As I stated in the SG and WiAB theories thread, Scarlett (from WiaB) is Nojiko's old Boss at the hospital. Whether Nojiko was also involved in Scarlett's drug business is unknown, but if Nika and Nami are Zanes, I can see Scarlett asking Nojiko to take care of them if they were in danger.
I assume it's the recycling of models.
Good point about Nojiko/Scarlet.
Simplest thing is to agree the Noji is shielding them. She's at very least obviously shielding Nika and Nami from knowing the movers and shakers of the town. So she is doing that. The reasons could be parentage, in which case there is deliberated distance chosen by the parents, whether to hide genetics or simply abandoned; compassionate reasons - if their parents are in fact dead, which then branches to accidental death or 'accidental' death for involvement is events we don't know about yet or collateral damage of same events. We still have the scene where Nika mentions remembering his mum reading, so the event wasn't immediate abandonment or purely seeking to hide the children, unless the person Nika remembers is just the first 'foster' parent who wasn't subtle enough and was uncovered. I think we can reasonably assume foul play - but if the parents/first foster parents were taken out deliberately, that left the kids untouched. It wouldn't be hard to notice them being fostered out to Noji, who is known by the movers and shakers - so the kids weren't the target, or it was just an accident.
This is an excellent theory. Or not a direct boss but part of the hierachy making her life hard. HR isn't anyone's boss directly, but damn they make work difficult to get done. Noji does mention the pressures of work multiple times and the people she has to work with being the problem.
The Emilio thing I think he is suspicious by nature, but it really depends on who Nika and Nami's parent were as to whether they'd be on his radar. Although, with Noji having a history with Katie, the Petrovas, Amber, Emilia, and now Nick (who has connections to the Holgersons via Vanessa (it would be strange Noji isn't on his radar automatically, she's got too many degrees of connection to the Zane's to go unnoticed, so Nika should already be on the radar. It could just be a way to deal with the exposition of the scene.
I originally assumed Nojiko/Nika/Nami, Summer and her family, and Nia simply lived in the western part of the city where they and the ZPR campus are now (Mila: "Where are you two from?" Nika: "We went to a high school way in the west.").
True, but now they're back in dodge, going to the uni run by ZPR (maybe some strings pulled?) and Nojis been hanging out with the ZPR royalty Emilia, clearly knows lots about the Zanes, hanging out at a bookclub Katie and Sasha goes to is hardly hiding. Maybe it's safe now, and has been for a while, but why would Noji uproot and go back? The only reason I can assume is because where they lived Nika couldn't get the kind of care required, as he went to the hospital in Wollust with the collapsed lung/violent incident - the implication is he didn't attend all of school because of that, and now is at college - so at some point they had to commute to out west or to visit him at the hospital. Which makes me wonder - how long did Noji work at the hospital? A six hour commute is just not feasible. But if she moved to get out of attention, but kept her job, Nika and Nami would've basically been fending for themselves most of the time with such a long commute. Does this mean her current hospital job is only since moving back? So the Scarlet theory wouldn't work in that case.
and the spiders might now be a memory but a weird conflation of the bug bois in the games they used to play. Dreams are montages at best.It's inferred Nika and Summer would walk home from the cabin but it got too dark and they didn't want to walk through the woods at night (assuming Nika's dream is a fair representation of what really happened). He dreams about their conversations, where Summer was going on holiday with her family the following day. Everything in the dream points to them spending time together within walking distance of their homes, rather than eloping to some random place six hours away.True, but now they're back in dodge, going to the uni run by ZPR (maybe some strings pulled?) and Nojis been hanging out with the ZPR royalty Emilia, clearly knows lots about the Zanes, hanging out at a bookclub Katie and Sasha goes to is hardly hiding. Maybe it's safe now, and has been for a while, but why would Noji uproot and go back? The only reason I can assume is because where they lived Nika couldn't get the kind of care required, as he went to the hospital in Wollust with the collapsed lung/violent incident - the implication is he didn't attend all of school because of that, and now is at college - so at some point they had to commute to out west or to visit him at the hospital. Which makes me wonder - how long did Noji work at the hospital? A six hour commute is just not feasible. But if she moved to get out of attention, but kept her job, Nika and Nami would've basically been fending for themselves most of the time with such a long commute. Does this mean her current hospital job is only since moving back? So the Scarlet theory wouldn't work in that case.
We assume the cabin was near where they lived, but what if Summer and Nika had run away? My guess is the cabin is further away than the 'out west' school mentioned. The dream sequence doesn't really give clues in that sense ie things mentioned in dreams aren't necessarily true. Clearly the flowers didn't happen - unless they were the plants we saw in WiaB
So maybe they didn't get out of dodge but went to the outskirts.
I'm taking that dialogue as being dream sequence stuff, like when you dream you can jump and suddenly your taking strides athat are kilometers long, or you turn a corner and are on the next street, which in real life is in a different city. We already know that dream Summer doesn't talk with Nika honestly - the immersion gets broken when Nika realises things don't make sense.
I'm hoping the expanded heist scene will drop a few juicy hints, currently the Holgersons and the Cerils seem to be the main vectors for antagonism.
Yeah, we only have fragments, so constructing a reliable and comprehensible timeline is still next in impossible.
All agreed with the fixed points, obviously
Things that occur to me - Laverne could be an adult Nami knew, rather than just the officer for the area, the fact they refer to her by her first name suggests more than just the first available officer.
To me it looks like Noji hid the "roommates" for a long time until it was safe for them to show up and claim their heritage. They lived on the west, went to "Tropical something" school, and now they've moved here to Wollust. And I don’t remember exactly if there was any mention of why they chose ZPR among all the possible colleges? I suspect Noji did it. Although Nia is also here and studied at the same school as Nika, Nami and Summer. So perhaps it was just a coincidence that they all ended up in the ZPR.
Sometime end of January I believe once everything done for the Steam release.
Yeah, except they've been in Wollust long enough before college for businesses Nika remembers to have shut down a year or more ago - check out the bus trip to the hospital where they encounter Dave. And Nika was treated for the accident in Wollust. I also suspect Noji pushed them towards ZPR, but given the other college is elite, there might not have been a choice. Also, for Noji to push them towards their heritage (if that's the case) she still keeps them in the dark and prefers to hide them from Katie.
Robin's mom also clearly knows more than she says. In the scene where Katie meets Nika, it is Charlie who holds Najiko back. Well, it seems to me that it was not without reason that she had such a negative attitude towards Nika all the time.
Regarding Officer Laverne - I thought she was a Police Officer known to Nami/Nika/Nojiko, hence the use of her first name (but that could be the original, pre-rework SG talking). Nika also mentions her to Bella: "Then Jane drove us home... and I can't remember more... I must've suppressed it."All agreed with the fixed points, obviously
Agreed that they lived somewhere different to now. I can't remember if Nami finished at the highschool out west, I'm assuming so as both of them are outsiders at the uni. Presumably that means that Nami has been going to that school some time in the last 5 years before college. It's suggested that the three of them have been a tight unit living together. If the school was 3 hours away, that'd mean 6 hours of the day spent on buses. Maybe that's why they're poor
My point is the house in the flashbacks either has to be close enough (~ 2 hours or so) that the commute to the hospital is realistic for someone who works with people in accidents (sure, as a specialist, maybe not directly in ER, but close enough to it to stop the ER people from amputating), OR Noji didn't work at the hospital while out west because it was too far. That would mean Scarlet was working with her once Noji returned to Wollust. I'm assuming Noji was working at the hospital the whole time though, it's not a often a career you start into late, and given she feels trapped in a rut that it's too late for her to advance further than the hospital - not the kind of thought you'd have about a job you've been in for 5 years or less.
The distance makes me think either the old house was between where they are now and the cabin close enough to be plausible, or Noji wan't working in the hospital until they moved back. Nika's accident was treated in Wollust though and there's the bus ride early on where they talk about a local spot they used to know at (Obama's Kebab) that has been closed for more than a year - presumably Nika remembers it from before his accident. Also, the lake is seen as a place they used to hang out a lot at, several years ago (again presumably from before his accident). These things make me think more like they did live in outer suburbs, and the cabin being so far away is the oddity. The cabin could easily be a holiday cabin of someone they knew.
Anyway, I'm wasting your time over a very pedantic point that's most likely a continuity error, I'll stop now
Yeah, Nia, Nika, and Nami all attended Tropics High School in the west, along with Summer.
There seems to be several characters who know what's going on with Nika and Nami, just not Nika and Nami themselves. It's annoying
Bro, Nojiko, Nika & Nami went "west" after the Summer incident: what happened that day between Nika, Summer and whoelse is the reason why they moved away: Nika just needed it. Whatever happened.
Oh, and Nia was so distraught that she also went "west" after Summer's incident?
