i've been watching a friend play DR1 for the first time, and it's been interesting! it's also been my first time fully experiencing the DR1 localization, because i read orenronen's translation on SomethingAwful back in like 2013, and when i got back into the series i skipped straight to playing DR2. so i never actually played the localization of DR1 past like, the prologue, lmao.
the 11037 clue might have been a tad harder for a japanese audience, both because it forms romanized letters and because addressing people by last name is more typical? i'm not sure how much difference it made tbh, it was still probably meant to be an easy clue because it's the Tutorial Trial, but it might not have been *quite* as easy originally?
(I notice I've written Naegi and Kirigiri, but Mondo and Chihiro. I'm very inconsistent in whether I refer to the first game's characters by given name or family name.) same! and my name choices line up with yours for those 4 (naegi, kirigiri, mondo, chihiro), lol. the localization's nicknames def annoy me tho. and so does togami being called "byakuya." though nothing throws me off quite like komaeda being "nagito."
(tho i did write a komaeda fic recently where i used first names, including nagito, because it was for an exchange and that's what the recipient wanted.)
He takes a real interest in Naegi, too, as soon as he registers 'this one made some strong deductions in the trial and is also easily led; he may be useful'. yes, this is part of what interests me about Togami and Naegi's interactions! god togami is such a dick, but i greatly enjoy him.
also god yeah the "Schizophrenia" hangman's gambit is terrible. it's not DID! it's completely different!
the Chihiro thing is interesting. the friend of mine who is playing DR for the first time is a trans woman, and she definitely read Chihiro as a trans girl? her main point was that "cis people don't usually see 'present as the other binary gender' as an appealing solution to their life problems" and tbh, she's not wrong about that. on the other hand, Alter Ego refers to Chihiro with male pronouns, which to me seems indicative of a preference, sooo...
yeah. it doesn't seem like a Cis Thing To Do (which i guess may be why i've also seen nonbinary Chihiro headcanons floating around), but chihiro seemed to indicate wanting to present male again and alter ego used male pronouns for chihiro... yeah. idk.
that said tho, the *way* chihiro's gender was revealed in chapter 2? super gross. instead of just explaining it, Kirigiri hints that they should check Chihiro's corpse, and Sakura inspects the body closely and then reacts with her most extremely shocked/horrified face. big, big yikes. i didn't remember how bad it was before now (prob bc in 2013 i didn't yet realize i was trans.)
Of course, Mondo didn't confess. But I think, if the trial had started to draw to a close and it was clear he was going to get away with it, if it really sank in that he was going to have the deaths of everyone else on his conscience as well, he might have. interesting! yeah, if it had come down to it, i think he might have.
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the 11037 clue might have been a tad harder for a japanese audience, both because it forms romanized letters and because addressing people by last name is more typical? i'm not sure how much difference it made tbh, it was still probably meant to be an easy clue because it's the Tutorial Trial, but it might not have been *quite* as easy originally?
(I notice I've written Naegi and Kirigiri, but Mondo and Chihiro. I'm very inconsistent in whether I refer to the first game's characters by given name or family name.)
same! and my name choices line up with yours for those 4 (naegi, kirigiri, mondo, chihiro), lol. the localization's nicknames def annoy me tho. and so does togami being called "byakuya." though nothing throws me off quite like komaeda being "nagito."
(tho i did write a komaeda fic recently where i used first names, including nagito, because it was for an exchange and that's what the recipient wanted.)
He takes a real interest in Naegi, too, as soon as he registers 'this one made some strong deductions in the trial and is also easily led; he may be useful'.
yes, this is part of what interests me about Togami and Naegi's interactions! god togami is such a dick, but i greatly enjoy him.
also god yeah the "Schizophrenia" hangman's gambit is terrible. it's not DID! it's completely different!
the Chihiro thing is interesting. the friend of mine who is playing DR for the first time is a trans woman, and she definitely read Chihiro as a trans girl? her main point was that "cis people don't usually see 'present as the other binary gender' as an appealing solution to their life problems" and tbh, she's not wrong about that. on the other hand, Alter Ego refers to Chihiro with male pronouns, which to me seems indicative of a preference, sooo...
yeah. it doesn't seem like a Cis Thing To Do (which i guess may be why i've also seen nonbinary Chihiro headcanons floating around), but chihiro seemed to indicate wanting to present male again and alter ego used male pronouns for chihiro... yeah. idk.
that said tho, the *way* chihiro's gender was revealed in chapter 2? super gross. instead of just explaining it, Kirigiri hints that they should check Chihiro's corpse, and Sakura inspects the body closely and then reacts with her most extremely shocked/horrified face. big, big yikes. i didn't remember how bad it was before now (prob bc in 2013 i didn't yet realize i was trans.)
Of course, Mondo didn't confess. But I think, if the trial had started to draw to a close and it was clear he was going to get away with it, if it really sank in that he was going to have the deaths of everyone else on his conscience as well, he might have.
interesting! yeah, if it had come down to it, i think he might have.