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mapsontheweb · 1 year
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Timbuktu in multiple languages of Europe.
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starfallcity · 29 days
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Starfall's Helpful Locations Guide 2 !
We thought It'd be helpful if we discussed some of the locations you can visit during your stay in Starfall, that way you can plan ahead for sites you wanna see! So have this 'lil guide with descriptions of each place and what they have to offer! (This post includes places from the Suburbs! Check our other post for City Sites!)
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Suburban Spots !
Sweet Dreams Pastries
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If you're a fan of sweets, try checking out this quaint corner bakery! Its exterior isn't anything extravagant - the building is painted in black with detailing in the same color to give subtle texture, there are many large windows for natural lighting, and a sign sits above a cute striped awning, decorated heavily with flora, giving a modernized twist on a classic look. The interior is quite small, as it wasn't intended to be a place for sitting and dining; though recently, they've taken customer feedback and have added a few tables and seats inside, more on the patio. Murals were also painted inside to add some flair against the white walls. The pastries aren't particularly eye-catching, yet somehow Sweet Dreams makes them taste far better than any other place. People joke that there has to be a secret ingredient since there's no way it's possible for something as simple as a chocolate chip cookie to taste so different and sweet!
Among The Stars Casino
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Gambling isn't a child's game, so if you're looking for games with high stakes and big prizes, Among The Stars Casino is your place to go. Being around for years, the casino has built a reputation. One might be shocked when first seeing the outside; a 3 story-bricked building, old detailing, and a giant awning decked in neon lights, the name included, would make anyone think it wasn't a high-end casino like the rumors, but once inside, it lives up to the claims. The interior is a complete 360, with a large walkway as you enter through the doors, fancy carpet lining the floor with tiles where it's not, murals painted on the ceilings with white trimming highlighting them, chandeliers hanging from ornate holders, and on either side of the walkway are tables upon tables for playing to your heart's content. The two other floors are similar in appearance, but there is a mixture of open tables and slot machines rather than only tables; there's also a bar on the second floor! There's talk of a basement floor, how only VIPS are allowed down for special games with special prizes, but it's a silly rumor that's meant to rack in VIP membership money.. right?
Mystic Lagoon
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Uncovering secret spots is something any explorer can do, but if you're looking for a real challenge, try finding this Mystical Lagoon. Hidden deep within the forest, losing your way while searching is easy; the signs of whether you made it or not are nearly non-existent; a tip.. if you notice vines, thorny ones, sticking together to form a make-shift wall, trying to hide something, you're most likely on the right path. To know if you've found the lagoon, not a random, hidden pond, the biggest sign will be the entrance; there'll be a bridge - unlike the other spots - old, a bit dilapidated, and missing a few stone bricks. Reeds shroud the sides of it, while vines and moss cover every inch. Past the bridge, under leaves and past tall reeds, there'll be the first bit of the lagoon, colorful flora surrounding the area, while drooping trees and flowery vines cover it. Following the path deeper, the light that seeped through the thin openings of the leaves disappear; it's like an eternal night, and the plants and vines glow like stars. Even then, a feeling of unease surrounds it; maybe that's why larger animals won't travel deeper, or maybe it's 'cause of that large thing hiding under the murky waters.
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mordet-comic · 2 years
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Synnøve
A coastal port city in Norge which has existed for thousands of years, history tells that it was once the stronghold city of Frith, the Phoenix Goddess and Mother of Corvids. Though those days are long past, the city itself is a bustling hub of trade and tourism, with people coming from all over the world to visit the Cathedral of Frith where some of her direct descendants are said to still live today and upkeep the grounds where the remains of many of Frith’s original followers are still buried. The city boasts a population of about 75,000, and its major exports include lumber, ore, and animal products transported by cargo train down from the mountains, belonging to the Barlow Lumber Company and Furutrær Mineral Industry respectively. Besides its long industrial coastline, the city has several connections to nearby local settlements, including Iskalddal, Holde Arvid, and Snøhette. While Iskalddal and Holde Arvid can be reached via highway, Snøhette is only accessible by ferry or cable car. The ferries out of Synnøve take passengers up the Istungeelv River, while the cable cars take people directly over the mountains. Alternatively, people can also travel to Snøhette hiking on foot or by horse or reindeer sled through the mountains, but its not recommended without a local guide.  Within the city limits on a small island just off the coast is the Sjøsiden Helligdom park with walking trails and an artificial bay surrounded by sea walls, large boulders, and cliffs. The park serves as a wildlife refuge and the artificial bay is a corral for holding large sea animals needing rehabilitation due to illness or injury. Some times of year, orca pods also take shelter in the park bay away from ship traffic, as do northern seals during birthing season, often crowding the shoreline in large numbers. Visitors can walk along concrete-and-glass tunnels for underwater viewing of any of the sea animals currently residing at the park, which is one of the more popular tourist attractions, but the park serves as a conservation center first and entertainment second. Park visitation is sometimes limited or outright closed depending on the season and amount of human traffic at any given time so as not to overly stress the native animal populations.
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blueskittlesart · 3 months
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zl wedding (again)
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spirk-trek · 27 days
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S1E28: Operation Annihilate ⋆.˚ ✧ ·
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degenerateshinji · 2 months
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a moment of solitude
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teeth-haver · 3 months
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The apprentices (and William!)
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canisalbus · 8 months
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So Vasco is born the same day as me, it makes me happy for some reason
He's the goodest boi (also give a gentle scratch to Machete for me, if he wants it)
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ultimatepad · 1 year
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Miles Bron’s Private Island Retreat, Greece
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candyfloss-esophagus · 7 months
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sorry it's just that im obsessed with noir calling hobie 'doll' and 'darling' and 'sweetheart' and hobie calling noir 'love' and 'treacle' and 'pete' bcs they're affording themselves these little pieces of adoration and softness that their respective worlds never bothered to offer them
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heartsofhounds · 9 months
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Alright so.. I am so curious
How are y'all interpreting Dahlia? Like what does the actual location look like to you?
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lelelego · 11 months
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omg camille hiiiiii
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(twirling hair while looking at my own oc) hiiiiiii
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starfallcity · 29 days
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Starfall's Helpful Locations Guide 1 !
We thought It'd be helpful if we discussed some of the locations you can visit during your stay in Starfall, that way you can plan ahead for sites you wanna see! So have this 'lil guide with descriptions of each place and what they have to offer! (This post includes places from the City! Check our other post for Suburban Spots!)
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City Sites !
Starview Cinema
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If you're looking to watch movies in HD, Starview Cinema should be at the top of your places to visit. A few years back, it was redone to give it the aesthetic of a vintage Cinema; a giant movie board - updated daily -, a large, lit-up sign, ticket booths under the awning, it's got it all! Inside, despite the illusion of a flat roof outside, there's a domed ceiling with a starry sky painted on, giving the building a magical night feel. There are self-salting and buttering stations, concessions, and even a bar for you to get a little sum :) There are two wings on either side, each holding 10 regular theatres and 1 VIP theatre. People praise Starview on how quickly new releases make it to the screens, but recently, "movies" and "ads" containing strange, often graphic, material have been appearing where they aren't meant to. Not to fret, the staff are working on a fix for this! So If you see anything strange, do make sure to report it.
Celeste Aquarium
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The Celeste Aquarium is quite a sight to see, and not just for the life within, but for just how grand it is; gorgeous detailing surrounds the entire building, along with marble pillars and steps, which are always kept pristine. There are 3 sections in total, split into two wings on either side of the main building, which sports a giant glass dome; it's ethereal at night! Each section houses a different type of aquatic lifeform: smaller fish, like seahorses or clownfish, are at the right wing, while the left wing holds larger fish and creatures, like whales and sharks. There is a large, cylinder tank at the center section, under the dome, that holds a mix of both wings, though majorly holds rare, magical creatures. Sometimes, there are mermaid shows held at the center tank; however, Celeste Aquarium does not use real mermaids for these shows; despite some people pointing out how real the fins look, we can say that its thanks to our special effects team that we're able to make the mermaids look convincing!
Novelty Nook
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A popular, well-known bookshop within the city; a staple if you're an avid reader! The building is two stories tall, and its exterior is modern, with a solid black coat of paint on the bricks in front and large windows, making it stand out from the shops on either side. It has a cute black awning with a sign just above it. Although it seems small outside, it has a surprising amount of space once you step in. It exhibits a homey vibe inside, warm lighting and a relaxing feel, contrasting the cool, modern design of the outside. It has books from every genre, and nearly every author: Kids' books, romance, murder mystery, how-tos, you name it and the shop has it! In the back of the store, there's a spiral staircase leading to the second floor - though it barely counts as one, sporting a hollowed center to view the first floor and vice versa. There are sliding ladders on some bookshelves, for the books higher up. It's a great place to go if you're looking for a good book to get lost in, or to meet new friends with similar interests!
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Snøhette
A mountain town with a population of about 1,700, just slightly eastward over one of the peaks overlooking the city of Synnøve. Snøhette has no roads leading in and out save for one that attaches to the ferry terminal along the Istungeelv River, but there are no other roads or highways that lead to it. Instead, residents and tourists must choose between either taking the river ferry, cable cars, or hike mountain trails to reach it, though there are some reindeer sled and guided horse riding services for the latter. The town mostly attracts visitors through seasonal festivals and snow sports such as skiing and snowboarding, with a local organic foods market stocked with regional foods grown either in the town or at Iskalddal farm nearby. The town also has a second cable car connecting Snøhette to Holde Arvid over the river and adjacent mountains, but its primarily reserved for the use of local residents and workmen rather than tourists. Being located inside the bounds of the local national park, the town sees a lot of wild animal visitors including various species of deer, wild goats, bear, wolves, and large cats.
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leomonae · 5 months
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Okay but... how much blood does a D&D vampire need every day, simply "once a day" is not greatly helpful in and of itself! Am I looking at, like... a city of 50k people to support 5k vampires sustainably where they only need a very small amount, or one of 500k going off real world blood donation amounts, or like 5 million if it's an entire person's worth of blood daily ffs, did anyone actually think through the logistics of this when they put it in the game?
I'm not actually convinced the Underdark has that many people living in it, if it's the latter. I'm not even convinced the entirety of the Sword Coast does! How the hells was Cazador feeding all these vampires enough to keep them alive for so long in the centuries leading up to the Rite?!
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thinkin-bout-milgram · 11 months
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Mahiru Shiina: Trial 2 Synthesis Theory
Hello everyone! For the “I Love You” drop, I’m just going to jump straight into a full-length theory because I have a LOT that I want to cover and it’s much more comprehensive than my initial thoughts posts usually are. This is partially because all four other admins helped me out, as well as our 6th roommate who isn’t an admin!
As always, I will be using the very fast translation done by @onigiriico, which is linked here! I’ll also be using @iaobug ‘s wonderful translation of Mahiru’s 16 step guide in This Is How To Be In Love With You, which I’ll put here. 
T/W: Suicide, stalking, kidnapping/abduction, toxic relationships, murder, hanging, drowning, malnourishment, force feeding a rat. There WILL be images so please read at your own discretion!
Alright, let’s jump into it!
Mahiru’s murder took place in Aokigahara, AKA the Sea of Trees, AKA the Suicide Forest.
This is based on an initial post by @tomoesan, which has since become unavailable. I’ll post a photo of it here, though:
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It compares Mahiru’s murder location on her card from Undercover to a real place in Japan: Aokigahara. From the pictures, it’s very clear that this was an intentional move by the artists to place Mahiru’s murder somewhere actively recognizable through some google searches. I firmly believe that the forest that they move through in the MV is Aokigahara. 
That’s not all, though. From this image, you can pretty clearly see that the photo seems to be taken from inside a cave. We’ve determined this specific cave to be Ryugu Cave, or The Dragon Cave.
This article shows the exact same photo in the earlier post, citing it as being from the Ryugu Cave. 
The Ryugu Cave also contains the Seno Umi Shrine, within it. You can read a bit about it here, but I firmly believe this to be the shrine mentioned on Day 15 of This Is How To Be In Love With You; more on that later.
Furthermore, the shrine is to Toyotama-hime. In mythology, this references a goddess who falls in love with a prince at a water well. However, he breaks a promise not to spy on her, which results in him seeing her in a monstrous form. Given the lyrical translation of daisuki (which should just mean I love you repeatedly) in the chorus to “monstrously in love,” “monstrous cause I love you,” “monstrous dilemma”... I think that the writers absolutely knew what they were going for, and they were giving a nod to this specific story and the shrine, with Mahiru being the lover turned monster.
Based on all of this, and the fact that I do believe Mahiru’s lover committed suicide, I think that all signs point to Aokigahara, specifically Ryugu Cave, being the location of the murder. I’ll be using this assumption throughout the rest of my theory.
I’ll follow along with the guide, starting at Days 1-8.
I think that Mahiru portrays Days 1-8 approximately correctly.
Days 1-7 are, I think, completely correct. Mahiru meets this guy, assumes it’s fate, and does small things to try to get closer to him and get to know about him. At this point, things probably seem completely normal to him, so there wouldn’t be any reason for him to reject her jogging with him or whatever.
Day 8 is when she waits outside his work, takes him to the park and presumably confesses her love to him. This is where her first inconsistency is. 
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She says that they talked the night away, but she also says that she “chooses not to believe they talked the night away” and that “it felt like no time passed at all.” She also very notably doesn’t actually say what his response was, though she implied it was positive.
I think that it was actually very short; rather than them talking the night away, he probably swiftly rejected her. This, therefore, ends Mahiru’s attempts to get him into a relationship normally. If he won’t love her the way she wants him to, she’ll find a way to make it happen, no matter what.
Mahiru sets a plan into action, starting Day 9.
This is the first page in her journal where the text switches from normal, pristine rows to slanted text. That’s a sign that something is going wrong.
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She mentions that her “boyfriend” is really cute when he’s blackout drunk. I think that it’s possible she drugged him, but even if she didn’t, she used this to get some kind of information. It’s possible she brought him back to his house, getting his address, possibly even stealing keys or something like that. 
I’d theorize that, rather than going here together, she followed him to the bar. Once he was pretty drunk, it’d be a lot easier to convince him to go along with her.
Day 10 is her talking to her beautician; I think that’s all correct. The beautician simply heard about the story through Mahiru’s eyes.
Day 11 is, I think, similar to the bar; she probably followed him to the “date” location. She says it “can’t be a coincidence” their tastes are so similar and that she’s become a different person. That indicates that this isn’t actually a shared taste: he went to the location and she followed him there.
On Day 12, Mahiru abducts her lover.
Day 12 is the day when Mahiru goes to his house for the first time, but somehow, she can’t actually seem to remember anything.
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While that alone is suspicious, there’s also the mirror. We can see her beautician in the mirror, so the fact that he isn’t in the mirror at all seems to imply that he isn’t within the camera’s view at all. Why is she in his entryway without him there to greet her?
The answer is that she’s uninvited. She enters his home, and she takes him. That’s what I think the shot of her jumping on the couch spreading the flowers in This Is How To Be In Love With You is:
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Rather than this being her killing moment, I think that this is her going in and snatching him from his own house. I firmly believe that Mahiru took him to Aokigahara, and I think that this is when she did it.
The scene in the house with the feathers immediately follows Day 12, so it makes sense chronologically. Additionally, for Day 13 onwards, the text switches from just being slanted to being stitched together from smaller boxes; it seems like it’s mimicking a ransom note that’s patched together from magazine or book clippings. This indicates that this is when Mahiru is more actively committing a crime: in this case, kidnapping. 
Days 13-15 are Mahiru moving the body.
If we assume that Mahiru’s end destination is Ryugu Cave based on earlier research, Days 13, 14 and 15 can be interpreted as movement.
Day 13 may seem strange, given that it’s Mahiru seemingly attending a wedding. However, if you pay careful attention to her phrasing, she does not say that she actually attended. She says that she was invited, and that soon, her dreams will come true. I think it’s possible that the wedding location was closer to Aokigahara–it’s near Mt. Fuji, so I’d imagine there could be some scenic locations or something–and she’s mentally using the wedding as a justification for heading that direction. Maybe she even did attend, if it was over that way.
Day 14 is an outdoor date under the stars. She practically begged him to come along. This is her taking him into the woods. I’m not sure exactly how compliant he was being and if she literally dragged him or if he was in more of a “resisting seems like a bad idea” kind of headspace, but I believe that Day 14 is them arriving at the forest and entering. 
It’s notable that, in the scenes in I Love You, Mahiru seems to be leading her lover into the forest. Here’s a screenshot from around 1:37:
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At this point, it doesn’t seem like he’s being forced. However, this ends with him groveling on the ground at 1:55.
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Comparing that to the image immediately after, we understand that Mahiru isn’t seeing the situation clearly. Given that he’s in this kneeling position in both shots, I think it’s safe to say that the shots with the golden lighting are the situation through Mahiru’s eyes. 
He’s very clearly actually beaten down and miserable, but Mahiru depicts them as a cute and happy couple. In fact, at 1:20, the lyrics support this interpretation:
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This too-perfect image of her relationship is captioned with “I actually believed that.” It’s telling us, the audience, that while she actually, genuinely believed that these fantasy segments were reality, we, perhaps, should not do the same. These fantasy segments aren’t real.
Mahiru has already proven her capability of being an unreliable narrator in the past, concealing a lot of information within the text of her 16 Day Guide. I don’t want to completely discount these fantasies, but I’m trusting the side by side comparisons it gives us that they are NOT, in any way shape or form, what she portrays them as. I don’t want to take any of it at face value.
Anyways, Day 15 is the end destination of their journey: the arrival at Ryugu Cave. This is the shrine that she mentions. 
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As stated earlier, Ryugu Cave contains a shrine. Though the cave isn’t available to tourists, that just increases the chances that Mahiru could get away with imprisoning her captive there without being spotted by the patrols that go through.
For reference, this cave is very deep: 96 m, or approximately 315 ft. It would be pretty hard for him to escape once they’re there, which resounds with her wish: they’ll stay like that until the end of time, and no one will stand in her way.
Day 16 is… a snapping point.
Day 16 is when we see Mahiru prepare her lovely boyfriend a wonderful meal of all his favorites. I think that this is when the 2:13/2:14 fantasy split happens:
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While she sees herself giving him cake pleasantly, in reality, she seems to be… force feeding him a rat?? 
I know some people think that the cake is a metaphor for toxicity, and that because he feeds it to her first in the video, it means that the relationship is mutually toxic. From what I’ve seen, this theory completely disregards both the rat aspect and the fantasy filter over the cake scene. I think it’s far more likely that him feeding her cake was Mahiru idealizing the real events. Maybe she ate the rats, too, and she liked to think he’d feed her, too. It’s them eating together; if the cake can be a rat, him feeding it to her can be a similarly significant misperception. 
In any case, given that this is the last day in the guide, I think that this is the end of the line for him. He can’t take being her captive anymore, and sometime when she’s not away, he commits suicide.
I’m not entirely sure how. Obviously, we see him hanging at several points in the video, most prominently at the end:
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But we can also see that he appears to be soaked with water at the very beginning.
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There are lakes within Ryugu Cave. They’d also likely be cold enough to give him some form of hypothermia, explaining the blue tint to his skin in the second of the two images (he seems to have dried off by the second). Because of this, I’m somewhat inclined to lean towards drowning because it seems like it would have been more accessible to him. In that case, though, I’m not sure how he ends up hanging. I don’t feel like Mahiru would put him there; it feels much more likely to me that she would jump into the lake with him so that they could be together forever or something. 
So, I’m not sure whether he hangs himself or drowns himself, but the gist is, he ends up dead. That’s what Mahiru blames herself for.
VOTE: GUILTY
I know that she’s currently leaning innocent and many people feel strongly about it, but please hear me out here.
In Mahiru’s audio drama, she very clearly does not grasp the gravity of what she did. If she really did kidnap him, bring him to the suicide forest and force feed him rats… that is NOT loving someone “normally,” as she’s so insistent that she did.
Her current perception is that when she loves someone normally, it’s wrong. That’s what she’s said about her guilty verdict. However, if we switch gears and vote her innocent, what will that tell her? 
I think it would tell her that her love is okay–and, to the delusional Mahiru, that means saying that all of what she did is okay. If she believes this is loving someone normally, then I’d rather tell her not to love anyone like this again. It’s going to be hard for her to accept, and I recognize we might lose her between trials, but I think telling her that this is okay is even worse.
I do meta vote, but I do it in the context of trying to secure as many viable innocent votes for the third trial as possible. I think that, if we vote Mahiru innocent, she’ll go back to her fully delusional self. I think guilty is the only way to make the message stick, and the message has to stick if she has a chance at getting an innocent verdict in the end. I really urge you to consider it, because I think that voting her innocent will be a huge mistake on the fanbase’s part (which is the same exact way I felt about the Kotoko vote in Trial 1).
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