Oh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.I was thinking about that mb.Well back on topic.
Akira having schizophrenia would explain a LOT.His childhood trauma created by his parents misstreatment of him and the whole of Sekais relationship with him is enough to understand why he is the way he is.If we follow that train of thought though there is something i dont really understand.How is Yasus and Akiras schizophrenia showing the same things?(Well not completely the same things but you know what i mean.)
This is where my theory comes in: these things they are seeing are not due to their schizophrenia, but because they tell someone about it, they end up being treated like sick people because it is not normal for someone to talk about the end of the world and notice things that other people don't see.
My theory makes more sense when you remember that what Yasu said actually happened in the world, she made people see things and even managed to talk to dead people.
This is where my theory comes in: these things they are seeing are not due to their schizophrenia, but because they tell someone about it, they end up being treated like sick people because it is not normal for someone to talk about the end of the world and notice things that other people don't see.
My theory makes more sense when you remember that what Yasu said actually happened in the world, she made people see things and even managed to talk to dead people.
Well yea i agree.Schizophrenia isnt a superpower.It also would not explan why every time someone talks about the end of the world the person they talk to just repeats the same words again and again like they are an NPC.So to borrow your words.
I still believe in my "This is just a word made by some god/s for X reason" theory(WIP).For whatever reason Yasu and Akira are able to hear and see the """truth""" of the world and the only way for that to be explained from everyone elses perspective is through schizopherina.So in short.Do they have schizophrenia?Yes absolutely.Is schizophrenia the sole reason for their visions/hallucinations/delusions etc? Yes and no.Yes scizophrenia plays a part in some of the more minor ones(for example weve seen both Akira and Yasu "lose time") but not the fact that they can see these visions and talk with literal gods.
I was reviewing yasuo's events and it seems that finally in the next update we will see the result of their conversation and Akira agreeing to have a place to hide when his world falls apart:
Comiies, DeSkel thrives in setting timelines for the sort of stuff you're discussing, and he actually played Nothing is Beautiful (I just read about it). I'll contribute what I can before he arrives though:
There's a lot more to be said, but this is a good start. Regarding Maya and Noriko, Akira first met Maya while wandering around and bought her coffee. That was the day she ran away from her home after being sexually abused. This probably happened after Sekai's death. At the very least it was close to it because, in the earliest memory we see of them in the tutoring place, he hasn't met Niki for months. Meaning he stopped seeing her but it wasn't years yet.
Noriko was the one that got jealous, but she dealt with it much better than Maya. Noriko saw Akira about two times a week, but Maya started living with him. She had nothing else, she abandoned her own life and entrusted it to a stranger. We do know that she was the one that confessed to him and he did not accept her at first.
The scarf stuff was about the night he finally accepted her and they became a thing. When Himawari sells the scarf to Akira, it's the exact scarf (through supernatural means) which makes Maya break down because she has had to supress her feelings for so long. That makes her start to accept that this Akira is the actual Akira. There are theories as to why Himawari (and whoever she was working for at the time) had to have Maya accept that this Akira is the Akira. And the scarf was definitely a big step in that direction.
Comiies, DeSkel thrives in setting timelines for the sort of stuff you're discussing, and he actually played Nothing is Beautiful (I just read about it). I'll contribute what I can before he arrives though:
There's a lot more to be said, but this is a good start. Regarding Maya and Noriko, Akira first met Maya while wandering around and bought her coffee. That was the day she ran away from her home after being sexually abused. This probably happened after Sekai's death. At the very least it was close to it because, in the earliest memory we see of them in the tutoring place, he hasn't met Niki for months. Meaning he stopped seeing her but it wasn't years yet.
Noriko was the one that got jealous, but she dealt with it much better than Maya. Noriko saw Akira about two times a week, but Maya started living with him. She had nothing else, she abandoned her own life and entrusted it to a stranger. We do know that she was the one that confessed to him and he did not accept her at first.
The scarf stuff was about the night he finally accepted her and they became a thing. When Himawari sells the scarf to Akira, it's the exact scarf (through supernatural means) which makes Maya break down because she has had to supress her feelings for so long. That makes her start to accept that this Akira is the actual Akira. There are theories as to why Himawari (and whoever she was working for at the time) had to have Maya accept that this Akira is the Akira. And the scarf was definitely a big step in that direction.
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1. Akira falls from a window
Huh i thought it was as suicide attempt.Least thats what the prologue made it seem like.
2. Akira first met Maya while wandering around and bought her coffee. That was the day she ran away from her home after being sexually abused
This is whats confusing to me.Where are we basing this of?
3.The scarf stuff was about the night he finally accepted her and they became a thing
Figures
I can't check/recall the actual names for the events right now, but this should help anyone that can.
1. Akira falls from a window at school, when he was a kid. He has to stay in bed for some time and Sekai offers to take care of him. This comes from the happy event where he meets teenager Sara and from the memories NAO shows him. The prologue is about another moment in his life (he's already an adult).
2. The information about Maya's first meeting comes from the "Pet the cat" scene, her taking him multiple times to the place where they met (it's the vending machine she takes him to after carrying boxes - that's her trying to make him remember), and a random monologue about a girl going to a net cafe and not having money for a vending machine (that's Maya).
3. The scarf stuff is also a written image (and a voiced insertion) if I recall correctly.
I can't check/recall the actual names for the events right now, but this should help anyone that can.
1. Akira falls from a window at school, when he was a kid. He has to stay in bed for some time and Sekai offers to take care of him. This comes from the happy event where he meets teenager Sara and from the memories NAO shows him. The prologue is about another moment in his life (he's already an adult).
2. The information about Maya's first meeting comes from the "Pet the cat" scene, her taking him multiple times to the place where they met (it's the vending machine she takes him to after carrying boxes - that's her trying to make him remember), and a random monologue about a girl going to a net cafe and not having money for a vending machine (that's Maya).
3. The scarf stuff is also a written image (and a voiced insertion) if I recall correctly.
I see.Ill come back on that once seeing the events cause i recognize the scenes themselves but not the event names.Also that little part about maya,the boxed and the vending machines is so cute my god.
To 2:
That's in the event "Something Everyone Knows And Ignores"
"I recall a story about a girl who got lost wandering home from a net cafe one night."
"She’d been previously exposed to the evils of man in the form of a distant relative, but had since forced it out of her mind like an unfortunate mother would with a miscarried child."
"The sky was clear that night and the weather was hot. "
"She could feel her debatably nubile flesh moistening and sticking to the fabric of her shirt, prompting her to use her fingers to pluck it off and fan herself down every several minutes."
"She passed a total of nineteen vending machines along the way, but did not have enough money on her to purchase anything from even one."
"Her lips had gone dry in vast contradiction to every other inch of skin on her body."
"She was dehydrated."
"A man called out from a bench, asking her if she’d like him to buy her a drink, but she refused."
"He had no ill intentions, but she was smart enough to pay no mind to strangers on account of all of the evil things she had heard in the past."
"She never made it home that night because she didn’t have one."
"Some say she’s still wandering around to this day."
I can't check/recall the actual names for the events right now, but this should help anyone that can.
1. Akira falls from a window at school, when he was a kid. He has to stay in bed for some time and Sekai offers to take care of him. This comes from the happy event where he meets teenager Sara and from the memories NAO shows him. The prologue is about another moment in his life (he's already an adult).
2. The information about Maya's first meeting comes from the "Pet the cat" scene, her taking him multiple times to the place where they met (it's the vending machine she takes him to after carrying boxes - that's her trying to make him remember), and a random monologue about a girl going to a net cafe and not having money for a vending machine (that's Maya).
3. The scarf stuff is also a written image (and a voiced insertion) if I recall correctly.
To 2:
That's in the event "Something Everyone Knows And Ignores"
"I recall a story about a girl who got lost wandering home from a net cafe one night."
"She’d been previously exposed to the evils of man in the form of a distant relative, but had since forced it out of her mind like an unfortunate mother would with a miscarried child."
"The sky was clear that night and the weather was hot. "
"She could feel her debatably nubile flesh moistening and sticking to the fabric of her shirt, prompting her to use her fingers to pluck it off and fan herself down every several minutes."
"She passed a total of nineteen vending machines along the way, but did not have enough money on her to purchase anything from even one."
"Her lips had gone dry in vast contradiction to every other inch of skin on her body."
"She was dehydrated."
"A man called out from a bench, asking her if she’d like him to buy her a drink, but she refused."
"He had no ill intentions, but she was smart enough to pay no mind to strangers on account of all of the evil things she had heard in the past."
"She never made it home that night because she didn’t have one."
"Some say she’s still wandering around to this day."
I can't check/recall the actual names for the events right now, but this should help anyone that can.
1. Akira falls from a window at school, when he was a kid. He has to stay in bed for some time and Sekai offers to take care of him. This comes from the happy event where he meets teenager Sara and from the memories NAO shows him. The prologue is about another moment in his life (he's already an adult).
2. The information about Maya's first meeting comes from the "Pet the cat" scene, her taking him multiple times to the place where they met (it's the vending machine she takes him to after carrying boxes - that's her trying to make him remember), and a random monologue about a girl going to a net cafe and not having money for a vending machine (that's Maya).
3. The scarf stuff is also a written image (and a voiced insertion) if I recall correctly.
To 1:
Akira also injured his hands by glass shards and it's heavily suggested that Sekai used his bleeding hands to masturbate which left a huge trauma in Akira's mind (Injured hands is a recurring emblem, cf. Hands lined with red strings and marked with Bad Boy).
To 2:
You made a quite interesting statement that Maya was the girl in Something Everyone Knows And Ignores. Could you give any concrete quote or event title on where the first place Maya and Akira met was? I have no memory of mentioning it but it could simply be my mistake. Although that lines up with the mysterious figure looming and grooming Maya in The Room With Clocks. Thus Maya, in a way, is a victim of incest too, what a embodiment of eternal recurrence.
How Sel's head works? Seriously though I often feel that much of the lore in this story goes well over my head in order to give a properly considered answer.
How Sel's head works? Seriously though I often feel that much of the lore in this story goes well over my head in order to give a properly considered answer.
1. Do you think Sekai started to molest Akira before or after he met with Niki and gradually built up relationship with him?
2. Both Yui and Saki were inferred to die of diabetes in Second Sun, which is reasonable considering their diet habit in Nothing Is Beautiful, if not treated merely as a joke.
3. I somehow believe that Kaori had a car accident too to parallel with Sekai. But where did it mention "Kaori was saved by Sekai's functional organs"?
4. "Molly's mother has likely killed herself by now" I recall that Molly has said that her mother was already died but where did she stated explicately that she committed suicide?
5. Chika had found a job before she met with Yumi?
6. Tsuneyo was adopted? I remember her mentioning that her mother was Egyptian but I failed to recall if her father adopted her.
7. "Maya and Sensei seemingly have secret meetings on the roof." Can you elaborate on it?
