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good-beanswrites · 5 months

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🎬: Hey, you don't have to post this publically, but saw you have a cold in your tags. If you're sick, get some rest! Post your thoughts on what happens during trial 2 in your AU after you get better, okay? Was gonna ask you your thoughts on deep cover, but I'll save that for later (plus not sure if you're avoiding spoilers). Get plenty of rest please, or as much as you can!

Ah, I hope you don’t mind if I post publicly to say thank you so much <3 I am often poisoned by the Productivity Mindset so I always appreciate a reminder to take it easy, haha.

And I have returned to yell about DEEP COVER!!

I'd love to hear your (and anyone's) thoughts on it!! 👀

If the gap was shorter I’d avoid spoilers, but unfortunately I don’t have the patience to wait that long 😅 Omg I love the callbacks to Undercover, and I’m so mad I brushed off the title similarities as a coincidence instead of expecting a connection. I think the song is beautiful, her voice is so powerful and emotional! I like that there’s a lot of sudden tone switches (idk the right word for it, but she goes from singing gently/calmly to getting forceful and back). Her under, under in the middle always gets me ahh

I was going to make a post a while ago about Backdraft, how everyone else’s video focuses on their crime because that’s the main thing on their mind, but Fuuta is more tormented by Milgram itself – his video is equal parts Milgram as it is his murder. And so I think it’s really telling that Kotoko’s mind also isn’t as focused on her crime – a core part of her character is being on her guard and analyzing those around her. Even before her character was properly introduced in her vd, she appeared early to prove how close an eye she was keeping on the others. Harrow was about the tons and tons of dangers she was keeping an eye on, to the point it’s hard to tell which villain is her actual victim. It makes perfect sense that a peek into her brain at this point in time would be filled with the ins and outs of the prison, and her thoughts on everyone.

(Now, I’m just torn whether I want her video to show more about herself and her crime, or give us glimpses of the others in day-to-day prison life as she watches them…)

#this was kind thank you ;--;#i caught a leak of deep cover on tuesday but i was dying and and didnt get a chance to yell about it yet #i got my shots so i didn’t expect the cold to kick my ass as hard as it did but i made it 😂#im going back to work and writing my final paper tomorrow so i tried to collect all my fun thoughts today >:3 #and i just posted the lcsys ideas!#deep cover spoilers #rose rambles #ask

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shiro-hatzuki · 2 years

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Why my Kotoko vote has nothing to do with the music video.

Okay, so just a few hours earlier from when I'm posting this, I was gushing about the music video. But while I can theorize about what it shows us, I'm way more interested in her voice drama, which I just read a translation of.

Further explained below the cut. Some spoilers for MILGRAM's "HARROW" music video and a load of spoilers for Kotoko's voice drama. Also, I'm getting the voice drama translation from a google doc that was shared in a discord server by the user kraufish#1072.

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Initially, I was trying to consider voting Kotoko forgiven or not based on her MV. She's heavily implied to be a vigilante, and there are some flashes where it seems to imply that she either is doing so to cope with some serious trauma and/or she's got a black and white way of viewing justice a bit like Fuuta (tho she might not like be compared to Fuuta lollll). I decided that based on my own feelings towards vigilantes (and admittedly kotoko because my god, i love her my girlboss bias is showinggg), I would vote her "forgiven" for the time being. However, I do not think working outside of the law should be encouraged even if you believe it's for a good cause, but instead, you should work to influence the law itself to shape it to fit our modern ideals of justice. Thus, I did not mind if she was voted "not forgiven."

But as I stated before, I just read a translation of the VD, and that just shoved the whole MV aside. To give a quick and dirty summary (that does not do the details of the VD justice, mind you), Kotoko questioned Es on how this whole "prison" is set up, noting that this does not seem much like a prison and more like a social experiment, and even Es's control and position as a prison guard are called into question. After snapping Es out of what seemed to be a bit of an existential crisis, Kotoko made a proposal: the two could work together, with Es supplying info about the prison and Kotoko supplying info on what she can observe of the other prisoners, to uncover the "truth" behind MILGRAM.

Kotoko really emphasized how she could observe the other prisoners, and I do think that could be helpful for uncovering facets of the other prisoners that we the audience have yet to completely agree on or figure out ourselves. I am skeptical about her observations, of course, as she made clear that her own opinions of good and evil are strong, thus coloring her perception. However, her observations could still be helpful.

But enough musing on the details of the deal, because that actually doesn't matter to me. What I care about the most was when she questioned Es to the point of sending them into a crisis. I have a strong suspicion that by doubting MILGRAM, Es can, for lack of a better term, awaken the truth inside of them. We saw it in Muu's VD, where she questioned Es's way of talking as if their opinions aren't actually their own, which made them distressed. Kotoko appears to have little to fear and nothing to lose and could probably defend herself against Es if they retaliate, making her one of the perfect candidates for talking with Es on the lore of the prison and perhaps getting them to question this whole thing.

Basically, my goal here is to break Es. I want to see what will happen if they question their own position as a prison guard to the point that they themself stop acting as one. I want them to be curious enough to find out who they are and to explore MILGRAM for themself instead of taking Jackalope's word and following his guidance blindly. I want them to open that rusty eleventh door, as even if there is nothing to see behind it, doing so may symbolically break them from this prison.

I'm voting Kotoko "forgiven" because I personally think this will be the path that will get Es to break. If voting "not forgiven" will put prisoners in line (or otherwise negatively impact them), that is something I absolutely do not want for Kotoko. I want her to run wild here. Now I do not think that voting one way or another will make her stop investigating - she may do that either way. But I think what may happen will be how bold she is when talking with Es. If we don't forgive her, I fear that she may not talk with Es about her opinions and questions regarding the prison. But if we do vote her "forgiven," she may continue to talk with Es boldly.

Admittedly, this may also be at the expense of Es (who I apologize to profusely no I don't care if they're a fictional character). It's very possible that rebelling too much could cause something negative to happen to them in the end. Again, Muu's questions had caused Es distress before, and we really don't know what Jackalope or this prison are capable of. I don't like the thought of hurthing them, but personally speaking, being able to explore the possibilities and curiosities of this setting far outweighs the theoretical downsides for me.

#tldr my vote for kotoko is 'forgiven' for purely meta reasons #ily kotoko but lore takes priority #milgram #ミルグラム #kotoko yuzuriha #yuzuriha kotoko #es #milgram es #my stuff

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