#master detectives archives: rain code

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i'd like to think it cheered him up a bit

[wildfire317s-oc-box]

Raincode Alternate Timeline idea: Mrs.Furio lives timeline

In this timeline Mrs.Furio (Yakou's wife) would somehow manage to avoid her murder attempt until just before the blank week mystery where, knowing that Dr.Huesca is trying to kill her; she would go to the fake blood test in some type of disguise and with an alias having already put in her two weeks notice. She would get her blood drawn which would then be used to produce her homunculus on accident or purposefully but made to seem like an accident depending on whether or not she had made friends with any of the lady peacekeepers or any of her fellow lady scientists who would have enough access to sneak it into production while Dr.Huesca was distracted with planning Mrs.Furio's murder. Dr.Huesca would be successful in his next murder attempt while she was getting her belongings from her desk which would be right before the Homunculi escape. After the blank week mystery Mrs.Furio wakes up at the submarine along with Yakou finding everything just a tad bit messier than usual and not remembering anything from the week before like her husband and the rest of Kanai Ward's residents. Makoto having found a way to manipulate Dr.Huesca into leaving Mrs.Furio alone, respects her two week's notice. Over the next three years with Yakou's love, support and negotiation skills Mrs.Furio also becomes a detective of the WDO who also lacks a forte and works exclusively at the NDA. During the time that Vivia, Halara, Desuhiko, Fubuki and Yuma are around everything goes mostly the same way but with Mrs.Furio helping Yakou keep an eye on their "work-kids" as the "work-mom" and naturally getting dragged into their shenanigans until chapter four.

At which point Yomi having gotten sick of Dr.Huesca's crap has hired Fink the slaughter artist after finding a convenient note mentioning where to find him, and Makoto having figured out Yomi's plan has brought Yuma along to "solve" the "mystery" and take the advantage to get Yomi arrested. However the plan goes astray due to Mrs.Furio getting a bad feeling about where Yuma is running off too which lead's to Yakou and her rounding up the rest of the detectives and going to go find him. At which point Kurumi tells them that Yuma was going with Makoto to the Amaterasu HQ and that according to the peacekeeper's Fink the slaughter artist was going after Dr.Huesca. All of them knowing how Yuma is decide to go and get him or at least go help him before he gets in over his head and ask Kurumi to keep an eye on the submarine. Once there Desuhiko gets all of them into their disguises and split up into pair's to go find Yuma; Desuhiko with Yakou, Vivia with Halara and Fubuki with Mrs.Furio. At some point before Desuhiko, Yuma and Mrs.Furio go to get an Amapal and to go check on Dr.Huesca and leave Fubuki to keep watch, Yakou circles back around after distracting the peacekeepers and happens to overhear that Dr.Huesca left his intercom's microphone on and happens to overhear Dr.Huesca's plan to escape by pretending that Fink had somehow snuck in and that he was under attack to lure Yuma and the other detectives in, kill them with the toxic gas, frame Fink as their killer and using the sulfuric acid to make one of them a body-double. And Yakou being Yakou decides that he CANNOT allow that to happen, and decides that he needs to get to Dr.Huesca before Dr.Huesca can get to the people he cares about even if that means drawing the ire of both Yomi and Fink. Skipping forward to just past Dr.Huesca's murder at Yakou's hands to around the time Yakou gets stabbed, Instead of blocking out his face on the picture of him and Mrs.Furio he uses his blood to leave one last message "saved you-". At which point most of the rest of chapter four continues as usual. But it is revealed in what phantom-Yakou says that he was trying to protect them all.

Then skipping to chapter five Makoto places a body-double of Mrs.Furio along with the body-doubles of the other NDA detectives but her note's mention the pill she was working on before she quit and a "hidden" message as to where to find it and the respective research papers on it but otherwise it goes as normal.

Then during Yakou's dlc only the ending changes with Mrs.Furio revealing that she had snuck into the restricted area to get Yakou and give him the pill that Yuma retrieved for her with Makoto's help.

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So, out of curiosity. I have noticed some random posts about plotholes around Rain Code (like Fake Zilch being able to leave Kanai Ward, to name one ig) and I encountered one that made me question even more...

In reddit I found an ask saying: How did they replicate tattoos (like Yakou's) into the Homunculi? Because tattoos and piercings are not things that are natural from your body, you get them by own choice during any moment of your life. Some suggested that perhaps Yakou and a few others who also got tattoos and piercings had them made in those three years after the Blank Week Mystery and before the game.

Now, meanwhile that's a valid possible answer, the one question that raised for me is... How did they get the clothes for ALL homunculi between the blood test and the first homunculi created? Because you can lie your way around the blood test with the 'it is for a potential disease', but like, how do they asked for clothing? Unless Amaterasu had time to buy all clothing?

And also, unless my memory is wrong, according to the game (correct me if not), homunculi revive after 24 hours, but the original Dr. Huesca said that they did the 'die and revive' test of them along with the failed attempt to fix their reaction towards the sun in the lapse of 14 hours (actually, even less because by that time, the homunculi were already bersek). So, do defective homunculi revive earlier than possibly Makoto, who is a perfect homunculus, would if he died?

Those are my random questions for plotholes (unless there is an in-game explanation that I ignored??)

[yomi-hellsimp]

His waist looks very grabbable.

[more-ofyou-tolove]

Vivia is definitely the fan-favorite.

[hopeymchope]

Rain code has an embargo in it, justonegamr & other lpers can't post anything passed Chapter 4 (and it ended on a cliffhanger to!)

You know, I actually get why they'd do it. Story-heavy games like Rain Code are unfortunately exactly the kind of game that many people will choose to just watch instead of playing it for themselves. You have to do *something* to make people actually want to play it... especially when they spent so much more time and money to develop this game than they ever did before with a Danganronpa or a Zero Escape or an A.I.: The Somnium Files. They need this game to actually make money.

Honestly, letting people post up through Chapter 4 seems like a LOT of game that they're allowing be freely spoiled. I would've expected even less... I'm only up through the investigation of Chapter 1 (which is, in fact, the third chapter you play thanks to "Chapter 0" and "Prologue" preceding it), and I've been playing it for a few hours every day since Saturday!

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

like honestly just give your non binary characters traditionally "gendered" features. just do it. it's not like being androgynous ever stopped non binary characters from being misgendered.

frisk undertale and kris deltarune were androgynous and are only ever referred to by "they/them" and ppl are still arguing over how the "main character is not the player but their own person" message didn't apply to their genders bc they refuse to wrap their head around different pronouns. raine owlhouse was paraded around as "disney's first ever nb representation" by everyone and their mother but bc they have short hair other countries dub them as male. this also happens to most anime nb characters bc of how japanese pronouns work. halara raincode literally has the color scheme of the non binary flag AND their in-game profile says that they, and i quote "have no specified gender" AND several characters remark on it in the actual game but bc theyre voiced by a female voice actor ppl still call them a woman.

like literally at this point just give your nb characters huge tits and a massive beard. if ppl refuse to accept the existence of non binary characters in media, then there is no way to make a character non binary "enough" to convince them otherwise. no matter how much you hammer in their androgyny in an attempt to detach them from "male" and "female," there will be people determined to assign gender roles to any trait you give your character.

creators being hesitant to give their non binary characters traits that could be associated with a binary gender is why every goddamn genderqueer character that the creator wants you to take seriously in popular media has shoulder length hair and a board-flat figure and a perfectly neutrally pitched voice. like. just do what you want at this point. the character is non binary because your story said so and people who misgender them would have done that no matter how androgynous they look.

[onebadnoodle]

at the whims of a death god

[milkayart]

finished rain code

[tokimaeki]

rain code is good

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in which desuhiko shares a new band with yuma to get him into music and yuma likes it so much he shares it with his boss-roommate-chief-friend. no consequences occur

[wildfire317s-oc-box]

Yet another Raincode shitpost:

The NDA VS War-Heads Candy: (or how i think they would react to trying warheads, which for those who dont know are a type of hard candy that comes in a variety of flavors and are notorious for being sour enough to make peoples tongues bleed) Feat. The train gang! & Kurumi

Chief Yakou: gets one of the blue raspberry ones and eats it thinking it wont be that big of a deal. Until the sour kicks him right in the teeth and his face puckers like never before. He nearly spits it out but after being told it's not sour to the core he sucks it up and keeps going. He gets a kick out of it dyeing his tongue as blue as his hair.

Halara: the one who brought the war-heads and thought it would be entertaining to share them with their co-workers/friends and the main one who actually likes them before hand. Purposefully picks two one lemon and one black cherry and doesn't even flinch.

Vivia: the other one who actually likes warheads. He manages three of the green-apple ones before his tongue starts bleeding. He doesn't flinch though which concerns the others. Though he does admit that three at once was a bad idea later. Also finds it amusing that they stained his tongue green.

Fubuki: gets her hands on one of the watermelon ones and as soon as it hits her tongue her face immediately puckers and she tears up. She spits it out and immediately goes for the nearest water bottle looking like a kicked puppy.

Desuhiko: is the dumbass that despite seeing how they affected everyone but Halara and Kurumi, grabs a small handful and shoves it in his mouth. Granted it takes a second to hit but he quickly regrets his decision, however in an attempt to make himself look tough he does not spit them out even if his face betrays him by puckering with tears, snot and slobber all over his face and naturally screwing up his makeup. Finds it hilarious that his tongue got stained black despite the bleeding.

Yuma: his tastebuds are beyond repair from one to many failed and forgotten attempts at cooking. He has almost the same reaction as Desuhiko but to a singular blueberry one. He tries to keep going, he really does and he almost makes it before a certain ghostly someone says something and he coughs it out.

Kurumi: shes the one who can take a handful of war-heads and not only not even flinch, but keeps going until she is stopped. Claims they aren't that sour despite everyone's shocked expressions. Her reasoning being "there are plenty of candies that say they are extremely sour and most of them aren't even close"

Zange: picks out one of the black cherry ones and only reacts because he was not expecting it to be sour. He handles it pretty well, barely flinching especially considering he got one of the more sticky ones.

Fake! Zilch: he casually grabs a few and despite the initial surprise at how sour they actually are finds that he likes them. He keeps going until he accidentally makes his tongue bleed and doesn't bother to check if his tongue has changed color. (They kind of remind him of yomi in a weird way)

Pucchi: she grabs one of the black cherry ones, licks it and immediately refuses to touch it again despite being told it does turn sweet after a bit. Not because she cant handle it, she just doesn't like the taste. The most reaction she gives is a big nose-scrunch

Melami: Much like Kurumi she can also handle a handful of these but instead she actually likes how sour they are rather than being able to ignore how sour they are. She is one of the few who manages to get different bands of color on her tongue.

Aphex: is the dumbass that grabs a handful but instead of trying to take them all at once, takes them one at a time, one right after another and REALLY makes his tongue bleed. He puckers every time he puts one in his mouth but he tries so hard not to show it that he just makes a really goofy face instead. He gets annoyed that his tongue doesn't get stained.

[dailyfigures]

Shinigami-chan ; Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE ☆ Kotobukiya

[yomi-hellsimp]

I think Yomi should wear a skirt and show off his legs. He's so pretty. And maybe his thighs would be covered in bite marks and hickeys by fake Zilch and Makoto.

[more-ofyou-tolove]

I just started chapter 0 and I am loving it.

[en-chi-la-da]

bbys first rain coders 👍🏼