#nine hours nine persons nine doors 🧭

[bibiana112]

Haven't really posted about this but long-time headcanon of mine that what happened to the Kurashikis for them to end up at the hospital was that Akane got sick but pushed through it still going to school and not telling anyone about it because she would see Aoi pushing himself during flu season to keep going to work and learned to do the same through observation, not wanting to bother him or anyone else with something so minor until one too many days without getting treated later she collapses at school and gives everyone a big scare that the teacher needs to send her to the hospital for and realistically in my mind at least there's no way Aoi would be able to get her in or out of there without someone flagging cps unless someone saw this kid come pick up his little sister at odd hours with a story that wasn't matching up and realized that's a prime target for unethical science shit

[bibiana112]

Omg they were doomed from the start....

oh GIRL when multiple plotlines are filmed to suggest that they're unfolding simultaneously and characters are racing against time to accomplish urgent objectives before the clock runs out but then with a twist it's revealed that what you thought was the present is actually the past and the outcome was decided long ago......

[bibiana112]

Based on this

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It is soooo interesting to me to imagine what the Kurashikis think of the criminal justice system, so so interesting, their dad was given the death sentence for a brutal murder they may or may not know he didn't actually commit and whose actual culprit in fact continues free well into their adulthoods, Aoi constantly had to find jobs who would let him work despite being underage which was probably not very many non shady places, they get kidnapped and psychologically tortured and Akane gets killed and they're not even reported missing much less given support or justice afterwards that isn't of their own making despite having been rescued off the fucking ocean in the middle of nowhere alongside seven other clearly traumatized children, they spend nine years working on getting that justice while watching the people who did that to them get praised by the public and their business boom and their products be on every shelf and they weaponize each and every single one of those things to bring about their downfall purposefully, they constantly wish it was a good enough system to not give in to turning a blind eye to the horrible things done to so many innocent kids that were already in vulnerable situations like them while accepting that in reality it isn't a system even competent enough to catch them while also employing the same tactical money under the table method for their ends to remain on the down low many times, but it's okay in their books because one of them runs entirely on a 'ends justify the means' mentality while the other has had to lie to authorities so that they would be able to not starve or be separated since he was a preteen

[bibiana112]

Love the energy in these tags and same

oh i am Obsessed w how the art w Aoi grabbing Ace n pointing the gun at him makes it look like he has some serious eyeliner going on there. go off king <3

[bibiana112]

fun fact! there actually IS a junpei "what the hell" comp!

FUCKING BLESS U FOREVER THIS IST HURTS TO LAUGH THIS MUCH

[bibiana112]

I was thinking about the Kurashikis again BIG SHOCKER I KNOW and how I imagine they just completely go on autopilot after finishing up the second nonary game? Like instead of having any emotions™ on it right away, y'know? Like I imagine Aoi hugs Akane tight once they're out for a split second before she shoos him away and is like "let's focus on not getting caught first" so they do, they follow through everything they planned out for their getaway to go smoothly, spend who knows how long on the road, and only when they're finally winding down to sleep and rest for the first time does any of it actually like Hit Them. Aoi cries out of relief and it reminds Akane that oh yeah sometimes your brother just starts half crying half laughing on the floor until you sit down with him and hug and moments like that you don't plan for in Life i guess and holy crap she is ALIVE now and everything she just went through finally sets in without the oh well here we go again of it all to keep her from processing it anymore

Similarly though, and this is gonna be sad as fuck because Safe ending thoughts, I imagine that they both have a little moment on the infirmary sure but then after that Aoi goes on autopilot to carry out the few last steps that he's got any direction on what to do with, mostly getting everyone that's left out of there and all. Then after he's already got that set up and pretty much dealt with he remembers Clover's body is still in the first class cabin and goes there and he can't just leave her there like all the unrecognizable bodies can he? If he doesn't do something about that the Field's family may never find out what happened to their kids and be able to grieve properly and oh god he's the only one that had to go through this hell twice that is still alive. It all Hits Him. He pukes in the bathroom nearby and has... Just... an awful time and no clue what to do

[bibiana112]

Randomly thinking about that one very bad bad ending again lmao, I call it the Safe end because of naming conventions with the rest of them and how much I think about the absolute fucking irony since well you don't exactly feel very safe the whole way there lol but also how every other way to refer to it absolutely fucking wrecks me too, calling it the Zero lost ending?? Big fucking ouch! Makes me think both about what we hear over the intercom and that our girl's still fucking dead after all the effort, in losing the game she lost her life And I don't even care if this is just what's written on the steam achievement but it always gives me brainworms, Chance of loss is not zero??? Bro! I'm not okay! How do I even begin to go off about this one?? Loss specifically takes the focus to the people who survive but still feel the brunt of the grief instead of only losing as like a player or something and yeah I'm mostly thinking about Aoi but bro the Fields are both dead as well that's got to be a terrible loss to their family and loved ones too and honestly to Junpei too and and the chance thing gets me so much cause they always knew this outcome was a possibility, it was small, but it was never zero and Zero was perfectly aware of that and brooo someone hold me...

[bibiana112]

Okie here's the thing I interpret the white Santa not as a sort of loss of innocence thing and more as a best case scenario sort of thing, like, some good old christmas righteous murder to save some kids since I don't imagine he's too bothered in that case because it's practically self-defense in his mind. If he's the black Santa on the other hand then it's one of the less favorable timelines where people that don't deserve it are gonna get pretty hurt, on that sense I keep imagining he's comparing the whole charade to a cruel prank that's gone too far since it'll be just as frivolous of an endeavor as one

And yah I think that last bit is just him going "welp I'm dying one way or the other as soon as we out this door so"

i think about aoi soooo much but i am still not confident what he’s talkin about in the “if there were two santa clauses and one killed the other would that be fucked up or what” version of door 6

i think the most straightforward reasonable interpretation of “good santa, bad santa, which am i” is just moral guilt grappling but specifically

“you could say red is all that’s left of the black santa” this line what are you Talking About what does he Mean if it was the white santa that died id think yeah okay loss of innocence descent into crimehood how much can a person change and be the same person nice nice but thats not it. what do you speak of funny man

i mean wait okay it could just be “i am going to get stabbed soon” yes but we don’t actually know if he does or not in Knife

[bibiana112]

Uncomfortable Kurashiki Elbow Grabble ™

[bibiana112]

I dedicate this highly specific meme to all my two friends who are also both twewy and zero escape fans

[bibiana112]

Headcanon that in that one scene when you're looking around for Snake and can talk to certain characters and if you talk to Santa he has that whole "The person closest to you could stab you in the back" speech is the one time where him and Akane are both together and going fully on the base of improv because she didn't deem the convo consequential enough to pay attention to/instruct him more specifically on, so when her response to him saying that is to laugh it off it is in a Genuinely Painfully Awkward kinda way

[bibiana112]

ooooh this scene is an interesting one, it hurts me so so bad especially in the voiced version. How genuine she is being here is up for debate but I see people mostly leaning towards it being her true feelings about the situation one way or another like I think she is plenty aware that Junpei choosing this course of action, that them finding this corpse at this time, being behind this numbered door with these people are all failure conditions and she's freaking out because it's really getting to her, I mean all Junpei had to do here was not deceive and cheat people and yet here they are and she’s going to die and they're all going to die because he was selfish and this leads without fail to the submarine ending cause that's the only door they'll be able to access. I think she's having a breakdown knowing this will happen, has happened, and her past trauma is bleeding onto the present one yelling out similar things that she did as a kid in the first nonary game, she is such a good actress that she is able to say Zero when she means the people who oversaw the first game is all "What did we do to deserve this?!" is always in my mind this hurts meee so much I don't think she feels a drop of guilt about Nijisaki though lol but you can read it like that

I don't got anything to say here, just feeling bad for June and also relating

I don't got much to say either

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Junpei: what do you have?

Clover: an axe!

Junpei: no!

Vine brain activated sorry

Do we have that line? Like does Clover actually ever say the word "Axe"? Probably right? I hope she does I wanna edit this now

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June: Flirts with Junpei every time they are in the same general vicinity, gets too bashful to confirm or deny any feelings between them when the group brings attention to their connection

Also June when Santa tells them to "Knock it off, loverbirds":

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Junpei vs June getting a bad ending for the first time:

Now that you're done with the game @ajdrawshq here's something I thought was funny