#shoko nadami

[crocrubies]

stitch by stitch

[cannolicat31]

👁 "A trip is only complete once you return home." 👁

[dpurut]

So give me all your troubled thoughts

And baggage you can't handle, no

We'll gladly take it off your back (we soak up lots of pain), yeah

[wallabri]

DATETOUILLE

[lesbiandatekaname]

Always glad to see a girlboss get uplifted

[glittergoats]

Part One of a bunch of AITSF and AINI art and shitposts from my Twitter (circa March-June)

[pocket-prawn]

getting ready for date

[valentinemesis]

domestic nightmare -END-

[soleilsketches]

[mimzy630]

Maybe the coolest commission I've ever gotten... Sadly, the artist deleted their social media presence. I wanted an incredible piece of Saito and all his bodies, with fireworks of all his victims, and Wow it came out amazing.

[alto-tenure]

The theme connecting Shoko, Renju, and Mizuki is the theme of wanting to be ordinary. Shoko wants a normal family and normal life. Her having Mizuki is a manifestation of this desire for normalcy. A normal heterosexual couple is supposed to have children, so they do. And Mizuki is supposed to be a normal child -- the reason Shoko abuses her is to bring her closer to Shoko's vision of normalcy. And Shoko's version of normalcy is not one that lines up with the realities of actually having a child -- her ideal is just that, unrealistic.

Renju breaks away from normalcy with the divorce -- he gets into a romantic relationship with a man. And I think the fact that after the divorce he ends up in a queer relationship is important. Where Shoko clung to normalcy, Renju breaks away from it. And I think Renju being queer in some way was a factor in both their marriage and divorce. I believe his attraction to men drove him both to marry her -- in some ways, I think Renju sought that sort of conformity to what is considered normal by society -- as well as being a factor in their divorce when Renju could no longer achieve that conformity. Mizuki cannot achieve "normalcy", in the ideal that children are meant to be seen and not heard, be more of a prop for their parents than a person. Thus, Shoko abuses her to bring her more in line with her vision of what Mizuki should be. Renju cannot achieve normalcy because he isn't heterosexual. I don't think this was the only factor in the divorce -- Renju certainly could have also divorced Shoko to get her away from Mizuki -- but it was definitely one of them, considering that it's a major aberration.

And then there's Mizuki, who does seek an ordinary family -- but she redefines normalcy. Rather than trying to appeal to the cishet nuclear family ideal that Shoko seeks, she has her own definition of what makes an ordinary family...and that definition is love.

[crocrubies]

i like my women how I like my men (body-stealing serial killers with a desire for revenge and an appetite for eyeballs)

[roseofblogging]

“A family is… A perfectly ‘ordinary’ relationship in the most ‘ordinary’ way. Like, you say, ‘I’m home!’ and you get a, ‘Welcome home!’ back. Doing those ‘ordinary’ things automatically, without even thinking about it, is what a family is. That’s why maybe me and Mom and Daddy weren’t able to be a family.”

tfw you and your friends wait 3 years through a pandemic to finally meet up at MAGfest and do the AI: Somnium Files cosplay group you've been meaning to do.

All the love to @trickssi for lending me her Mizuki jacket, and for cosplaying the character everyone loves to hate. 10/10, would be her lonely daughter anytime.

Mizuki Okiura: myself

Shoko Nadami: @trickssi

Ota Matsushita: @zeldamomoe (the best "ope, I'm outies" friend here LOL)

Photo by iroun.photos

[xynopoet]

I think they should've given Shoko a second daughter, for comedic purposes.

[leti-ke]

So I have this headcanon for how the whole Mizuki’s siblings thing that happened in nirvana initiative, is this headcanon filled with plot holes? Probably yes, I last played the games more or less a year ago, so somethings here could be disproven by some detail I forgot about, that being said this is still just my headcanon, so I’m not too worried about that.

Also, Spoilers for AI The somnium files and AI The somnium files nirvana initiative

One of the many things that made me do a double take while playing nirvana initiative is the fact that Mizuki was not Shoko and Renju’s biological child, and was in fact adopted.

You know, the same Shoko that in the first game hated having a kid and felt stuck with Mizuki, and the same Renju that saw the abuse that his daughter was going through and decided to do nothing because he was busy.

Why the fuck would they adopt someone???

You can say they did it because of appearances or something else, but for me, it’s pretty clear that neither of them would want a kid. The first game made it seem that Mizuki was an accident, maybe even an unwanted pregnancy, that they decided to go through with.

Did Renju convinced Shoko not to get an abortion? Did they decide it was best to keep the pregnancy because of appearances? I don't know, but that was the vibe I had for their situation in the first game.

But then nirvana initiative happened and turn everything on its head. Now there is Bibi, and as much as I love her she doesn’t make sense, if she and Mizuki are science babies why do they look so much like Shoko??? 

I know this was a retcon, but that’s just looking at things at a meta perspective, I want an in story reason for it, so here is where my headcanon comes in.

Shoko had some connection with the Horadori institute, maybe even with the order of %

We don’t know much about Shoko’s past, just that her childhood has rough, that her mother treated her more like an animal than a kid, and that she was really ambitious. One of the thing she resents Mizuki for is that because of her, Shoko had to leave behind her career accomplishments.

Just to be clear, I don’t think Shoko was a member of the order of %. Maybe someone in her family was, and Chikara got to know her through them or something, but if not that, then she got in his radar by other means.

What I’m trying to say is, what if Chikara came to Shoko with an offer, be the surrogate mother for his experiment and he can make sure her business succeeds.

You could probably make a point that Bibi and Mizuki were lab raised babies. That the technology we see in the aitsf word could be able to do that, but what fun would that be?

So, young Shoko accepts the offer, makes an excuse to disappear for nine months and at the end of that Chikara has his supper baby and Shoko has her career guaranteed.

After a time Shoko and Renju get married and Chikara comes to the realization that his first super baby had some major flaws and wants to make baby 2.0.

Now, I don’t think Shoko would be too happy to do this process all over again, her business is going great and Renju is in the picture now, she can’t disappear for nine months without people getting suspicious, but Chikara gets her to agree, either by other offer being made or because of blackmail.

Their plan was the same, Shoko would “travel abroad” for some time, and when the baby was born she would be left alone, but this time things didn’t work out, Renju discovered the pregnancy and came to the conclusion that the baby was his.

This was a big problem, Shoko would probably want to stage a miscarriage, but I don’t think Chikara would let her, he would oppose any schemes that might put his new and improved super baby at risk, so they just went along with it. Renju was never around long enough to discover what was really happening either way, they would just have to make some adjustments, maybe fake the baby’s death in the future so Shoko could be free again.

Some sort of arrangement was made, Shoko would leave the baby in the institute and from time to time would take her home to continue the ruse to Renju. While in Chikara’s hands, Mizuki would be taken back and forth between the institute for tests and the orphanage to be look after while she was not needed. That's why everyone there thought that she was also an orphan.

Eventually things blew up with the institute, Chikara left the scene, leaving Shoko stuck with an unwanted kid. 

Because of the lie they told the orphanage, Shoko had to tie some loose ends, like pretending to adopt your own daughter and other paperwork nonsense (maybe this was her first contact with the Kumakura’s? I don’t remember if that existed before the body change thing or not but making a deal with the mafia to make sure she wouldn’t go down with the institute would make sense).

And there you have it! Is it convoluted? Yes, but what in this game series is not? 

This is probably so far from what Uchikoshi wanted, but if he can poke holes in the story so can I

Does it make sense? What do you guys think?

[glittergoats]

"You Ruined Me, Mizuki."