- Aug 23, 2023
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This will be a huge block of text until I can get to my pc and format it right.
1. There is a very real possibility that the time travel is part of the reset and it isn't done yet. Failing that, they can all slip back without altering anything. If they do alter stuff then the timeline cohesion is doomed. Reconstructing any sort of timeline from this point forward would be a fool's errand.
2. The scene with Uta and Kirin really is interesting because we have two girls that are marked by being perceived as sluts (either by others or by themselves). Yet the freaking good kid song makes concentrating on any of it super hard.
Other than that, about the walls closing in, it's also what the vigenere cipher says at the end of Yasu's event (I missed that when writing the triggers post).
3. Who's this world made by and who got left behind. There are a ton of possibilities. Amy's boyfriend left her at the mall with her mom. Ami has mentioned on their bus ride backwards that when they are alone at the end of the world it would be nice if Akira could ride them around, suggesting Ami (or the entity inside her aka super Ami) has been left my Akira multiple times at the end of a cycle. In Perfect Harmony, the narrator states that their perfect gate could never be reached in their world because Akira (assumed) left it.
As for who the world is for, we just got confirmation that 22 is likely Yuu's world and 23 is Akira's. Unless Selebus wishes to bring in the concept of a world made for the interloper/player that takes agency on that world by inserting itself into Yuu or Akira, then it's likely made for them (as they're in the center of it).
That however begs the question what their objective is, since, if it's to prepare a vessel to ride around in, then from Kyoto we get the feeling that Kaori/Sekai was that objective achieving fruition, and yet, there is no terminal 22.5 that is for Sekai/Kaori.
Another possible solution is that 23 was never Akira's to begin with, but Sekai's world. Akira doesn't reside in apartment 23, it's Kaori/Sekaori that do. It would certainly explain why the gods, although interested in him, don't seem to place him at the center of their plans. Mind you, we could also interpret Pareidolia saying that he waited such a long time to board Kaori as "boarding Kaori is what allows him to make spring arrive".
In that sense, HOPE, Wires, Pareidolia and USER4 control the seasons from inside Kaori, which makes Kaori the real center of 23 (or rather, True Sekai).
I'll be taking another look at First Contact, but it might be the case that the appearance of the four from the wall that was broken with Sekai's death is actually their first boarding of Kaori/Sekai. The person that is "still behind the wheel" would be Sekai. This story was really never about Akira, it was about her.
4. To end on a good and less tinfoil note, Io's red path scene reads like one of my actual rpg games where I save everyone and make them whole again. Which means I both love it and find it extremely out of place in LiL.
