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Exactly how often - and when in the day, for the meals - Karua seems to show up is hard to say from this, although her commentary seems to imply that she's had at least one kind of meal at Takumi's roughly every day. Though sometimes her mother is at the lab for long periods of time, so it seems like there would be longer periods of Karua at Takumi's home- like nursing him over a cold, seen here.

‘Mystery of the island’... funny, it’s like the island’s situation doesn’t just stop being a curiosity, even after it was all announced to be a simulation at the end. After all, weird and warped stuff in the final chapter aside, you can’t forget that this was modelled after the real Jabberwock Island...

...and there was a reason laid out for Jabberwock being particularly sought after. Hell, the Despairs were even brought to the real Jabberwock Island, as well. 

A central headquarters, a military base... that’s not so far-fetched when you realise what happened to Angie’s island, most likely as a result of nuclear tests.

But that’s not all:

The sci-fi element: autonomous robots, along with creatures like Monobeasts. 

Military robots.

Yeah! The validation! He knows he doesn’t deserve the praise because “I’m just a trainee” but at the same time it’s so clear that he latches on to them because it–let’s face it–MAKES HIM FEEL GOOD about himself. Normally that’s not a bad quality in a person, but with the way Saihara just continuously latches on to the validation Momota gives him (even if Momota didn’t even give Saihara the time to actually express his thoughts and worries) is just not good. 

And Kirigiri was often called heartless because of her stone cold but logical deductions. But she never wavered because what mattered to her was for the truth to come to light. It’s not about coming up with “a satisfying truth” that everyone would love.

That just says it all, really. It matters to her so much; you would never, in a million years hear out of Kyoko’s mouth: ‘all the mysteries were just fiction’, ‘the mysteries were just a bunch of lies’. And that’s some really weak talk from someone who has an issue with facing the truth to begin with, Saihara. Let’s put Kyoko in your place and see how she fares. She would not allow herself to be trapped by meagre logical fallacies for one thing, and she would certainly test a fucking Flashback Light without being distracted by whoever walked in.

And no matter how bad the truth really was, Kyoko, while she would be fucking horrified - as she was with Izuru Kamukura’s situation - would not reject it.

I can understand that things will interfere with pursuit of the truth, psychological, situational, whatever. Saihara is presented to exemplify the former, but without any compensation on his part for a coping and growing mechanism. He doesn’t even ruminate enough on what’s important, outright trading introspection for the external validation. That’s when it becomes frankly... lopsided, and making it known that ‘he doesn’t deserve’ such-and-such is a way of garnering support, regardless if he intends that or not, and in turn people end up supporting that need. With this, he puts on more of an act of being a competent detective, rather than checking himself for what to do if he isn’t.

Setting aside the fact that the motive videos cannot even work on people that they’re not meant for, there’s the million (Mono)coin question:

Was it... really the Flashback Light that really caused the group to black out? And to lose their memory of the first Prologue entirely...?

If you look at the [end of the prologue scene], up until the beginning of the Ultimate Revival, you may notice something a little... strange. You do not see the exact moment that the Flashback Light activates in the truest context of the scene, as the scene fades out before you see anything, ending abruptly after.

What’s even more suspect...

... is the fact that this exact same scene was evidently MISREPRESENTED in Chapter 6, as this part doesn’t even happen!

Moreover, the Flashback Light is provided for the whole group as a seal break. Kaede’s fragment memory can attest to this being the truth, as there’s no way she should logically have the Ultimate Hunt memory at this very early stage.

The thing is, I’m trying to alter my ‘rhetoric device’ (if that’s what it’s called) on any further analyses, such as the re-run from the start of Prologue and the more recent commentaries since the older ones were kind of a mess (and also, part of the learning process for me) but… I’m not sure how to bring across ‘snowball context theory’ without pointing out how and where such things really happen.

I should probably put a disclaimer to the effect that newcomers will have a hard time with what’s going on due to this, but besides that, I thought it was a given that what is ‘spoken to be canon’ is already misleading and inconclusive? There’s also the issue where the Hope’s Peak book - among other things - was never fully analysed let alone fairly debunked, and that would mean that its history - including the secret council noted by Byakuya - is viable context.

What I’m trying to say here, is it’s a little hard to know where to draw the line. The newest meta where I explained ‘Horse Twins’ was meant to connect the pieces in canon and also explain the issue of things lost in context. The angle I’m trying to come from there is rebutting the idea of such things having ‘no relevance’, and that naturally lends itself to pointing towards an answer, as well.

Sadly Kaede, not only does the follow up not even come from Shuichi’s core values - rather, [a policy his uncle has], that he interpreted his own way - the ‘destined to be a detective’ is troubling considering he was [led into this position]. Not to mention reaching out your hand isn’t a guarantee that the person will trust you, either. Saying it that way, is like an expectation for the person to trust you. 

If you reached out your hand, what do they stand to gain from grasping it?

Something that unsettles me about Kyoko’s counsel is how she phrased it as a kind of loaded question. Like it’s saying, ‘do you feel gratitude for your situation, or do you not?’ This puts an intense amount of social pressure on Shuichi to accept her words, even though she doesn’t address, much less understand the core issue he has, as the two of them are worlds apart. 

It doesn’t help that he’s speaking to someone with a great deal more experience than him, and thus, no position to present his case.