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loved the video today btw :3

dont ever step in the light that they shine

oh, of course i have!

i've been here since day 1! i don't remember a lot from between 2015-2019, but the best memories i have from that time are fandom memories. that is to say, LN1 era media is very close to my heart! if there's something that came out in the early days, i've probably seen it a few times over ^^ it's a recurring hyperfixation for me, i always wind up back in the Nowhere eventually. i really loved the Grimm's Fairytale vibe of the 2017 comics. i also like the grittier psychological horror they ended up going with for LN2 and onward, but i wish they would bring back some of the "cautionary bedtime story" mood, too... ominous warnings around the fireside from children that know too much... mysteries that exist only to be pondered about... things you can only abide by and never truly understand. i'm glad they also continued the Ferryman's story, but the North Wind's design was so cool, i wish they'd bring it back as well!

what about you?

let's go down to the seaside!

The graphs for the Girl and the Boy are the most prominent-- circle and square, respectively.

The Girl's graph, circle, is interrelated with certain contents in the game, such as the Mother, the well, and the rabbit ring. The imagery of female, motherhood, and reproduction for circle is obvious and has been analyzed by others. Besides, as a graphic feature, circle has no beginning or end. Therefore, circle has the feature of rotation, which is demonstrated in the running rabbit ring. No beginning or end, everlastingly rotating and moving, which is life, or cycle of life.

The graph of the Boy is square, with sides and corners, which can represent stability and order, also danger and aggression. And square has 4 corners and sides, probably suggesting that the Boy is the main representative among all these four assaulters.

Five rabbits can form a circle of life. However, ironically, just one less rabbit would only result in a shape with sharp edges.

Hood has two graphs. The first is the rhombus on her hood, and this rhombus is actually a square rotated by 45°. Square. Rotation. Her graph is actually the combination of the Boy and the Girl’s. To some point, it does align with her background and her role in the story. On one hand, as a female, she joined the murder in a masculine manner; on the other hand, can she represent an attitude that lies between the Boy and the Girl, a stance situated between the two extremes?

Her second graph is a triangle, which is actually half of a rhombus,can represents danger, uncertainty and warning. That's all I can think of for now. I don't know if the DLC will provide more information of it.

The graphs of Bucket and Bandage are both closer to circle. Bucket has a plump figure, and his bucket is a cylinder. Bandage's head is close to an ellipse in shape, with no obvious sharp edges. Their card graphs are respectively a bold circle and a twisted circle. It's interesting that as the assaulters, their graphs are actually closer to the Girl’s, the victim.

The Steam card symbols for the five orphans are all composed of thorny lines and non-thorny shapes. The lines for the Girl, Hood and Bandage are all horizontal. The Boy and the Bucket's lines are vertical lines after rotating the horizontal line clockwise by 90° or counterclockwise by 90°, in the opposite directions. This made me think of their ways of dying are "hanging up" and "falling down". Do the card symbols contain implications about how they died?

In addition, as the lines in the five symbols are exactly the same, in fact, these five symbols can be put together. The Girl's figure is located in the center of the line, and the other four are kept at different distances from the center.

it looks similar, right?

girl's circle = the cycle. reanimal is about cycles of violence. the circle also represents the well, doesn't it? even her symbol is only the last thing she saw, staring up at the well while her friends look down…

girl's symbol also seems to be a tiny version of the mother's symbol.

which is fitting- both are mothers, right? but the mother's symbol is made of barbed wire, but girl's isn't... girl is in danger, but the mother IS danger.

the circle also appears in two other places- "The Mine", and "Whale".

the whale's card in particular looks like an eye, but also, again, like a well. i'm reminded of the cut lines where the whale and the girl echoed each other ("they took my eyes, i can't see.") a circle seems to represent life, but also danger.

"Five rabbits can form a circle of life. However, ironically, just one less rabbit would only result in a shape with sharp edges." oh this is such a cool line…

hood's triangle reappears in the "Horse" card:

but here, it is inverted... i don't really know what to think about it either ^^; little mystery girl

it's interesting how boy and hood are the ones whose shapes have sharp edges, and the other three's shapes have none… even bucket and bandage

bandage has the smallest shape out of them all, and his circle is tiny and malformed and very far from the center. in fact, it doesn't intersect with the shapes of the others at all.

however, boy's shape is almost completely within the shape of girl's. so is bucket's. in fact, girl, boy, and bucket are all tangled up in the middle. hood's shape is only intersecting a small amount, but her position at the very end of the line makes it feel like she's pushing away or being cornered.