#multiple eitos

multiple eitos is the funniest route if you ignore the horrors

twin peaks inspired eitaku 🌲

and i also love the idea of tormenting takumi with seeing his friends as either monstrosities or eito permanently. pigeon-holing himself into a similar problem, or fighting and the others helping him compensate (without eito's will altering his perception anymore). or on the other hand, takumi being takumi and staying completely silent and pretending the problem doesn't exist anymore, putting a front up like he had for much of the route lmao. but it's fun. thinking of him seeing things from eito's perspective.

endurance match

As for Eito, in Eternal Hate he is physically dead but thriving inside of Takumi, meanwhile in Living Idol he is physically alright but on the inside? The person we know Eito to be does not exist. Both of those endings also deliver a similar sort of fascinating characterization of Eito. In both endings, he exhibits a desperate need to become one with Takumi. In Living Idol, he wants to be as close as possible to the only person he's ever had feelings for, the only human he was able to feel something positive for. He clings onto his feelings for Takumi the most out of everyone, like it's a lifeline, because this is his only chance at ever experiencing something like that, at connecting with another person. That's why he is so happy to be able to want Takumi. In Eternal Hate, he becomes one with Takumi in a far more literal sense. This is the accomplishment that matters to him the most. He even emphasizes it with his "clear field lit by a pale blue moon" line. There, more than his goal of destroying humanity, he is focused on and elated by succeeding to bring out the same kind of hatred in Takumi as the one he feels towards humanity. In succeeding to bring Takumi down to his level, to share this feeling with him - because it's the only real emotion he's ever felt towards anyone and it's only through this hatred that he is able to build a true connection with another person. Both endings in their own way emphasize just how horribly lonely his existence is and how much he wants and needs this bond with someone else, no matter how horrible the form it takes is.

it shows how lonely this cognitive disorder must be. and now that takumi has it too, they can both live with it together. surprisingly a somber and very insightful ending despite the inside jokes