On Going Jokes In Qqgk

The Air Raid Shelter Sucks

…but what if I told you this was on purpose, because it’s a metaphor?

We first find out about the engraving on Tatsuya’s lighter down in the shelter underneath Kasugayama. Tatsuya and Maya can’t settle down, so instead they start to chat and show each each other their comfort objects. Notice that both Tatsuya’s lighter and Maya’s bunny are relics of the past, given to them by someone they cared about but who is now gone.

The first time I played through this part of Innocent Sin, I hated it. It’s just not a fun dungeon, and the reveal about the engraving seemed like an awfully convenient clue. (The exit to the bomb shelter is both important but impossible to see, which gives Maya the idea to try using a mirror to find the exit indirectly.) But then once I thought about this sequence later on with more information, I realized that it was actually pretty brilliant.

Just think about it: the party’s pursuit of Joker brings them to Kasugayama High, a place where Jun should be, yet he’s nowhere to be found. (Eikichi even actively inquires about him, in classroom 3-1.) Once the party descends into the air raid shelter, Tatsuya metaphorically descends into the depths of his grief and trauma-induced depression, represented by an endless loop in the miserable dark. The game then creates empathy for Tatsuya’s emotional state by having the player wander around and around the dungeon, becoming miserable themselves.

The source of Tatsuya’s misery, as we know, is what happened because of the incident at Alaya shrine. He’s spent ten whole years unable to move on from that day, due to his repressed memories and the absence of his friends–but then once Maya, Lisa and Eikichi return to him, he’s still missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: Jun.

However, the truth is that Jun does still exist nearby, in Tatsuya’s heart and memories. It’s no coincidence that Tatsuya can only find the shelter’s exit once he stops looking for it physically and falls asleep, allowing his unconscious mind to find that all important but invisible thing he’s been looking for.

And it is only once Tatsuya remembers Jun, his mirror, that progress even becomes possible.

001 walking into exam no. 3 like

this is just the exam clean up arc

link click bridon arc opening

a reference to the chibi episodes

vein targeting lu guang

maybe something in latin?

Liu xiao reading Shakespeare's sonnets, (Shakespeare's sonnet 126 seemed most fitting for the story)

...are they really giving us a code to decipher

need a visual of Qin Jiu menacingly dribbling a ball basketball

examinee / gin / 001

sport bl's

sk8 the infinity and ping pong

the ending of ping pong: "do you have a girlfriend?" *Smile picks up Hoshino's paddle* "who knows?" "you do?"

qqgk official merch close up part 2/3

they never got the chance to go to rest stop 4 :(

lg not walking at first during the exchange too.

even without the whole breaking time for cxs he’s very loyal , following him to the time photo shop working off the debt together

oooh anon, don’t even get me started because I do feel a bit insane about it all.

He was terrified in that theater. Look at this face.

We never really see him lose his cool like this unless it’s about CXS. Because he’s constantly afraid that he might die again. And in this scene especially because LG obviously knows he is standing on a trap door and as far as he’s concerned, LTC wants to kill cxs and take his powers away (because at this point we can assume LG doesn’t really know that LTC can “steal” powers without killing the other person? But even if he “knows” or is assuming correctly, he obviously still doesn’t want CXS to fall into their hands)

And it’s like we don’t know anything about Lu Guang’s background yet from any time before he met CXS. So in a way we really don’t know why he’s so attached to him specifically.

Like obviously they live together and were close friends even before he moved in (though to us it’s unclear if all of what we see was already a LG from the future or the actual “original” one), but he seems to not see any meaning in his own life without CXS in it.

“If death really is unchangeable. It might be better to face it right now.”

That’s an insane thing to think while you’re bleeding out, tbh.

I can’t wait to find out what his college major was because apparently it wasn’t photography so I wonder if he gave up all other future possible career paths in order to run a photo studio with cxs and do obscure paranormal time travel jobs on the side. And we see they are constantly struggling with money so there really isn’t anything else here for Lu Guang he could gain.

And you know it’s probably a decision for life because they even changed the name of the photo studio. It was called Hero photo studio before. But then CXS truly took over and decided to rename it and like obviously Shiguang just means time but that word still is a combination of their names. It basically like saying “this is our photo studio)

It’s just…I constantly think about how devoted Lu Guang is to Cheng Xiaoshi. And I wonder if all that we see is already after he lost him or if he was the same even in the original timeline. The fact he went back at all probably suggests so though.