aoi route: all roads lead to doom

[sengokus]

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[sengokus]

[it is fine!]

Ah, you're just like Takeru...

I'm no master chef or anything, but I can at least put something together that's a little fresher than that! Even if convenience store food is really good... I get that too.

[are you a good influence or not mineo]

[gamerbrain]

Takeru?

[ hmm. she just looks vaguely confused by this. ]

Is it different...? It's all food.

[sengokus]

Oh - Sasazuka? Guy who looks like a bunch of seaweed got caught on his head and he made it into a hairstyle...

[you are so fucking rude, mineo]

But it's different! Super different! The gap between convenience store food and a homemade meal by someone who knows what they're doing is huge! And then eating food made by someone who cares about you - whole oceans apart!

[gamerbrain]

Got it. Aoi met him.

[ no objections to the descriptors? okay. ]

The game got patched before Aoi reached that scene, so Aoi has never had homemade food.

[sengokus]

Oh yeah? He was probably rude, huh. That guy's got no charm!

[who even LIKES mean routes :/ says the nicest route in cxm]

Game got...

Uhh, okay - sure! Then let's have some homemade food. I can cook something up.

[gamerbrain]

He said Aoi isn't glitched, Aoi just has a mental disorder.

[ she sounds neutral about this, though. and she's here to. watch him cook and be useless! ]

[sengokus]

[yea we're handwaving cooking just assume he's about to make some really good gourmet instant ramen

he'll chop the ingredients first though - witH A BUTTER KNIFE? it's fine it's not pretty but he's strong enough to manage it.]

Yeah. That's super rude. Sorry, Aoi-san.

[gamerbrain]

[ at least she's not upset about the conversation because she looks! really enthralled by what he's doing here?? cooking! wild! ]

It's okay. Aoi can't be everyone's favorite character.

[sengokus]

[SHE'S LEARNING COOKING..... WELL,]

... do you just think of yourself like a character...? Not like a person?

[gamerbrain]

[ no i must clarify that she is not learning a single thing. absolutely not. ]

Aoi is a character.

[sengokus]

[aoI WHY]

....

[he's seeing what takeru was saying now but he's just

gonna]

You don't... have to be....?

[gamerbrain]

[ in a terrible twist of irony, aoi has the thought: wow this guy isn't very smart :( poor him. ]

Boop boop...

[sengokus]

[oh my god painful]

Boop.... boop?

Ah... Shiraishi-san would be way better at handling this...

[gamerbrain]

[ she is not particularly aware that she said boop at all. ]

Aoi can't change that Aoi is a character in a visual novel.

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

You can, though.... I mean -

How is this place different from where you were before?

[gamerbrain]

The story was supposed to be a high school romance.

[ and it clearly is... not. anymore. ]

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

Okay, and now it's about...?

[he'll toss his cut up veggies into the pot for this instant ramen concoction hell yea]

[gamerbrain]

This.

[sengokus]

Sure, but how would you describe 'this'?

[gamerbrain]

Dunno. Lots of characters with varied designs, closed setting, open-ended plot... Feels like bonus content more than a real narrative.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . yea ok,]

But the - the open-ended part! Where you get to make your own choices and not get put on the rails! That's like life, right?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi wouldn't know.

[ she's never been alive before? ]

[sengokus]

Well, you can know now. 'cause you're stuck here with the rest of us - whatever that means.

[gamerbrain]

... This will teach Aoi what 'real life' is like?

[sengokus]

Not perfectly, no. It's a weird situation - there's a lot of people who are pretty crazy here.

[not even counting aoi herself]

But at least you can get an idea that it's not like - scripted?