@jumin-ssi It Was The 2018 Halloween Chat, Not 2019 Whoops! But Here He Is. Choosing Violence For No

@jumin-ssi it was the 2018 halloween chat, not 2019 whoops! but here he is. choosing violence for no reason LMFAO

Genjitsu no Yohane ending 1 stills

PRELIMINARY ROUND 3

V propaganda:

No V propaganda :(

Celina propaganda:

“Celina was a big deal for this game at the time - she was the first of two same-sex romance options that the players were given (you play as a girl called Julia in this game) and despite backlash from homophobic fans, the company kept going and stood with her having a romance route until they stopped making new content for the game”

The nature of the first idealized love and a more solid honest love.

Kawi is a teenager. He's 30, but he never got past his teen years. The thing about first love is that people try to become the ideal for the other person. What do they like, what do they expect from me, how can I make this person like me?

Kawi is in the process of being more honest with himself, but he's still very much stuck on the thing and the way he has to be to attract Pear.

We always try to play the best version of ourselves when meeting someone we like, but as we get older, we compromise less of what we present to the world. Additionally, we are more aware of what we need from other people.

His relationship with Pisaeng is ridiculously honest (to a point... Kawi, say hello to your represed queer feelings). Pisaeng knows what a mess Kawi is, how insecure and absolutely bonkers he is. Pisaeng is in love, but he's not blind to whom he fell in love with. He wants that mess of a manboy to be his. He wants to encourage him, to be the one to support him, to give him confidence, to be there for him with his heart (and wallet).

Kawi... he truly likes Pear, and Pear likes him too. It's just that in the long run, trying to be what Pear needs (or what he expects Pear needs) won't be sustainable.

The thing is, Kawi will fight this and hurt Pisaeng a lot in the process. Pear is his ideal, and he won't quite let go of it. But he will lean more and more on Pisaeng and fall more and more for someone who is much closer to what he needs. And that's someone he can be fully himself with.

i’m having a really great time out of revisiting mystic messenger years later (been around since 2016). there are massive writing problems in pretty much all of it that i acknowledge and explore but honestly, it’s just a really fun game and the characters are charming and likable. one part of its appeal to me is probably just that it’s really funny.

but beneath the humor of it all I feel like a big part of why mysme humor feels so right to me is that it feels realistic and appeals to specifically me on a deeper level. as someone who grew up spending more time joking with friends in chat rooms than in real life, mysme feels very familiar as a format and is able to feel like a real group of friends to me moreso than most other stories going for this feeling. i also notice, of course, that another reason for this is that i can suspend my disbelief more because they aren’t simply visual novel characters. it’s textboxes, so I don’t quite have to constantly remember how non-physical these characters are.

perhaps it’s this feeling that made that one april fools dlc’s bad ending hit me so hard. the idea of my favorite realizing he and i are in different dimensions so seriously still really hurts to think about. it’s fun.

anyhow, i’m still collecting information (i forgot most of my original playthroughs and am just getting around to v’s route) so take everything i say with a grain of salt. i’m enjoying getting to know this deeply flawed character and revisiting this format of storytelling in both its virtues and vices, as well as learning more about the lore i never got around to. also, zen’s calls still make me feel like a dumb smitten preteen obsessed with this game, so, ahaha.

a collection of some of my favorite mystic messenger chat bubbles