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Well spotted!
Her just being in that store confirms that she:
(a) belongs to an the ultra-rich family, and/or
(b) works for Sasha Petrova's mysterious spy network, who follow Nika/Bella everywhere for (as yet) undisclosed reasons.
- Jan 9, 2020
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Agree. Mila commented on Nika's demeanor using the "school shooter" parable. That doesn't mean she thinks he's actually about to pick up a gun...
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Yeah, this was part of my takeaway from this as well. It means she's rich, but I've already assumed that.
...........And then I put on my tinfoil hat XD For some reason, Emilio came to mind and how he wanted background info checked on our MC and it made me wonder if she was some kind of spy... Yes, I know that's not it... Time to put the tinfoil hat away
- Dec 24, 2018
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That'd certainly be an interesting twist. At very least, I suspect she does MMA with Sasha and Ayua, it looks like they're doing bets on something competitive.
The Emilio thing is legit - you can see Desiree in the background, blurred, when Nicole corners Nika in the hallway.Yeah, this was part of my takeaway from this as well. It means she's rich, but I've already assumed that.
...........And then I put on my tinfoil hat XD For some reason, Emilio came to mind and how he wanted background info checked on our MC and it made me wonder if she was some kind of spy... Yes, I know that's not it... Time to put the tinfoil hat away
Having said that, other than MIla's assessment, and Bella's incel comment, since Season 1, where is all the reasoning for this characterisation? It's based purely on his look, as immediately earlier, they assume Nika and Nami are a cute couple. All I'm saying is based on his actions, there's far more of a socially awkward vibe than an antisocial vibe. The anti social vibe is mostly seen when Nika's at the hospital. Other than that he get's worn out and stressed because he is overwhelmed by social settings, not because he rejects them.
It's funny that your description of Vanessa also applies to Nika as well. I wonder if Nika will ever have a "we're not so different" moment with Vanessa?
I was just thinking about the "dislike her" part of your statement, and it occurred to me... how many people at college would like or interact with Nika if Nami wasn't there by his side? How many times has Nami been there to not only keep Nika's worst impulses under control, but to guide Nika's interactions with others and balance out is anti-social behavior.
It's not only Nika's look, it's his demeanor. Mila said he gives off "school shooter" vibes, not that he specifically looks like a school shooter.
As I mused in another post. Picture (based on everything we've seen so far in Season 1) an alternate reality where Nika is forced to attend ZPR college alone without Nami. How would he behave and how would others react to him?
We still see this significant duality in Nika - one part of him strives to change, interact with others, feel something (and, boy, does Nami get significant credit for that change). The other part of him falls back on his High School behavior: antisocial, unfeeling, will mess with others just to alleviate his own boredom.
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In the old version, yes he was a sociopath, jokes about weapons, dolphins, if I'm not mistaken he smoked with Summers, Milla was a smoker too.
If the game followed the very old version, he probably would have had sex with Nami in the first season.
In this new version he is a broxing depressive emo
- Jan 1, 2022
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Guys, tinfoil hat time. Hear me out... Summer lives on, inside one or some of the other characters.
There are flashbacks and hints of ER / hospital and that Nika saw summer one last time but cut off and didn't speak on it.
Amber: But not the last time you saw her?
Nika: *You slowly shake your head* I did see her one more time and-...
Nika connects with some people, like Bella, as if he had known her for so long, and she mentions that she feels the same when you go to the gym with her. Something happened with her twin sister, and she might have been involved, others like Sasha etc. might have as well. It's possible they all ended up in some huge accident (or victims of some kind of attack).
What if the reason Nika feels like he is connecting with them so easily is because... Perhaps summer's heart, other organs, are inside some of these others because she died and the others were able to be saved because of her. People who get donated implants often say sometimes things change, like they like eating something they never have before... It's a stretch on logic, but in this game-world, he could be "connecting" with her in this sense. Taking this logic in, besides the beginning prank pulled on her, it would also add on to why Nami feels some kind of resentment / jealousy towards Bella, if a part of Summer was inside her for example, but even if not, Sasha might be related in this sense. She certainly eyes Nika, a lot.
What do you guys think? XD
There are flashbacks and hints of ER / hospital and that Nika saw summer one last time but cut off and didn't speak on it.
Amber: But not the last time you saw her?
Nika: *You slowly shake your head* I did see her one more time and-...
Nika connects with some people, like Bella, as if he had known her for so long, and she mentions that she feels the same when you go to the gym with her. Something happened with her twin sister, and she might have been involved, others like Sasha etc. might have as well. It's possible they all ended up in some huge accident (or victims of some kind of attack).
What if the reason Nika feels like he is connecting with them so easily is because... Perhaps summer's heart, other organs, are inside some of these others because she died and the others were able to be saved because of her. People who get donated implants often say sometimes things change, like they like eating something they never have before... It's a stretch on logic, but in this game-world, he could be "connecting" with her in this sense. Taking this logic in, besides the beginning prank pulled on her, it would also add on to why Nami feels some kind of resentment / jealousy towards Bella, if a part of Summer was inside her for example, but even if not, Sasha might be related in this sense. She certainly eyes Nika, a lot.
What do you guys think? XD
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- Dec 24, 2018
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That's an interesting idea: I've assumed Nika was the person in ER, are you thinking it was Summer, and that Nika was with her there? If that was the case, he'd know something more about her than she's missing like he told Vic. I guess there's nothing explicitly showing it was Nika that was injured.
As far as Summer being an organ donor, that'd take way too long to explain in a VN (well too long to make it plausible), and would be a pretty difficult plot point for most people to swallow. Blood types and other suitability things would make it hard for there to be matches, and other than Bella's sister, we don't know of anyone who might have had such an extreme accident. Vic would've mentioned if there was any kind of operation like that, and we see no scars on her.
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I guess that's true, time to take off the tinfoil hat
Well, blood type might not be as much of an issue if they are all... related to Zane XD haha... okay REALLY taking the tinfoil hat off now
Plausible.
Goth Girl got Summer's heart and she just cannot fathom why she suddenly feels this attraction and obsession with some irrelevant, boorish emo guy she doesn't know. That perfectly explains the "what da f^^k?" expression she always has whenever she's near Nika.
However, you may be on the right track though... Summer's missing and Nika doesn't yet consciously know he got her lungs in an emergency transplant.
I call her Amy. She wants me.
- Dec 24, 2018
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Just reminded myself of the scene for the script - "Get him to OR 4!" So it's either Nika looking at another guy (angles are wrong to be what Nika sees if he's the patient), or it's the most obvious answer being it's Nika remembering what happened to him. It's definitely a guy though.I guess that's true, time to take off the tinfoil hat
Well, blood type might not be as much of an issue if they are all... related to Zane XD haha... okay REALLY taking the tinfoil hat off now
Yeah, it's definitely a first person memory Nika has of being on a gurney.
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Also, something makes me feel like he does know a lot more than we're given, but I think he has it shut in the back of his mind...
For example, besides talking with Amber and cutting off, or some other conversations even, there was that conversation when he met Elsa at the fancy restaurant with Bella.
Elsa: It's been so long. I... I thought I'd never see you again, afte-...
Nika: You don't need to mention 'it'.
They could simply be talking about Summer (being gone now for whatever reason.) However, Bella asks him what 'it' is and he tells her it's none of her business. And on this path you've most likely already told her about Summer anyway... So it was perhaps.. Witnessing or seeing her, at her end.
He also cut off why or when he saw Summer for the very last time when speaking to Amber. Regardless if you don't buy my tinfoil hat theory, the hospital thing might still be true. It might have been summer there and not him, and he has the memory repressed deep in the back of his mind.
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In Bella's case, the surgery definitely didn't happen, as you can see her almost completely naked in Chapter 5, with no surgical scars anywhere on her body.
And it is not at all likely that Summer is dead, because it is simply impossible that no one in the world, not Nia, not Elsa, or anyone else, would know this information.
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Yeah, but you don't even have to go as far as the MCU, just take any character from Guy Ritchie and Tarantino movies, as if their characters are the pinnacle of plausibility. But nevertheless, many of them are charismatic, funny and certainly memorable. And I don’t even want to start about typical action heroes, I recently watched the series Jack Reacher, damn it. Bro is so cool that bullets bounce off him. But if we look at this from the plausibility pov, then I have only one question. Why didn't the corrupt cops shoot him in the first episode, as soon as they realized that the guy will become a trouble for them and their boss. There's probably an explanation, I'm just too dense
But since we are stepping on the Holy Ground of personal preferences, nothing can be done
Bro simply does not like Nika, so I get all his arguments as a justification for this simple fact. Plus flashbacks of the original MC version. I don't agree but I understand and accept that.As for me I agree with you about the duality of MC's character, there's definitely a lot to like and a lot to hate about him. At least he's not a Mr. Night Molester, that alone puts him above the hundreds of MCs over here
P.S.: Wait, he was kneading Nami's tiddies while they were sleeping together? So, a Mr. Night Molester actually? I hope this scene was removed in the rework, otherwise I'm in a big trouble with my point.