#also i got finish zero escape too aaaa

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If you like Persona, have you considered Caligula Effect? 1 and 2.

Sorry I've never heard of that one before 😅

and I previously knew nothing about any of the Persona games until very recently too, maybe when I'm done I'll look into it! Thanks for the rec!

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I’m gonna have a nerdy rant about video games please excuse me (zero escape spoilers)

K so my fave game series I’ve become obsessed with is zero escape, aka a weird bullshit series where the fandom is both small and dead as shit. Yay. And I just finished the last game, zero time dilemma. I wasn’t initially gonna play this game just cuz I heard it was kinda bad, but the ending to vlr had me curious. Plus it had Junpei in it and, well, I think he’s neat :)

But aaaaaaa

Yeah it was bad. Ill go over the good things though. I thought the escape rooms were like challenging without being toooo challenging. They were a good medium between the 999 and vlr puzzles. I liked them. I also really liked the D team a lot. Luna was one of my favorite vlr characters so it’s kinda natural I liked Diana a lot too. I also thought Sigma and Phi were really good in this game. I wasn’t to crazy about either of them in the second game but like. They’re cute in this game. And even though they’re "getting together" situation was kinda iffy, I think Sigma and Diana were cute together. The only valid het couple in this series. I’m kinda indifferent about the whole twist where Phi is their daughter. I don’t hate it, and I think it was cool how it was foreshadowed in vlr, but I think it makes some dynamics weird. Personally, I think Sigma and Phi would have a better siblings relationship but eh

Now let’s get into the bad, even though there’s so much that I physically cannot go over all of it. Idk where to even start. First off, the art style and designs had like no heart. Like everyone has interesting designs (one might even say too interesting) in the first two games. In ztd though, everyone was boring as shit. Junpei went from cool Marty McFly trans king to emo middle schooler. HE WAS LITERALLY IN JUST A BLACK SHIRT AND BLACK JEANS GOD. I’m gonna save him for later though. I’m just disappointed. Also the art style was bleh. I thought it looked nice on the cover, and I was also really excited cuz I read that there were "animated cutscenes". Y’all. Ugh. The cutscenes ended up being like the whole game. I was just watching it all go by and I couldn’t skip any dialogue without accidentally skipping important stuff. Not only that, there was no heart in it at all. I’d argue that the 3D models looked better in this game than in vlr (I’m personally not into how they changed to 3D but that’s a rant for another day), but the models in vlr had GREAT emotions! They had zero emotion in this game. I hated it. Thankfully the voice actors were able to add emotion but damn

Next is the characters. Needle to say, I didn’t enjoy most of them. I liked everyone on D team, the end. First of all, freaking Carlos. Talk about boring. Like god maybe I would’ve liked his design if he wasn’t wearing the button up and also maybe wore like any other pants aaaa. Also like hm. He uh, sure liked his sister. In a concerning way. Like it wasn’t a super obviously bad thing but every time romance was mentioned he’d be like "I don’t need romance, I have my sister!" Do you see what I mean? It’s sketchy to me.

Then we got Eric 👺👺👺. I hated this guy. First off he’s like a ripoff of Kristoph from frozen, without the fun himbo personality. And the whole time he was thirsting after Mira which ughhhh. They were worse than Junpei and Akane in 999. Maybe I’m just too gay for this shit but ughh. Also it was a thing that was pretty well established thing that his father was abusive but like. It didn’t really...mean jack shit? Honestly nothing about Eric’s character mattered, he was pretty irrelevant. Also he was super super shitty to Sean who was literally a fucking child

Then Mira. How disappointing aaaagh. Like they were literally just like "oh here’s this chick that has committed murder, this isn’t relevant at all :)". Like damn they really just had her be completely unnecessary huh. It was super obvious to me that she was the one who killed Eric’s mom and I thought that would’ve come up but. It just didn’t. I was also curious about their relationship in general since it seemed like she only got with Eric so she could kill him. And god they could’ve at least done something like idk. Make her like Dio and break into the game to cuz trouble. Or she could’ve been zero. Maybe that’s lazy but it would have been better. But no they literally did nothing with her. There was a timeline where she brutally murdered Junpei just like, for no reason I guess??? Jesus

Sean and Akane were characters I’m just meh about. I didn’t hate Sean, but I didn’t really like him either. Akane was never really my gal in 999 in the first place so hm. I think she’s funny but she’s done some sketchy stuff and idk I’d probably like her better if the games weren’t always trying to put her with Junpei every five minutes

Then there was Junpei. Ughhhh. They were trying something but ughh. He was very emo and kinda douchey and I just wasn’t into him. Which is a massive shame cuz I liked him a lot in 999, and especially in vlr. Like all I can say is that it’s a real disappointment for me

Now onto plot holes and things that didn’t get covered that should have. As previously mentioned, they didn’t do anything with Mira at all. They also didn’t properly go over Sigma and Diana’s relationship that Sigma had vaguely talked about that happened in another timeline. Carlos’s sister was not important at all and they threw in some "she’s got the mind abilities" bullshit in without really doing anything with it. The timeline shit made my brain turn into goo aaaa. We dont get closure on how the pandemic was stopped, which was the reason I played this fucking game. We didn’t learn jack shit about the third nonary game. And then of course, there’s fucking DELTA

This filled me with so much rage y’all. The game was just like "oh yeah btw there was this random old man who was just there the ENTIRE TIME that never got acknowledged ever and he’s the big bad villain of the game. Not just that, he’s the founder of the crazy cult from vlr. AND he’s Diana and Sigmas kid!" Like wow you know I don’t think words can describe how bad that was. I think things would’ve been better if he just like wasn’t there yeah. Also I guess he’s supposed to be like, the player cuz he mind controls the characters into making certain choices. Ugh. IT WAS SO STUPID MAN. And I guess the only ONLY reason he made the second nonary game was to make sure he was born which is just eghhhmm. That is too messy for me. That’s some bad time bullshit. And weird reason but okay. God

There’s literally so much more I have to say but if I don’t I’m gonna pass out so I’m just gonna take a nap and die. Moral of the story is that I’m pissed a series I loved ended so shitty and don’t play this game unless you hate yourself. The end

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👋🏻 hey I was wondering if you could do a fanfic of college!au wendilse? Love your writing and keep it up ❤️❤️

AAAA Thank you so much friendo!! I love Wendilse so much. I hope you enjoy this

WC: 731

TW: Weed smoking because they’re in college, cursing, you know the usual

Wendla slammed the door of her dorm behind her and flopped down on her twin bed with tears streaming down her face. Today had been an awful day. Wendla forgot she had an eight am chemistry class and overslept. She missed coffee with Thea, which she looked forward to on Wednesdays. On top of that, she had painful period cramps which weren’t subsiding. And now she had to finish her economics project by next week with a partner that never did any work. Greta was a great friend, but she had zero work ethic. The entire day was just shit.

Wendla had only been lying face-down on her bed for a few moments before her phone buzzed.  It was Ilse calling. Wendla broke into a relieved grin and answered.

“Hey beautiful” Ilse’s sweet voice came through the phone.

“Hey babe” Wendla said, voice cracking from tears.

“Aww honey!! What happened?” Ilse could tell Wendla was upset even without looking at her.

“Ugh, my day was so shitty” Wendla began.

“Aww!! Ok, don’t worry. I’ll be there in ten minutes with ice cream and ‘The Princess Bride’. Anything else you need just shoot me a text”

“Ilse you don’t-” Wendla began to protest but Ilse was already gone. Wendla smiled again. Once Ilse was set on doing something there was little that could stop her. It made Wendla feel better already that Ilse was on her way.

Sure enough, ten minutes later Ilse was at Wendla’s door.

“Ok so I brought ‘Princess Bride’ but I brought some others too in case you wanted something different, I got chocolate and vanilla ice cream because I didn’t know what you were in the mood for. And I also got-” Wendla cut her off with a hug.

“I’m just glad you’re here” Wendla whispered.

“Of course babe!! I mean you’re always here for me and literally all of our friends. And I hate when you’re sad. I would hug you back but I’m carrying stuff”

“Oh right!!” Wendla let go of her girlfriend to help her with the bags. After they set everything down Wendla flew back to Ilse’s arms.

“Shh, it’s ok baby” Ilse whispered into Wendla’s hair. “I’m here now. Do you wanna talk about it? You just wanna cry? That’s ok too”

“Mmm, we can talk about it” Wendla said. They moved to Wendla’s bed.

“Ok. And if you’d like, when we’re done talking, I brought something special” Ilse said with a mischievous look.

“What is it?” Wendla asked.

“You’ll like it, just talk to me first”

Ilse took a puff from the joint and passed it to Wendla.

“It’s so pretty” Ilse said in awe.

“Yeah. We’re lucky” Wendla said as she took a puff.

“You know something, Wendla?” Ilse asked.

“What?”

Ilse giggled, probably a result of the weed.

“The way the sun lights up your face and your hair like that, like it does right now, is really pretty”

Wendla blushed, half because of Ilse, half from her high.

“Awww, you’re sweet”

“You’re sweeter” Ilse took a puff from the joint. It was getting short.

“I hope we can always be together” Wendla sighed as she laid her head down on her girlfriend’s shoulder.

“Mmm, me too. One of these days, I’m gonna paint you like Jack painted Rose in ‘Titanic’”

“Ilse!!” Wendla said, half in shock at Ilse’s sudden profanity. Really, it wasn’t a surprise. Ilse got touchy-feely when she was high.

“Shhh, only cause you’re really pretty. With or without clothes” Ilse giggled.

“You’re silly” Wendla said lovingly. “If I was not high right now, your clinginess would be annoying”

“But you wuv me!!” Ilse moaned. Wendla laughed again.

“I doooo”

The joint was too short to smoke now. Ilse tossed it off the fire escape. The girls sat in comfortable silence, cuddled into each other, watching as the sun disappeared over the horizon.

“I wish we could stay like this forever” Wendla said quietly.

“Yeah, but what if we had to pee? And like, if we get hungry or something?”

“That’s not what I meant stupid” Wendla chuckled and gave Ilse a light shove.

“I knoww, I wish we could stay here too”

A little later Wendla said softly, “Thanks for taking care of me today”

Ilse kissed the top of her girlfriend’s head. “Of course baby. Feeling better?”

“Much better” Wendla said with a smile.