#ze thoughts

like when we get that flashback of him returning home and immediately we see he deosnt have a roommate. hes lonely!!!! which makes me think his joke abt not having any friends has merit

and ik the novel isnt technically canon but there is this line that i wanna point out.

"I'd sleepwalked through my life so far; there was nothing that truly grabbed my heart."

he's also friends w akane which. i feel like part of it, aside from liking her as a person, is bc he related to her struggle of not having many friends even if he teases her sometimes. he also tends to pick fights and has conflict w other kids often

YAYAYAYAY OKAY

so basically i don't have everything planned out yet but what i have in mind is that akane takes junpei's place in the story and vice versa, but also aoi's in a sense??

she's a college dropout who was initially studying fashion design, but couldn't keep going due to her poor mental health. she has severe survivors guilt bc of what happened 9 years prior . and wishes it was her who died instead. i also want the characters' outfits and bracelet numbers + code names to be different. i have a headcanon that akane wears menhera fashion so i wanted to integrate that here

as for junpei he essentially is in akane's situation as indicated in canon. hongou kidnapped the wrong person so instead of it being aoi, it's junpei though tbh i might change that.. and junpei is the one who dies and gets trapped in a paradox.. eventually he and akane reunite and he asks her to plan the nonary game and it doesn't take her long to accept the offer. akane doesn't tell aoi anything that happened so he's sorta in the dark kinda like how lotus is w her daughters

other things of note:

akane got into college via financial aid

nona and ennea replace the field siblings

akane's backstory stays the same and so does junpei's, their circumstances have changed. in a post 999 world, you'd still get akane's descent into saviorism though

personalities r generally the same otherwise

can u tell who my favorites are from this post alone DHAKDJKAJD i do plan on figuring out how everyone else fits into this.. hongou's role is the same tho. or maybe not who knows lol

10 years ago, I wasn't scared of them, and they tried to lure me away.

Maybe I should have gone, but I didn't believe that's what it was, thought my sanity had slipped.

The shadow people in PA aren't terrifying, like they are here. Maybe that's a sign I've gotten better that my instincts have repaired. I see the shadows and my gut twists, I know I'm not safe.