- Aug 28, 2020
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Looks like the geography and calendar of the two stories is shared although not necessarily coincidentally. For example the restaurant where Bella and the MC meet at the end of chapter 3 of Summer's Gone, Relucia Dinner, appears to be the same place that the MC and Leia visited for dinner and drinks in Where it all Began. Also the surname of Victoria and Maja from Summer's Gone, i.e., Frohn, was mentioned by Leia in respect to a couple of girls drinking at the bar, one of whom the MC had stared at entering Relucia Dinner while he and Leia were talking outside: The hairstyles of the Frohns looked much different from those Victoria and Maja sport in Summer's Gone, but I think that the girl with bobbed blonde hair might have been Maja making a brief cameo appearance in Where it all Began, nursing a drink at the bar and looking kind of neglected, lonely, sad and forlorn.
Of course even if the restaurant is identical in the two stories the events could have happened chronologically at completely different times and the girl I thought was Maja could conceivably be someone else, e.g., Maja's mother if WIAB was set a number of years before SG. Or maybe Frohns in Where it all Began were different members of the same family as Victoria and Maja and related to them by blood, or more distantly by marriage, say, or not related to them at all even though they share a rare and unusual surname.
Anyway, based on the flimsy evidence trundled out above, going out on a limb, I'm going to say that I think that Where it All Began and Summer's Gone are most likely contemporaneous, roughly, and take place in the same city unless Relucia Dinner is a franchise and has premises scattered over several locations. Even so, after all that permuting and combining, it still isn't clear whether WIAB and SG themselves are entangled and connected, as far as the characters and events in them are concerned, or completely separate mutually exclusive worlds which, even if they exist in the same space and time, are not fated to affect and interact one with each other in any way that matters to the individuals peopling them.
When I began writing this jazz I thought I had the answer but now, this far down the page, realise that I don't after all.
(What a pisser!)
You've got to love something that involves and provokes so much thought though ain't 'cha?
(I can't believe how invested I have become in the goings-on in these visual novels!
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