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The Last Concert Substory

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(including, but not limited to, anarchic secular cults...)

I’ve been seeing a lot of ppl on the mysme tag calling MC stupid for the way she lets herself be kidnapped so easily, and I feel like it’s worse than our reaction to her naivete in the original prologue?? (Maybe I’m wrong though, idk.)

But, anyway, I keep having this thought. 

In my opinion, what happens in the original prologue is all MC, y’know. 

Like she just had to be a certain amount of gullible in order to get the ball rolling.

But this second prologue was written exclusively for us. For the omniscient player. The one who has seen all and knows all.

Mysme writers frequently love breaking the fourth wall, we’ve seen it in every route and dlc put out so far.

And, I think they knew (esp after the secret stories)...they knew that we would follow Saeran anywhere...

Blindly even.

And we do.

We did.

...

Anyway! That’s just my take on it.

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(why we’re all like Rika...)

As interesting as I think it is to look at mysme through a psychological lense, up until now I’ve really tried not to guess-diagnose any of the characters, simply because I’m not nearly educated enough on the subject to make such inferences.

But I restarted Another Story tonight, and came across this scene in the prologue.

And this is a thought that I’ve had pretty much since my first mysme route (which just so happened to be Seven’s), and seems more relevant now than ever.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they used the other name for daffodils, narcissus, to refer to Rika’s favourite flower here.

Setting aside all other criticisms I may have of her character, I truly think Rika has narcissistic personality disorder.

There’s no doubt that she has an inflated sense of self, considering she amassed a myriad of followers to heed her commands and call her by the title saviour. I’m pretty sure she refers to herself this way several times as well.

Then there’s the need for admiration, the lack of empathy... honestly she hits every mark.

I always thought from the very beginning that it was really arrogant of Rika to think she could cure the pain of others without understanding that pain first, that she and only she had the power to bring happiness to these people. And it was never as clear as it is now after meeting her in Jihyun’s route.

Rika is really...full of herself.

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But this has also made me realise something.

I already knew I was a lot like Jihyun, the self-martyring idiots that we both are, but...I have something in common with Rika as well.

I really, really, really want to save everyone.

And I think most mysme players can relate to this.

It’s the reason why we asked for a V route in the first place, and it’s the reason that we keep asking for more routes. Because we want to save all of them.

What really pissed me off about Another Story’s ending wasn’t the tragedy or the unfairness of it all. That was definitely there but...what really pissed me off was that I felt cheated out of my happy ending. Because I can take unrealistic and clichéd, but it’s just not a happy ending if I’m left feeling like I failed. And that’s exactly how I felt watching that damn scene (ugh, I can’t even say it, you know the one) and being unable to do anything about it.

V’s route was beautifully written, and considering everything we know about the characters, the endings shouldn’t have come as a surprise to us. But seeing as how many of us are vying for a Saeran route, realistic obviously wasn’t enough to satisfy this time around.

So yeah...

I guess they were all right...in a way we really are like Rika.

Because as selfish or as unreasonable as it may be, we still want to save everyone. And I take solace in the fact that we won’t be letting Mysme go anywhere until we do.

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The Ghost of Us Substory

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Saeran was our real price for a V route.

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A Sleepless Night with You Reform Campaign

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Lovers' Den - Flowers Under a Blood Moon

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Lovers' Den - Flowers Under a Blood Moon