ugoughi90
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- Nov 28, 2019
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Hi everyone, I took a break from LiL and the forum for a couple of months until the new update dropped, but since then I’ve tried to catch up at least the last 30 pages. This update was really good — it’s been since… ever that I felt so emotionally invested in a story and its characters.
About the world and the wishes… it’s all quite confusing. What I thought to be a world inspired by DnD’s Ravenloft setting, the Domains of Dread and their Darklords (which I still think it is, at least as a basic premise of inspiration), is instead revealed to be a bureaucratic mess of a universe, where all the figures of power are less outright evil and more just insane, desperate gods willing to do anything to keep existing. (As I slowly replayed the game, I realized the first DnD session we see literally has the standard introduction to any Ravenloft campaign: “You are taken by the mists from different realms and find yourselves together in a new world,” with Sensei even implicitly acknowledging it’s something he can relate to).
About Ami: I think Ami is not irredeemable as a character, but I do think the current iteration of her is. We’ve seen her character kill in two different realities, and we know she’s done it more times before. We’ve seen her being negatively influenced by Sekai’s ghost (or in person); she’s becoming more unhinged and villain-like with each update, and she has untreated psychopathic tendencies that have gone unacknowledged for far too long in her life.
I think i remember this isn’t even the first time she’s threatened to kill Sensei (or at least pondered violence while talking to no one - probably Sekai or a god), since she had that mental breakdown when she cut her hair, but i’m not sure.
To me, it seems her real mental changes began when she started reading her mom’s poems in Chapter 2 (like in the “My Life With You” event). Before that, either she didn’t retain all her memories from past cycles, or she was simply so used to seeing Sensei reset each time and to easily seduce him again and again. Once Sensei stopped resetting and began to truly progress with other girls, she became increasingly unstable and unable to keep up the act anymore.
Anyway, I actually think the end of the current route, the Harem Route, can’t be possible while Ami, or at least this iteration of Ami exists. My opinion is that the end of the Harem Route will show a world without Ami and without resets.
In such an ending, Akira will be able to finally “complete” his harem at the cost of Ami (or at least this version of her). But without the resets to erase time-progression issues, everything will continue into the Dark Route, which will take place in a more “normal” world. Himawary herself said so, the time of this ever-resetting world is coming to an end. Still, i'm not so convinced beacuse i can't see Sel completely remove a character for the whole Dark Route.
Himawari’s pocket world: I like to imagine Himawari’s pocket world simply a world where Maya never existed, with the progression of thing going as (all of this is my imagination going, nothing with solid bases on):
About the world and the wishes… it’s all quite confusing. What I thought to be a world inspired by DnD’s Ravenloft setting, the Domains of Dread and their Darklords (which I still think it is, at least as a basic premise of inspiration), is instead revealed to be a bureaucratic mess of a universe, where all the figures of power are less outright evil and more just insane, desperate gods willing to do anything to keep existing. (As I slowly replayed the game, I realized the first DnD session we see literally has the standard introduction to any Ravenloft campaign: “You are taken by the mists from different realms and find yourselves together in a new world,” with Sensei even implicitly acknowledging it’s something he can relate to).
About Ami: I think Ami is not irredeemable as a character, but I do think the current iteration of her is. We’ve seen her character kill in two different realities, and we know she’s done it more times before. We’ve seen her being negatively influenced by Sekai’s ghost (or in person); she’s becoming more unhinged and villain-like with each update, and she has untreated psychopathic tendencies that have gone unacknowledged for far too long in her life.
I think i remember this isn’t even the first time she’s threatened to kill Sensei (or at least pondered violence while talking to no one - probably Sekai or a god), since she had that mental breakdown when she cut her hair, but i’m not sure.
To me, it seems her real mental changes began when she started reading her mom’s poems in Chapter 2 (like in the “My Life With You” event). Before that, either she didn’t retain all her memories from past cycles, or she was simply so used to seeing Sensei reset each time and to easily seduce him again and again. Once Sensei stopped resetting and began to truly progress with other girls, she became increasingly unstable and unable to keep up the act anymore.
Anyway, I actually think the end of the current route, the Harem Route, can’t be possible while Ami, or at least this iteration of Ami exists. My opinion is that the end of the Harem Route will show a world without Ami and without resets.
In such an ending, Akira will be able to finally “complete” his harem at the cost of Ami (or at least this version of her). But without the resets to erase time-progression issues, everything will continue into the Dark Route, which will take place in a more “normal” world. Himawary herself said so, the time of this ever-resetting world is coming to an end. Still, i'm not so convinced beacuse i can't see Sel completely remove a character for the whole Dark Route.
Himawari’s pocket world: I like to imagine Himawari’s pocket world simply a world where Maya never existed, with the progression of thing going as (all of this is my imagination going, nothing with solid bases on):
- Maya was never there to give solace to Sensei -> Sensei finds solace in Ami much sooner than the current timeline.
- Sensei keeps screwing his students, then falls in love with Ayane, Ayane gets pregnant and Sensei finds in his new daughter something he can love more than Ami, mirroring Sekai’s events when Ami was born.
- Sensei and Ami keep seeing eachother, but keep their relationship secret to everyone, again mirroring his story with Sekai.
- Ayane finds out about them / Sensei tells the truth to Ayane many years later, he has to make a decision - to choose between Ayane and Himawari and Ami – He choose the first.
- Time passes until the events of Himawari’s pocket world are realized.
