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    “A koi fish,” her teacher once read out loud from a well-worn storybook, “means tenacity. Perseverance. It is said that they fight against waterfalls, always swimming against the stream’s current so that when they one day reach the top of those waterfalls, they can shed their scales and become dragons.”

    Thunder cracked in the doorway of the Okumura household, and from its light, her brother stood half-drowned in the doorway. Eiji was never the talkative type, but as he let the water drip from the floor into pools on the carpet without saying a word, thunder rumbling in the backdrop of Izumo, she knew that any words would have been choked out of him.

    Eiji spared one small smile at her, dropped his suitcase by the shoe cupboard, and walked through the house with squeaking wet shoes. Kaori watched, frowned, and decided not to press.

    He didn’t talk much about America.

    (Or, a year from the finale, Kaori Okumura watches her brother struggle with the grief of his time in America, and not all is at it seems surrounding Ash Lynx.)

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    15 Mar 2021

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    It didn’t have to mean that she and Yukiko were…like that, what they did. Not necessarily.

    Maybe the fumes in Kanji’s bathhouse had just gotten to them, spending so many hours in there fighting and sweating. They’d been tired, and sore, and Chie had eaten too much at Aiya, and hadn’t wanted to walk home after she dropped Yukiko off at the inn, and when they’d gotten under the covers together, maybe all those factors had just come together and gotten a little messy and –

    Chie stands up and busies herself trying to find her jacket and her socks. Maybe it had been nothing but them both being tired and addled from spending too long in the TV.

    When Yukiko comes out of the shower, Chie thinks, they’ll talk about it.
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    After saving Kanji from the TV, Chie and Yukiko’s relationship goes in a significantly different direction than either of them expected. Turns out that just facing your Shadow isn’t enough to resolve all your issues – the rest have to be unpacked, one by one, piece by piece.

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    10 Jan 2021

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    The same customer buys coffee every day right before closing, and Cloud absolutely hates his guts.

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    14 Dec 2020

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    Between killing a guy, fighting a demon clown, and losing the only person he’s ever loved, Richie’s pretty sure he just had the worst day of his life. Good thing he gets to relive it over, and over, and over again! The universe may be a sick fuck, but at least it’s giving him the chance (many chances) to make it right and get Eddie where he belongs. Or is it?

     
    A choose your own adventure: the universe needs your help, and so does Richie—make the right choices and break the loop so tomorrow can come.

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    19 Jun 2020

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    “Violet.”

    Clementine grins, taking the chalk from Violet’s hand. “Like the flower?”

    “More like the colour of a bruise.”

    “That’s the first thing we have in common, then. We’re secondary colours on the colour wheel.”

    In which Clementine's outspokenness earns her detention, but it's not the end of the world considering she meets an interesting character with too many colourful pins and a brighter smile to match.

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    10 Apr 2019