headcanon: some kind of trans and non-binary swag going on here...
A ship I have with said character: eiichi mukuhira because oc/canon isn't dead
A BROTP I have with said character: frankly his (potential) friendships with all the PT make me feel insane in one direction or another, but special mention to the sumi goro brotp. i so desperately need more platonic content between them that doesnt have any romance as a backdrop. goro's like "i don't have friends" and sumi says "yeah we're BEST friends :D"
A NOTP I have with said character: its so hard to be a goroboy who doesnt like any ship with him. but any of the girls or akira makes me want to start attacking people with hammers
A random headcanon: after royal he becomes roommates with annshiho. i love it when lesbians adopt a pathetic little man. shiho is still trying to figure out whether or not he's joking about having killed people (he's not)
General Opinion over said character: you know exactly how i feel about him and if i start trying to summarize it here im going to end up with an essay so instead im just gonna glitch out of existence
amame
Sexuality Headcanon: LESBIAN!!!!
Gender Headcanon: she/they-isms
A ship I have with said character: mamebiki is the only one that could ever matter to me. waaauuuggghhh
A BROTP I have with said character: i want to believe her and iris rly are besties. show it to me uchikoshi...
A NOTP I have with said character: gen is a father figure to her. fuck you.
A random headcanon: AI3 PSYNCER AMAME I KNOW IT TO BE TRUE
General Opinion over said character: incredible how she went from being a joke side character in the first game to one of the most interesting and complex characters of all time. i adore her. she did nothing wrong.
fuuka
Sexuality Headcanon: ace lesbian
Gender Headcanon: i honestly dont think ive ever thought about it...?
A ship I have with said character: funnily enough i don't have one! maybe minako idk
A BROTP I have with said character: i think her friendship with yukari is really sweet
A NOTP I have with said character: i will never get the appeal of her and natsuki. even in 2017 i was like "why do we want her to date the girl who harassed her to the point that she thought she killed herself"
A random headcanon: she carries minako's old earphones in her bag all the time
General Opinion over said character: my sweetie <3 she silly. i don't have a ton to say because it's 5:30 in the morning but i like her a lot
gyu-hyuk
Sexuality Headcanon: undoubtedly gay. look at him
Gender Headcanon: CANON* he/she. (*it's a typo but i can dream)
A ship I have with said character: gyuyoon makes me feel like im trapped inside a salad spinner (affectionate)
A BROTP I have with said character: gyu and juyoung... they're so besties
A NOTP I have with said character: either of the girls :P honestly i can't see him with anyone besides do-yoon
A random headcanon: his eyes are brown those are colour contacts.
General Opinion over said character: mr sad eyes sopping wet tragic oarfish id do anything for him. he did a lot wrong but hes still my guy. get him help pronto
maya
Sexuality Headcanon: lesbian (do you see a pattern)
Gender Headcanon: trans girl :D
A ship I have with said character: emamaya my beloved <33
A BROTP I have with said character: phoenix and maya are the fucking blueprint. i adore them so much. siblings of all time
A NOTP I have with said character: i mean aside from obvious garbage i am a massive frnmy hater. we all been knew
A random headcanon: kurain is a vegetarian village so maya's love of burgers come from them being forbidden at home
General Opinion over said character: ive loved her since the day i picked up aa1 way back in 2014. my dear darling
mukuro
Sexuality Headcanon: lesbian of course
Gender Headcanon: non-binary <3
A ship I have with said character: gee! i sure wonder! who could i, the person who popularized ikuzono, possibly ship with mukuro? it's a mystery.
A BROTP I have with said character: chapter one trio still does something to my brain tbh
A NOTP I have with said character: known nk hater since 2015 and this will never change
A random headcanon: she's afraid of clowns
General Opinion over said character: i just want her to be happy
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Finished AI: Nirvana initiative and on the one hand, that game cooked my brain a little bit to the point I had to sit down and think about things. On that same hand, that's fucking awesome and exactly what I want out of art. There is no other hand that's just sick and I like that. Spoilerific review/ramble under the cut.
First things to praise, we got more Mizuki! I wanted that from the first one and the game delivered on that twofold, and the Somniums are generally much less trial and error (i feel like they made more sense while still maintaining that dream-like quality, whether that was my own experience or design idk but I'm attributing it to design to praise that more), and the difficulty settings, while pure numerical tweaks, are also proper numbers to tweak for difficulty settings stuff (qtes/button mashing/more time to think) in my opinion in the Discourse Of Difficulty, but that's not the point of this I just want to say that's good. Much like this game.
The six year difference thing took me going through the helix and reframing things to actually *get*, but when I got it everything slotted into place? It's really clever, and I really like the way it particularly shifts the view of Ryuki's mental state because of the incredibly strong before/afters and the good/bad days from things.
On that note, Ryuki's a really strong character! Him and Date have a really good dynamic that got me invested early on since well. I really liked Date and Ryuki's relationship with him feels super natural, especially in regards to how they feel about each other and some of the guilt they carry, they're foils, parallels, lovers, everything they have going on Works and that's all there is to say on the matter. Tama also works with him well as this like, mommy figure to him. Not maternal, mommy. I am standing by that because GOD she's so much. I love that for her though. A friend mentioned that she was designed how she is because I think it was Uchikoshi who got introduced to the word "thicc" and it just spiraled from there? However it happened it's hilarious and she's fantastic, she's assertive, she's caring, she's sitting in Boss' tits, what isn't to love about her.
I adore the way the game handles its sexual content tbh, because this game is Horny and I love that for it. It's empathetic even when it's crass (Boss talking about Bibi as her daughter wrt "she hasn't said anything otherwise" and also a well made penis joke) and it just has really good comedic timing on everything. There's some playing with expectations when it does stuff, there's the fact that it once again leans into absurdity, and also they explained Date's porno mag power stuff??? I think it's erroneous and they didn't have to, I could have just taken that as is but the explanation was funny so I don't really care, it made me feel a human emotion (whimsy) which is a good thing when talking about the sheer volume of sexual jokes in this game. I was also really glad to have Greg Chun's Date the entire time because well, that's Date to me and I think his generally very subdued delivery creates *incredible* contrast with when he's hamming it the fuck up.
Like the first game, it's incredibly tightly designed. Basically everything has an explanation, information is always relevant to something and I think it's especially good in this game since there's more twists that are foreshadowed expertly, or you can again, conclude on your own by making inferences with given info, they're really intellectually satisfying and that's fantastic, love that. It might have just been a me thing, but I was completely blindsided by the six year parallel thing, which was the only thing I didn't catch onto beforehand? It comes with a fourth wall break during that reveal but also stuff is foreshadowed before then (mostly through omission imo) so like, maybe you can catch on maybe you can't, kinda wish I could have but it is what it is, the point is that's the only one I'm a little mixed on the execution of, even if I still feel positively about its existence.
Ending wise and thematically, again citing the very empathetic reality of it I mentioned earlier in the context of its sexual humor, this game firmly believes in the potential of humans to work together and be with each other, that moment in the ending where Tearer says "come, look upon true humanity" is really good! We are, it's us working together! It scratches that same kind of itch that Yoko Taro's works do, where things are both very direct and also a little clever about it all depending on the moments. I think Mizuki's speech in the ending is a little ham fisted but it's also Mizuki, it fits her character even if I think spelling it out feels a little erroneous to lay out the entire ethos there. Amame, and to some degree, Ryuki, also give the theme of "yeah life dealt you a shit hand and you made some bad choices, that doesn't mean you're irredeemable it just makes you human" which I am always a sucker for.
I think my only real complaint about this game is Lien. When he's not being Kizzybrained I don't mind him but everything else with him just really did not land with me. His stuff feels like it doesn't have enough time to breathe, and his Somnium does add to it well! It's just not enough.
Other than that though, peak fucking fiction. I love strong women, pathetic men, lots of thought and humor, and a very human story.
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Hey, so many of my very favorite video games are super on sale right now on Steam, so please allow me to speak at you for a moment.
The sale is a Spike Chunsoft sale, so it includes series like Danganronpa and Stein’s Gate and others.
But SPECIFICALLY I adore the games of Kotaro Uchikoshi, the Zero Escape series and the AI:The Somnian Files series.
The Zero Escape games are some of my ALL TIME very favorite video games. You can get all the games in the series for $25 right now, 75% off.
Uchikoshi’s games are typically part visual novel, part puzzles, though later games are fully voiced visual novels. (Actually I 100% forget the steam version of 999 is highly voiced now too...because it wasn’t voiced AT ALL when I played it the first...IDK 4 times.)
Uchikoshi does amazing things with narrative and tells stories that only work in the video game format. The stories are entirely WILD and often veer from ridiculous to character moments that make you sob.
The games definitely have horror/violent elements, so some content warning apply. Like they are NOT playing around and WILL hurt you, but god is it worth it. The games take a LOT of time to play, and they all have multiple endings/routes with one of them being the “real” or “goal” ending. But again, WORTH it.
I have bought MULTIPLE entire game systems to play these games, and the fact you can just BUY them so cheap now is kinda wild to me. (Also hey, you aren’t going to deal with the game-breaking bug on the 2nd Zero Escape game on the 3DS where I lost 60 hours of progress.)
So yeah, take this as a kick in the butt, if this is at all your kind of thing.
I just finished the first AI game and am buying the second in this game, but I really enjoyed the first.
(I also love Danganronpa and if you like one series you WILL enjoy the other. It’s a similar level of Messed Up and Also Deep.)
The sale is going on through the 19th.
ETA: I wrote this at 6AM so pardon me, but I forgot the series were labeled weird on Steam. The Nonary Games is a collection of the first two Zero Escape Games. So one purchase ($12 right now????!!!!!) and you get two full games with each something like 100 hours in it. (999 depends a lot on decisions how long it takes. ZE2 is super long to complete.)
The first Zero Escape game, 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors is a mystery set on a sinking replica (?) of the Titanic, in which a cast of 9 people have to find their way through the ship to the last door to escape before it sinks. But that’s only the surface level of what’s actually going on...
The second ZE game is Virtue’s Last Reward, a direct sequel to the first, but that’s not immediately obvious. It’s a little more sci-fi, a little more out there, with more twisty paths and wild surprises. But in some ways the quintessential Zero Escape (though NOTHING will beat 999 in my mind). These two are included in the one Nonary Games package.
Zero Time Dilemma is the completion(?) of the trilogy which we thought for years we wouldn’t get and then we did. Opinions are mixed on this one, and it dials up the horror and violence and Saw-esque aspects a lot, but it’s extremely memorable and unique. Utterly terrified me the first time I played it BTW (but like I have anxiety and don’t do horror games.)
AI: The Somnian Files is an unrelated series from the same writer/director. A sci-fi police detective mystery, in which a police detective who can use secret tech to experience people’s dreams tries to solve a serial killer case. Very weird, very wild, but honestly even more impressive on a second play/watch because the writing is super clever. Great voice acting and character work. Very silly (easy) action sequences. There’s also a direct sequel that just released in June.
Pretty much all of them have trigger warnings for dark content, death, suicide, sexism, child abuse...but USUALLY stuff is handled well for anime-genre media, with the exception of some anime-typical sexism.
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HAII i just finished aitsf like literally today changed my life. need to hop on aini. for the ask game thing how about date?
congrats!!!!! hope u had fun :)
favorite thing about them: i like it when he's a loser
least favorite thing about them: uchikoshi needs to stop w the weird and creepy jokes PLEASEEE
favorite line: "I hate you, and I never want to see you again." iykyk.....
brOTP: him and boss :)
OTP: him and kagami <333333333
nOTP: idk tbh lowkey keep him away from all women /hj JAJAJAJ
random headcanon: i think he'd get really into learning some random language every month. like one month he's making aiba quiz him on german numbers and the next month he's trying to impress some random lady by saying "donde esta la biblioteca"
unpopular opinion: dont thirst over him too much yall hes not that hot </3
song i associate with them: betty (get money) by yung gravy LMFAOOOO
favorite picture of them:
i like how u get fooled into thinking he might actually be cool LMFAOO
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i recognize this might be a bat to a hornets nest but curious about more in-depth ndvr3 opinions
hi anon im sorry this took one million years to answer properly (bc i never got an answer back about how long you wanted this to be) but im answering it now. spoilers for v3 and very concentrated dislike of dr as a series (and especially v3 lol) below the cut
as a whole, dr does a very poor job at making its characters feel fleshed out. this is, i know, kind of the point - they're all supposed to essentially be very exaggerated versions of some specific tropes common in jp media, i.e gundham being an extreme chuuni. after the first game though, which feels like more of a proof of concept than an actually well-designed game, the extreme flatness (ironically shown very well by the pop-up-book art style lol) just gets worse and worse and the characters in v3 in particular are even less fleshed out than before. i realize that for v3 this is somewhat a consequence of them trying to drive home the 'these are characters written by someone else' point, but like.......even if you're trying to make the point that someone wrote the characters to be like that, you can still write the characters well if you're trying to pull off genuinely emotional moments w them. e.g. every time they tried to make kaito's illness sad i could not give LESS of a shit about it because he just has the one-note personality.
dr has always had the problem where characters - outside of komaeda and hinata in sdr2, who are IMO the best developed characters in the whole series, especially komaeda - are only as well developed as the amount of time you spend doing their social links (or occasionally the particular trial that focuses on them, if that applies). of course, it's literally impossible to complete everyone's social events during the main mode of the game - unlike, for example, p4 or p5, where you can at least get close if you dont finish the whole social link. as such, it is extremely difficult to form an attachment to more than 1 or 2 characters before they kill/are killed. this is especially true when it's immediately obvious who has less of a personality than everyone else - or has more of a trope of a personality - and it's intensely predictable who is going to die early. for example, in v3, it was almost immediately obvious to me that tennis guy, maid girl, and angie and tenko were not going to make it to the end of the game, and were all early deaths, because of how paper-thin their personalities are. of course, this meant that i didn't bother doing their social events at all, so i had no attachment to them when they did inevitably die. this is a problem w every single dr game but its especially bad with this one.
(don't even get me started on how ive been able to figure out the majority of the solution to each case before the trial even starts or gets farther than like 30 minutes in. or how the issues that the students raise are often incredibly stupid and take WAY too much time and energy to shoot down when its so obvious that they're completely wrong. it's just. filler for in so many of the trials and it is incredibly annoying. the amount of filler before seesaw effect made me insane.)
now for my main v3 specific complaint: the fucking ending.
i actually like meta endings, you must understand that about me before reading the rest of this. meta in video games in general is something i love as long as it's well executed. i adore how uchikoshi handles it in [GAME REDACTED TO AVOID SPOILERS], for example, even though a lot of people seemed to have missed the point with it entirely.
the key word there is "well-exectued." v3 is not.
first of all: if you're trying to make this a meta case where v3 is part of the ongoing DR series....why are you trying to say that the video game you're playing is part of a TV show???? it feels as natural to say that a TV show you're watching is secretly a book someone else is reading. it's not a natural jump between mediums in the slightest, and what makes it even more annoying is that dr as a series is a primarily-video-game series!!!!!!!!! what on EARTH are you doing trying to be meta about your video game secretly being a TV show. it makes no fucking sense. if they tried to say that it was a mixed-medium franchise, that I would accept, because DR IS a mixed-media franchise. but it feels incredibly stupid to retroactively say that 'these two video games we wrote in the past are actually tv shows.' what? no. that's not how mediums work.
secondly: the meta does not work effectively in a series like dr to begin with when it already is constantly breaking the 4th wall for comedy - which i don't actually have any significant problems with. i personally think it's a lazy way of trying to be funny when it's the primary way you try to make your game funny, but i can accept that it works with the general character trope adherence of the series as a whole. however, because of how meta is often used as a joke in the series, when they suddenly try to make the meta serious, while also still keeping elements of the meta comedy at the same exact time that you're revealing that the meta Is Dead Serious Stuff, the complete tonal dissonance really works against you.
lastly: it does not really feel like the writers wrote v3 as a whole to be meta, if that makes sense. [redacted uchi game] feels like it was always meant to be that way, and so it feels completely natural that it leans into fourth-wall breaking all the time. however, the way that the meta ending comes across in v3 is just that they didn't have any other better ideas on how to end the game/were running against a time deadline and just threw in the 'ehhhhhhhhh we're already meta all the time for comedy let's do that for the ending but serious this time' towel. as i said earlier, i like meta in games when it's well-exectued, but poorly executed/written metanarrative always sticks out, and in the case of v3 it is especially bad because it doesn't even seem like they wrote the first case AFTER the last case....which you need to do in order to successfully pull off the meta in a case like v3. and is also wild considering the very beginning of the game makes it clear that they did actually go back and try to drop foreshadowing earlier without editing much of the rest of the game to accommodate for that.
tldr the writing around the metanarrative ending is just so intensely bad that it's kind of unbelievable to me that people think it's a good ending.
sorry if you like dr but tldr its a mediocre series and its baffling to me how it got popular, but also people saying v3 is better at being meta than [redacted uchikoshi game] is an opinion ive seen more than once that just makes me fucking laugh.
#asks#anonymous#'aj don't you rb dr art sometimes' yes because sometimes the art is good. next question#[also i havent watched the dr3 tv show or...whatever the other was. the two anime original pieces. so this is complaint isnt based on those#sorry anon that it took forever for me to actually answer you. hopefully this answers your question thoroughly enough lol
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PSA * !
while i don't need or really....like? to make these posts, and i try not to be personal unless my mutuals are people that i am comfortable sharing it, but i've definitely been struggling to write period. writer's block, call it what you will, but it's definitely been causing me anxiety when it shouldn't. so i decided to start replaying uchikoshi games of course, i just finished ai.tsf and am onto a.ini, as much as i have some gripes with it, oh well, we make our own canon - but i wanted by choice, to kinda explain that.
one thing that's really really important to me is mutual communication. that doesn't translate to: 'tell me everything that's going on and every personal detail. ' it just means, i feel that if something is up with me that's affecting my fun on the dashboard, then i wanna just bring it up.
most of my friends here know i've been having a lot of social anxiety. which is kinda weird for me since i'm a fairly confident / extroverted person! but you know what that's okay, but i've been kind of a ghost on my discord. i keep second guessing everything i say to most everyone, and it has nothing to do with a single person, there's nothing wrong i feel about any of my friends. i'm just /anxious/.
i also, am just accepting that due to some personal health issues, nothing major, (ex: insomnia amped up, for mental reasons ) that my adhd is all over the place. most of the time when i get to be home i'm snuggling my bear uh -- i mean, my rescue great pyrenees sasha or just doing 'icon therapy' which is me making batches of screencaps and converting them to icons.
i'm not ignoring anyone, and i just don't know what to really say right now in a lot of conversations. i stumble over my typing and delete little sentences because my anxiety has been so bad. but also for me, with that adhd, sitting in it is infinitely worse, and i'm sorry if this sounds like i'm complaining. i just like being upfront!
so yeah, dm buddies i'm not ignoring you, or purposefully being slow. roleplay partners / friends, new mutuals waiting on meme asks or threads, hell even mizuki's birthday stuff, which is FOREVER btw to this stan, i am not trying to make it seem i'm disinterested or quite frankly i don't drop threads unless you would like me to. i just may not be at the speed you like. and that's okay! we meet each other half way.
but yeah i kinda really have wanted to address this because i can feel mizuki kinda coming back if that makes sense? there's so much to explore with her, but even mutuals i don't even know that i dearly want to interact with, please know you can send random asks or throw people at mizuki any time. i know this isn't a job. i know not to force myself, and trust me, i don't.
but i just...didn't want to leave the wrong impression that may be 'lily's ignoring me / lily dropped our stuff / ' it isn't so much bluntly, for anyone as much as it is me wanting to tell you i just don't operate that way i guess? i wouldn't treat someone like that. everyone has their way of operating on this site and as long as it's not hurtful i think it's fair and valid. i just wanted to explain. for myself, and hopefully clear up if anyone is confused about me.
i appreciate everyone's patience and the talent they bring to the dash, even if i don't know your muse(s), but i do know that i followed you for a reason so please be patient with me as i get through this. i think writing is so relaxing for me, so slowly feeling mizuki come back is a very, very comforting thing. she's my favorite girl ever, the girl ever period for me, and i never aim to make this a job.
so i'm gonna be gentle to myself and these asks and threads you might go 'well that was ages ago' and that's okay. what's important for me is that my intentions are always clear, and hopefully, always seen as they are as best i can: well meaning. that said, since i don't wanna make this a job, please don't do it either okay? - lily.
#also uh...this might be personal but my c-ptsd is p bad lately?#i'm functioning with it but it definitely leaks into social anxiety.#so if i've been weird on discord it is NOT you.#i'm happy with everyone!#i just am...kinda weird rn LOL.#𝐏𝐒𝐀 *ೃ༄ do you wanna get your ass kicked?#𝐎𝐎𝐂 *ೃ༄ what looks gone but comes back even stronger.#cw: ptsd#i never rly talk about any problems i have bc i just have it ingrained that i'm a burden if i do#i'm workin' on it!
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