My Ami fatigue has peaked so much that I think the solution now is to make Sensei play ‘Build an Ami’,
I've had enough in a narrative sense, but I do want to see where she goes (does that make sense?), because as obnoxious or interesting she may be, with how she's been portrayed lately, she ultimately comes off as one-dimensional, and I don't think Sel's ego will stand having one of the main antagonists be a cookie-cutter character.
It’ll be the pinnacle of irony, given thatSensei and Ayanejust talked about how it’ll literally be the end of the world if either of them got reset. Question is: Will Sel bite that low hanging fruit?
Dont know yet. Schedule stops at 0.54 (Christmalloween) which we still don't know the contents of that update. It will probably be updated in October during 0.53's devlopment, if I had to guess.
Honestly, I've always considered Ami as a threat. She was too «good». And since my mind always remind me that : «someone too good is a latent threat», I follow my guts. And welp, Ami was a latent threat. And now she is a threat.
You say you've had enough of Ami, but how would you go about it? Just stop doing events with her? Kill her? New Ami? What is it specifically that you don't like about her? How would you even go about convincing the Not so magnificent, almighty and cunning Selebus?
Does this apply to whatever remnant of Ami appears trapped in the bedroom during the Lamb Legs happy event? I've always thought that might be the "real" Ami, whatever that means with a story as convoluted as LiL.
This. I do think she's batshit insane and evil, but I'm struggling to really pin down her purpose at this point. I get she's supposed to be playing into the whole yandere villain trope, but what is the narrative end goal for her character? I'm still not quite sure where she fits into the whole grand scheme of the world as a whole yet, so I can't properly write her off and label her unredeemable. As of right now, her apparent motive of "Oh I just want all of Sensei's attention and love" and "I had a fucked up childhood" seems a bit flimsy and I'm kinda hoping there's more to it than that...
I've never liked Ami. My favorite spots of her are: When Sensei asked her to shut the fuck up and Ayane slapping the Hell out of her after the scavenger hunt. Ever since she started using Maya as a "toy", I wished she was the one killed. This update makes me want that more. I want Maya to tie Ami up and kill her. Just a shame that Ami seems too important to the story for that to happen.
Only relevant if you're in the wizard red route.
I still stand by my theory that Maya got lost in the first happy event and the her that we see after was just on autopilot until the roof happened.
The way I see it, the fact that New Maya isn't a compelling character is entirely necessary and probably her primary purpose in the story. She shows how Maya Prime's depth and positive qualities only exist because she had millions of years to grow. In contrast, New Maya is a woefully incomplete person - single-minded in her desires, incurious about the world around her and hesitant to change, easily controlled by domineering personalities, and incapable of real connection with people other than the predator who groomed her. If that reminds you of a certain pathetic protagonist, I think that's completely intended. A big theme here is that victims of child abuse are also victims of arrested development, one of the factors which perpetuate the cycle. New Maya never had a real childhood, much less a chance to grow into the aloof but confident girlboss that Maya Prime was.
I obviously don't like this version of Ami or the other psychopath version we see in the other reality we ended up in, but I can quite easily imagine versions that I do like. My emotional reactions to fiction don't tend to last long after the initial experience, though, so it is extremely easy for me to accept redemption or a new version of the character.
