UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE A
Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) vs.Β Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative)
Margot Garcia
Kuruto Ryuki
Voting ended onJun 23, 2023
Margot Garcia Propaganda:
The entire story is told through her blog posts in which she details her "investigation" into two actors' personal lives. However, it's hard to know if she's telling the truth - much of her evidence comes from in-person anecdotes that no one can verify, leaving you to doubt whether any of it is real. Commenters are constantly trying to figure out her identity, many accusing her of lying. She eventually confesses that she had personal history with one of the actors and wanted to expose him for money laundering over a fandom grudge, and while the conclusions she reached were true, her methods and sources were often fake. (This part is Ending Spoilers so you can remove it from the propaganda if you want. idk) An anonymous comment later theorizes that she constructed a false narrative to frame him for murder, having done the deed herself
Okay this is HUGE spoilers for the game like HUGE HUGE spoilers so beware. Like, the whole game will be ruined for you kind of spoilers. He is one of 2 (technically 3 (again, spoilers)) narrators in the game. Not only are certain important events left out if his side of the narration, but also (again huge spoilers) events are not told in the correct order. Each day in the game alternates between things that happen before the timeskip, and things that happen after the 6 year timeskip. (The other narrator(s) also have this same thing but Iβm submitting Ryuki specifically) playing the game in the order itβs presented to you and playing the game with the events in chronological order are practically 2 different experiences
Ryuki is an extremely mentally ill man, whose issues are front and center as the player's first point of view character. The main twist of the game relies upon exactly his unreliability as a narrator, given that what we assumed was a series of linear events were actually scenes plucked from the past and the present, six years from what we had originally been led to assume was current time, and the only reason we hadn't realized it before is because his mental issues make him slip into a delusional state in which he believes himself to be in the past, or rather, that the past is the present.
Frequently has hallucinations of the world glitching out, often causing him to lose long periods of time and obscuring what really happens from the player. These get worse over time, causing a key suspect to be unrecognizable, and the return of a supposedly dead character to look fake. The game's twist involves seemingly linear events actually happening out of order--his warped sense of time contributes to hiding this. Events he thinks happened yesterday may have been years ago.
Don't want to be too spoiler-y but he can't tell what time period he is in sometimes, making the audience think he is in one time period, when in actuality he is in another one. Either way his narration makes the narrative like 10x more confusing.
