#the story is gonna get darker from this point just a warning ahaha

[demodraws0606]

The very weird plays in Tsukasa and Rui's last event and how they can be analysed and the weird detail that links them together

I made a post about this before but it was poorly made (and also not really a theory or analysis it was just me having brainworms) so I deleted it and I want to actually make an analysis about it. Unfortunatly this also means this post will be long as fuck which can be a positive or a negative depending on how you view it.

Warning for mentions of suicide and drowning

So Tsukasa and Rui both have plays that are kind of the focus of the event, to the point where wxs literally stop to basically explain to us the plot of them (in world they're just talking about it but like it's clear it's also meant for us the viewers to understand the plays they're doing).

And these two plays are already very interesting and...well dark on their own but they have a extremely strange similarity that I don't believe is a coincidence (because that would be insane) and also just kinda shakes the foundation on how colorpalet write these sorts of topics in general.

First I want to preface this by saying that me analysing these plays isn't some kind of fool's herrand as colorpalet has explicitely hid backstory information, future lore hints and overall just little bits of character into WxS's plays more often than not. Of course some plays are more explicit than others.

A huge exemple of this, is the first arc ender where the play they do to save Phennyland is one that obviously is meant to parallel Emu's backstory with her grandpa. It also stands as Very early foreshadowing between the parallels of Emu's grandpa and Tsukasa that Emu sees in Admist a Dream.

So yeah, from a writing standpoint, makes sense you don't want the plays you spent a lot of words describing to the audience to be useless especially considering colorpalet has a limited amount of time to explore these stories.

I also want to get this as early as possible before I get possible criticism because I know how this fandom acts towards analysis that delve into darker topics. Don't try and respond with "colorpalet wouldn't write something like that" or "this is too dark for colorpalet". Not only because I'm not insinuating that they will actually go full dark mode and depict something graphic.

But also because this is something that is already IN the text, I'm not making up darker themes here, that is something that colorpalet chose to add in WonderlandXShowtime's event stories. I'm only bringing up how odd this is for colorpalet and how it could relate to the overall story.

I'll bring this up later because this specific criticism gets very silly once you delve deeper into it but I don't want to stall the analysis any longer.

So now with this out of the way, let's get into the plays.

This is the story of the first play showed in Tsukasa's event

Of course the first thing that stands out is how much darker this play is compared to well...almost anything colorpalet addresses in stories ? This definitely shocked when I first read it, there is no usage of "disappearing" and it Actually describes the method as to which the protagonist wants to end their life which the only thing close to that we see is Kanade hinting on wanting to starve herself. But I'm gonna get into how weird this is for colorpalet later.

Extremely dark topics aside you can easily draw parallels to this story to Nene and Rui specifically already. The story is vague enough that those parallels don't hold too much water (ahaha get it) BUT it's still something that I feel is important to point out nontheless.

Nene and Rui were both unsuccesful in their dreams before the main story. Nene having given up going on stage and Rui never being able to be a director being forced to use robots for his plays.

Both were pretty jaded and well "worn out" until they met Tsukasa and Emu which would be a stand in for the protagonist of this play going through various encounters with many people and deciding to live a little longer.

(The reason I don't compare this protagonist to Tsukasa and Emu here is because I don't think they fit as well. Tsukasa's issues wasn't being unsuccesful its more so him forgetting the reasons behind his dreams and Emu's situation while similar just doesn't feel like it fits this story in particular)

So yeah this story is pretty simple so there is not much to analyse or pick apart. I could go scene by scene but then I would be distracting from the main point I want to make so I'll just be using the simple descriptions of the overall story.

NOW this one is a doozie, I didn't put the whole story that's described but I think compared to the last one this one is way more obvious as to what this could paralleling (or even foreshadowing if you want to be spicy).

I don't think this play is meant to be interpreted in only one way but the most obvious interpretation is the parallels to the disbandement arc. I think it particularly fits Rui in the disbandement considering how Katsuyuki is described but it can also work with Emurui in general as well.

Someone struggling meeting someone who brings joy in their life before they seemingly have to leave, said person being desperate for that not to happen.

I do think it's also meant to be a sort of double meaning here as if you have seen my cyberpunk deadboy analysis, the idea of someone leaving silently with the other trying to chase them down is something that just feels...idk intentional. But I don't have any evidence other than vibes here.

Now that I analysed these plays I want to get into the one common thread they have that is extremely baffling and concerning.

They both have the main character contemplating suicide by drowning.

Now you can be nitpicky and point out how the play in Rui's event doesn't explicitely say that this dude wants to drown himself but I just find it more likely mostly because of how this and the description of Katsuyuki's characters are phrased.

When Katsyuki is said to be "without the will to live"

THAT is a literal translation

Unfortunatly I'm not a japanese speaker so don't take my research with 100 pourcent certainty

However if you look at how this sentence is phrased in japanese, this translation is pretty much word for word

And also just what Hajime says doesn't feel like what someone would say to someone if they're just leaning to close to look at the ocean or just being reckless.

Anyways now that I've made my point that there is a 95 pourcent chance this is Heavily implying Katsuyuki was plannign on drowning himself the question is....

what the fuck ?

Now one time is already a big deal considering colorpalet's insitance on censoring explicit mentions of suicide and for it to be implied twice in the span of two events in a row ? And have it be specifically be by drowning both times ?????

I don't understand people just brushing this off because Colorpalet Actively chose to make the plays like this. These plays often take a large portion of the screentime, and I've showcased how they can hold story significance so such a blatant connection between them feels extremely intentional.

This is why complaints about expecting Colorpalet to get too dark and that it's unrealistic would be legitmatly silly because what's more unrealistic ?

That colorpalet has tackled this dark topic twice in a row to foreshadow or hint at possible topics that will be addressed in the future of WxS's story ? Weither it's through flashbacks or implications like 25ji OR even just symbolism.

Or that colorpalet just went and made the plays needlessly dark, for no reason ?????? Twice in a row with it being drowning both times ??????? With the same actor and both being the protagonist of the play ?????? Have those plays that take a lot of screentime being described just being completely devoid meaning ???????

I think I made my case about why the fandom's usual kneejerk reaction wouldn't make sense here, this isn't a "X character is secretly suicidal/depressed" situation.

Either way, I actually don't legitematly know what this could entail. This is clearly important enough that colorpalet is obviously shoving it in our faces but I do not know the meaning of it towards WxS's story just yet.

It could be hints at some of the members backstory (BTW by that I mean it could be hints at basically anything, it doesn't have to be explicitely 1/1 "they wanted to drown themselves") specifically Rui considering how suspicious they are at handling ms Rui but that is it's own can of wringling worms. But that could also be my fav character bias speaking tbf.

It could also just be meant to be some kind of like, message of colorpalet saying that they are willing to go darker with WxS's storyline if necessary. In a way showing that the gloves are off if they're not censoring dark topics that they usually censor.

Anyways I'm not delving further into it because otherwise i'd get into unhinged rants but honestly this subject just gives me so much brainworms because legit what the Fuck is colorpalet doing rn.

They are being so weird for literally no reason with WxS's story and I just have to sit back and watch them just drop weird shit out of nowhere.

Edit : One of my friends pointed out how one of them is a movie and one of them is a play and i realised I might've mixed those words up while writing this so yeah 😭

[tnsophiaonly]

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Chapter 1:

𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞♥︎ 𝒀𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆!𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝐱 𝐈𝐬𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐢'𝐝 𝐅!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞r

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Trigger warning.

Ft. OC's

Timeline: before in-game events

Pt. 2

Chapter 2:

Caught ya!

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Ping!

Name: Hikari

Status: Acquaintance

Opinion: [redacted]

Hikari has a short black hair with white tips at the end. White skin tone. Blue crystal eyes

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The teacher just stared at you irritated. You're not his type but he had to put up an act you know? But then you said no, which made it worse. Then you started crying. Seriously how worse can you get?

The male teacher forced a smile, "Now now dear, stop crying~ it doesn't fit your beautiful face y'know?~" he cringed at the nickname he called you.

Then you started smiling. It was as if nothing happened, it was so unrealistic. But this isn't real so why not?

"haha." You said dryly. It was getting more awkward. You could just die.

But ofcourse, if you were gonna be a vermin in their eyes, you will stay by them to keep them annoyed! Apart of you wishes to be no burden, but that's ignored. It needs to be ignored.

Then an unrealistic time skip happened, woah, now it's cleaning time! You wished it was this fast in real life, but you're no longer in school anyways.

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You were gonna leave now when you heard the teacher ask for a black haired chick to stay after class, because he wanted to *discuss* some things with her.

You wanted to stay. But instincts said that you wait if he does any red flags to her then you come in. But you wanted to-

"Hey weird girl!" A cheery male voice was heard, followed by an irritated male voice "Shut up, Tadahiro!"

I glanced behind me with a fake smile, a smile that makes everyone back off. But they knew better.

"S-sorry Tadanori!" The one who called out for you with Saturated Blue Hair with pretty pink eyes, Tadahiro. 'Who are these people..?' you thought quietly, they weren't in the story line. Did you change things..? No... Please...

Tadanori. With Saturated Darker Blue hair with dull green eyes. Who was at least 7cm taller than (don't ask how) Tadahiro. (Ff: Tadahiro is 175cm tall/5'9ft)

"Who are you guys?" You asked the two identical people, you didn't call them twins yet, what if they weren't?

"I knew it! See Tadanori, she isn't what she was earlier!" Tadahiro sounded... excited? You cocked your head to the side as a sign of confusion

You could hear a tsk from Tadanori. As he averted his gaze from you and Tadahiro.

Then your realization hit you like a brick and your realized yoú didn't put up your act and your supposed to be tone at them. You were supposed to be childish, devious (Deez nuts), cunning-

"Tadahiro! But pleaseee call me Hiro!!" He ran up to you, and expected a hug. Then stopped midway, oh.

You were strangers

"Ahaha, sorry about that..." He quickly apologized, "Tadanori, address me as me Nori." Nori spoke and swiftly walked away

"Oh yeah! What's your name? I forgot your name even tho we've been like- classmates for soo long!" Hiro asked. Something felt wrong but you just moved with the groove.

"(name).." there was no point in even hiding your true self if it's exposed already, but you shouldn't have given up yet.

"Great! How about we meet up at the music club after cleaning time?" He suggested, "Great I'll meet you there!" He said and ran off completely not even making me answer. It was a demand.

Just after that you heard a "Let me go!" then muffled after, oh no. I quickly glanced at the glass windows, seeing that teacher touching the MC or Hikari so inappropriately. Worse that he was about to kiss her and she was a crying mess.

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TW!!! APPLIED PXDXPHILLIA AND NSFW THEMES. PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION OR SKIP.

Then he kissed her, went for her collarbone and started nipping on her neck. Hikari was squirming, bawling her eyes out, desperate for help, I ran at the door only to turn pale just to see it locked. You were banging at the door.

LET GO, LET GO, LET GO. I'LL KILL YOU I SWEAR- those phrases were swirling in your mind.

At least it distracted him from going further and went forward to the door. And was about to check who it was. Only to see nothing.

Then he went back to her, whispered something then let her go. She quickly ran away from him. Little do any of them know.

Someone from the window, was recording everything. ahahaha. evidence.

You quickly hid your phone when you heard footsteps coming and stole a broom from someone nearby and started brushing.

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Clean time was over, so quickly, but you were busy thinking if you should go and meet with Hiro. You were... kind of doubting the boy.

Not really kind of, you really were doubting the boy.

With the weird way he asked you to meet him, correction demand. At the music club. Isn't the music club losing its members? He must be u- wait you're overthinking again.

Just go with the flow.

Do it now.

Regret onwards.

I went to the music club, and Hiro was actually waiting for you? then he glanced at you and quickly went forward. Held your hand,.

"I knew you were gonna come!!! Ahahah!" He predicted? No your overthinking things.

"What did you want me to meet you for?"

"Obviously, for you to join the cl- for me to learn more about you and you learn about me! Let's learn about me first, let's get inside the clubroom and check out those instruments! I'll tell you how they work!"

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Club time was already done and Hiro still hasn't shut up. He's forcing you to do instruments even though it's clear as the sky that you were not interested/good at it.

You played wonderfully awful. You cringed at yourself and felt like digging up a hole and rot there. Seriously why is he so pestering, he's like, putting you in a tight position, where you cannot answer neither or either.

But only one.

"Your so awful at this! You need to be good at this to at least be capable of joini- I mean- capable of playing wonderfully!" Hiro said in a really concerned tone.

"Look, i'm not interested/good at this. Please let me go-" "I'll help youuuu!!!" He cuts you off.

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You spent the whole after school learning about the basics of (instrument).

"Tadahir-" you snapped your head to the boy clearly annoyed that you were forced to play something you didn't wanna play but was cut off "Hiro. What do you need?" He asked sweetly.

"Hiro... Yeah... Well, can i just practice this tomorrow? It's kind of lat-" "How about you come over to my place! Great! Come with me!" He did it again, he asked a question without needing an answer, it was another demand from him.

He grabbed your hand harshly and tightly, you shoved his hand off.

"Stop going and deciding things for me. I already told you it's late." It was futile. He took your hand yet again. And walked out to see Nori outside on the verge of snapping.

"What the hell took you so long Tadahiro?! You want me to keep on waiting for you till Christmas?! Hell no! It's 7PM/19:08 goddamnit..!" Nori snapped and boy he was really scary, like literally, his voice was so loud it echoed throughout the halls.

"And you! You could have at least tell him to fuck off!" He scolded you too, and damn he was harsher on you.

He shoved Hiro's grip on your wrists that left a mark and pushed you, falling on the floor with a thud.

Your instincts are too glare at the man with hatred. And Nori took Hiro away. Hiro didn't even glance at you nor tried to help you out.

You stood up and dusted off your clothes and walked to the other exit. You heard them arguing outside.

"Tadanori, I swear I just wanted to-" Hiro tried reasoning with the angry angwy man

"Tadahiro! Stop it! You were spending too much time with that weird woman!" Nori quickly cuts his sentence off and pointed a finger at him in an offensive way.

"Why do you care so much Tadanori?!?!" Hiro fought back, he was also angry now

"Because I'm your brother?!" Silence.

"I just wanted a new member at the club! I had a bet with him!" Hiro was exposed

"This is your prideful problems! You know that he's a literal threat! And the fact that your also talking to Hikari makes this worser than it' should've been."

"She was the one that talked to me firsttt!!"

They continued arguing.

"You! What the hell are you watching for?!" Oopsies, Nori caught you red handed!

"Oh I don't know, I was to about to pass by then I saw you guys arguing. I'll get going now." You were about to escape when—

Hiro quickly grabbed your wrist, stopping you any further, he looked rather tense, worried?

Nori was caught off guard by his brother's actions and was about to do something when..

"h.. hey? Hey-! I- whatever you heard earlier about me mentioning of wanting you as a member- please forget forget about it! I'll- I'll do anything- if he finds out I was forcing people to be a member i-" Hiro was about to cry and dropped on his knees.

You being you, didn't really know how to react, I mean you don't even know what's going on. But apart of you thinks something else....

"Uhm... I guess so? I'll forget about it sooner or later either way." You replied and Hiro felt like every hope was within him. He was delighted, he hugged your leg (ps. If you don't have legs, just think that the game regrow it for you /dedicated for the Walmart ones out there 😔🤟).

"thank you thank you thank you thank you-!" He was chanting gratitude, geez what's up with the he they are talking about to make him act like this?

Hiro wouldn't get off your legs and Nori had to drag him away, —much to Hiro's dismay— "I'll see you tomorrow~!" Hiro said so giddily and excitedly.

You just stared in silence, what the heck is going on?

You flinched tensely out of nowhere, you looked around searching to see if someone else was left, then you thought it was best for you to just leave and go to your so called home.

She just stared at you run away, did she scare you? She apologizes. She didn't mean that. She just wanted to see her saviour earlier, to admire her from afar.

Guess someone else admired you huh? Ofcourse who wouldn't-

Oh, it's already late,too late in fact. She needs to go home.

(the color of the text matters btw! And I wonder, who is the he they're talking about, and why are the twins so scared of him? Clue: A member at the Literature Club!)

Also, what will you do tomorrow? Apparently Hiro asks you to hang-out with him today but Hikari reminds you that you guys have a project tomorrow! Who/What will you choose? Vote in comments!

Hang out with Tadahiro.

Do the Project with Hikari.

A character trait you stole! (Politeness, I mean anyone is, I just can't think of any characters that are polite.. only makoto came in mind)