mello 🌙

Luke to Rosa: "Hello, and you are...?" Artem to Rosa: "No, this is... Never mind. Do you know me?" Vyn to Rosa: "Vyn? Are we that acquainted with each other, Agent?" Marius to Rosa: "I don't know you. Isn't this our first time meeting?"

NO WAY. NO WAY.

This is such a fun idea.

While it can debated if this Afterstory is actually canon to the Omni-Spirits Bureau event AU as a whole, this idea is so fun to think about. With this backstory where Rosa technically meets each of the NXX suitors for the first time after knowing everything that happens in their routes (a la retroactive precognition), I think it would explain why the suitors trust her with so much so early.

The game technically drops us (the players) into Rosa's story after she's done with her internship. And considering what happens about Marius says about Rosa being there for her "official assessment" and Rosa's own thoughts, I think that their "first meeting" explains why they've looked out for her all this time and found her intriguing.

NXX?! All Four Of them?! Together?!

I also really like the unspoken implication that Vyn points out. It sounds like, technically, there seems to be another reason that they were all convinced to gather for the meeting with Director Zhou.

( **cough cough Rosa cough cough**)

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I'm torn about this Afterstory though, because it's a really fun idea to have all of them altogether. I like thinking about the fact that the Afterstory could be seen as the main story to each suitor's romance routes in this event. I also really like that you can see a bit of the early relationship tropes for each suitor peeking out in the Afterstory too.

I'm also a bit sad because this Afterstory seems to suggest additional future world building especially when it comes to putting them altogether to solve future cases, but it doesn't seem to have materialized that way (as of now and what I can see on CN). I feel like they could expand here with the world in previous events, but I don't quite see that happening. Not anytime soon at least.