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rionaleonhart) wrote2025-05-07 10:32 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2025-05-07 10:32 am
Bad Times Don't Last, But Bad Bitches Do.
More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! At this point it's getting hard to describe exactly where I am in this game. I'm in day fifty-five of a route that involves training at the beach.
My choices so far:
- spare Eito, obviously. Setting aside the fact that it is very much a war crime to kill a prisoner of war (let's be honest, war crimes are not treated as a large concern here at War Crimes Academy), I don't want to kill someone unnecessarily, and I especially do not want to kill a villain when I could instead have a weird conflicted relationship with him.
- reveal that we've time-travelled. Honesty is the best policy!
- save Second-to-Last Defense Academy. (It feels very weird to have to use the US spelling so much when talking about this game; I keep wanting to write 'defence'!) There are fighters at Last Defense Academy who might be able to hold out without us, but Second-to-Last Defense Academy is clearly screwed without our help.
- do not reveal Nozomi's secret. Look, I know I just said that honesty was the best policy, but it's Nozomi's choice whether to talk about her past, and Takumi was so upset in the first route when Nozomi thought he'd shared the things she told him in confidence!
- reveal Nozomi's secret once we've actually had a chance to speak to Nozomi and get her on board, because the alternative, 'lie that Nozomi is a defecting enemy commander', is an absolutely bizarre choice. Why would that make anyone more likely to trust her than the truth?? Don't listen to Eito's advice, Takumi; Eito explicitly hates us and wants us all dead!
I'm very pleased that, even if Eito does genuinely hate Takumi, he's also struggling with complicated feeeeeelings about him. 'This is the first time I've ever felt this way about a loathsome human!' 'I loathe you so much I can't stand it, but... I think I like you, too.'
Very sad to lose Darumi! We should all start killing each other in her honour.
Imagine the last thing you see being a bleeding, screaming, legless torso flying straight at your face.
Riona: I can't believe we made our friends cut us in half and hurl us at the enemy.
Tem: But it worked!
Rei: Yeah, that's the kind of plan that's only stupid if it doesn't work.
Tem: It would have been really embarrassing if we'd been cut in half, our friends had baseballed us at the enemy, and then our torso had just hit them with a splat and dropped down.
Nice that we've got a new boyfriend after our acrimonious breakup with Eito, although it's unfortunate that our new boyfriend is a) named 'Fireboy' (Phoenix would have been so much better!), and b) permanently in the body of a newborn baby.
It's also unfortunate that Fireboy's name gets shortened to FB, meaning it sounds like everyone is constantly talking about Facebook.
The decision to brainwash Eito so he'll fight on our side is PRETTY HORRIFYING, although I have to admit that I've missed him in combat.
After Yugamu talks about his creepy interest in Eva's compliance:
Takumi: I'm almost afraid to ask, but... Come again?
Yugamu: Oh, Takumi, I'll come for you anytime.
Takumi: Watch your mouth!
Yugamu: Why, is that where you want to start?
We're accumulating so many boyfriends in this game! Our brainwashed boyfriend, our baby boyfriend and... hmm, I need a word for 'creepy' that begins with B. Our... bloodcurdling boyfriend? (EDIT: Tem suggests 'bloodthirsty boyfriend', which is perfect for Yugamu!)
It's cute that all the boys fell asleep in a big huddle on Gaku's floor.
I love the kids' different priorities when they're told they'll get plenty of money after the war.
Tsubasa: Then can I build a brand-new workshop for my grandpa and me?
Sirei: Of course!
Darumi: Can I shut a bunch of kids in an abandoned building and force them to play a killing game?
Sirei: Sure, why the heck not?
I maxed out my bond with Yugamu. It's a shame Takumi doesn't speak in the bonding scenes; they'd be more fun with his reactions! Also, it's always such a disappointment when I max out a bond with someone in a Danganronpa-esque game and do not receive that character's underpants.
(After lamenting the lack of underpants, I commented, 'Although he wants to murder us, I suppose, which is equally intimate.'
'He could kill us and take our underpants,' Tem said, consolingly.)
My choices so far:
- spare Eito, obviously. Setting aside the fact that it is very much a war crime to kill a prisoner of war (let's be honest, war crimes are not treated as a large concern here at War Crimes Academy), I don't want to kill someone unnecessarily, and I especially do not want to kill a villain when I could instead have a weird conflicted relationship with him.
- reveal that we've time-travelled. Honesty is the best policy!
- save Second-to-Last Defense Academy. (It feels very weird to have to use the US spelling so much when talking about this game; I keep wanting to write 'defence'!) There are fighters at Last Defense Academy who might be able to hold out without us, but Second-to-Last Defense Academy is clearly screwed without our help.
- do not reveal Nozomi's secret. Look, I know I just said that honesty was the best policy, but it's Nozomi's choice whether to talk about her past, and Takumi was so upset in the first route when Nozomi thought he'd shared the things she told him in confidence!
- reveal Nozomi's secret once we've actually had a chance to speak to Nozomi and get her on board, because the alternative, 'lie that Nozomi is a defecting enemy commander', is an absolutely bizarre choice. Why would that make anyone more likely to trust her than the truth?? Don't listen to Eito's advice, Takumi; Eito explicitly hates us and wants us all dead!
I'm very pleased that, even if Eito does genuinely hate Takumi, he's also struggling with complicated feeeeeelings about him. 'This is the first time I've ever felt this way about a loathsome human!' 'I loathe you so much I can't stand it, but... I think I like you, too.'
Very sad to lose Darumi! We should all start killing each other in her honour.
Imagine the last thing you see being a bleeding, screaming, legless torso flying straight at your face.
Riona: I can't believe we made our friends cut us in half and hurl us at the enemy.
Tem: But it worked!
Rei: Yeah, that's the kind of plan that's only stupid if it doesn't work.
Tem: It would have been really embarrassing if we'd been cut in half, our friends had baseballed us at the enemy, and then our torso had just hit them with a splat and dropped down.
Nice that we've got a new boyfriend after our acrimonious breakup with Eito, although it's unfortunate that our new boyfriend is a) named 'Fireboy' (Phoenix would have been so much better!), and b) permanently in the body of a newborn baby.
It's also unfortunate that Fireboy's name gets shortened to FB, meaning it sounds like everyone is constantly talking about Facebook.
The decision to brainwash Eito so he'll fight on our side is PRETTY HORRIFYING, although I have to admit that I've missed him in combat.
After Yugamu talks about his creepy interest in Eva's compliance:
Takumi: I'm almost afraid to ask, but... Come again?
Yugamu: Oh, Takumi, I'll come for you anytime.
Takumi: Watch your mouth!
Yugamu: Why, is that where you want to start?
We're accumulating so many boyfriends in this game! Our brainwashed boyfriend, our baby boyfriend and... hmm, I need a word for 'creepy' that begins with B. Our... bloodcurdling boyfriend? (EDIT: Tem suggests 'bloodthirsty boyfriend', which is perfect for Yugamu!)
It's cute that all the boys fell asleep in a big huddle on Gaku's floor.
I love the kids' different priorities when they're told they'll get plenty of money after the war.
Tsubasa: Then can I build a brand-new workshop for my grandpa and me?
Sirei: Of course!
Darumi: Can I shut a bunch of kids in an abandoned building and force them to play a killing game?
Sirei: Sure, why the heck not?
I maxed out my bond with Yugamu. It's a shame Takumi doesn't speak in the bonding scenes; they'd be more fun with his reactions! Also, it's always such a disappointment when I max out a bond with someone in a Danganronpa-esque game and do not receive that character's underpants.
(After lamenting the lack of underpants, I commented, 'Although he wants to murder us, I suppose, which is equally intimate.'
'He could kill us and take our underpants,' Tem said, consolingly.)
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I totally get that when something is a British spelling! "Same language, slightly different spelling" is weird on the brain.
I love this!
Aw, it's like Hatoful Boyfriend, except instead of pigeons, they're all men who have something extremely wrong with them!
I want to do that very American "physical intimacy as baseball" metaphor. (First base is kissing, second base is above the waist, third base is below the waste, and murder is like eleventh base, where you've invented a whole new set of rules for the game.)
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These characters all have so many problems. It's great. (I suppose a lot of the pigeons also have things wrong with them, going by what I've gleaned of Hatoful Boyfriend.)
and murder is like eleventh base, where you've invented a whole new set of rules for the game
I snorted aloud at this. Absolutely beautiful.