#david mv

it's all to do with this frame. the main roles states are david chiem (obviously, he's the star of the show here!!!), and xander matthews, who also appears. note the text on the right of the screen that says "(i.e. these are the only characters who make appearances)"

the supporting cast refers to the characters who Kinda appear. i have examples of what i mean

teruko tawaki: teruko appears in the picture frame visible for a lot of the video!

arei nageishi: arei appears as one of the clapping hands. notice the bowling glove on only her left hand!

hu jing: same deal, notice her zither playing ring thingies

mai akasaki: mai also appears on the picture frame visible for a lot of the video!

with all that said, there's still one more character on the list! my friend on discord (and co-admin of the drdt server! (you can find them here!) has deduced that it says "Ms. Naegi". i confirmed it here.

now, a lot of the fandom has been under the impression that the unnamed character at the beginning is diana chiem, david's sister. but, footnote 11 says... "[11] I admit to lying. There is no one named 〇〇〇〇〇 〇〇〇〇〇. I am, and always have been, an only child."

so diana chiem doesn't exist! meaning that the only person the woman pictured above can be is Ms. Naegi... whoever that is. i think it's safe to assume it's not komaru or anything due to the fact that this fangan takes place approximately 80 years in the future.

hopefully correct transcribed text: 3aqxw97pktc8uki458fbdpfoacllex2f07bf8mg24b4mpfx2adc6v3f5yhxjd8i7sf11312zaj5lazet47jod5jczec5mvb6bz2o59r143sf2pe916sczcn7emvbl55ehe9iqb2708tt83482c8tw3c77gn47ojca634gbcfz0016s647wwlakcn46brele0eam9

so, first off: i’m almost positive this is some sort of key to the tally5 code. mainly because of them both reference being “correct”:

typing stuff like “yes”, “no”, and “fuck you” in this box doesn’t work, and copy-pasting the message text doesn’t work either, so unfortunately we have to try harder to figure this one out.

looking in the source code of the page, we can find evidence that the tally5 password is not english, so trying to translate the secret message to english is most likely barking up the wrong tree.

that said, i’m slightly unreliable since the source code is javascript, which i’ve never written. let me walk you through my thought process for figuring this out:

whenever the “Enter” button on the page is clicked:

variable “input” stores whatever you typed in as a password.

the code then checks if the password is correct. if it is, the page displays the image from this tumblr image url:

notice the “input” inserted in the middle. basically, the code generates the full url from being given the correct password. therefore the password is the ending part of the image url (excluding .png).

now i’ve never seen a tumblr image url that’s coherent english, which unfortunately means this is going to be a massive pain in the ass to figure out. but on the bright side, you won’t be confused anymore wondering why the message seems impossible to translate to actual words! (note: if you have, in fact, found a way to translate the message to actual words, disregard this.)

now for the bad news: the secret text seems way too long for a direct mode of “deciphering” to the correct url piece, so most likely no using easy methods like rot13 (my very first thought, considering the number of the footnote). it’s still going to be a puzzle to figure out how to get the missing url piece from this.