My earliest memories... I remember... Hospitals. Doctors. Examinations. I was... broken. The doctors were trying to
fix me. My parents tried to explain what was wrong
with me. They tried to explain what made me different from other people. I didn't understand. I heard the doctors admit they couldn't fix
me. They said I would never be a normal person, or live a normal life. As I grew older, I came to understand what
was wrong with me. I saw other children become happy... sad... angry. But, I never felt these
things... I only felt... empty. Hollow. Incomplete. My father desperately wanted to help me. But,
my mother...she was nothing like my father. She wasn't worried about me at all. She said
that she was exactly like me when she was a child. She told me that, one day, I would meet someone
special. She told me that I would meet someone who would make me feel... complete. My father did not want to listen to my mother's
words. He wanted a normal child more than anything in the world. He tried everything to make me happy. But...nothing
worked. I never felt happy. But I did feel...pity. I felt pity for this sad man. I did not want my father to worry... and so,
I began to act like the other children. I pretended to be normal. My father was happy.
We finally became a normal family... But...I think he knew...deep down in his heart...that
I was only pretending. At school, the other children mistreated me.
They bullied me because I was strange to them. It was... inconvenient. I realized that if I wanted to be treated
properly, I would have to act like the other children. I started pretending to be normal...and the
bullying stopped. I learned that everything was easier if I
forced myself to act like a normal person. Eventually, I was pretending to be normal
almost every hour of every day. I pretended to be friends with people...I
pretended to have hobbies...I pretended to care when tragedy struck... ...but it was all fake. I felt nothing. The
only thing I felt was emptiness. As I grew older, I became resentful of my
condition. I wanted to experience life like other people. I wanted to feel joy...I wanted
to feel sorrow... I tried doing anything that might cause me
to feel something. Guilt, shame, regret... I wanted to feel something. Anything. But, nothing worked. No matter what I did,
no matter how extreme, I could not feel anything. My mother's advice was always the same. One
day, you will meet someone special. One day, someone will make you feel complete. I thought about these words all the time. It was the only thing for me to look forward
to. The only reason for me to live. Meeting the person who would save me...fix me...complete
me. Then...one day... I found him. (Increasingly serious music again)
I must not lose him. I must protect him. I must make him mine. I must not let anyone take him. I need him. (Horror Music)
He is everything. He is worth any sacrifice. Nothing else matters. No one else matters. He will be mine. He doesn't have a choice.
That was fantastic. What an ending.
Though talk about mood whiplash. First the kitten, then Ayano meeting Senpai, then the "he must be mine". I have no idea how to feel.
I swear to god, this is the ONE game where I'm totally fine with getting the bad ending.
Cause if I do, I can just treat my second playthrough like it's a universe reset with a good ending kinda like with Higurashi.
Also, GOSH DARNIT! Stop making me feel bad for a terrible person!
Seriously though, this was pretty great. It's nice to get some backstory on Ayano.
This was really good and exactly what I wanted from her character. I loved the exploration of her relationship with her father and mother and her views on her condition. (Opinions make the character).
Because I am a nitpick by nature there are a few minor criticisms;
1) When she was being picked on by other children she explains it as an inconvenience showing a maturity far beyond her age at the time: it would be better if this maturity was in fact via her mother's influence and her mother was teaching the younger Yan-chan the psychology of the normal human (their motivations etc and tips on how to manipulate people), and how to act like she is normal (keeping these lessons a secret from her father showing a younger Yan-chan just how necessary keeping her abnormal nature is from normal people as even her mother has to lie to her father to keep him happy and inserting a fear that even having her Senpai will not give her someone who understands her as a sociopath she will always be alone in that regard). This is an explanation as to why she can't just go up and confess to him like a normal person to get him- she doesn't have confidence that she will ever be enough compared to normal people.
2) Can she keep her fake persona in the game? So continuing to hang out with Kuudere and Midori occasionally so she can pretend to be normal (if anyone's worried that having friends would make it harder to murder- Kuudere is becoming the librarian so she's away from most of the students and Midori is an airhead constantly on her phone on the rooftop, neither of them are going to be with Yan-chan enough to make her fulfil normal friend duties like hanging out all the time etc, plus it would be fun to have some of the cutscenes if the 2 are left alive taking place outside of school when Senpai meets the rivals because Midori and Kuudere asked her out to see a movie and she's returning from that when she spots Senpai).
Just finished the video. That was...an experience.
I loved the music box in the background, and the sketches fit the tone really well. Her putting on a mask to make Mr. Aishi happy was quite sad. In all fairness I can see why he wouldn't want an emotionless daughter; one yandere is already enough.
Also not the kitten ;_;
I'm so glad devpai went there with the kitten. It's good to know that he's willing to receive backlash for his ideas and that he'll fight to get them out anyway.
I love this - it's like an expansion to her existing backstory. I really am conflicted about whether to feel bad for her or not, which is excellent.
The moment I saw the kitten I was like "I know where this is headed and it's not pretty."
I personally think this video is really well made - so much so that I want this to be the basis of an intro cutscene
Is that motherfucking Komaeda Nagito at 5:50?
I surely HOPE that's him