resurgam40 posted:

Really? That's how we're translating this, oh translation team? I gather the intent of the language here- of someone who likes exposing secrets that others want to hide- but do you really want to cheapen that word by using it in this way? I don't know that I'm comfortable here with that. But still... horrible person is horrible, as expected of the pawn of the increasingly capricious witch of miracles.

So the gold is real, as proclaimed in red... and will become a real problem, if how such extravagant wealth is usually portrayed in fiction is any indication- particularly detective fiction. The more valuable the riches are, the greater its "curse"... and the more blood pools around it. Congrats, Battler?

resurgam40 posted:

idonotlikepeas posted:

Am I supposed to be a little mystified at this point about exactly what the gold truth is? Because I admit that I don't understand it. It's something only the gamemaster uses, and sometimes is better than other kinds of truth and sometimes worse? It doesn't explain a lot. Is this like someone who already read the book giving you hints about the ending?

lotus circle posted:

I don't care what anyone says, I love Ryukishi's art. You can especially see how he improves over time going from EP 1 to EP 5 and onward.

Fates End posted:

Well, there's still Bernkastel's typewriter, and for me, at least, that's the one piece that made the exacts of her connection to Higurashi fall into place.

Tender Child Loins posted:

I was already in a mood but now... oh man.

Tender Child Loins posted:

A few years ago, I posted in a FYAD name change thread and Zach (I think) stuck me with this. I just haven't had a good idea for a name change, plus I can't justify spending the money to do it. vv

witchcore ricepunk posted:

Kind of feels a bit overreaching to talk too much about this, but there seems to be plenty of room for Sayo to be intersex—and maybe the weird gender poo poo going on with the character is them trying to figure out what kind of presentation is more comfortable. I'm not interested in talking about the specifics of their body, because that's not important here. Sayo being intersex (but possibly raised as a girl for the first part of their life) could be why the personalities conflict so much despite being interdependent; why "Why am I unable to love" is in red, if "love" means something more sexual; why Shannon and Kanon are portrayed with somewhat gender-essentialized personalities; and why the character is so obsessed with keeping to rules.

All of those anxieties and traits could be a reaction to being forced into a binary gender at birth, and later rejecting it but not having the vocabulary or support to understand what that means. Gender and its constraints are definitely strong themes in this work (as well as in many witch tales), so having the core character be outside, but looking in in multiple ways would be totally fitting.

I don't mean to take away from a trans reading of the character, which I think would also be an amazing outcome for this story! Just some thoughts I had while catching up on the latest couple of pages. (Also hi, it's TCL! But not anymore. WR? Wrrryyyy?! I'm so awful at naming things.)

witchcore ricepunk posted:

Medusa didn't get a happy ending. But maybe Sayo can, if she can escape the prison that she herself designed and walk into the sunlight wearing her true face, or at least something close to true. Then maybe she can tell me what that's like.

witchcore ricepunk posted:

Are any of you witches available to answer a potentially spoilery question via DM?

resurgam40 posted:

Oh, come on now, who the hell are you? Can this series really afford to have any more new drat characters, at this stage?

witchcore ricepunk posted:

#gpoy

quote:

Fate's End - Today at 6:28 PM
witchdrunk ricelore is back.(edited)
SHAIA-Beatrice - Today at 6:37 PM
ih god my dlord
TwilliK - Today at 6:39 PM
I'm pretty sure we don't deserve wcrp, but I'm so glad we have them(edited)
Dr Pepper - Today at 6:42 PM
Wcrp is a Treasure

witchcore ricepunk posted:

Is this from discord? I don't recognize any of the usernames from this thread, except Fate's End.


_{(and dlord)}

ZiegeDame posted:

I was bracing myself there for Shannon, Kanon, or both to show up at the end there. The fact that the game itself cut the scene off there has me thinking it won't be so simple.

On the subject of Lion's gender, I think we all might want to be careful about applying our present-day Western ideas about gender to someone in 1980s Japan. I personally get less the feeling that Lion identifies as non-binary, and more that they have a gender but doesn't believe it should have any bearing on how they are treated or what they can do.

witchcore ricepunk posted:

Asumutrice!!

ZiegeDame posted:

ZiegeDame posted:

You wanna get into a debate about nature vs. nurture or just trust trans people when we say we were born this way?