Irregardless of the relationship status of the MC and Nami, changing Nojiko's surname has a significant impact on the story.
LolAll agreed with the fixed points, obviouslyThings 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.
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
Because its Nojiko Miyazaki now, while Nika is still Nika Cyrus. Its not a matter of incest patch or not (the incest patch just isnt up to date as is shown in a lot of renders). There should be no (incest)-name-fakeing nessecary as Noji isnt a LI and adopted them.
Unpatched, Nojiko's still the adoptive mom and it's possible to believe the kids are at least partly-related.
I agree its strange and its even kinda the opposite, the only thing we know about the Cyrus surname is that Stefan Holgerson never heard of it which could mean its probably not a surname of any of the Wiab LI's.
It is logical that within a story that "legally" is not incest, if Noji ever entered the LI category, having different surnames puts her in the situation of only "landlady", neither step mother, nor adopted mother, nor legal guardian nor any category that could collide with the prohibition. But this explanation is only for a specific scenario, which can never be confirmed by the author.
Well, the only other scenario I can think of is that Cyrus is a fake surname used to hide their real lineage. That would mean faking official government paperwork (birth certs etc).
There are a few more.
Really? Cuz I get this feeling the characters themselves have little clue how clothes work given the amount of nip slips and wardrobe malfunctions at the weirdest times
They just like to slip 'em.Really? Cuz I get this feeling the characters themselves have little clue how clothes work given the amount of nip slips and wardrobe malfunctions at the weirdest times
The big question is, how does Miss Maria know Nojiko's last name? (assumed Nojiko's last name is Miyazaki).
Miss Marla is their teacher, she has access to college records.
She was probably involved in some kind as Nojiko enlisted them. And considering Miss Marla knows Amber for 12 years(?) or something like that its not ruled out that Nojiko and Miss Marla knew each other before already (and just faked their "first" meeting the same way Amber and Noji faked their first meeting).
The story never told she adopted them: it tells she's their legal guardian. And, no, it's not the same.
Given that Willi won't marry everyone he creampies, most of his offspring will be bastards. So it's almost to be expected that we don't know the surname if they're Willisproglings. There are also still characters in Wiab that we don't know the surname of that Willi might spend time with, who knows?
They could be adopted by a stranger (whom Nika thinks of as his mother who read to him) and those strangers die in an unrelated unlucky car accident and then they're fostered by Noji. There are so many convoluted possibilities simply because we're convinced they ARE Willisproglings and we're trying to make the pieces fit together despite having way too few jigsaw pieces.
