Hello! Another month goes by and another update that pushes my ratio of Updates to Posts way out of whack. First of all, sorry about that! I know how the progress always seems like no progress, but please believe me when I say I am truly doing the most I can... Which is what these updates are for! So!
New Tag: #tkdbe update : For these posts. It will be tagged eset explains and tkdbe update. This is so people who don't want updates but might like other info can filter the update tag, and so I can keep better track of them. Thumbs up.
Progress from Last Month's Update:
Input 80+ affinity chats. I have currently added 93/105 to my document, and I am preparing to account for the 20 new ones we may be getting soon.
Finished notes up to Chapter 19 of Episode 23, with plans to finish Episode 23 today (if possible)
Additionally, finished Season 2 Episode 1 notes entirely
Added all but 4 campus chats, and prepared to account for the 20 new ones we may be getting soon.
Restructured the document to account for the endless amount of pages and tabs and so on
Updated my internal doc timeline to account for notes up to Episode 22. Footnotes are not written yet, though
So, what is my plan for February? Honestly... probably not much. I have a ton going on so the likelihood of getting a huge swath of work done is Very Very Slim. It could still happen, but please do not count on it. My priority is still getting caught up with my notes before anything else.
Finally, I've found myself at a bit of a crossroad regarding information on this blog. It is heavily due to Season 2, and because of that I will put it under the cut! This blog will still remain a spoiler zone, but it just feels right to put this under a cut www
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Alright... so.... well. I don't actually know what to do in terms of Season 2's information yet. The reason I don't know what to do is very simple and very annoying.
I don't know if Season 2's world is the same as Season 1's world.
Which means I don't know if I should separate Season 2's information from Season 1's.
The very obvious elephant in the room is Dionysia. In Season 1, they didn't exist. In Season 2, they do! Which is both the best possible thing to ever happen to me personally but also the worst, because.... now what? They aren't defunct in Season 2, but they certainly were in Season 1. If they're different timelines and different worlds, information can't necessarily be shared and trusted between them. If it's the SAME world and there's something else going on (like memory erasure or so on), I don't want to separate all the information and then have to collect it all together and confuse myself and others.
Now, regardless of whether they're the same world or separate worlds, some things will remain the same. Anomaly IDs, for example, probably don't need separation, and if they DO end up differing for some reason, that's an incredibly easy thing to do. Honorifics also don't seem to differ based on the ones we've seen, so I am comfortable treating those as the Same.
New characters throw. A Wrench Into Some Things though.
Basically, the question I get to ask myself until we know more about Season 2's circumstances is, Do I separate the information based on season?
Practically, separating them will mean that anything learned in Season 2 will be treated as distinct from Season 1. My posts on Shion and Mio will be renamed to Shion Genkai - Season One and Mio Susuhara - Season Two or something along those lines, and they will remain 'side characters'. The pinned post will split Season One and Season Two into their own categories for ease of navigation, and Season 2 will have them as main characters. Etc, etc, etc.
Honestly, I was thinking of making a poll, but I truly believe it is easier and better if I just go ahead and separate them anyway. If they do end up being the exact same world it'll Suck For Me, but it will be overall less confusing as a means of delivering the information to others.
I think the only exceptions for this, as in the only posts I will keep both Season 1 and Season 2 information on, are ones I consider 'general' posts. The character lists (Classmates, Birthdays, etc), affinity chats, honorifics, anomaly information, and so on. Things I think are unlikely to be radically different between timelines. The other exception I am thinking of making is the Timeline... maybe.
I will be making a poll for this one, because I truly can't decide what is better. Should I split the two timelines up? Should I keep them together until it differs too much? Should I just never split them, ever? I currently lead towards the middle, where I keep them together until it differs too much to do so anymore. But I'm not actually sure!!
I probably won't make the poll until Episode 2 has dropped, because I presume we'll get a lot more information then, and it's useless to be like 'Aha! I'll do this!' and then have that all exploded in my face. Season 2's drop has been incredibly exciting to me in particular, but it also means a lot of my planned posts (Defunct Dorms, namely) are significantly more complicated than beforehand. Oh well... that's what I get for being slow (笑)
Anyway, if you read this far, thank you for the support shown in the face of so little actual posts... I promise I'm doing my best to get the information down in an accessible way. If you have any suggestions or questions or comments, please feel free to leave me an ask or message me. Both are fine!
Eat a snack! Get some water! Stretch! You deserve it! See you next month (probably!)
