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3 more HNDR routes out the way, here's my usual post with thoughts. These were shorter/plainer, so I don't have too much to say this time around tho.

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Continuing from the other week's Nozomi post, I continued yapping about theories in Twitter so I will copy-paste there for safekeeping.

Rn my theory is the LDA are trafficked children & 2LDA are Nozomi's imaginary friends. How the ideal & real mergued I don't know yet, but I'm still on the Maki-Aki-Mai train with Nozomi lol

On the trafficked kids thing...
Sirei mentioned that the cast was created to fight & their lives were just so they had a motivation for it.
And... futurians? (was that their name) do crazy shit with cryptoglobin, which regular people lack & can't be injected inside humans as seen with Nozomi.
So I guess their only option was to kidnap kids from Futurum (?again, im bad with names) since some of them were born with cryptoglobin & raise them as humans back on the complex so they have a reason to fight against their own kin (unknowingly)

Depending on when they kidnaped them, I think it would make sense that the experiments they performed on them weren't blood transfusions but brainwashing considering the extent they're able to take it to, that explain why no one remembers anything.
Characters like Takumi's mom would either be adopted family (...if taking care of a trafficked kid can be called that) or just actors.

...If I'm correct tho, the leader is sick. Like, no only you kidnap them, the lives you give them is full of abandonment, abuse & prostitution??

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Got 3% more info now, so I'm gonna yap more
On the LDA kids, I think there's a posibility they were created ala Mewtwo?
I cant make sense as to why they would have serial numbers after dying, and Hiruko said the invaders copied Kako's *data*, in normal ciscustances I think any person would've said DNA or something.
In general there has been some curious language choice towards LDA, but I brushed it off as Sirei just seeing them as weapons. If we think they were created (from scratch skin and bones, not just brainwashing and truman show as I thought) a handful of things/wording makes sense.
I think this approach is kinda boring and I prefer my original theory (imagine kiIIing your actual family unknowingly during the war) so I hope I'm wrong tho.
But maybe they can give an interesting spin to it.

Talking about Hiruko, I think the reason she knows so much is because she can see other timelines? Maybe? I don't think she can jump in time like Takumi but I'm 75% sure she's aware of the rest of universes.

And final point in today's conspiracy theories, going back to our prettiest princess in this warzone, I didn't realize the mama play scene gave me one of the answers I needed until last night kjdfgp
I'm still on the train that LDA -> Real / 2LDA -> Nozomi's halucinations.
But since drinking crytoglobin makes you see slash experience the other's person life, if the blood Nozomi's mom had usedin the transfusion experiments was Takumi's it makes sense she knew him, someone from the real world.

This gave me 10 more questions tho. WHAT is Nozomi.


Btw look at these creatures, I have been crying since yesterday these are literally the most perfect merch ever

Very simple tutorial, but it might be useful to others who are on a very chinese moment of their life as well.
If you don't know what's Lofter, it's the China equivalent to Tumblr (and lowkey AO3 as well).
From what I have read, it has been on downhill due to it's aggresive monetization lately, and users kinda hate it now lol But people still post on it so you can find cool fanworks there.

- Regristration -

Like every CN site/app, you need an account to browse it. The easiest way is to make a WeChat account (I could register with a EU number despite CN banning EU territories most of the time, you just have to try a few times when it's 00:00 CN local time + give them a single cent).
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- Downloading stuff -

Due to the aforementioned monetization, you can't download (or screenshot) stuff from the app. It limits you to 2 downloads per day or so unless you pay or get their in-app currency.
So you will have to do it all on PC, just like the posts you want to download later.

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Finished my second route (4 endings more), as I made my way upwards from Retsnom, my next landing was Coming of Age.
I missed Darumi a ton but overall it was a cute story, shonen power of friendshp route.
Somehow did this one in straight order so I didn't had to backtrack at all to see all the ednings.

EDIT: I wrote that intro & first ending.... around a week & half ago, and since then I finished more routes (got a total of 18 edings) so I will cover Cult Of Takumi & Killing game route as well. I actually wanted to writte ending-by-ending, but since it has been a hot second I kind of forgot my initial thoughts lol So I will just talk about the routes as a whole.
They put a curse on me & my month has been & continues to be terrible, so that's why I didn't update until now kjdsf So this will probably be short, just a quick update to whoever might be interested. I'm not sure if I mentioned it over here, but I'm livebloging the game at Twitter if you want to see.

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[Copy-pasting from my twitter, I want to save ny neurosis & check it later]

Also maybe I'm fuming, but the way Nozomi have just talked about her classmates made it felt like they were her OCs (?)
She went "Oh we didnt spend much time together, so I don't know too much 💛"
But still, I dont think that in just 9 days, she could memorize their recipes, so much of their personality and such like, everything she says feels very specific.

I wonder if they will pull something similar to Maki Persona 1.
Though neither Nozomi nor Karua feel "ideal", and neither does their lives or this scenario. If she wants to be liked or similar, why pick a war out all things?

There are better places you could daydream about, though I guess it all comes down to her mother's research, self-sacrifice being in her eyes a way (maybe the only) to connect with others (assuming Nozomi is the real and Karua is the ideal)
Though there are things that I cant quite connect, could she live throughout Karua? How??? And if so, how/did she try to switch places so she could experience her daydream firsthand??

Idk. I have only played the 1st scenario & a single scene threw me off, see yall in 200 hours when i get the full contex

(A few days after writting that text, I got this scene and went "I'm connectin..." Maybe I'm actually cooking???? For clarity's sake, I don't think she's the mastermind or anything, just someone who happened to pass by and decide to use it to use... whatever power or pararel world whoever is doing to her adventage, like stealing some expensive watercolor paper from your teacher for yourself lol)

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I got my first actual HNDR route 🎉🎉
This was one of the things that I was most excited about, it felt the same as when you were 9 and doing the PMD personality test at the start of the game :p
The other day I saw a tweet saying "Your first Hundred Line route determines your soul btw" and I can't agree more haha.

It made me cry, but I grew attached to Darumi and ghost boy in r0 so I'm very happy I somehow ended landing in a route centered in them. So I'm very satisfied with the result, I couldn't ask for more. Please let me continue taking care of Darumi...!
The Eito moments at the end were very cool as well, I'm excited to see more of him in the next routes he's so fun (thought rn I think I will complete at least half of the Retsnom endings before moving onto another)

Something I'm sad about is that from what I have heard, the twins don't have a route...? 😭 Kako-Darumi-Ghost are my favs.... They made 100 endings and couldn't think about anything that could make them shine? I really like them and want to know more about their story, F 💔

Back on my route, during the school split, I was very conflicted because I felt the good decision was to try save them, but I was worried about anything bad happening to either Kako or Darumi so I sacrificed the 2nd school.
Regretted it after choosing because I love its charas, but in the end I'm glad my intuition was right.
But now I dont wanna save them if it means Darumi will die lol

She was what made me interested in the game, so I owe her too.
Outside the direct, the 1st thing I saw of the game was the "no men in the yuri zone" screenshot & I thought she was a funny dyke and it made me curious about the game again, but now I just want to cradle her in my arms 😢

I finished my first Hundred Line route!!! *confetti* *applauses* *everyone cheered*
Well- Actually, I think what I played (people call it R0?) is considered an outsider & the advertised 100-ending plot is what comes right after. Does that mean I'm not even 1% done with the game yet!?

My current playtime is 45-50h spread on 18 days, that's CRAZY for me (not as crazy as the time I played DGS from start to end in 2 days tho). I think I mentioned it before, but I feel the obsession growing so I'm sorry if I slowly turn into a HNDR blog for th next 4 years lol.

My impresions so far are very positive, my only regret was to not start playing sooner (why did I forgot to check my usual game store until now!? It ended up being the only site that sold it for less than 100€...)
At first my motivation to continue playing was "Everyone is so nice, I wonder how they all will end up losing it" as the plot was so-so but I started to get very invested on the current plot in the second half.

The ending left me a bit bitter, I kept selecting "No!!" when asked about returning to the past because I didn't want to leave everyone alone, but Takumi-chan is too selfish kfjdkgj Takumi do you know what happened to Ringo, my friend Ringo from Neo TWEWY?
I'm so curious about what happened in the satelite, were there invaders here as well? Since Takumi already returned to the past, I suppose it will remain a mystery.... 💔

And um, the last 20 days were pretty intense!
The style shift / AU was so fun kjkdfg
I really wished for Kako to go apeshit & start killing people after seeing her brother dead ala Clover 999 in at least one of the routes, so I'm glad they fulfilled it, and so quick... Yipeee i love when girls murder.
Also it was fun to see Eito eitoing, I thought there were gonna leave whatever fucked up things he (and the rest) did for the nest routes. I actually wasn't really spoiled about him betraying, but I had a suspicion because he went "We are friends <3" so often it seemed fake. But tbh if I had his condition I would lose it as well lol I'm surprised Takumi killed him (his battle theme is so good btw).
Very excited to see what they have in the over for the rest of the cast.

So far my oshi hasn't picked me though. Right now I find Kurara & Kyoshika duo super funny (Kyoshika has one joke and it never gets old), Takumi is very ○○○○able and Kako & ghost boy have awaken my maternal instincts. I'm very curious about Darumi as well, poor girlie's past seems so...
I still have a loooong way to go though, so let's see.

Something I'm sad about though is that this game's DLC is region-blocked 😭
All my US games are region free but this one, they're so mean to me... I think I can circumvent it by making an US Switch profile and then buying US E-shop cards on Amazon, but it's so troublesome...
People in the US complain about people there only playing gun ball games, but the situation in EU is even worse. At least yall get the games, over here they don't bring anything that isn't FIFA!!

A 12yo on Deviantart has probably shared something similar before, but while messing around I found out you can have a dot brush in SAI 2 super easily!
I love to add these to shaded zones when I use CSP, so I'm happy I could make a similar brush in SAI.

I think the texture is pre-installed, but if you don't have it lmk. Also picking a different brush hardness (the buttons in top) gives different outcomes, soft shows only the dots while hard is like using a round pen with dots on its side.

And on semi-related news, we found new Sogabe P3 art! It was drawn circa 2010!
Saved by bonbonstation @ twitter, back when his blog was active. Girl joined Twitter and went *unlosts your media*, thanks you queen 💙
She is the one who made the Ryoshu playlist I shared the other day btw! Cool person, she is one of the people that has been into P3 since 2007, so cool...