in ai3 I think iris should snap and activate her dormant serial killer sejima genes

sejima gamer siblings - for #AivemberExchange2023!!

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the creator's two funniest jokes

mew-ru so-mew-zuki or something. birthday meow meow

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Imagine these three being normal siblings

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i have no regrets <- girl who most definitely has regrets

I commissioned @toastchus to envision Uru Somezuki as a burnt toast calico cat and my god is the result perfect! He's a fluffy little guy that means everything to me I'm gonna CRYYY... He's definitely plotting escape rooms in his sleep, and trying to pet him gives you a 50% chance of purrs and a 50% chance of getting stuck in a SAW trap.

good things come in threes

1 1 2 3 （いい兄さん）の日！

15分絵日記。世島兄妹たちが仲良くしている世界線があったらきっとね…みんな幸せだから…目の保養だし…（？）

sejima siblings I love u guys

leap year

Not to be mean, but I really do think some of hot takes about the meaning for Dahlia Boat are ridiculous. Like, the zero escape references are one thing, Uru is canonically a loser who loves zero escape, and we'll come back to them, but like.

Change the letters DAHLIA BOAT to the fourth letter followed by the original one in order of the alphabet, can get "HELPME FSEX," which could mean, "help me, female." This hints at Uru's dependence on Tokiko, or his Oedipus complex.

Like I'm so sorry; I don't think that's it. I really don't. You don't need a whole cipher to reference Uru's Oedipus complex when you can just play Nonentity Incognito exactly one time and be like "oh okay he has severe mommy issues got it." That's just explicit text for his character.

Maybe the writers would go out of their way to encode that for fun, but it doesn't work in universe as something Uru would do, which matters because Uru is deliberately saying this bullshit name to fuck with the cops. He's meticulous about hiding his identity, and Tearer is a whole persona. In Japanese, he literally uses different personal pronouns for himself when in the costume vs outside of it; it's like...inconceivable he would do this lmao I'm sorry it's just a bad theory guys I know he likes puzzles and thinks he's the smartest boy in the world but not for this.

Let's come back to the zero escape references though. Phi's character design has a black flower in her hair, which according to the designer is a reference to a novel based on the real life murder of Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia. Elizabeth Short was bisected at the waist. Boat is a reference to 999, where the death game involves a boat sinking and makes a lot of use out of the mythos behind the Titanic disaster. Do you know what the Titanic famously did when it sank? IT SPLIT IN HALF.

It's that simple. He's referencing tragedies that involved things or people being halved because that's what he does. He's Tearer. He has a whole comment about how he studied history, and this is how he's using it. Horrible jokes about real events to avoid revealing himself. From a writing perspective, they're incorporating the 1/2 motif again; I think that's clever enough.

🎉Belated Birthday Render to two beautiful sonboys who are totally not up to some nefarious plot this time (maybe)🎉 🥳

Tearer should have been at the club