#the large age difference means that there's a bit of uncle-niece relations too in a way?

[yuesya]

Tsukumo Yuki stated that Satoru's type was someone who could understand him so would Shiki count as one of the few who can? 🤔🤔🤔

Technically yes, although the relationship between Satoru is closer to that of siblings than anything romantic.

[stayndays]

𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟑 : Evidence Hunting

𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆! This chapter includes:

Foul Language (Is there even foul language? Well, just in case...)

𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐘𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐈𝐒 : “You came here to assist your boss at a party he’s invited to, not to solve a murder with a group of strangers you’ve just met. Yet here you are, staring at the dead mansion owner who hosted the party in the first place, surrounded by nine men with high statuses in society: and one of them is a murderer. The question is who? And can you solve the mystery without being killed yourself?”

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“Are you sure it’s okay to look at other people’s belongings?” You turn to Felix, who’s currently digging through a cherry red handbag that must’ve belonged to one of the ladies who attended the party. “And why don’t we just search each other’s bags and leave the ones who left the party alone?”

“Because if the killer might’ve placed their weapon in one of the other party guest’s bags, as a sort of way to frame them,” Hyunjin answers your question when Felix fails to do so, however, they way he empathizes each point of his sentence with a tub of pink lipstick in his hand almost made you giggle.

“Y/N, do you know why so many women carry handkerchiefs and bottles of creams and… what is this?” Jeongin holds up a thin object in his hand.

“That’s a nail file.”

“Right, nail files, in their bag? It seems like so much stuff to carry around,” Jeongin finishes his sentence, and you hear a hum of agreement coming from Seungmin, who takes out a bottle of rose tinted perfume from the bag he’s inspecting.

“I don’t know either, honestly. I usually just carry around the essentials,” you shrug as you pick up another bag, this one being a particularly large leather mailbag.

You turn your attention to Hyunjin out of boredom and watch him pull out a single white glove from a leather bag, looking at it for a few seconds in confusion before throwing it over his shoulder.

Felix also appears to notice Hyunjin’s discovery. “Whose bag is that?”

“Doesn’t say,” Hyunjin replies, and Felix goes back to the last remaining bag in his lap.

Soon enough, the pile of bags are gone, all of them being thrown off to the side without any care. Your shoulders slump over in frustration. “Did we really not find anything from this?”

Jeongin shakes his head sadly, before pausing with wide eyes and staring directly at you in a paranoid manner. “Then… the weapon could still be on one of us, since we already checked the living room.”

“Well that’s fun to know,” Felix rolls his eyes with sarcasm lingering in his voice. “What room are we searching next?” He asks as the rest of you stand up from the tile floor.

Seungmin starts walking into the living room, carefully avoiding the dead body that has been left there for emergency officials to inspect later. “I think we could possibly find something in my uncle’s office, I used to hang out there when I was a child—“

He gets cut off by Hyunjin suddenly gripping his arm, “Uncle? You mean the party host is…?”

“My uncle? Yeah. I’m not really close with him business wise though, so I can’t tell you if he has any bad relationships with other businessmen,” Seungmin shrugs as he leads the rest of you into the grand office of his uncle’s. You can recall Seungmin casually speaking to your boss about starting up his own business, fresh out of a prestigious university.

A sparkling chandelier hangs in the middle of the room, and right in front of you is a desk with mountains of paperwork on it. Behind the desk is a backdrop of bookshelves, along with a fireplace that isn’t lit up. However, you realize that the room would look a lot more nicer if the sun weren’t down and the night sky didn’t fill through the cracks of the windows.

“And what in particular do we look for in this massive room?” You observe, noticing how the bookshelves touched the ceiling, and how you couldn’t see the top of the owner’s desk due to the aged papers spread throughout the surface.

Seungmin clears his throat and turns to face the four of you. “Anything that can be concluded as a possible motive, such as if we see any conflict between the mansion owner and somebody else.”

“And anything about money. Money is one of the biggest reasons to murder somebody, followed by revenge,” Felix adds, putting his hands inside the pockets of his dress pants. That’s right; Felix’s father runs a bank downtown, no wonder Felix out of all people mentions money in this scenario.

“Then let’s get to work.”

The five of you open drawers and spill out tens of hundreds of documents. Your common sense is telling you to not get involved, remembering how your boss would scream at you whenever you touch a document on his desk, accidental or not, but you put it aside for the sake of being useful to the group.

Your mind drifts to the side as you start to realize how much work you really have to do to prove yourself innocent. It doesn’t benefit you that you were the one who discovered the body, as that would definitely put you as suspect #1 in any given case. You know you didn’t kill the party host, you know that you don’t have that much of a corrupted heart to do such a thing.

But the other eight won’t know that until they can believe you.

Jeongin lets out a small gasp and your head shoots up, his hand encouraging you to come look at what he found. You’re careful not to step over the papers littering the floor as you make his way over him, the other three doing the same.

In Jeongin’s hand is a scroll of paper unraveled, with bits and pieces of the edge tiered out. At the top of the document, in big letters, said:

“Last Will and Testament of Lee Hyungwon.”

“You found his will,” Felix states simply as Jeongin nods. “This can be useful.”

The five of you skim through the letter, ignoring names that don’t sound familiar, until one particular name makes you let out a small gasp.

“Seungmin? Is your last name Kim?” You point at the handwritten notes. “Because that’s your name… right there.”

“Yeah, that’s my last name, but why is it here—“ Seungmin’s breath is caught when he reads the words that came before his name on the will.

“You’re supposed to take the mansion after he dies?!” Hyunjin’s eyes widen in surprise, and Seungmin seems to be just as shocked as the rest of you.

“That doesn’t make sense though. Shouldn’t your children and step-children go before your nieces and nephews when you want them to claim something?” Seungmin mumbles to himself faintly, but the four of you could still hear.

Hyunjin perks up at his question, “Step-children? Did the mansion owner have a step-child?”

Seungmin lets out a deep sigh, “Yes, he does. And it just so happens to be…” He points at the name that happens to be right below his in the lengthy paragraph.

“Minho. Lee Minho.”

Before you could process the information, you hear a loud bang coming from upstairs, followed by vicious shouts. The sound echoes through the spacious office, and you see Hyunjin flinch in the corner of your eye.

“What are they up to?!” Jeongin cries out as he hands clam together from the sound of another bang, this one replicating something slamming a table.

“Might as well find out.” Felix heads towards the door, his shoes clacking against the sleek, mahogany floor before any of you could step in with a different opinion. Seungmin shrugs before following him, and a rushed Jeongin hurries after the two men.

As you start walking towards their direction, you turn your head back to see Hyunjin look at a particular letter one more time, inspecting the manilla envelope encasing it. He flips it back and forth before shoving it to the side, out of your view, and that’s when you decide to turn your head and move forward.

You could only hope that he didn’t put it in his pocket for nobody else to see, as if he were hiding something.

~

Felix busts open the door, his necktie flying in the air, and you take a breath in at the sight in front of you.

Changbin is shoved up against the wall as Minho holds him there, his fist digging into Changbin’s shoulders as Changbin grunts in pain. You see Chan and Jisung trying to pull Minho off of him, to no avail.

“Hey! Do you think resorting to violence is the answer in this situation? No! There’s a murderer in this house for god’s sake!” Hyunjin’s voice booms through the room as Minho quickly releases his hold on Changbin, stepping back a couple feet. You watch as Changbin’s body gives up, crumbling onto the ground, as Chan stares at him alarmingly.

Minho tips his head to the side in annoyance, and shoves you and Jeongin, who’s blocking his exit, aside to walk through. You hear him murmur a “Forget it” as he walks out the door, heading down the twisted stairs. The rest of the group watches as Jisung follows right behind him in worry, mumbling apologizes left and right as he softly closes the door behind him.

Baffled by what you just witnessed, you wonder whether you should go after Minho and Jisung and find some reasons as to why Minho did such a thing, or rely on Changbin’s perspective to get the full story. You also had a chance to bring up the mansion owner’s will to the others, as well as question how exactly Minho’s related to the mansion owner.

So many options, so many possibilities. So many ways to have an advantage over the others, so many ways to become the main suspect.

You just have to cross your fingers and hope that you pick the best option for yourself, and only yourself.

FOLLOW AFTER MINHO AND JISUNG OR STAY WITH THE OTHERS?

[ VOTE HERE. ]

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CHOICE CHOSEN: Search

VOTING RATIO: 9-7 (16 Total)

QUESTIONS (Comments are not answered)

Response 7: Hmm.... 1940s? The author may not be accurate, however.

Response 10: bro you’re lying LMAO

Response 16: And why would I tell you this? Don’t try to get too much information from me. It won’t work.

THEORIES (Will be answered with either Yes, No, or Cannot Say)

Response 1: Yes. No. Yes. No.

Response 2: No.

Response 4: Yes.

Response 5: No. Yes. Yes.

Response 7: No. No. No. No. Yes. Yes. No. Yes.

Response 8: Yes. Yes. No. No. No. 

Response 9: No.stray kids

Response 10: No. No. No.

Response 14: Yes.

Response 16: Yes and No.

Good luck figuring it out, players. May the Killer King spare you today.

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[sheikah]

Do you think Jon and Daenerys will have a healthy relationship?

Hi,anon! Thanks so much for this ask. Yes, I do think their relationship will behealthy, and there are so, so many reasons for it that I’d love to gush abouthere. 

1.      Troubled Pasts

Jon and Dany both had experiencesin their childhoods that shaped their perception of society and other people insimilar ways.

As a bastard Jon was viewed andtreated as inferior at Winterfell during his youth. Despite Ned’s love we cansee that this had a profound effect on Jon’s personality and led to his laterself-doubt and “broody” attitude.

From the beginning of AGoT we seefrom Cat’s treatment of Jon and the fact that he is barred from the high tableat the feast honoring Robert that Ned’s attentive parenting, Robb’s friendship,and Jon’s close, loving relationship with Arya aren’t enough to make him trulyfeel like an equal member of the Stark family.

Similarly, Dany is told by Viserysfrom a young age that they are royalty deserving of a better life. He tellsher about their home and family, but she never gets to experience any of this.Instead she is shuffled around from place to place, never allowed to feelsecure and content in a real home. The only constant in her life is Viserys andhe is abusive.

Things don’t really get better forthem from there. Jon is allowed to go to The Wall and no one aside from Benjeneven attempts to warn him what his life there will be like, and even Benjen’swarning is lukewarm. Tyrion gives him a more realistic picture of what theWatch is but by that point Jon doesn’t want to turn back from his decision.

So as a young man Jon is thrown into a hard life in one of the most unforgiving climates of this universesurrounded by people who resent him for his family name—a family name hedoesn’t actually get to reap the benefits of out in the world. Thorne callinghim “Lord Snow” sets him apart from his brothers and puts a target on his backfrom the beginning. But Jon overcomes this and finds common ground with hisbrothers, starting with Sam, so that he can develop friendships with his newcompanions.

When she is sold to the dothraki,Dany is also an outcast. Physically she sticks out like a sore thumb amongstthe dothraki and she can’t speak a word of their language. She’s a young girland a virgin who is given to an enormous, intimidating brute of a man who rapesher. In spite of this she ingratiates herself to him and the rest of the dothrakito try and make the best of her situation, learning their language and earningthe friendship of her handmaids and the love of her husband.

2.      Similar Worldviews

These experiences gave both Jonand Dany a look at what it is like to be a marginalized person in Planetos.Class discrimination in Jon’s case and misogyny in Dany’s show them both howhard it is to make a place for yourself in the world if the circumstances ofyour birth happen to put you outside the ranks of the privileged nobility.

Because of that they both make ittheir business to help the downtrodden and underprivileged people in theirrespective regions. Jon doesn’t execute Ygritte when ordered to do so,partially because it goes against his sensibilities to behead a woman, but alsobecause he hasn’t fully bought into the prejudices of his society. Andhis relationship with Ygritte allows him to see that the Free Folk are justpeople like him.

So while it’s true that Jon needsthe wildlings in the war against the White Walkers, he also brings them Southto bring them under the protection of The Wall because he believes in equalityand as someone who was treated as less than because of his birth, heunderstands to some extent what it’s like to be a wildling. And supports equaltreatment for them.

Across the world, Dany’sexperiences with the dothraki made her a champion for women in the largelypatriarchal culture in Essos. She tries to defend the women from the shepherdvillage, even though Mirri Maz Duur thinks her efforts are too little, too late.

But when Drogo dies and the strongof his khalasar desert her, Dany is just as happy to have the allegiance of thewomen, children, and elderly who are left to her when the others leave. She wants to care for peoplewho can’t care for themselves, and continues this crusade in the liberation ofthe slave cities.

She was essentially sold to Drogoas a slave and as such she cares deeply about the atrocity of slavery, refusingto sail for Westeros until Ghiscari slavery has been abolished entirely. Shealso liberates the women of the dosh khaleen, who are living in their own sortof slavery under the authority of the khals until Dany frees them.

Jon’s egalitarian views resultedin the men who are supposed to serve and obey him murdering him instead. Dany’ssimilar choices led to her own subjects attempting to murder her.

So we can see that equality andfreedom are important values to both Jon and Dany. And both of them faceddoubts and resistance from not only their enemies but their friends and allies, too, on their quests to improvethe quality of life for the wildlings, the dothraki, and the slaves. 

So in one another, Jon and Dany will finally findanother person who 1. Understands what it is like to be a leader/ruler 2.Understands what it is like to have to make the unpopular decisions and 3. Iswilling to put themselves on the line to help the least fortunate people in theworld.

They also both know when violenceor drastic measures are necessary. We’ve seen Jon execute people against hisown hesitation on the matter, with Janos and then Thorne, Olly, and the othertraitors. This is something he obviously struggled with but he still did itbecause it is what needed to be done. At the same time, we know that Dany hashad to execute people who have challenged her rule, a rule that keeps peopleout of the chains of slavery. She was forced to execute Mossador and make anexample of the former master who she fed to Viserion and Rhaegal, and while Ithink she learned from this mistake later, she crucified the masters for theircrucifixion of the children. So both of them have experience with making thetough choices and facing the consequences.

This is very important for twopeople who are in positions of power when it comes to their relationship. It isessential that they share these values if their relationship is going to work.

3.      Important Differences/Yin and Yang

But I am not here to try and saythat it will all be perfect. Jon and Dany have a lot of differences inpersonality. There is a reason we often look to them as the ice and fire of theseries, besides the obvious reasons of their family names, the cold and hotclimates they hail from, etc.

Dany has the fire, passion, andalso the hot temper. She is impulsive and quick to anger. But her passion alsomeans that she loves deeply and feels happiness just as intensely as she doessadness and rage.

While we have occasionally seenfits of rage from Jon, he is typically more stoic, harder to rile, and moreforgiving.

So when Dany wants to go all “fireand blood,” or when Jon doesn’t want to act rashly when she does, we can counton arguments and disagreements. But any healthy couple has these. No one isgoing to agree 100% of the time, and people often say opposites attract. So Jon’sand Dany’s differences are important, too, because they need to balance eachother out.

When Jon is full of doubt, Dany’ssurety will push him to action. When Dany acts on emotion, Jon can counsel herand make sure action is warranted. It’s like a yin and yang that I think willwork beautifully.

They even look like the yin and yang—Dany with her pale eyes and silver-whitehair, often wearing white and pale pastels, while Jon is every bit the man inblack. They complement one another in every possible way.  

4.         Common Protests

I often see people worry about the incest, but I don’t think we have a real reason to worry about that. As we know, GoT/ASOIAF is set in a fictionalized, fantasy version of medeival Europe where incest was more commonly practiced. But even if that weren’t the case, there is precedent in the series for this kind of incest, and I’m not just talking about Targaryens.

Jon and Dany are nephew and aunt, which is not a particularly close family relation.

In immediate ASOIAF history we see cousin incest that is completely acceptable and not alarming to the family members. Joanna Lannister and Tywin Lannister (Tyrion, Cersei, and Jaime’s parents) were cousins. Rickard Stark and Lyarra Stark (Ned, Brandon, and Lyanna’s parents) were cousins.

Earlier in history Jonnel Stark married his niece Sansa Stark. And Edric Stark married his niece Serena Stark.

In current ASOIAF history Aeron Greyjoy wanted to marry Asha/Yara to her uncle Victarion.

And none of this takes into account the several examples of incest in Targaryen ancestry. Since the Targaryens have strange features and some extra abilities they are not like regular humans and incest does not effect them the way it would normal people so even sibling incest is common for Targaryens (remember Jon and Dany are both Targaryen). It is a misconception that Aerys II represents all modern Targaryens or that all would be mad as he was because of incest.

So I don’t think that this would be an obstacle to Jon’s or Dany’s feelings about the other. If anything they will be elated to have a family to be a part of.

5.      Loneliness

Finally, in spite of how far they’vecome, both Jon and Dany are still lonely and desire companionship. The famousparallel that I see mentioned all the time in the Jonerys fandom comes to mind:

Jon in ASOS:

Jon wondered where Ghost was now.Had he gone to Castle Black, or was he was running with some wolfpack in thewoods? He had no sense of the direwolf, not even in his dreams. It made himfeel as if part of himself had been cut off. Even with Ygritte sleepingbeside him, he felt alone.

Dany in ADWD:

Beneath her coverlets she tossed and turned, dreaming that Hizdahr waskissing her … but his lips were blue and bruised, and when he thrust himselfinside her, his manhood was cold as ice. She sat up with her hair disheveledand the bedclothes atangle. Her captain slept beside her, yet she wasalone.

Even with Davos and Tyrion as their respective advisers, even withTormund and Edd and Missandei and Jorah as friends, they still lack somethingthat only they can provide each other—a real partner. Someone who is theirequal and who can understand their struggles and support them. We have seen that both Jon and Dany have the capacity for love, realromantic love, not just marriages of convenience or necessity. And when ithappens, I think it will absolutely be healthy, and as happy as a relationshipcan be in the turmoil they are living through currently.

Lastly, it is something that we can believe GRRM is in favor of too based on the years of foreshadowing, discussed here by @oadara.

Thanks for giving me a reason to talk about my faves, anon :)

[isaacathom]

im figuring for most of the game Rhia ONLY refers to Jun as ‘my uncle’ - she doesnt refer to him by name. you can figure out that she means Jun through his own dialogue and through interactions with Lyndelle, who Rhia says is her cousin. and Lyndelle speaks quite openly about her father and how much she aspires to be just like him, and how much he inspires Rhia, too. so when you eventually meet Jun in relation to Team bullshit, and he’s friendly and kind, you go ‘ooohhhhh thats her uncle, right’.

the main reason she does it is because shes paranoid about accidentally incriminating him. when shes berating Elliot for leaving her behind, and describing in detail what occured after she left, she’s fully aware that if she says his name, and then FAILS to stop Elliot and the player (and Zeke, iirc) from leaving, they might report his connections. its a VERY weak defence, admittedly, given how easy it is to work out who she’s referring to. but theres also the fact that shes NOT related to him. and Elliot, knowing this fact (knowing that she’s Seren, and that her entire family live in Johto and didn’t take her ‘home’), would be unable to connect that dot. Being that he is obsessed with Seren, rather than Rhia. the player knows she means Jun, but the player has also actually met Jun - which Rhia doesn’t know. But they’ve met, and they know that Jun isn’t enthusiastic about Team shit, and only works with them because he is blackmailed and wants to protect his family.

so. yknow. if she just says ‘her uncle’, theres room for interpretation. its vague enough. plus, if you actually go to HER records, the records of Rhia Stanton, you will not find Jun Zhang anywhere. he’s her step uncle. instead you will find Patrick’s family, and the family of her ‘mother’. who i think, for shits and gigs, dont have any brothers. that’d be funny. someone investigating Rhia’s ‘uncle’ claims would actually have to look a long way into her records to find a man who could match that description. ofc in reality they’d just ask Jun because that’s her home address now but like, yknow. they share no blood, both in general and as far as her legal records are concerned. so. yknow. someone trying to be covert and investigate Rhia would have to put a lot of extra effort to find this info.

idk i think itd be fun if Rhia’s going on her long tirade explaining the time between her being assaulted and Jun finding her and speaking in these vague terms. not in any overt hilarious way, i just think itd be cool for her to do. then, of course, once shits all cleared, he’s just Jun. well, ok, she alternates, because she does feel a genuine familial attachment to Jun and Bronwyn and Lyndelle, and terms like ‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’ and ‘cousin’ are vague enough that it can describe how she feels while not NECESSARILY necessitating blood ties. its a cute thing. initially it was part of her cover story, calling them auntie and uncle (and then mostly just calling Lyndelle by name), but at one point Rhia would’ve just slipped and called Jun ‘uncle’ in private and honestly it probably made him cry. and shes fretting and apologising and saying ‘fuck fuck i meant Jun sorry’ and hes all ‘no no its fine.... you can call me uncle if you want.’ and shes like ‘wait, really?????’ ‘absolutely, Rhia. if you want to!’ and she cries too. Bronwyn comes downstairs to find them hugging and crying and shes just ‘did i walk in on something?? do you want me to give you a minute’ and they both laugh reallyyyy awkwardly and theres a silence, before Rhia goes ‘heyyyyyy uuhhhhhh i had a question..... am i allowed to call you auntie????’ and bronwyns very confused about what exactly brought this on, looks at Jun, looks back at Rhia, back at Jun, and it clicks and she goes ‘oooooohhhhhhhhhhh. oooohhhh. you mean actually?’ and rhia nods and bronwyn goes ‘well, you do already, dont you? why not! :)’ and its just a big fun time.

then lyndelle also walks in and is INCREDIBLY confused. what the fuck is happening. why is everyoe laughing and crying and hugging and shit. did something happen???????? it is an incredily weird time.

uhhhhh point is she means it sincerely but not in a blood tie way and its also juuuuuuussssttt vague enough that she doesnt give anything away when shes trying to keep shit secret. of course, if pressed in a normal situation, she’d tell you exactly who ‘uncle’ is, the talented Dr Jun Zhang, but in any remotely crime-y shit, you wont get a peep.

so i guess she just always calls him uncle? maybe after the whole team/org blows over, she switches to ‘Uncle Jun’, rather than just uncle? that’d be kinda cute.

im not sure exactly when shed start sincerely calling then family, though. she has like 8 years to figure that out. it certainly wasnt in the first year or so - she was still mixed in that time. at some point, certainly.

the same sort of terms follow for Jun and Bronwyn too. Bronwyn probably took a little longer - mostly because she had slightly less history with Rhia than Jun did - but both of them feel very close to her and refer to her as their niece on a few occasions. Jun especially. mostly because meeting Jun is actually required for story progression, so IF he mentioned his family at all, itd be in vague terms. because just like Rhia, he really doesnt want to tie them into his business. he hates this business, why would he want them connected? so its just ‘my niece’ not ‘my niece, rhia, that cop whose been sorta bothering you the whole game’. YOU know, obviously, the player knows thats probably whats happening. which is probably also the point where you should be going ‘hang on......... her uncles in the evil team??? does she know???’ and it should cause people to think twice. ideally between meeting Jun in a team context and the tower sequence the player should see her again - presumably to insert the whole Seren thing which ive technically retconned out of existence but still needs to occur i guesssss - and she should seem especially suss in that instance. in fact, yea, having that be the point where she asks you to ask elliot about Seren makes sense, and should look INCREDIBLY shifty. like, whyyy cant she just ask him herself? why do you have to do it? what does that mean? theres probably been minor hints about it throughout the game, and there IS a cemetery why you can find graves for both her parents AND a grave for Seren with only her DOB and an end year. and Zeke probably actually knows about it, even if he didnt know Seren personally (given the age difference - he’s older than the player but younger than Rhia, being that he is like.... 17??? which is 6 years younger than her and anywhere from 2-5 older than you. idk. there would be minor info sprinkled about Seren throughout the game, to the point where the player COULD fill in the blanks about what the fuck is happening themselves. to a point, anyway. like, hmm.... so Seren was Elliot’s charge, and vanished, and now this girl who is roughly how old she’d be now is asking me to ask Elliot about her...... hmmmm. and the player might click it. the details, about how he abandoned her, come out only from Rhia herself in her tirade against Elliot. what Elliot tells you is slightly different. ooh, thats a bit, actually.

how Rhia recounts the events and how Elliot does is vastly different. mostly because they drastically diverge at a point, but also in terms of what they recount in that similar lead up. Rhia talks about how shifty the plan was, how he made her wait while he spoke to the gym leaders before coming to get her, how they were on their own despite the other groups being fairly large and proportionally uneven, how she ended up leading the way down the corridor (of her own arrogance, but her point is that He didnt stop her). Elliot talks about her boundless enthusiasm to take part, her insistence, his concern that he’d end up disappointing her if the gym leaders found out and subsequently stopped her. and the specific ‘incident’ bit, the description is different too. Elliot doesn’t really go into specifics. its just ‘there were..... complications. i had no choice but to flee’. Rhia instead describes in details how they were grabbed from behind when the corridor opened up abruptly, how the grunts jeered them and held hands over their mouths, how she kicked one of the grunts in the arm so they let Elliot go, how Elliot hesitated for JUST a moment before bolting, silently, down the corridor. that silence is a big part of it, too. Elliot will say to you that he tried to find help, which is true (to a point), but Rhia’s statement makes that seem strange. if he ran silently, how much did he want help? whether he DID actually leave without crying out at all is..... unclear. neither account of events is wholly accurate. the commonalities are true, but the minor parts are based on interpretation. in fact, the ONLY people perhaps equipped to offer an objective view on what happened in the confrontation are the Grunts, who could talk about how Seren crossed the threshold first with a pokeball in hand, and how Elliot passed closely behind without, and how Barny got kicked in the hand and probably later in the face by the flailing Seren, how Smokes followed Elliot down the hall and saw him completely leave the premises, how Tiny Fae later told Jun about Seren. that sorta shit. those are random names i dont even know what the fuck those mean.

i think thatd be a very neat difference. just to emphasise how they both feel about it. how Rhia would highlight the choices available to Elliot (and technically herself, but trust me, that isnt her idea) and how Elliot would highlight how inevitable he felt his choices were, or how he didnt have them.if it isnt obvious i probably agree with Rhia more, though shes a lot less blameless than she makes it out and there is probably more actual manipulation of information in her recounting over Elliots. like yea, both are manipulated to elicit a specific response (sympathy for both, and anger at Elliot in Rhia’s case). but since Rhia is making a point when she’s telling her version, she’s likely slightly twisted parts of it. the emotional impact of the event isnt changed, but some of the physical elements are likely emphasised to make Elliot feel reaaallllllll fucking guilty. like ‘you thought i was dead, but i lived! but in agonising pain for a while and there have been permanent physical and mental repercussions for your actions, asshole!’ what fun! :)