You uh... you all caught up on the current release and everything?
The thing is, I'm pretty sure not putting her with Akira is what creates Psycho Ami so we are all to blame for that.
Considering HOPE says things like this:I'd say ("their", if there is a "their") "the" plan is to fix the girls. Someone (ingame), was it hope?, said that Akira is supposed to fix them, smth like that.
And ofcourse we have the "wonder in which one you cuuuuuuuuuum" recently. Maybe Akira is supposed to fix 'em with his DNA
Psycho Ami apparently only triggers when Ami is told about the resets. Why that is, isn't clear, but Maya made sure to note Psycho Ami isn't Real Ami.
Didn't Maya say something like "Ami needs to believe Sensei loves her and is in love with her or she gets violent"? (I'll have to replay the scene to check) Seems to me like him ending up with anybody else could be a trigger.
We're not actually told that it's only learning about the resets that send Ami over the edge, just that attempting to tell her about them triggers her psycho behavior. Maya made it sound like anything that jeopardizes her ideal world she wants to live is can do the trick, which makes sense when you think back to the event that had Noriko hiding in the closet. There was nothing happening there that clued Ami in about the resets, she was just about to go off the deep end because she thought (correctly) that Akira was messing around with someone else. She even said something along the lines of she would have to make sure nobody could hurt him anymore if he lied to her, which along with her behavior made it pretty clear she was talking about doing something really drastic either to Akira or more likely to anyone/everyone she saw as a threat.
Not quite. The resets trigger her, but anything that gets in the way of her perfect world afterwards makes her violent.
I'm still not convinced the resets are required to trigger her change, that wording from Maya is pretty vague and still reads to me like she's saying anything challenging Ami's understanding of the world (I love Sensei, Sensei loves me and nobody else, I am the only thing he needs and he can't live without me) can push her over the edge. Because again remember, she's been acting pretty off for a WHILE now, and we have no reason to believe she's been aware of the resets that whole time. Stuff like the Noriko event, snapping at Haruka in a really uncomfortable way, etc. really read as the cracks starting to show and they had nothing to do with the resets.
Not really... She says Ami can't know "when we are. Because that's what changes her". It's rather blatant, and not vague at all. Why it changes her is vague though.
But you're ignoring the whole first part of Maya's explanation, when she explicitly says "the only thing preventing her from becoming violent is the illusion that she lives the perfect life". Like yes, learning about the resets will absolutely immediately flip the switch for her, but everything we've seen seems to indicate that she would also go off from anything that ruins her fantasy that she and Akira are perfectly happy together and devoted to each other. Yeah, she probably would have done something extreme to Noriko or Haruka if she caught them in the act, but she didn't so instead she just very clearly implied to Akira that if he's lying to her and she finds out she's going to become violent.
I am also not convinced psycho Ami is real, but not in the same way you are. I think Maya is fooling herself that the violent Ami isn't the real one because she is incapable of not loving Ami and seeing her as perfect (possibly due to her relationship with the world/gods/whoever is actually responsible for creating the loops). I think psycho Ami is just Ami when she stops pretending.
I'm just glad no one suggested a wizard.
That wasn't the first part. This was the first part:
I'm not ignoring things that don't fit what I'm saying I'm just saying that while Maya seems to be convinced the resets are to blame for Ami going crazy, she's also saying things (and past events also support) that indicate it's not JUST the resets that set her off. A thing that's been coming up more and more often recently is the implication that Maya's memories aren't any more trustworthy than anyone else's, and that despite her thinking she knows the way the world works better than anyone else she can be and has been wrong about things, if anything her confidence in her understanding of things tends to make her blind to certain things that others can see with a fresh perspective.
Nothing has actually indicated it's anything except the resets that triggered Ami though. You're just misinterpretating what Maya is saying by focusing on the middle of her explanation. It's only contradictory if you do that.
Well now I have to say chinami just to to spite you.
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My theory is that Ami has always been psychotic. The grief of losing both her parents combined with whatever the second incident is, then immediately after that having to take care of her mentally absent uncle (and possibly sexually abused by Akira while he was out of it, since he has a track record of doing that when he's brain dead, and she looks a lot like Sekai) broke her, just in a different way. I think if we were outside of the loops, she would still become homicidal, just at a much slower rate. If he got back with Niki or hooked up with Sara or any other girl, she'd probably be able to hold it together for a few years before she snapped and did something crazy. She still wants her future with Akira after all, so she'd have to get rid of them carefully. But when Ami learns of the resets, she has no reason to hold back anymore. There are no more permanent consequences for murder or torture. She can make examples of the other girls, and she can repeatedly break Akira without any permanent consequence until she gets the one who loves her and only her.
