#shikuro

(In a nutshell: Some players abused the Philosopher's Stone/Gem bug because of players' desperation and of how ridiculous that gacha armor is very required to do endgame content. In frustration to see none of improvements in the game as AS team simply added more gacha content, not game content, they intentionally get banned to finally quit the game, including some of pro players.

You know it's bad when the pro players, the ones who spent dedicated time to play the gacha predatory game, finally had enough.

Okay, if Asobimo is telling me YOME is not going to have panic attack whenever it involves MC almost dying, timeloop, or even sleeping and waking up on next day, then I will smack them (jk). But seriously, characters trapped in timeloop will always have scars at the end, just because they learned doesn’t mean they’re fully healed.

Timeloop definitely will screw over their mind. What used to happen had never happened. Every emotion, every effort, everything they gave never happened. Your actions never happened.

Their thoughts DID happen.

My thoughts don’t matter.

People they used to know disappeared. Are they real? Or are they just concept to them? Yet here they are, alive. They will feel guilty for existing. They will feel scared to disappear.

Hey, why is Fendark only one different? Is he involved? I should be careful around him.

Whenever they failed, whenever they were close to success, it’s tempting to just let go of everything. They cannot live without their ‘everything’.

I promised to MC that I won’t die. I will make sure I won’t. I don’t want them to feel the way I did whenever I made a grave for them.

I know Asobimo won’t delve deeper psychologically, but I would love to see subtle hints, like of how YOME knew everything and why they keep leading MC around, why they will do the navigation, why there’s a lot of subquests.

Sure, we explored, but it’s strange to have that much of request, no? Surely, it’s not just a coincidence.

They memorized everything from past loops.

That’s why they were said to have good memory.

EXPLORE IN HIS MIND (AO3 FIC)