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the sillies

y’all always say the english translation of yttd did keiji wrong… but i fear he’s never beating the p3do allegations either way. the 4koma comic about him is literally called “molestors not allowed” and kanna calls him “mr. bad touch”

one of my favorite collective fandom headcanons is that shin stinks/doesn’t shower. like, shit got to the point his cleanliness had to be a plot point IN CANON, and the whole fandom still calls him grimey 😭😭

little known yttd fact:

shin tsukimi’s “final present” to sara is very misleading. most believe his “gift” to her was the joe ai… but that just happened to be there, tbh. in reality, he just passed down his fuckass posture. the minute she made contact with his lifeless body, the curse transferred to a new bearer, as seen when she’s speaking to the ai!

random rant, but do q-taro fans exist yet or is it just me 😭😭 ? i really like yttd but haven’t been active in fandom since 2019-2020-ish. i started liking him after 2-1 when he finally took the last poison dart for gin in alice lives route and the main game solidified my love for his character. but back in those days, mfs HATED him to death istg 😭

like, no matter how much character development or redemption he got, people (especially on tiktok) only harped on him wanting to vote on the kids/nao in chapter one. fair reason to dislike him, but as reko said…man’s just a realist.

i always felt like it was unrealistic that people didn’t vote the kids off earlier (not that i wanted that). side tangent, but i feel like— in a way, keiji agreed with qtaro on that fact, but gets way less hate for it. despite being adamant about killing shin, he votes for kanna. i don’t know if he was moved by her desire to die for the betterment of the group and for both sara and shin or what his logic behind the vote was, but i could see it going two possible ways: either he casted the vote seeing losing kanna as a “punishment” for shin, or he just found her the least useful.

i thoroughly enjoyed q-taro’s character despite his flaws though. he is not a morally great person, but most of the people in the higher percentiles of survival aren’t. sara, in many circumstances/simulatuons, was the most ruthless out of all of them— hence her survival rate. keiji is cunning and manipulative, even willing to let others die simply to take burdens off his moral conscious. q-taro ranks just below the two.

i feel like some of (not all) the best plot twists in the game relied on q-taro. the token bad ending, the 2-2 card trades, the card placement in chapter 1, the end of the banquet.

and this may be a hot take, but his death was one of the most shattering to me. as soon as he had begun to trust his allies, let his guard down, and shed off some of that willingness to betray and sacrifice others… he was betrayed. and he couldn’t even find it in his heart to resent the person who stabbed him in the back.

and in the end, the man who was willing to sacrifice others willingly let himself be burned alive to save his allies. i think he’s one of the best characters in terms of development.

also, even his ai feeling he would be willing to die for gin :((

speaking of, gin, nao, and kanna really went through so much as the most vulnerable of the group. the shit those three have went through woulda turned any other character into a villian bro.

being in the yttd fandom is so funny because i saw the most beautiful art of reko on twitter. so detailed it genuinely looked like a real life person and only had like ~150 likes scrolled two posts down and saw a quick sketch of shin tied up and it had double the likes 😭😭

first thing i thought of when playing the steam version

saw these images back to back on my feed and immediately thought, “how can i make this about naosara?” as i usually do. i 🫶 toxic yuri :)