Hello!! I just found your blog and your art is absolutely gorgeous!!!!! I'm in love with your style. Chefs kiss. Beautiful. If you're up for it, could you maybe do a Ranger? He's one of my favorite floormasters. If you're not feeling it, that's totally cool too. Anyways tysm and I hope you have a lovely day/night!! :)
SPOILERS BELOW FOR YTTD 2-1 AS WELL AS KAI’S MINISODE
Been replaying YTTD on the Steam release and I of course had to choose Reko lives route because I’m very gay (I was still very sad to kill Feko and Alice though). However, while Ranger is taunting Reko about her now dead brother, we get this little line. Previously, it just seemed like Ranger’s usual shenanigans. But given the context of Kai’s mini episode...
Does Ranger know that he is a doll of Sei? Given his lack of reaction to Kai in the recap between 2-1 and 2-2, it seems that he’s unaware of the memories of the human he’s based on (unlike other dolls we meet like Feko, whose AIs have as recent of memories as possible). So maybe he thinks he’s a completely original creation of Gashu’s? Or maybe knows he’s based off of someone but has no clue who that might specifically be?
But if he does know of Sei’s relationship to Kai, it makes that bit about a sibling bond hit like a truck. Just like Reko now, Kai’s brother (even if not biological) was killed right in front of him. Sei was the Alice of the past. And yet here’s Ranger, a doll of Sei, mocking sibling bonds.
I don’t have the analysis skills to continue with this but I’d love someone better at this than me to look into Ranger on a macro level given what we know from Kai’s minisode. We don’t have 3-2 yet so maybe we’ll learn more about Ranger and/or Sei there, but even if we don’t there’s probably a lot we all missed the first time around given we didn’t know about Sei at all.
THE BELOW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR YTTD 3-1B AS WELL AS ANZU’S MINISODE
And speaking of the minisodes and completely unrelated to this post: Ryuu is definitely related to fake Hinako right? The hair is the same shade of pink. And since fake Hinako was associated with ASUNARO, would that make Ryuu (and potentially the circus he was a part of) associated with ASUNARO as well?