A Case For Starting Kasane's Route First, And Why I Believe She's The Real Main Character.
So after putting in about 120+ hours into Scarlet Nexus, and absolutely falling in love with Kasane more than any other character...it got me thinking. Sure, the writers may have greatly suggested that she is the "second" protagonist. Maybe this is me perhaps playing favorites. For her beauty, absolutely great character development as a whole, and really brilliant of her becoming more vulnerable towards all of her supporting cast. Also, of course, Yuito.
Of the majority of players who started playing, being convinced to play Yuito's route first (probably 92-95% of the playerbase/fanbase), one, because it is advertised more. Kasane is just pushed over to the side as merely secondary. I actually went out of my own way and played her route first.
After playing her route a plethora of times, and then beating Yuito's route fully.
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Playing through Kasane's route first, made me (of course) feel a lot for her more. Knowing that she is the "one" who saves Yuito entirely makes her value seem immensely more than what it is, this is not to say that the writers do not make them both "protagonists". I just personally believe she deserves way more love, than the overwhelming flak she oddly gets just because she is so confused in the first half of the game. People automatically assume she just has no control of her emotions and is just bitter the entire time. She is easily the one of the best written, or arguably the best written character to me in the entire game, personally.
Moreover, the fact, that Kasane was proven to be older than Yuito, and technically the 'older sister' in the shared Bond EP 04 which is really adorable from either route. Considering Wakana fostered Kasane first before Yuito as well. Proven to be the more calm, collected, and protective older sibling of the two - I don't know, it just makes a lot more sense to me. You can't change my mind.
I genuinely do not think anyone shall side with me on this, I just had this on my mind constantly when replaying the game over and over again; like using the red strings.
File playtime context, for the heck of it:
Kasane: 100+ hrs. (route beaten 10+ times)
Yuito: 20+ hrs. (route beaten 2 times)
I was reading a book called “White Poverty” by Reverend Dr William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove the author mentioned the Red Strings.
When I see people get mad because they say removing confederate monuments and flags is white washing history I’ll remember that I didn’t even know the Red Strings existed. When I hear about the south in the Civil War I don’t really hear about the Southerners resisting the Confederacy during the war, especially white Southerners. I live in the North though so it’s probably different in North Carolina.
The Red Strings or the Order of the Heroes of America were a mostly white anti Confederate resistance group originally from the Piedmont area of North Carolina and Virginia. At first They were a group of Unionist and Quakers who favored peace, the end of the Confederacy, and restoration of the Union. A lot of Southerners joined in protest to conscription and mistreatment by the local members the Confederacy.
The Red Strings were decentralized, most knowing of only one other member, and didn’t partake in guerrilla warfare. They did help freed and run away blacks get to Union lines. They encouraged desertion, helped the Union navigate behind enemy lines, espionage.
The red strings were called that because they would tie red strings to their lapels of on their windows. May be. This is a reference to the story of Rahab. Rahab was a Canaanite sex worker who helped 2 Jewish spies escape Jericho. They told her to hang a red thread on her window so she and her family would be spared.
Red Strings also opposed the KKK and protected Union veterans.
In which Klaus gets tangled up in everything that had to do with her, she, Hermione, a woman, who infuriated him to no end. But she also amused him with her ways, and perhaps somewhere along the road, he found her so unbearably charming. It was because of those sweet eyes of hers.
