#and watched the cutscene movie

[firestorm09890]

I'm about to become the world's most unhinged 358/2 Days player (playing the game purely for the gameplay experience while not really paying attention to the story)

[galoogamelady]

Inverse Buttons jacket SPOTTED

(saw The Usual Suspects for the first time)

[twistmusings]

Character Analysis of the Twisted Wonderland Dorm Rooms - Octavinelle

Dorm Room Character Analysis Series

Heartslabyul | Savanaclaw | Octavinelle | Scarabia | Pomefiore | Ignihyde | Diasomnia

Azul Ashengrotto

Azul actually has a lot of little touches in his room that are very cute. For one thing, his general decor lends itself to the idea that Azul likes the finer things in life. Truthfully, all of the dorm rooms are have shown a lot of attention to the character's actual stylistic preferences in the Guest room and Azul is no exception.

Rather than having a bedside table, Azul has a second safe in his room in addition to the large one he has in his office. This is interesting because, well, that means that there's things that are likely more important to him than the contracts he kept in his vault in his office. I'm certainly curious about what sort of thing Azul would choose to keep in a personal vault - are they especially important contracts to him? Money? Or, perhaps, just other things that are especially special to him. I know the kneejerk reaction for a lot of folks is to be that it's where he stores his coin collection, however...

Azul actually displays his coin collection in a frame! He has them mounted in velvet.

Several of the other characters have featured a feather pen and ink bottles in their room, however a cute touch is that Azul's pen is actually fish bones. This is a cute little insight into what they may use for pens underneath the Coral Sea. Or, perhaps, Azul just has a flare for the dramatic.

Azul has a trunk and several potion bottles on top of his wardrobe. The fact that Azul has these out in the open on top of the trunk likely means that all of the items in the trunk were potion bottles, and then because they were stored up so high, he placed the ones he commonly uses on top, rather than storing them back inside the trunk. Azul is otherwise very organized, so it would make logical sense that if he's not putting these away, they're likely out because he knows he's going to reach for them again.

This is honestly probably my favorite detail in Azul's room because these are terrariums. Azul never mentions having any interest in Terrariums, but Jade does, meaning that these are likely terrariums that Jade made for Azul and gave him as gifts. This is actually really cute, because though the Leech twins joke about leaving Azul as soon as he becomes boring in canon, this shows that Jade at the very least thinks of Azul in his free time when he's not at work or around Azul by obligation, enough to have given him gifts. it's also worth noting that Azul has these displayed, which means that they aren't a gift that's rotting away in a drawer or stowed away somewhere. It's also worth mentioning that the ones that have plants in them are alive, which requires at least some level of attention to them in order to maintain the environment inside. Little things like this show how much the characters actually care about each other.

Azul's hidden Mickey is next to his shelf of terrariums.

Jade Leech

Jade is an interesting case because he, like Ruggie and Trey, doesn't actually have much displayed in his room in terms of decoration. That being said, what he does have displayed are his terrariums. Jade being the sole member of the Mountain Lover's club, it seems like he probably spends a lot of his free time out and tending to either his plants in the greenhouse or actually hiking.

This isn't likely directly because of Jade, however it seems like Octavinelle as a whole have coat hangers and hat racks that are themed around octopi, which is possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Jade is notably organized - he has his shoes on his shoe rack, his hat and scarf hung up, and his bed made. This will become more important when you see Floyd's half of the room.

There is also this object. While I'm not certain and it doesn't seem to be mentioned in any of Jade's vignettes outright, I suspect this may be a jewelry box. It's a little hard to tell in comparison to a lot of the items in the student rooms, though, so if anyone has any additional input, please let me know! Neither of the other two from Octavinelle have an object like this one in their rooms.

Jade's Hidden Mickey is on one of his terrariums.

Fun fact, Jade AND Floyd both have errors in their Night 2 versions of their backgrounds, as they are both missing the hidden Mickey.

Floyd Leech

Oh, Floyd, sweetheart, you live like this?

Jokes aside, Floyd actually has some things of note! While his side of his and Jade's room (canonically they share a room) is messy, he's messy in a different fashion than someone like Leona. Where Leona doesn't hang his clothes - Floyd does. Or at the very least, it seems like someone does it for him. (Given the haphazard hanging of his jacket, though, I would guess that he probably does it himself.) What does that tell us? Well, more than likely, Floyd gets small bursts of motivation to clean certain aspects of his room, and then grows bored and gives them up. To be quite honest, for those who know of or experience it, Floyd's organization style reminds me a lot of how ADHD folks tend to struggle with forming sustainable cleaning habits, as it's often easier to put something down rather than to put it away.

Snacks, literally everywhere. Floyd has snacks on his desk as well as on the shelf above his bed. It would seem that Floyd has a serious sweet-tooth, given the amount of sweets that we see in his room.

For the life of me, I could not tell you if this is a trash bin or not, but if it is, it looks like whatever Floyd put in there has teeth marks on it.

Another thing of note about Floyd's room, while there's a lot of things that are strewn around, there's not actually all that much trash around. He has a single empty container on his desk, but otherwise his floors are clean, and it seems like things that need to end up disposed are. Again, whether or not that's Jade intervening because they share a room, it's hard to say.

Floyd's hidden Mickey is on his pillow.

As was mentioned in Jade's section, both Floyd and Jade's Night 2 versions of their backgrounds are missing the hidden Mickey. Floyd's background has an additional error however!

Floyd's box of cookies is actually missing the box in his Night 2 artwork. If I had to guess, since I have experience with digital art, more than likely, the layer containing these details was accidentally deleted when making the edits for the Night 2 cards, resulting in these things disappearing when the background were published. It's a minor error, all things considered, and gave me a little giggle because now it just looks like Floyd has haunted cookies floating in his room.

Addendum

Excellent catch by @twistedminutia that Azul's fish bone pen is likely in reference to the pen Ariel signs her contract with in the original movie! (To be quite honest, and I know this is ironic given that this blog has such a heavy octavinelle theming, but the little mermaid was my least favorite Disney movie growing up, so I never would have caught this myself!)

[lemonsweet]

Subspace emissary was like the peak of cinema to me as a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen and I didn't know who most of characters were

[ezlo-x]

OH-HOH…i believe the Wind Waker brainworms have returned

[hecckyeah]

A STAR WARS COUPLE WITH A HAPPY ENDING?????!?!!! THIS IS UNHEARD OF

[sonknuxadow]

people who arent really into sonic that are incapable of talking about it or seeing others talk about it without making fun of it or repeating some overdone meme reference really are some of the most annoying and unfunny people on planet earth i think

[od-10kira]

I can't get over the fact that these two fuckers have the same VA (Kevin Michael Richardson).

[todayisafridaynight]

amazing what obsession can do to the brain. Fym i recognized will yun lee’s face frame one even tho ive only ever known him as the eng voice for masato

[nirogryphon]

coolest tainted laz greedier run i've had. got all the cool items

mod list is in comments

[fisherrprince]

QUICK UPDATE I GIVE UP ON OMEGA FOR NOW THE MSQ IS AWAKE.

[goldensunset]

Psst... would you consider emulating 358/2 days now that you have successfully emulated a ds game (I just really love days and think everyone should be able to experience the original game because the cutscene movie doesnt do it justice)

ah… ‘tis an intriguing idea indeed, dear anon…

[caramellody]

Thinking once again about how. whenever Kens SL in portable gets brought up, it's always about the romance thing and like. sure whatever its uncomfortable because it is, but like. you can deny it. you know that, right?? there are like 2 or 3 times when ken brings it up that you can imply you're not interested.

Im like. I'm pretty sure? it hardly ever gets brought up just how much a lot of his link is about trying to come into grips with living a normal life like a normal kid and thinking about having a future rather than putting it off, something he lost the ability to do when his mom died. yeah, he's 'living a normal life' going to school all that nonsense, but after the original 10/4 Ken basically lost the one person that mattered to him.

Anyway, idk if I could write better than i did when i first wrote this specifically, so im just posting this to make my point:

[postalrue]

ZACK WARD WAS ACTUALLY IN LIV AND MADDIE??? And he plays a COP?!

[empyreasheart]

i do want to watch the remake eventually (not play because unfortunately my computer couldnt handle that) but i dont wanna worry about all that until after i finish original ff7 + crisis core and the rest of ff7 content

[hershelwidget]

We are so back

While I was gone I ended up convincing my people to watch Eternal Diva and long story short here’s a FEW more frames accompanied by some Words that were exchanged

“janice is so fugly” - Our resident character design expert who spent most of the movie, I’m guessing, staring at Janice and wondering how they (allegedly) messed her up so bad and also calling Layton some very similar terms

“there goes hawaii” & “I JUST GOT BACK WHY IS EVERYTHING EXPLODING” - first from me making a very hilarious reference. second from The Funny Man™️ who had perhaps the best reactions. bonus take was our friend Dog Lover who was impressed by the quality of the explosions

“•_•” - The Funny Man, several times, poking fun at how little emotion Layton expressed

“he should be dead” - character design expert was greatly confused at how unscathed Luke was and I think it was secretly rooting for his demise. neither it nor The Funny Man liked him very much :(

“ITS HIM???” - The Funny Man was wondering for a while where the hell Descole came from (I used him in one of our RPs) and upon receiving the answer there was a beautiful confusion

“he can slam me like he did that piano” - The Funny Man has a thought process not even I can decipher

“i’m sorry but melina’s forehead is so big it’s distracting” - me, who can never take her seriously, followed immediately by agreement from my peers

And lastly.

“whistler is so…” - me again, implying something that I regretted immediately when The Funny Man nodded solemnly in agreement and we spent the rest of the movie Staring at Him

After the movie I showed these people the cutscenes from the games in the prequel trilogy and everyone was SO NORMAL about Last Specter