#pixeledits

So on day 25 of this route, more than half of your team falls prey to a bad cold as an actual plot point of the story. This moment naturally got me super giddy x3

After one of the various blackouts the heaters shut off in everyone’s rooms. Causing a cold chill in everyone’s rooms for the night.

Takumi was awake to hear the warning and was able to warm up. I was thinking “wait are people gonna get sick over this? Hmm there’s no way right? Just wishful thinking on my part.”

But then Takumi wakes up the next morning and only 2 other people (Gaku and Takemaru) are in the cafeteria. When Nozomi shows up a bit later she asks:

Yeah everyone else forgot to bundle up at night. I was like LETS GOOOO!!! Everyone else is sick!!! It’s an actual canon moment!!

I like how Sirei says it's "probably" not serious, but it probably is serious... xD All anime colds are DEADLY after all :3c (they’re sick for 3 whole days if you don’t finish the medicine)

The next exploration mission involves getting the ingredients to make medicine for everyone. Which yeah I love that, its a good way to have a fixed team set off to gather materials.

Sadly to my disappointment, after making the medicine, that was it. No caretaking moments, they just distributed the medicine offscreen

I was so mad. This game has a majority of the team fall sick as a plot point. AND WITH NO PAYOFF.

Huge missed opportunity to not allow the player choose one specific person that they heal first, have a bonding scene, have their affinity raise by one full diamond, and THEN heal everyone else offscreen.

Like come ON at least give me something!! Everyone laid out with a deathly bad cold and having getting medicine be a mission. I love that. BUT WHERE’S MY CARETAKING SCENE?? I’m so greedy as an illness whump enthusiast, but with a scenario like this can you BLAME me??

So in my salt and need for closure I decided “FINE I’LL JUST DO IT MYSELF!!” So I got sprites of all of the people that were sick and made sick edits of them. Thought it would be fun to edit sprites again. (keep in mind, these are not only full body, but also more limited in expressions than the Raincode sprites so they were a BIT trickier to mess with.) I think I did decently tho.

Hope you enjoy some more sick edits from me :3

Time to imagine my own caretaking scenes: I like to imagine each person gave 2 people the medicine and took care of them.

Takumi tends to Tsubasa and Yugamu

Takemaru tends to Hiruko and Shouma

Nozomi tends to Kurara and Moko

and Gaku tends to the twins.

Takumi would tend to Yugamu, because lets be real, he's another fan favorite Takumi ship of the community as I've seen, and I bet he would LOVE to be cared for by Takumi only for Takumi to likely run away... XD (such a gay freaky little man) And as for Tsubasa, idk I feel like if I had the option to choose who I wanted to tend to, it'd be Tsubasa, she's one of my favorites so I'll be biased here. I think she'd be such a cute and cooperative little patient >w< Super easygoing for Takumi.

Takemaru would naturally tend to Shouma, of course he's his little buddy! I can just imagine him feeding him some protein filled stew to give him energy and Shouma is in tears, snuggling the shiba plushie in bed as Takemaru tends to him because he thinks he doesn't deserve the kindness ;w; As for Hiruko, Takemaru likes her, but I think he'd drop the medicine off and leave wishing her well. He knows Hiruko can take care of herself and won't sully her reputation.

Of course Nozomi would want to be tending to her 2 gal pals. Specifically Kurara given the two recently just made up after their little drama. And despite having a cold, Moko would probably still want to help Nozomi tend to Kurara but Nozomi just ushers her to bed because she's still not well herself x3 I think Kurara would be the more fragile of the 2 (especially without her mask, but she can't wear it while she's running a fever lol)

and that leaves Gaku to deal with the twins. By process of elimination there's no real personal connection, but since the twins are the youngest, and Gaku likely tended to his own siblings, he'd probably be okay with tending to them. But I bet the caretaking would be chaos with Ima snapping at him every time he tries to help Kako. (may as well be chaos for gaku, everything is chaos for him)

It got me to thinking (in the truth route) because of the the fact that his memories aren't real but are actually fabricated since they are artificially made... Did that mean that the SDU kids might have fallen sick while unconscious in the pods they were grown in? I imagine that the scientists would perform the needed procedures or give them medicine.

So they would probably heal the next day... It makes me wonder how they spent their sick days in their memories... Some probably had it hard, others may have had it easy...

But what about Takumi? And the fact that Nozomi is actually Karua in his head? Do you think there may have been cases where Nozomi would overhear the scientists say that maybe some of the kids growing in the pods are ill. And as someone who falls sick a lot herself, she would sympathize and want to help? I honestly think thats probably the biggest reason Nozomi would grow to becoming a very nurturing person.

We do see this multiple times. In one of her free time dialogues, she states that she disproved of the infirmary because its not clean so she cleans it herself worrying for everyone's health. (no screenshot but when you talk to her in the infirmary event for the first time she says this)

In the killing game route, she nurses Eva back to health after she drinks her blood. She immediately volunteers to become Eva's caretaker. I know its likely because she feels closer to her and sees her as a substitute mother, but I think she'd do the same for anyone she cares about. Nozomi just cares for people, especially ones she considers close to her. Its a natural response for her.

She grew up that way being a frail person herself.

In other routes usually Nozomi would be the first to care for Takumi. She would sit at his bedside until he woke up on days when he was unwell, or knocked unconcious (or other things...)

So what IF... Whenever Takumi fell sick in the pod he was in; that was where Nozomi began to grow her nurturing/caretaking persona?

(more edits from me)

Seeing Takumi in all that pain, Nozomi probably saw herself. She was always in that kind of pain due to being experimented on. And who knows if her mother cares for her or maybe she was too busy so she may have had to recover all by herself. Or had researchers/doctors tend to her.

So whenever she saw the boy in the pod she saw as a friend suffering, she would do what she could for him. Even after the researchers/doctors administered medicine, she would still stay by his side, and make him feel like someone was there for him so he’s not alone. And maybe she even tried to cook for him and snuck in when the scientists weren’t looking and tried to feed him in his sleep... The dishes would naturally probably be not very good at first, but she would still try. And as they grew up, she would get better at it.

In return, this would make Takumi imaging himself being cared for by Kaura. All his life growing up, she was there to nurse him to health. Maybe because Nozomi always was there for him too.

(another edit because I’m a sucker for this stuff)

Idk I just wanted to talk about that for a moment. I think its very cute. Whether you ship these two or not, you cannot disagree that this is very sweet and it made Nozomi turn into the caring person she is today c:

VERY good :3c I love when a power rejection results in a fever🌡️

Yes, he seriously looked like that.

The flush was ALREADY THERE

ARE YOU KIDDING ME????

Had to be done.

Happy Birthday Basil.

My gift to you is… PAIN 🤭🌡️

WOW The filter I used on twitter made him look WORSE 🥵 (thats a 103+ degree fever right there)

I love it 😈

What a perfect little whump victim