I identify with Rin on several levels, she reminds me a lot about myself when I was a teenager. And yeah, she's a true bro. You can't really expect her to an adult bro cause well, she's a teenager. But even when she messes up, she's trying her best.
On the topic of which LiL character you identify the most, for me it's Akira and
not for the reasons you think.
In my youth, when I was in my early teens, I went through some near Life-ending events that made me spend months in a hospital, I contracted a disease which caused me so much physical pain that it also affected my mental. I couldn't sleep at night from the torture which made me start seeing things and talk to myself inside my mind.
Eventually, this turned me into a hateful person, I wanted the negative sensations to stop and I felt it unfair that others got to live normally while I bled in a hospital bed. Once I recovered my strenght, that's when things went badly.
While the MC copes with his trauma by sexually assaulting girls, I took out my anger by physically and mentally assaulting people in general, and let me say that I am not exagerrating when I say that some of the things that I did just for kicks were borderline cruel, I enjoyed hurting and I actively lived to plan the next victim of my abuse.
There never was anyone for me who could pull me out from the darkness, until when I was around 17, when I first met a girl who went through something similiar as I, she felt pain everyday too, but unlike me, she was the kindest I ever saw.
It was so ironic to me that two people from the same environment came out completely different, that I needed to understand why someone would never give up hope. After all, there is nothing more comforting than someone who can understand you.
We had many intelligent conversations about morality, and during one of them, I was about to trip when she suddenly grabed my hand, and that's when I snapped, a stupid dumb moment that meant nothing to her is what meant everything to me. Just a small contact.
Shortly after we graduated and had to part ways, but I had already seen the light. This person probably doesn't know the massive impact it had on my life, by just existing and being light itself, I decided to follow it. It took me years but I eventually managed to heal. Instead of dark dreams and nightmares I can finally sleep peacefully, instead of hurting others I want to help them and make them feel loved. I wake up every day thanking my maker for letting me live long enough to make living life worthwhile.
I love this VN so much because it feels therapeutic to me. Seeing Akira go through a rabbit hole with seemingly no end reminds me of what I went through myself, and that I managed to get out of that sinister place.
Funny thing is that I kind of look like him too, people say that I am handsome as well, but obviously nobody is as handsome as Akira. I am also uncapable of taking care of myself which is very pathetic, I might still be relatively young but an adult nonetheless, my only saving grace is that I am good at making money.
The biggest difference is that... I obviously don't have a giant cock, nobody has one like his...
Other than Makoto I guess. Also, I do wonder, since the city keeps moving, what is happening with the rest of the school? Do the other classes change? Does the school itself change? Do the people we don't see become stuck as well? Or it's just when we start seeing them that they get stuck?
