[seasonality] catchall for nier

[wtfox]

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[amain]

I don't think so?

[wtfox]

Then you'll be fine! Promise.

[amain]

All right.

[ We can speedrun the play since Nier is looking through it and... Towards the end, he's frowning. ]

[wtfox]

[looking between his face and the book]

Sooooo...

[amain]

[ LOOKS AT HER ]

Why?

[wtfox]

Because heterosexuality is tragic, I guess.

...

At least, I think that's the lesson we're supposed to take away from this?

[amain]

[ He knows it's a story and there are plenty of stories, but it's how this class frames it. The lesson that Lila is presenting him... ]

... Now that you mention it, every heterosexual couple I knew ended in tragedy.

[ maybe he's thinking too much into it. ]

[wtfox]

[she gasps]

Maybe making us realize that was the whole point of this class!

[amain]

... Have you seen some disastrously things happen to heterosexual pairs, Lila?

[ oh no ]

[wtfox]

[she nods]

Mmhm. I have.

[amain]

May I ask what happened to them?

[wtfox]

Well it's, like... I don't know if they really count as a pair, exactly? Because they're not official or anything.

But there's a girl in my class who really, really likes this guy, and it seems like every time another girl talks to him, she gets really jealous and someone gets hurt.

[amain]

[ WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MIRACULOUS LADYBUG? ]

That's... You're not saying...

[ yandere? ]

[wtfox]

[looks at miraculous ladybug and laughs brokenly]

Oh, no, I'm sure she doesn't do it on purpose or anything! But I mentioned things get dangerous sometimes, right? Because of the akumas? They're drawn to people with really strong negative emotions.

So sometimes she makes people upset while she's trying to get close to him, and then the next thing you know, there's a supervillain...

[amain]

[ oh, i don't know if this is better or worse? ]

... Akumas are supervillains?

[ He understood the Akumas are drawn to negative emotions, but everything else he's 6_9. ]

[wtfox]

They turn people into them. An akuma is drawn to someone who's really upset, and it infests an important item of theirs. Then they transform into a supervillain and they usually have some kind of power related to what made them upset.

Hawkmoth is the one who controls all the akumas, though.

[amain]

[ ... What the fuck?? ]

That's horrible. It's not like you can control people's emotions, either.

[ SO MANY SUPERVILLAINS? POSSIBLY? ]

[wtfox]

Yeah, it's pretty rough.

[a beat.]

There are, like, huge waiting lists for anger management classes these days, too. People are trying, but...

[amain]

... There are classes for that?

[ Wow. What? First therapy, now this? ]

[wtfox]

[?]

Yeah, of course.

[amain]

I guess that would make sense considering how your world works... We don't have things like akumas where I live.

So... People just deal with their anger on their own.

[wtfox]

...does that work out for you guys...?

[amain]

[ ... ]

I guess... Not. I've seen couples argue all the time or cheat on each other.

[wtfox]

...I mean, you see that even in my world, too.

[...]

It's strange. I can't even begin to imagine someone mattering to me that much, and then doing something like that to them.

[amain]

I can't imagine it, either... I know people have different lifestyles, but that isn't for me.

[ Uhm. ]

Then again, I don't have much time for a relationship in the first place.