Underrated Parallel
These two duos are actually so similar, it’s surprising that the fandom hardly acknowledges it.
First off, both of these duos are shown to both spend time investigating together in private. (Gonta and Ouma mainly doing so in chp2) While also sharing the dynamic of one being hyper intelligent, mysterious, as well as having a lack of trust in their classmates, and the other being more naive yet enthusiastic. There’s also of course the fact that they both share the same color scheme. (Toko and Komaru also share similar qualities as well but that’s for a different post.)
Naegi and Gonta also have alter egos included in their executions. And were both unconcious during the events leading to their investigations/trials.
Also, if you let Kirigiri be found guilty, both her and Ouma die from being squished by a press...(on chp5)
Then lastly, they’re similar in that Kirigiri and Ouma used Naegi and Gonta to survive so that they could defeat the mastermind.
As a side note, I’m surprised that there aren’t many people who acknowledge how similar what Ouma did to Gonta in chp4 is to what Kirigiri did to Naegi in chp5. It’s especially weird how people will claim that gontouma is toxic because of chp4 but then see nothing problematic about naegiri. Like, I get that Ouma comes across really rude and aggressive on chp4 but that was on purpose to make everyone vilify him.
He never treats Gonta the way he did on chp4 on any other part of the game. He’s almost too nice to Gonta in some instances (specifically on the jpn version since the NISA translators ruined Ouma’s character). Also, Ouma’s motivations for what he did were much more selfless than Kirigiri’s. You can’t even really say he did this because he saw his life as more important than Gonta’s as he immediately locks himself in his room and plans his own death afterwards.
(Which correlates with how the writers decided to make Gonta/Ouma be the only ones to like the Survival Flag and the Death Flag. As it imo implies that Ouma gave up on survival once he knew that Gonta no longer could because of him)
I also find it strange how there are still people who actually think that Ouma didn’t care about Gonta. That was legitimately one of his most obvious lies in the entire game. His end talk with Kaito wouldn’t make any sense otherwise, nor his interactions with Gonta on TDP and DRS. I really do think that people need to play V3 more than once to to get a proper understanding of their actual dynamic though.
(And not through letsplays since they will give you their own biases.)
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Ishmael icon I made for my discord server mimicking prerelease art we have for some of the sinners :) I wanted to get a new icon on there to celebrate canto 5 but completely forgot to share it here😭
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Rolling on the floor rn but I just learned about Eric Edson's 9 "likeability traits" for which a character needs just 5 or more to be perceived by the audience as likeable, and Ballister Boldheart the man the myth the legend has ALL OF THEM
1. Courage? It's literally in his name ffs
2. Unfair injury? Arm chopping is not a love language. Neither is being framed
3. Skill? We literally saw him take on a whole platoon and know he graduated top of his class
4. Funny? "Boo! I'm a ghost-- hahaa sorry" he's fucking hilarious
5. Just plain nice- literally the whole time. Kind lovely wonderful man is kind lovely and wonderful.
6. In danger? I would consider LITERALLY EVERYONE BEING OUT TO GET YOU danger
7. Loved? Ambrosius and Nimona would die for this man
8. Hard working? It's literally confirmed in the line "you were better and worked harder than all of us."
9. Obsessed? This one is the most debatable but becoming a knight was clearly an objective he was obsessed with completing. It kept him from questioning the Institute even when he knew they maimed and framed him.
Ballister Boldheart is THE most likeable character
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old ass stuff, was gonna use these for playlist covers until i realized i could never condense all the songs i associate with the both of them into something consistent lol
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So, I started replaying Nier Replicant today, and have come to a really funny revelation:
We all know that the protagonist/Nier/The World Ender/Lad can't swim, right? Like, the game itself makes fun of him for it:
Now, obviously this is because Cavia couldn't program in a swimming mechanic, in the same way that the reason the Earth's rotation has stopped because they couldn't get a day-night cycle working, but here's the thing: if you take a look at Nier's house:
HIS HOUSE IS LITERALLY ON TOP OF A POND. YOU COULD EASILY AT LEAST LEARN TO SWIM IN THAT. THIS BOY HAS BEEN LIVING HERE FOR 16 YEARS, AND EVEN FIVE YEARS AFTER THIS HE HASN'T LEARNT HOW TO SWIM. GODDAMN HE'S DUMB.
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you should be made to wear earphones
'cause something is happening and you don't know what it is
do you, mister jones?
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