bumping bc i WILL go on about yttd

ohhh technically i know canon... but i'm really curious about what headcanons you have about midori and shin?

ohohoh
let me comb my thoughts

- i do think that like, things started out well and then got worse as midori got more of a hold over shin

i think that midori liked to give shin expensive gifts that always had those unseen threads attached

there's three major headcanons i've mentioned before, which is that midori transplanted shin's heart with his own, that shin once walked in on his own deconstructed doll, and that midori taught shin how to use a gun

it's hard to pick other things out in specific bc the rest is just like... a vibe. things like midori probably doing things like hooking his arm around shin's shoulder and pulling him in, setting up things to distress him and then being comforting when shin seeked it from him

using their friendship as a tool, point or weapon in persuading shin to do things, being friendly or chipper, making shin doubt his own judgements of whether something was important or not

setting up "puzzles" and "games"

a lot of things that like....... you can't put your finger on (and shin couldn't) on them individually but together and in hindsight were crueller than just your senpai high school friend persuading you to join in on ideas they just came up with

like annie suggested and i have it now, that headcanon that midori got shin to steal sake from his dad's liquor cabinet for them, and in theory that's the sort of thing dumb teens do, in practice for some reason shin was the only one getting a hangover, or comforted while throwing up, or drunk around midori

and like. things where like, midori would do something to shin, under this same sort of plausible deniability, and then be 'okay now your turn' and get him coming AND going bc shin would be distressed it happening to him and then be distressed doing the same for reasons he couldn't articulate

me and annie were talking today about the idea that
shin had violent dreams or thoughts about killing or hurting midori as a subconscious reaction to feeling trapped
and just. feel horrified at himself when they hit his conscious mind

and of course midori would have so much fun with that the moment shin confided in him

as he had fun with shin's worries and fears and insecurities in general

it was only some time AFTER midori disappeared that a lot of this came together for shin

because during the time, midori was scary but also a friend and it's just hhh. it all hurts me so much

oh and uh
probably that at at least one point, midori strangled him

pfle

lays here..... i dont know shit about fuck wrt yttd but im so curious i must consume the Lore

why they in a death game... whose turn is it to die...

why all the cool robot ppl so fucked up

crying cuz she just left to go on a bike ride lint come back and tell lavvy the lore

hdfgfh

i picked at the game a little bit today and somebody tell me why sara's dad texts like that, it haunts me

ok i wont steal lints thunder in explaining yttd but

"Hello hellooooo! (^^)/ Didja know? Sara's going to a board game meetup! Wonder if she's goin alone.... Papa's worried she might make sum bad friends.... "

HAUNTS ME

HE SUCKS SO BAD

komeada can literally have him. why couldnt HE hit sara's dad with a car. why did he have to hit narumi

's dad

oh no he texts like a dad.......

I RETURN

i fully believe sara texts her dad and he just replies with a string of emojis 80% of the time drives her mad

we have no idea why he texts like that :' )
it's not that he's in secret evil yakuza organization, he just does

sara literally refuses to use emojis bc her dad is so cringy about them i kno this in my heart

it's true

she has sworn off them forever

crying at the concept of a toyota corolla smashing into the death game killing him instantly

this is what happens in the universe where komaeda is in the game i'm declaring it now

lessee... getting to lavvy's q's be the answers require a little more string boarding there

i gave you 9trillion words on the history of technology in elrios ok ill read All Of The String Boarding

hehehe yesss
mutual rambling
bear with me bc plurk is slowing down for me for some reason and it takes like 10 seconds for a message to send

okay so why are they in a death game

we don't know for sure yet, but there have been hints sprimkled about for us

spits YOU DONT EVEN KNOW YET???

for sure

for sure

we have some pretty significant and horrifying hints

for some reason i always seem to think death game canons are like. the first thing u know is obviously why the death game is happening right??? but maybe i just dont play enough of these games and expect masterminds to be much more polite and upfront

hehehehe yttd loves to play with your expectations of death games

:' )

for example, the first chapter antagonist thinks you're the mastermind

and is legit trying to get you and your associates killed or exposed

there was going to be a 'mastermind', but he got killed before the game started

and when he shows up much later and is asked if he's behind all this, seems to find the idea funny

yttd really does seem to be a love letter to dangan ronpa sdr2 and ndrv3 and maybe some other things I haven't seen but mostly those two

because that throughline in particular makes me think of tsumigi, who sure, is the 'mastermind', but in a way where it's clear she's more filling the role than truly pulling the strings, and that's the vibe with the yttd floormasters

anyway I got off track but there's enough for a general fandom consensus and it really kind of has two parts

why these people are in a death game, and why the death game is happening at all

for the first one, it's implied that they were literally born for this. they've been monitored their whole lives so that completely realistic ai could be made of them to run test simulations for the death games
the group behind this, Asunaro, is explicitly stated to run an orphanage, and at least three of the characters are adopted

they're in the death game because they exist to be in the death game

and they have no idea, because there's a guy who can erase memories on the payroll

he got them to sign contracts agreeing to give themselves to asunaro (in other words unknowingly consent to the death game) in return for a wish, wiping their memories of THAT

the oldest of them is 30, which means this has been planned for three decades

so why is this organization doing this utterly batshit thing?

this is where it starts getting murkier and i feel we'll have our minds blown by the last chapter

but in the 80s, the government started cracking down on yakuza gangs

i love thats the backstory i love thats the backstory its llike SUCH A DUMB DOMINO EFFECT

(which is true irl, actually, it's why they've started to move more into things like trafficing and cybercrime apparently)

IT REALLY IS
FOR WANT OF A NAIL

this cracking down placed a lot of stress on the gangs, and bloody turf wars and fights over dwindling territory and power flared up

however, realising this would end up with them all killing each other and then becoming sitting ducks, the remaining gangs decided on a compromise

they would all put forward representatives, who would kill each other in a highly ritualised setting, and the winner would head the new, unified yakuza

in other words, a death game

the results became known as the Hades Incident to the police; a pun on the criminal 'underworld' in english, and I think it's a pun on reaching heaven in japanese, which explains why everyone keeps going upwards as the game progresses, anyway

so the yakuza have a new leader! hooray! aaaaand, he's traumatized

in a memorandum he describes how he was initially dismissive of one of the fellow victims, a high school girl who was picked for a game of russian roulette and who lost two people in a trial
then they talked, and whatever the conversation contained, he came to wish her to win, even at the cost of his own life.... but she died

he gets really fixated with this girl, the center of his trauma and fascination

She died. / It was the first time I'd shed tears for a stranger. / Even now, I see hallucinations of her. / As many women as I try to love, I'm never satisfied. / Even now, to me, she is

anyway you can tell this dude was not getting anything resembling therapy, because while Asunaro began to prosper and expand, even infiltrating the police and government and creating various profitable front businesses.... like the orphanage.... and the medical company.....

it was getting really into the idea of making ai and incredibly realistic lifelike dolls to put them in
for 'mental relief'.... implied to be a way to bring your loved ones back

shin where are your parents

he has them! apparently! we don't know if they're his biological ones, but we know at some point they gave his biological sister to be adopted by a different family, so it's a little(?) more likely thank the others

he mentions at some point he feels like they spoil him a little, and that he wants to repay them, iirc, although that's the extent we know

*than the others

where was i... my thoughts... annie obliterated them with a tag
anyway the tl;dr is that it's implied that THIS death game is a guy recreating his trauma so that he can finally find someone like the person he lost and also a successor

damn thats convoluted i love it tbh

IKR it's so good

why cant we ever have a death game for a NORMAL reason

just a normal good clean fun wholesome death game

it's pretty clear that a) sara is meant to be the replacement for the high school girl, down to her name

picks sara up and puts her on a high shelf where she is safe

her predecessor was from the Sendou family, and another way you can read 'sen', thousand, is 'chi'. Chi dou in

yeah god that's the mood interestingly
and that while the game is ostensibly fair, she's still sort of being rooted for to win
it's highly implied she's been subtley groomed to be very good at death game

it's less clear, but still sort of there, that shin is meant to be a stand in for the Asunaro CEO himself

this is what happens when you're a self insert OC of someone who utterly hates themself

yeah this definitely isnt fucked up at all

it's super fucked up

picks shin up and also puts him on the high shelf

the longer you think about it the more fucked up it gets it just doesn't stop

this is the guy you can see the resemblence a bit

hi there not-ichihara-touma

but yeah you can see why shin wanted to kill the man the instant ranger gave him the last piece of lore he needed to piece it together

they're on the high shelf :' ) they're safe(ish) in yogen

safe(r)

i'm constantly that being in a school where ppl die every month is better for them

at least in some respects

looks at my own characters too like........................ yeah

LOOK... ITS FINE. THE MURDERS ARE OPTIONAL.

actually thats kind of worse since its not like people are forced to murder theyre just, yknow, given incentive to murder

because yttd like... because of what's going on in the larger picture it makes even escaping the death game nailbiting bc like... do they go home... asunaro knows where they live. the police are in on it
annie and i have a whole au and the theme song is Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell

hhhhh yeah.... it also makes them a lot more unpredictable
in a yttd death game unless someone does something buckwild (and that's happened in the sims apparently), the deaths are set in games

yogen be like no one HAS to murder you can totally make it the whole year without ANY murders!!!

and then we have a 9 body pileup because 3 murderers showed up on the same night

sdfgfdfgffggfd mom said it was my turn on the murder

never forget

nine bodies....

whose turn is it to die...

okay so the title of the game has it's whole translator note, because in japanese it's 'kimi ga shine', roughly 'you go die' which vgperson was originally going to translate as 'die, my dear' bc kimi is a very familiar 'you' but i'm glad they went with Your Turn To Die because it just... resonates with the game's themes well

but as i had a lot of fun pointing out in nms watch, it's effectively like.... 'go die' or 'go fuck yourself' or 'perish'.... that sort of thing

it gets title dropped twice in the game

the first time is shin to sara
his usage is interesting because 'it's your turn to die... miss sara'
is something that makes a LOT more sense when you find out that he was told about the simulations, in which sara had the highest chance of winning and him the lowest at 0%

so when he says it's her turn to die.... this gives it an added hidden 'instead of him'

the second use is keiji to shin, and it's pretty clearly keiji turning shin's own words back at him

who's turn is it to die? we don't know, and we are terrified. there are five people alive in one route, and four in the other, and i am not ready

me actually looking the game up proper finally like oh i somehow didnt even realize this was an indie rpgmaker game ITS LITERALLY STILL ONGOING? damn rip u ppl

sdfghfd YEAH

it's literally ALL BY ONE GUY

THE ART LOOKS SO GOOD I LEGIT THOUGHT IT WAS JUST AESTHETIC...... impressive tbh

the next chapter will be the last one, unless it's split up homestuck style again

IKR and the music is banging too

the art, music and character writing are

and it's free to play wiggles eyebrows

how its available in browser so u dont even have to download

sighs..... puts down a bookmark...................

yeeeeep
sdghgf as long as it hasn't updated and everyone's crashing the site trying to see at once
hehehehe

some indie game makers rly need to charge more for their games fr

how is this free

lemme know your thoughts if you do play
THEY REALLY DO
I KEEP TRYING TO BUY MERCH BUT IT'S HARD

i probably will because i know it has AI Things and thats my ultimate weakness in any story

i think bunny mentioned it's fairly common for rpg maker games like this to be released piecemeal free and then sold once they're complete

tbh that kinda makes sense because if they charge you for it at the very end u have to pay to get the ending and what are u gonna do, NOT see the conclusion

heheheheh honestly god i love yttd taking off the mask like
brian david gilbert voice surprise! i lured you into a false sense of security! i'm actually sci fi!

they already gave u the rest for FREE u monster

hehehehehe exactly

anyway you wanted to know why the cool robot people are fucked up it's bc they're made by asunaro which is evil found family where everyone is awful and making each other worse

picks all of them up and puts them on the high shelf too

but maybe like, with a lil divider in the middle, from the sounds of things

asdfgdfg yeah it's like making sure you keep certain pet types from interacting

Yeah, so that's been the trend more recently. A lot of indie makers will release it for free, and then spruce it up a little bit and sell it (or just put it up for sale as a way of getting support.) Not all of them do it but it is really clever since otherwise it's really hard to get people to drop cash on any one specific game.

But I love all of this headcanon... Not to make this about me, but I feel very validated right now because your more general ideas of how their relationship was is almost an exact match for how I'd pinned it down so we on the same wavelength.

I definitely see Midori as the type who really does just creep up on you, and by time you have the opportunity to realize it, you're already in too deep. Because he's your support and your friend and he gaslights and manipulates and acts... But I love all of these specifics, A++, would kill him again

quietly adopts some of this for my own nefarious purposes

hehehehe that validates me as well honestly
yeesssss lemme know any of your own as you like, it's fun to sort of like
build up a rolodex of moments because so much is implied but not gone into
fghgfddfg shredder time