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ooooooh how come you think the chaser is a genuine friend? since she shows up places where tatsuki seems to find comfort/friendship (purple princess, before lefias room) I thought she was probably someone who kepts tatsuki away from recovery, esp since with purple princess, the princess gets trapped with thorns and tatsuki gets surrounded by chasers, I figured that means she had sort of extorted the both of them to cut contact

Would say am more 50/50-ish but go back and forth. Like believe both equally but also lean more towards one at times if that makes sense. For a while mainly thought she [calling her Kubinashiko/Kubi for convenience and thats name on wiki] was someone that pretended to be nice but was emotionally manipulating Tats.

Think it's mainly due to all the places she's in make her come off as lonely, like her sitting in the faces canal and spot underwater. The underwater one especially since she herself is looking down and isolated. Probs need to double check this but feels like she's more often than not on her own/away from other npcs, thus the connect due to loneliness thing. Course this could also be a sign of her trying to isolate Tats by always having them away from others.

Huh, didn't realize chasers in that event were Kubi. Always thought they were the lil black guys running around area and that it was supposed to be the princess getting tired of Tats and cutting them off; the princess herself was a case of friendliness is a face. Esp with how the princess's face gets covered if you use the upside-down effect. That's a really good theory though °◇°!

not entirely relevant but when going back to check noticed the purple princess smiles when you have the beast effect active which is kinda interesting since thats the scare npcs effect. course she smiles at the mouse so maybe she just likes animals heh. before this thought she was just smiling cause uh ratsuki's cute [she's right and she should smile]

also hesitant to believe this one given tats is awake during the true end but it could symbolize that like. panic induced fucking up your own life type thing, cutting off their coping mechanism, cutting off their friend, running away without a plan

but if that were the case, I still have no idea what the mouth is supposed to mean-

Thing about that is if they were awake then how could there have been the corpses of them and Kubi in the field? Personally took that bit to be more of a rep of what's going on in Tat's head/their mental state and part after to actually be in real world.

Ooh never thought of that. Really like that take, it's super interesting! Can see it working well with idea that the glass effect and events of them getting shattered is showing how they're falling apart/failing to keep it together so they finally just snap. though damn, given the noises after the screen goes black think it did not go well for them at all.

DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS UP WITH THE DAMN MOUTH BUT AM SO BOTHERED BY IT. IT COMES OUT OF THE BLUE AND IS JUST???? Hi quick question WHAT THE HELL? WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? It'd be different if it were the usual creepy smile but it looks like their mouth is torn/messed up?

ALSO thoughts on the hospital?

Sooooo for starters LOVE THE HOSPITAL AREA, ITS SUCH A NEAT AREA . Also the clones event is one of favorites, it's so bizarre and unnerving and am really intrigued by it and just love it [granted miiiiiight be into medical aesthetics considering am into menhera n that kinda imagery. and might just be a weirdo]

Kinda messy/more throwing around notes [yes am going through and re-visiting areas cause am like. that.] than an actual coherent thought

First off there's the weird backgrounds for the connection to the hospital [according to terminal are titled 'mouth' and 'tear']. Think it could mean Tatsuki has a distrust of/views doctors as manipulative?

Nother thing is the room you start in is titled 'Isolation Ward.' [might be nothing other than names to make coding easier but still wanna note it]

Not entirely sure how to word this but it doesn't give off the usual hospital feeling that other games with them do, might be due to walls being yellow instead of white and abundance of chairs.

Obviously feel like something traumatic happened to Tatsuki at one. The clones event [terminal says room's titled Decay] maybe being them going through multiple near death experiences at one or just the fear of dying while in a critical state at one. Also possibly something like a fever dream or delirium induced by state or medication. Since there's the two bodies in hallway of alt hospital could be that they saw someone else die and got scared they would as well.

There's also the odd doctor that changes the menu and not any other staff around so maybe during stay the staff treated Tatsuki poorly and came off cold and distant or neglectful which lead to Tats having a distrust/dislike of doctors.

note: the terminal is a Linux thing. It's a text based interface that's used to run the games and stays open while game is open. bad at explaining things so here's photo of it 'running' game with game window next to it

know nothing about rpgmaker development and am essentially kinda guessing based on what it spits out.

while we are on the topic, what's your interpretation of what happened during the endings of Mikan Muzou? 👀

Soutarou was taking life stuff pretty hard, it really got to his head [am so sorry, am a horrible person for this ｡◠⸜⸝◠｡]

obv spoiler warnings

Brief general theory about Soutarou: He was in some way involved in the death of the girl seen on in the slums [refuses to use more violent/gross effects in her area + the two knew each other based on there being childlike chalk drawings. Theorize she was the child of the woman that appears in the ending; one possibility is the two were a couple and thus the little girl was Sou's daughter.]. This haunts him and he has a guilty conscious [jail area, 'binding effects' such as the chains and case] which is why he refuses to go outside, or is afraid of facing the consequences of his actions.

Ending 1: He finally gets courage to go outside. Not a whole lot going on with this one.

Ending 2: Same as 1 except when doing so is confronted by someone that makes him break down.

Ending 3: Gonna be honest here, have absolutely no idea what to make of this. He is confronted while attempting to leave, panics, and tries to escape punishment by jumping [either by suicide or maybe hoping to make fall and get away as he seems hesitant, leaning more towards first one tho]. The woman had tracked him down seeking revenge for the little girl and ???? am thoroughly perplexed by this one. Since the woman doesn't have a weapon maybe she tried to help him but he snapped, 'swallowed his guilt', and went on a rampage hence tentacle things. Dunno, watched it several times and it's just, "Um, what just happened??????" every time.

True Ending: Same for 3 except this time the woman is truly coming to make sure he's dead and pays for crimes.

Interesting thing to note is while the bgm in Debris have more creative names Mikan Muzou's is mostly just "oto". Except the song that plays for the ending is titled Salvation which really makes it stand out. Believe it is named this as Soutarou is absolved of guilt and can rest as is crimes are paid for, granted it did cost his life. It could also be the woman finally feels relief for same reason.

irrelevant but in Debris's bgm folder there's a 4 minute long song called kaiteiremix thats a remix/mix of the underwater songs and it is really good. Salvation is 2:24 and also a good song, it really fits Soutarou's character and the overall mood of the game.

WARNING FOR SELF HARM AND LOSS OF LOVED ONE

HAD A HORRIBLE DEBRIS CONCEPT,

Lefia was Tatsuki’s sister/twin, the two were really close and loved fairy tales and dressing up together but one day Lefia dies in an accident or fire and Tatsuki broke and couldn’t move on. They would read their old fav stories, sometimes share clothing like they used to [their fav bandana was fav because she got it for them]. possibly even had a plush that resembled her that they slept with every night just to try deny that she was actually gone. This fucked up his mental state so much he refused to outside for fear of being reminded, or worse yet bullied for being disillusion, that she was gone.

She was also always the one to console him when he was being bullied or berated/harshly scolded by parents, “You’re not an idiot Tats, its okay” and stuff and without that they turned ended up turning to self harm and isolation.

i don’t know if you’ve posted something like this before, but what are your general headcanons about ynfg protags? like their ages, personalities, etcetera. i really like hearing about other people’s interpretations ^^

thank you for giving me an excuse to use this again hehe

I've probably posted something like this in the past but honestly memory is so bad these days I've completely forgotten and as you said, it's fun hearing others interpretations and stuff!

Sorta umbrella generalization is I think most are quiet, shy, soft spoken people. Outside of a few exceptions [Uro for example, she just comes off as a more loud and vibrant kind of character]. Maybe it's the ambience or lack of dialogue but a lot of the games make me feel like the character has a more somber/quiet personality.

A lot also feel like the outcast, always in their head and not really paying much attention to the world around them [either something happened that made them want to shut outside out or they suffer from ostracization and it's a coping mechanism for loneliness]

More for individual characters under cause long

Mado's kinda the poster child for this. Think she's around 16 or so and she became a shut in due to a mix of depression in general and it being exacerbated by experiencing trauma that caused her to snap or distance herself from her remaining friends [Car accident, loss of a friend, something like that.] She grew up playing weird little collectathon/pixel games and she's more interested in funky sorta characters than usual normie stuff her peers prefer, so she doesn't really connect much to those around her and focuses on fantasy more than reality.

Urotsuki [really young adult, maybe around 23-25?] feels like the, "I don't have much in real life but I can be myself and have lots of friends online." sorta character. People aren't intentionally mean to her per say, but she's weird and often doesn't feel like she fits in. Parents are sort of the same in that their main problem is they were distant and not there for her when she needed them.

Admit I am a sucker for this sorta stuff, but adore the idea that she went through a rough patch of self-value issues [was put off from being herself due to being weird, doesn't fall into the conventionally attractive type and had issues with image due to it, ect] but eventually overcame them and is now one of those loud and proud to be herself and very aggressively supports other weirdos around her because she doesn't want others to go through that type of people. She still has her skeletons, having an on-off issue with substance abuse and tendency to get excited and overstep boundaries.

Fluorette [Young adult?] comes across as a sort of lost child that just wants to feel like she belong somewhere. She has personality and such but doesn't fit in with those around her, and her humor can sometimes make her come off as a delinquent which results in her feeling more out of place.

Sometsuki [16-ish?] feels really similar to Mado in that she doesn't really connect much to those around her and prefers to spend her time alone. Can't explain why but feel like she has a bit more of a pessimistic outlook stemming from anxiety [she's afraid of messing up and being looked down on so she's reluctant to try things due to feeling like she's already failed kinda deal.]

NEVER SEE HER MENTIONED ENOUGH BUT I feel like Yayoi from Nobetsu Maku Nashi would be one of the more chill, sort of calm happy dreamers. [i am so heartbroken that the dev deleted because god i wanted to learn more about her so bad.] Sonoko from -1 is similar, though with a bit more of a depressed undertone. Both also young adults.