original posts here (tw: slurs, suicide mention, drugs mention, nsfw text depending on if you actually read the comments and which ones you read-- it's like youtube god damn)
In celebration of endgame, here's the Chapter 8 Google Doc! It's not the most in-tact, but trust me a lot of it is there so go to town. B)
Google Doc
Endgame Notes (AKA Bonus Info from Ryouko's POV)
Unused Execution (Otherwise known as "The Ending I Wanted For Chapter 8 But You All Just Saved Me What the Fuck")
Chapter Eight related stuff. Basically her thought process through it and what her last words/actions were going to be... in theory.
After hearing the motive, Ryouko had essentially sought out to kill in order to ensure Masayoshi's survival. She had no desire herself to leave the base, but was entirely aware that there was a murderer loose and a lot of possible murderers. Not wanting to get Masayoshi involved despite him being the motive, she did not tell him of her plans in fear that he would try and stop her.
She spent time in the kitchen trying to carve an ice knife in the freezer. She knew it was faulty as a weapon itself, but her plan was to confuse people concerning the murder as opposed to having a good, effective, and efficient murder plan. She wanted to aim for someone intelligent that she knew would help in the trials. Her victim choice in the end? Yasu.
Yasu knew she had the golden revolver during chapter 5, which would allow her to use it during the murder and confuse people. Yes, she really just wanted to put like 500 red herrings. So if he was eliminated, no one else would know.
...Unless you read his journal cause it literally fucking said she had one god damn it.
Turns out all that time in the freezer makes you really fucking cold, which would have been an obvious hint during the trial. Whatever, Yasu eventually enters the kitchen for that yummy food cause he doesn't have a butler to give him food. Damn.
There's a big struggle, and there's a dead Yasu. If you guys really want an actual explanation of what happened during the murder I'd just give you the doc. It's funnier. Trust me.
Another thing about murdering? You get blood on your clothes if you stab. Going to change and hopefully ignore the bullet in her shoulder, she meets Hirashi Abe in the dormitory hallway. Sorry bro, there can be no w i t n e s s e s.
One murder later, she drops the rainbow spear there cause she remembers it's a shitty idea to hide the murder weapon in your room. She changes into her first outfit cause more hints, but gets rid of the gloves cause there's blood on them so that she finally is bare-handed for once. She burns the Usami outfit and the gloves (R.I.P.) the kitchen, but no one checked the oven or the microwave so a++ we got lucky
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Had she been found out she would have probably talked to Masayoshi more than anyone else. Leave him the Ace of Spades card Naknak gave her in like the prologue as a final calling card.
And here's random dialogue ideas I had yeah.
"It's going to get terribly dark for me soon, but... that's okay. I'll be strong... and brave... I never was a fan of the light, hee hee... you knew that though, didn't you?"
"You don't have to worry about me anymore, Masayoshi-kun. I won't anchor you... or hold you down... No more lying, no more lessons... Be free, Masayoshi-kun..!"
"Like Fumio-kun, my purpose is done. I'm... no longer... needed. I've failed, huh? I... see."
"I thought about how wonderful you are, Captain, and... I didn't want to see this world robbed of a great man at any cost..!!"
"I couldn't inspire hope even if I wore it... So I did the next best thing and... I tried to protect it and keep it alive... I'm sorry... Pl-Please forgive me."
"Farewell! I... I'm ready to be sent off to the next world... to the abyss with me..!"
A lot of blabbering about things that were never really elaborated on with Ryouko but not related to chapter eight barring the reference to the execution.
What's chronological order? Hell if I know, cause clearly I'm not following it.
Ryouko's execution was based moreso on her character as opposed to her talent, but what was supposed to be a MASSIVE part of her character never really saw the light of except if you investigated her room and a very small reference in an interaction with Masayoshi.
Ryouko's albinism caused her to be more fearful about sunlight exposure than was necessary, and so she spent a lot of time in her room that she crafted to moreso resemble a wondrous world that she could fall asleep in and feel like she was a princess almost. Her albinism also caused a lot of other things relating to her character, but I'll get to that later.
If you look at all of my post titles, you might notice they have a theme-- they're all fictional and most have to deal with being swept away to another world or fantasy of some sort. She was obsessed with being elsewhere-- a place much more fantastical. She only accomplished this through dreams, and fell in love with the concepts.
This carried over into a hobby of hers: collecting snow globes (which she had quite a few broken ones in her room). She thought of each one as a little world she'd rather be in.
As a result, she got her wish in her execution-- she was literally put in a giant snow globe only to die as the centerpiece, much like the snow globes she had in her room. She was to get her dream and then die immediately afterward, which really just granted her wish again since she was no longer in the realm of the living. I'm not going to discuss where she'd go cause that's some religion talk I can't chat about for 2 minutes, but seeing as how it was chapter 8: no dead blog. Frowny face.
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Her albinism caused her talent actually! She grew jealous of other girls who could expose their skin freely (especially in advertisements and media) when she had become so wary of sunlight exposure (far more than necessary probably) so she grew pretty insecure about it. Cue her throwing all of her rage at society and yeah her intro bio just carries over that story.
Her look as a standard sukeban is meant to be somewhat humorous considering her (planned but never really happened) timid personality. She made her skirt longer for less exposure of skin, she wore fingerless gloves for the same reason but wanted freedom with her fingers, and one sleeve got torn off in a ~*~noodle incident~*~ (aka i have yet to come up with an explanation shush) and so she stitched an older middle school's uniform's sleeve for a temporary fix. Much like her gang, her get-up is also a pure accident.
Initially, Ryouko's character was more focused on being a 'cool and spicy' character that was a bumbling idiot in the inside who knew little to nothing about being tough. She also had a gang more interested in protecting the environment as opposed to ruining the act of sexualizing (idk if i spelt that right) of women. The literal only reasons I changed this was because of the fact she became a parody off of the main protagonist of The Gospel According to Larry and that I had thought I would draw Ryouko smoking at some point.
Unlike my other characters, Ryouko's name does not seem to have meaning that's relevant to her character at a first glance. Nah, instead she's named after who she parodies-- Ryoko from the adult game True Love. It's one of the lesser aspects of her though.
Her head tilting and bad vision and red pupils were an attempt to visually portray albinism beyond the light skin, hair, and eye color. She was a lot more pink-themed originially though. Eyes and hair too man.
