Junpei could be kind of embarrassed, or grinning about his {whatever ninjagirl is}, or sheepish about the circumstances of bringing Yakugashi here. It appears more a humorous look than something else, perhaps, but of course that doesn't prove anything.
Invisigoth wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:26 pm
I suspect that Ninja Grrl is very high ranked in their organization given her casual approach to an emergency termination order, questioning of Miho and general nonchalance regarding Junpei sneaking Miho into the Ninja compound to hide her.
Given her speech and behavior patterns, demeanor and now, leaving so suddenly, maybe it could also be hardly ranked at all.
Roamer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:00 pm
I have to believe that someone with the abilities of a Kitsune has to have been warned about what using power recklessly can do. That would partially explain her anger, but she can't help but think that she has to realize that she might have done something like that as well, by accident. That fear could be feeding into it as well.
Depending on what abilities they have. And Yaku seems very angry. But is also likely partly exaggerating. We're lead to believe it's about her mother, and the situation, Megumi, the momentum and direction of events in general, whatever she's thinking in 1505, including something more we don't know about. What is Yaku planning on doing... What can she actually do, whatever it's about. However much she learned at the shrine and thereabouts and along the way.
Or sort of like when njgrl appeared to test if Miho was serious about dying or not in 1484 (whatever the reason and whatever she determined from the exercise) which reminded me of the supposed lack of experience in rescuing people Miho suggests in 1018.
There's that thing about preparing oneself for taking action that is unfamiliar, and the entire aspect of how behaviors change from being in a group, especially with higher hierarchy or more alpha participants, and being alone and the instigator. And sometimes it's more obvious than other times even still (like Kimiko in 946 I suppose is an example)
Liminaut wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:26 am
It's not that Yaku is a Kitsune. It's that Yaku is a Named Protagonist with A Backstory and A Fanbase on the MT forums. That's way out of N1nj4Grrl's league.
Indeed.
cidjen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:25 am
Maybe she's having second thoughts, but then, what of her 'you don't have any f*king idea how much I want to live!' shoutout a few comics ago...
Yes, she wants to live, no, she must die. The tragedy stokes the flames of emotion. It's not nearly as exciting if she wants to die, or if simply just nothing happens to her or anyone around her.
Yet there are apparently mechanisms for exiting and returning, or at least having it seem that's what happens. If termination is just a story reset, however it works, whatever she is, why would she necessarily care. (although if we take our clearest likely example at the end of chapter 9, there was no story reset; perhaps not enough people were aware for it to matter, or maybe that's not actually how it works) So, an exit to a support facility Yuki and Piro go to, to another plane of existence Kenji speaks of, perhaps even inside of Endgames. Wherever. She doesn't like that character, she's not that character really, appearances can be deceiving, and if anyone should know that, it's her? Then, if in a story, especially the large powerful far-reaching ones, she doesn't die, all sorts of bad things happen. Terrible things, ripping asunder the very fabric of reality, tearing apart the game world, destroying societies, making tough guy superheroes cry like babies. Even if she hasn't apparently died, as in being currently apparently alive.
So how has this particular situation been affecting the fans, or if we wish, Otaku and hordes and other? Having an emergency termination protocol backup, that's compelling narrative, perhaps even cathartic. Even if those tasked seem incapable of actually carrying it out. She beats them up or others take it off track for her. All are powerless to stop the story (whatever it is) from involving them into it. Yanking everyone into it and making them incapable of breaking back out. Which seems potentially a good explanation of what Miho was doing in Endgames; looking for those who wouldn't be pulled in - and potentially a good explanation of why she stopped interacting with Piro and Largo; they weren't capable of meeting that.
Should she want something, and know what that is, if we imagine that Miho is unable or incapable of explaining clearly as to what she wants. Regardless, her going away under cover of a useful occurrence, and everyone forgetting her, shouldn't that satisfy the emotional requirements? Even if there's no dying, just something equivalent to it, might that not include a reset of some sort? Then why not Kimiko acting for her, appearing to die. That's usually how it works, isn't it, the actresses fill in, and provide the experience for. But how does one kill the ephemeral, destroy ideas, remove thoughts and memories. Seems a being that is like that isn't killable, she doesn't exist and never did, even if participants can't forget about what they think was actually there. It leaves a sister no more capable of performing a final blow than Junpei was, or for that matter were Ed or Pirogoeth or Piro or Junko, or whoever else might have thought they tried to. And even if they try, nothing happens or she removes them physically, but mostly they don't even try unless she (or the story, if it's any different) lets them. But boom, you substitute for her. Or she's already jumped out, you've been asked to save her and don't retaliate, the datapad gives you information that scares you away, you've stabbed him and broken the spell but the exact copy has already been created. Others return to this scene... and the potential dealer of death hides from being caught in grandson's room.
This Tohya person really wants to live, but not live, she is really freaked out she didn't die, but can't get anyone to kill her or let anyone kill her; something else, another something else, more something else, and so on. Maybe it's just easier to not choose a something out of everything Miho says and does, to not treat that something chosen as the truth. Maybe it's just easier to ignore or discount each something and all somethings, until if and when one of them happens and is shown to be valid. Until, it's all only perception and potential.
Undead Rangers Tactical Strike Force Trans-Dimensional Horror Command was only 4 blocks from Megagamers. In that particular dimensional plane at least.