these are more meta questions 4 your ask blog, so i thought i should ask them here, lol. is gordon in the story streaming the game and we're the chat? if characters answer our questions, is that gordon typing out our questions and asking the NPCs directly? also, finally, were there any pieces of media u were inspired by? (other than hlvrai and tma, lol)
Gordon isn’t much of a streamer in my AU, especially with how the game begins to affect him, the asks or ‘statements’ people send are not a live chat but Gordon begins to view it as one, I actually had ideas for as it progressed he begins to refer to the senders as “chat” bc it sort of acts like one.
The statement aspect (in regards to the asks) isn’t ment to be one that you think too hard on since that is just how I’ve chosen to incorporate asks into the storyline but it IS something that is part of the game, Gordon says so in the beginning, in tma occasional statements are actually messages directed to Jon and it’s kind of just that.
Gordon recieves papers with strange comments or questions and he just navigates the game.
When talking to the npcs he isn’t always ‘present’ so to say, occasionally it’s just the statement giver ‘talking’ to the npcs, the other members in the archives also have statements to fill out too, sometimes Gordon is present when it comes to asks that are more lore focused (or that are funnier with a second person there) but just general questions to the npcs they can answer on their own.
‘In universe’ I personally imagine that the statements would just appear as papers to them with the messages, they don’t really question it since that is how their world operates and what is normal
I don’t know if this counts but vaguely DDLC? Just in terms of the visual novel style (where I got the idea for it to be a visual novel game) aside from the fact I already thought tma would have made a great VN game, but also in terms of theme of “this game is very much not what it seems” but that also just comes from combining hlvrai and tma, they are both very different but also pretty similar in a lot of aspects and for it to work it needs to be much more serious which means cranking up whatever of hlvrai could be considered ‘serious’.
So like for example the broken npcs, in tla:ai it’s portrayed in a more serious way which kind of draws back to the fucked up broken npc thing going on in ddlc unintentionally, a lot of the vague ddlc inspo is by accident of just trying to make being self aware a horror aspect 😭
I hope i explained that well enough ^_^
