#nier: automata spoilers

[steeltypemutual]

sorry

[daily-rayless]

The Nier wiki confusingly gives antagonistic but stylish Bio-Machine twins Adam's and Eve's birthday as March 10 -- April 7. I don't know what that means, but it presented me with a bit of a problem for this list. I suppose I could have done two pics for each of them, one set for this month, one set for next month. Or I really could have committed to the bit and done a sketch of each of them for every day from today to the seventh.

But instead, you're getting Adam's birthday pic today. Eve's will come next month. Happy Birthday, Adam, welcome to the world, I'm sure you'll do nothing but good here.

[the-best-bagel]

project yorha may 4th is insane holy shit

[0fps]

In the wake of war, the populace suffer. A leader must unite for serenity to reign. Hsi, tread with caution, and join our sacred duty. To defend the city and its folk with honor and fervency.

[festidae]

more recent art! this is a redraw of this drawing i did after i first played nier automata in 2021. super proud of the progress i've made since then!

[nierly-amazing]

A2 is such a mood

[hakucho-art]

A bride shouldn't cry on her wedding day 💔

Support me or make a comm on Kofi ☕💕

[enlightningbugs]

This is a comic about how 9S broke my switch. It was fine afterwards but I had to replay all the unsaved parts. If you know this game… think about what part that was. Think about what I had to play through immediately before this, twice.

[umbrvx]

number two

[kinigoni]

2b and nines :)

[iloveschiaparelli]

"I'm sorry, goodbye for now (forever maybe)"

[ma-ar]

my life had stood, a loaded gun

[azurem00n]

do you ever think about how any form of physical intimacy between these two is only associated with death

[i-hear-a-sound]

I wonder if accord was the one who moved A2’s body in the final shot. the camera panning down from accord to A2 makes it look like accord was walking away from her. & the fact that we see A2 laying beside a lunar tear, a flower. this reminds me of nothing btw

[crestomancer-art]

"We'll come back and buy tshirts together"

[micromys]

Don't mind me, just coming down from the High of seeing the NieR: end of data orchestral concert -- and if you're going to see it, perhaps don't read farther than this if you want to preserve the experience.

I had wondered if the new script Yoko Taro wrote would be another post-game story, and indeed it was, which made me a little nervous for 2B and 9S because YT is the way he is. And I had reason to be, as it leads off with 9S and 2B traveling together, but each of them are preoccupied with the fact that 2B's black box is failing because of how it was damaged when A2 killed her. Naturally, being themselves, they try to keep this from each other, not realizing that they both know, obviously.

They end up on a journey to find stray transporters in order to stock up on replacement YoRha parts, but these transporters seem to be leading them to them purposefully, and every time they do find one, they are inundated with memories from the old world -- specifically, from the time of Replicant. They learn about the plague, about Nier, Kaine, Yonah and Emil, and about the Shadowlord. They even end up at the ruins of Emil's mansion (which sparked a gasp from someone near me in the audience).

2B is pretty resigned to her fate, but 9S gets more frantic, wishing he could give her his own black box, and they go through Many More trials and Many More memories before essentially ending up in chapel created by dying YoRHa soldiers, where 2B herself, naturally, also dies.

9S cries and curses and prays, asking if this is a punishment, and why, if it's indeed what it is, then was he not taken instead of her (though we know what happens in that particular scenario, thank you for the suffering, YT). 2B is saved, however, by the souls of the fallen YoRHa soldiers -- whose black boxes responded to 9S's pleas and filled in her damage with their own pieces.

Clinging to each other, they make it back into the sunlight -- 2B stating her one wish is to take away 9S's pain, and 9S stating his is to bring back her smile. Both agree that there's no meaning to the world, and that they are cursed, but that they are going to continue forward together and embrace the world anyway.

Which was all part of the performance of Weight of the World, interspersed with clips of all of their most important scenes together from the game. And I might have gotten a tad emotional, though not nearly as much as the dude sobbing behind me. Respect, dude.

And then Yoko Taro popped up, SO THERE'S THAT. Anyway it was a gorgeous show, loved it, 10/10 would suffer again, etc etc, I'm glad 2B and 9S are still getting to keep the change to live their own lives even if YT isn't exactly going to make it easy for them along the way.

Or me.