a raven lost at sea

Act 1 - Day 22 rewrite 1 • The sunrise after the fall

2 • The weight of silence

3 • Beneath the hunter’s gaze

4 • Unseen threads of fate

5 • The price of a second chance

6 • One step toward you, one away from the rest

7 • Wounds under the surface

8 • Trial of the Snare

9 • The lie you built

10 • The truth you want to bury

11 • The hunt you didn't win

12 • The hand that doesn’t let go

13 • Taints which do not fade

14 • Safe in my hands

15 • Where the walls give way

Act 2 - Chapter 4 rewrite 16 • Traces of the living

17 • Where wandering turns solemn

18 • The record of what went wrong

19 • A verdict not yet owed

20 • Threads of care

21 • What lingers after the storm

22 • The limits of trying

23 • What he could offer

24 • An attempt worth making

25 • Hanging by a thread

26 • While He slept

27 • In careful hands

28 • Something warm to wake up to

Act 3 - Chapter 5 rewrite ...

Notes:

Still love Ikeda, not surprised he took multiple punishments, but definitely surprised he took that many. Stupid ratboy chose to create beef with Isoda during the wrong game... Now I'm just hoping his personality doesn't change too much. Also I'm pretty sure he'll survive chapter 1, because there's no way Tei and Hirose are going to leave him alone. I still think he might become a victim later on, hence the regrets.

Tei and Shishikura have morals! Great! That makes them cool! Also Shishikura confronting Maekawa about her votes? Loved him for it! Tei wanting to fight the others for what they did to Ikeda? Please do! (but don't kill anyone, please and thank you)

I still think Yokoi, Denden and Hirose are a bit boring, but they did grow on me for what they did/said during and after [Voter Game].

Still three characters that I don't care about. They're just not interesting to me. Or, in Akiba's case, I don't know what to think because he makes stupid decisions for stupid reasons (like not wanting to tie the votes) but he's also kinda nice? So I guess I'll wait and see what becomes of him.

Ninomiya being called a coward by Okazaki makes a lot of sense now. It's unfortunate because I think his relationship with Tsukigata is really cute, and they're definitely going to be one of the pairings I'm most invested in... But he needs to prove he can think by himself.

Yaitabashi definitely regrets telling his secret to Nishiguchi and Kumada. I feel like that's the only reason he voted the way did, because why would he side with the girls otherwise? So I'm hoping that once his secret is revealed to everyone, he'll find a new group of maybe less selfish people.

Kumada. Girl. I'm disappointed. Calling Yokoi a bitch because she voted for you once? Getting mad at Denden? Really? Her plan wasn't even that bad, but giving five punishments to the same guy and mocking him for begging after he asked to be killed? Yeah, no. I can understand wanting to make fewer enemies, but she should have switched her strategy the moment she saw people started getting mad at her for doing so... because she definitely has more than one enemy now. She's going to be an interesting character for sure, but I want to see how she deals with this situation before making up my mind about her. If she doubles down I'll probably dislike her, but if she shows regret then she'll go back up in rank.

Ouno is interesting because I still love her, and I get why she voted Ikeda repeatedly (she hates his guts)... but the fact that she showed zero regret during the game, and we haven't gotten an episode afterward with her in it where she explains herself, makes me on the fence. But I can appreciate the fact that she didn't try hiding behind Kumada's logic. She just hates Ikeda and I can understand that. I just need to see what happens next to know for sure if she can go back in the higher tiers.

Maekawa would have been in Ouno's and Kumada's tier if [Amaranth] hadn't existed... but given what she says in that episode, I cannot accept her behavior. She showed no regret, and she kept hiding behind excuses when she just voted for Ikeda because she hated him. She had her votes figured out before the game even started, but sure, let's call what happened to Ikeda a "sacrifice" made for the good of the group. That's the line that made me instantly dislike her. Honestly the only thing that'll make me like her again would be if she admitted that she voted for Ikeda because she hates him, and she'd rather put the blame on Kumada than admit she was wrong.

Didn't like Nishiguchi before, still don't like her. She strikes me as a character that's going to be extremely selfish... And I mean, she's right to be that in a killing game, but if she's going to be selfish, she can't go around justifying torturing a guy "for the good of the group". She hates Ikeda, she didn't try hiding it when the game was only just beginning, but she's not owning up to it and is pretending she was just following Kumada's plan. She wasn't. At least she seemed to be showing a tiny bit of regret during rounds 7 and 9? Especially 7, but if I had to guess that's because she was picked as the aggressor, and she hated the idea of having to hurt Ikeda herself.

Notes:

Ikeda gives me Kokichi vibes. Little gremlin man who'll cause trouble and be annoying and be hated by everyone... Love the voice also!

Mostly curious if Okazaki's portrayal of Ninomiya is accurate, which is why he's got potential in my eyes.

Yaitabashi dealing with this bunch of people while blind will definitely be interesting. But he's kinda stupid also for sharing this information with the characters that are more likely to use it against him (except Hirose).

Love women with strong personalities, so definitely curious about Maekawa, Ouno and Kumada.

I did get used to Ouno's voice in the end.

A lot of characters I find uninteresting for now, but of course that's only the beginning, so hopefully they won't stay boring.

I don't like pizza-girl and nothing you can say about her will make me love her. I just have a feeling she's going to be awful.