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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2095 - Personnel Decisions

Day 6. Alright, team. You've heard the recap. Let's get a move on!

Or he read Sirei's files! Something that becomes much more plausible with Sirei dead.

...was time travel involved in Slash Siblings Ultimate? I don't recall it being involved.

Do you just mean the part where we're fighting a bunch of alien invaders? Because fun fact, that's not true either.

Abandon your posts and come crash at our place where a murderer is.

Where a murderer is!

Shh! Takumi's on to something. Stop being pedantic.

It's not pedantic to think the presence of a murderer should be a factor in your housing decisions!

At least y'all only wasted a week defending this pointless cardboard cutout of the real school. It could have been a lot worse! You could have all died!

No, you're right. By all accounts, the personnel decisions don't make any sense.

Once again, I'm flashing back to Hiruko cracking Nigou's skull open so that he can't do this and we can just cart him to the other school like luggage.

I still can't get my head around why the 2LDA has the school bus for evacuating to LDA if, according to what we learned regarding the Distress Signal Transmitter, nobody in 2LDA is supposed to survive and evac to the LDA.

If the expectation is that they'll all die in the decoy school, why give them the bus?

In any case, if I was a cynical monster who cares nothing for human lives and I had to pick a decoy team to die miserably in two weeks defending this pointless cardboard cutout of an installation, I'd definitely have 2LDA defended by...

-> Takemaru -> Gaku -> Ima -> Kako -> Nozomi

Nothing against Takemaru and Kako, but those four are easily the most expendable.

What about Nozomi? Why's she on the list?

Oh, she came by herself. I can't control where Nozomi ends up. She wasn't supposed to be on this mission.

Ah, that's a good point. So she's screwed either way.

Yeah. But hopefully we'd still end up-- Hang on, don't do that!

Do what?

Don't just chat me up like we're still buddies! Not with the shit you're doing to Takky right now!

You're really going to do this?

Do what?

They're all paranoid about Takumi out there. You're going to bring that negativity and paranoia in here? Into our safe space? That's not very cool of you, Kay.

YOU

I

GCK

It just seems to me that if we can't trust each other after everything we've been through, then what did it all even mean?

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2094 - Lustful Intonation

Day 6. Time to meet the crew and get the fuck out of here before Parmith comes for their brains!

So does Yugamu! I heard that lustful intonation!

They aren't in of the reused CG so they needed an excuse to step out of the shot. It's fine.

Yeah, I guess when you're used to a population of four girls, Yugamu, and a weird little robot, it's easy to let down your guard and just treat the place like a women's safe space.

We really should have brought Darumi and Tsubasa instead of a muscle dude and a blob dude.

Nozomi comes from a medical background; Don't think you can slip a comment like that past her!

In any case, I assure you, the boy is the horniest one of all. I'm still traumatized by what he once did to our entire student body.

You're still on about that? All this suspicion and paranoia, and we haven't even killed Gaku!

Yet.

Yet!

If we were going to do that then we should have brought Tsubasa with us!

Takumi: You think she could reassemble him?

No, but-- Well, yes, actually. But more importantly, she could do some amazing things with his spare parts!

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2093 - Clear Identifiers

Day 6. My suggestion to drive there in Tsubasa's truck was ignored so here we are with Takemaru, Hiruko, and a slab of meat.

Yeah, imagine how much faster we could have gotten here if instead of keeping pace with him, we got to sail across the rubble at 90 MPH.

While Tsubasa flooded the entire cabin with vomit because this was her first time ever driving it.

...

...

You know what? I love Shouma. I'm so glad we brought Shouma with us. He really needed this workout.

Yes.

Oh yeah! Nigou! It's been so long that I completely forgot about you!

It's a shame he's going to have to die.

Uh, G?

What? Sirei is in the way of creating peace. Is the same not true of Nigou? In the timelines you've experienced, how many ended the way you would want them to with Nigou still around?

Okay, you're not wrong. It's just weird that you'd jump to that, G.

I'm only looking out for your best interest. We are friends, after all.

You don't know that! Maybe we killed some main campus students and took their Infusers!

The smoke holes are pretty clear identifiers.

Oh yeah. It's been so long, I've just kinda normalized those being there.

I'm probably just going to take a nap while you carry out the recap. G, you'll wake me up if anything interesting happens, right?

Oh, of course. It would be my pleasure. Pleasant dreams, Kay.

...

Actually, on second thought, I suddenly feel uncomfortable with letting you and Takky be alone unsupervised.

They're significantly better than us and yet they were supposed to die fruitlessly out here while the fate of the two worlds is decided by people like Gaku and Shouma because Kamukura can't do anything right.

Awww, but he should know how valorous he was defending Gaku the Pudding And Curry Thief's honor!

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2092 - Wizening Up to the Demands of His Job

Day 5. We're going to 2LDA, but the question before us now is: Who are we bringing?

And one of them should be Tsubasa, since her truck can get us there in 1/8 the time that we'd spend walking.

Well, if Hiruko's going then we should definitely bring my Bestie. She'll make the trek for Mistress Hiruko. Then that leaves a fourth slot for Tsubasa.

No. Takky, tell him no. We're taking Darumi and Tsubasa.

Wait wait wait, hold up. We should hear Shouma out. It would be rude to deprive him of the opportunity to be sacrificed.

...sacrificed to the Futurans, G. Not to you.

I'm Futuran!

What!? No, you're not!

What planet am I from?

...Futurum.

So then that would make me...?

Okay but YOU'RE not an "Invader".

...really? Am I not? You can't think of anything I might be Invading?

...I hate that you're scary now.

Okay but why do you guys need to slow down our important mission trek to do that? You can just go out into the ruins and lift debris slabs while we're gone. This is a stupid reason to take up space in our team when TSUBASA HAS A TRUCK.

Takky! Tell them we're taking Tsubasa and Darumi!

TSUBASA

HELP US

TSUBASA YOU COULD GET US THERE AND BACK SO FAST, WE WOULD BE-- HEY

HEY HEY HEY HEY

I HEARD THAT

Heard what?

THAT WAS YOU

THAT WAS FUCKING YOU, G

You were the one telling Takky we need all the people we can get!

Mmm, could have been.

IT WAS OBVIOUSLY YOU

DO NOT PLAY ME RIGHT NOW

Kay, what is our goal right now?

What, broadly? Launching all the missiles and committing genocide against Futurum. But you know I'm against--

Right, but what happens if we can't defend the Academy?

Then V'ehxness devours Shion and becomes God.

Do you want that to happen?

No. I don't want the mission to succeed but I don't want it to fail like that either. Both Sirei and V'ehxness need to get theirs.

Mhm. Would you not agree, then, that remaining shortstaffed is to our detriment?

Honestly? Not really. All we really need is Takky, Tsubasa, and No--

And...?

Oh, you parasite.

We're agreed then.

So, for the record, that WAS you?

Mmm, could have been. Or maybe Takumi is simply wizening up to the demands of this job.

G!

And he's also developed good taste! Would you look at that? I think this timeline's going to be very good for our boy. Very good indeed.

That's why I wanted you to ride in Tsubasa's truck, Bestie! It has air conditioning and everything!

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2091 - Gift with Purchase

Day 5. We're nowhere in particular with one destination in mind: Second-to-Last Defense Academy!

The first thing I see every morning is this.

So yes, Shouma, you're the worst. But the competition is fierce!

That's valid. We should have set up a sentry system. Why didn't we set up a sentry system? We're not very good at surviving without the comforts of a fully-furnished living space.

We aren't able to have our movie nights out here, Gaku. She needs some outlet for it. Plus she's an insomniac, so she had to do something to keep busy during all those hours spent not sleeping!

...he sure did. Got any thoughts on that, G?

Shhh. I'm sleeping through Shouma's ugliness. Wake me when he's gone.

You should get that checked out. It might be a very confused male G'ie trying to kill you so he can take your body.

It better not be! I have squatter's rights!

Wait, what about me? I was here first.

You came with the house. You're like an appliance or something.

...oh my god, I'm a gift with purchase.

Yeah, especially if the message author is YOU, Gaku. I'm still not letting that go.

It'd be really funny if the message author was Parallel Leap HIruko. She just needed an empty academy for like five hours so she left a threatening message to make everyone peace out.

What sense does that make? It's the same distance whether four people go or nine.

Oh, you mean we should leave behind anyone who'll need periodic breaks. Gotcha. That actually makes sense now.

I vote for Tsubasa! Because she has a truck.

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typical after sex scene where one of the characters is smoking and staring at the ceiling contemplating their relation to the other character while the other character has put on a nightgown and cap and blew out a candle while sleeping loudly like honk shoe honk shoe

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only tag i accept

[whyamihereat4am]

Look I don't think Supergirl (2026) is secretly a perfect masterpiece or anything (I personally thought it was like. a 6/10 fun time) but I do think it's wild that Tumblr isn't going crazy for it because this Kara is one coattailed suit away from being a Tumblr sexyman. she is the flawed messy female character people have supposedly been clamouring for. she's the popular archetype of a gruff self-destructive alcoholic middle-aged man begrudgingly having to look after a kid and growing fond of them but genderswapped and also 23. she's allowed to be visibly messy and kind of gross and her hair is constantly all over the place and she literally cries, screams, throws up, and pisses onscreen. she's caustic and mean and puts up an act of carelessness but has a heart of gold. she's heavily traumatised and coping with it terribly. if anything happens to her dog she will kill everyone in this room and then herself. she spends most of the movie in a trench coat and baggy band T-shirt. she gets into bar brawls and breaks a guy's hand. she is Going Through It 24/7 and looks the part. she stabs a guy in the throat. how is everyone else not obsessed with her.

[willowwhirll]

Just watched supergirl and oh my god i am so obssed with the fact that we have a female main character and shes sloppy and snippy and rude and an alcoholic and messy and flawed. And yet shes still able to be kind and good and be an inspiration to people. All while not having a romance and while not trying to appeal to anyone. This is what everything should be.

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2090 - An Actual Problem

Day 4. Finally, we're ready to go. We've got everyone onboard.

Where did the time go?

No, for real, what were you doing with all of that time?

G!!!

Was that you!? You have to tell me if that was you. Those are the rules.

How do we know it wasn't you? I could have been doing things for all you know.

What things? You don't do things. Since when do you do things?

I don't have to share everything. I have a life outside of you, you know.

No, you don't!

Nothing says "We made the right choice" quite like walking into the room to see the main person pushing this choice (and blackmailing us) slapping himself in the face.

Don't worry, there's plenty of hard rocks and broken gravel for us to sleep on. We'll be fine!

Seriously, I hope we stuffed our bedding and shit into packs for this trip. We're not just going out there blind and hoping for the best, right? Because I am not using concrete rubble for a pillow. I'm worth more than that.

The Tsukumo sibling tension begins!

...did you just quote Fury Road?

For some reason, I did not expect that to be in your media diet, Bestie.

I can vouch for that. Her death was incredible in Killing Game Route.

Oh, Takky....

In the other timeline, Parallel Leap Hiruko and Takky show up and I'm pretty sure Hiruko extracts G out of your head before she can do you any harm.

But here in this one? She might be an actual problem.

You know I can hear you, right?

I hope you can!

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2089 - Gory Visual Novel Death Scenes

Day 4. We did it. We broke through! They really believe us now!

Motherfucker!

No, no, they have a point, Takky. Everything about their lives was artificially generated so a record of it must exist in Sirei's mainframe somewhere.

Nothing you've said here couldn't have been gleaned from a Kamukura file somewhere.

Bestie, it will distress you to learn that the route where we kill each other and the route where we play a Killing Game are, in fact, separate routes. Disappointing, I know.

Okay, now we're bringing in Shion! Let's go! I'm ready to--

Or we can resort to common blackmail. Sure. Why not. I guess that works too.

I do!

-> Shouma's dog pees on his face while he sleeps. -> Ima works at a host club, which you've already alluded to and intimidated him about. -> Kako has visions and often sleeps in the same bed as Ima even here at the Academy.

Darumi's invulnerable. No amount of blackmail can penetrate her trauma-dump shields. She doesn't care who knows her darkest secrets. She shares them openly and no one ever cares.

And I've got nothing for Takemaru. Maybe he accidentally ran over a squirrel on his motorcycle once on his way to knock over mailboxes, and then didn't give it a proper burial.

Good enough! That's three out of five holdouts. That means we win by majority.

Like I said, not really receptive to blackmail. But that's okay because she needs the group anyways.

For what it's worth, Bestie, I'm partial to the chapter 2 execution in Danganronpa V-3, and also the Axe Ending of 999 was chilling the first time I encountered it.

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2088 - Twenty Future Questions

Day 4. We haven't exactly managed to persuade very many people here. This is not going well.

Ooh, is the ace Shion? He isn't affected by the Bloodspace corruption yet so he should be good to vouch for us! If he isn't still too mad at us for killing Eito, which he might be. That was just a couple days ago.

Okay, so we're not going in with Shion. We're playing the Twenty Future Questions game. Why did you need time to prepare this, Takky?

Oh, this should be rich. Go ahead, Takky. Let's see how much attention you paid the fuck to my goddamn Bestie in your first cycle.

Well, you got one, though it's pretty tame. You left out the part where he beats her when he loses.

You sure moved on from Darumi awfully quick, Takky. You dropped half of a trivia fact and then sped off to the Tsukumos! Don't think I missed that!

Again, I'm not sure why we needed time to prepare this appeal. Nothing that was said in here couldn't have just as well been said in front of the Murder Board.

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2087 - Fuck This, I'm Out

Day 4. Well, this isn't going well. It's hard to get people to agree with us when nobody likes or trusts us.

Considering both the scope of the government cover-up and the incompetence of this mission, I feel confident saying that that's precisely how we all got here, Takemaru.

You're correct. The timescale speeds up dramatically, though Day 7 is still the next attack.

Or he wrote it. That's also a possibility.

Wait, what?

Oh, yeah, this could still be a prank despite everything. Well, not a prank. More of a trick.

Sirei being killed today and Gaku being killed tomorrow obscures it as a possibility. But these two things aren't necessarily connected to this message. Gaku could have written this message hoping to scare us into abandoning the LDA, having no idea that an actual killer was about to strike. There is a nonzero chance of this being a coincidence.

You want to bet on it?

...bet on who wrote the message?

Sure. I'll bet that I wrote it.

...is that a confession, G?

Could be.

...are you just fucking with me? Or reverse fucking with me so I don't realize you actually did it?

...I miss when we just cracked jokes at each other and discussed whether or not Takky is dumb.

Tsubasa and Hiruko are on Team Fuck This I'm Out!

Maybe it'll be for the best if some people stay behind! We can go get the 2LDA crew and if no murders happen tomorrow then we'll know that we took all the murder with us when we left.

You heard my Bestie! Everyone who wants to ride with a sadistic girl, come with us! Everyone who wants to play a Killing Game, stay with Darumi!

Well, of course you want to play the Killing Game. It's your fucking Killing Game.

Well, of course you want to play the Killing Game. It's Sister Dearest's fucking Killing Game.

If it makes you feel better, Shouma, you pretty quickly no matter what happens in the other timeline. You're simply not built for surviving Whodunits and Killing Games.

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2086 - For Science

Day 4. What if we agreed to leave the school when the ominous message warned us to?

Ooh, are we finally going to learn who could have been responsible for that cruel fate that befell Gaku?

Y... Yes?

Hopefully?

...do you already know? Because it was you?

I neither confirm nor deny anything.

What, you think the big red spraypainted message on the board might be a message? That sounds ridiculous. You're being ridiculous right now, Takky.

Have I ever told you how much I appreciated that, Takumi? Because I appreciated that.

So did I. He's an asshole.

We're definitely going to need someone with more credibility to back us up. Our political capital is shot right now.

That'll do it. Thanks, Bestie!

If you can't find a good reason for people to side with you, find a bad reason for them to side against you!

Let's go, folks! Line up! Team Takky or Team Darumi! There are no other options so don't ask.

Oh fuck me, she wants specific details about the future of this timeline. She wants to hear about the Killing Game and/or murder mystery in order to give our testimony credibility.

That's a good angle. Crashing at 2LDA would meet the criteria of "LEAVE THE SCHOOL", to be sure.

I'm not sure it's exactly what the killer had in mind with this message but to be honest, I'm not sure what the killer had in mind at all. Are you, G?

Hmm? Why are you asking me?

No reason.

It should! You die tomorrow!

He does! Violently!

No! Put it on you! And let me watch!

For, uh, culprit identification reasons, of course. We must let Gaku be murdered again. For science.

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2085 - Cornered Yet Not Identified

Day 75. What if we tried to stop Eva?

That sounds like something THE KILLER would say!

Wow. I'm surprised that actually worked. I thought for sure we were going in the cell again.

So now what? We sit around admiring what a good job we did cornering yet not identifying the killer in the least?

Or Eva can lose it. Sure. Why not.

Okay if she was going to blow herself up either way then what was even the point of her whole ruse just now?

Meanwhile, in a mysterious cave far from the Last Defense Academy, a small girl flops around impatiently.

Kamyuhn: WHERE THE HELL IS EVERYBODY!?!?

098.5: Mystery Route: Did I Forget Something?

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According to imdb, Digimon Tamers episode 18 was written by Genki Yoshimura. Not only has she written the script for most of Ruki's important episodes, she was also the series compositor for Digimon Adventure 02 and wrote the script for some of the most important episodes for that show, including Raidramon and Shurimon's evolution episodes, Ken's post-Kaiser sabbatical and Paildramon's Jogress episode!

Wow, she's a really good writer. Strong grasp of character themes and how to use them to build a narrative.

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Update: Genki Yoshimura, in addition to writing a good amount of important Ruki episodes, also wrote all the Ryo spotlight episodes...either she had her hands tied or her range is incredible.

[tobiasdrake]

As a kid I hated Ryu/ryo and his introduction to tamers because he did come across as a a Marty sue instantly better and cooler than all of the characters we have been following esp rika and then I got older and learned he was from a video game series and I realized it kinda made sense on how he was so experienced and knowledgeable but I still dislike him.

They couldn't have given us the taichi from the zero one adventure manga instead?

Yeah, that seems to be a lot of people's impressions of him. And mine! So I feel that.

[sunset-gal]

Personally i don't hate him(except the shipping with Ruki, in which case he can die in a ditch) it's more like eye-rolling apathy and a belief the show would be better off without him, if that makes any sense?

[aparticularbandit]

I actively despise him BECAUSE of the shipping with Rika and how the show treats her as the result of him.