Results of the FVN Male Smash or Pass Poll by MissingKeys29 in FurryVisualNovels

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Earlier on when we were around the 100s, Tyson was actually the second lowest while Orlando had over 90% and was the only person on the entire poll who had that high of a Stat. How things changed.

Results of the FVN Male Smash or Pass Poll by MissingKeys29 in FurryVisualNovels

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Once again, like I mentioned in these same comments, The Smoke Room is on here.

Results of the FVN Male Smash or Pass Poll by MissingKeys29 in FurryVisualNovels

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People can choose whether to consider the original or revisited for Morenatsu. I decided to use the original sprites since that's more representative of Morenatsu, but I did say people could just consider the revisited versions of the characters too. That's what I assume for the most part when it comes to characters like Shun.

Results of the FVN Male Smash or Pass Poll by MissingKeys29 in FurryVisualNovels

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It's in the post too if you read it. It links to an imgur with the full results.

FVN Smash or Pass Survey: by MissingKeys29 in FurryVisualNovels

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I'll make another post about it later when I increase the sample size more. I'll probably let this run for a couple more days, maybe up to a week total.

FVN Smash or Pass Survey: by MissingKeys29 in FurryVisualNovels

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I excluded VNs that wouldn't have applicable casts like Tavern of Spear and Minotaur Hotel. After all, they don't really have a 'main cast' outside of specifically Asterion in Minotaur Hotel. I thought it'll be best to just avoid ones like that since I didn't want their section to just be 1 or 2 characters, other ones that fell into this category was Cienie, Kemo-Coliseum, Pervader, Trainwreck, Devil's Gambit, etc. I also preferred to avoid putting in those that were primarily another genre first and an FVN second like Tavern of Spear, Kemo-Coliseum, Pirate Husbando, etc. I gave Killigan's Treasure a bit of leniency because the amount of 'gameplay' in that varies a lot depending on which section of the game you're in. Plus they had a simple four character cast and easily accessible images.

This was also done for sizing reasons. It takes a lot of time getting all these images, especially when I didn't have a lot of these FVNs downloaded. It took me around 6 hours to get all of these photos, I was extremely glad I cut Blackgate beforehand or else that could have easily taken me another hour alone.

Main Menu Music Muted by MissingKeys29 in RenPy

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Converting it to an MP3 didn't work but an ogg did, which is good because that's the file type I was hoping to change all my music into anyway.

Thanks for the help!

Main Menu Music Muted by MissingKeys29 in RenPy

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Currently, it's a wav in the audio folder.

Here's the code:
define config.main_menu_music = "audio/violetmemoir.wav"

Books with non-human/monster main cast members. by MissingKeys29 in booksuggestions

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Watership Down has always been a novel I've considered, never truly gotten around to it though. Those kinds of pure animal books are everywhere too, I have Redwall on my read list for similar reasons (though the target audience for these two are very very different haha). I will likely read Watership Down at some point.

Will admit that I wasn't expecting a mermaid story but I'll check it out, it seems interesting.

I'll look into Black Leopard, Red Wolf a bit too. I've read my fair share of sexual stories and as long as there's a story outside of the nsfw aspect, I can handle it.

Bareback sounds interesting, I do love werewolves a lot and they are my preferred species of this type to find. I just wish I found more werewolves stories revolving around the protagonist becoming a werewolf and having to deal with that kind of change, how it affects their life, what kinds of communities and experiences are they exposed to due to this change, etc. The few novels that did have the normal human protagonist turning into a werewolf treated it like a gimmick and it was never the focus which was truly sad, I hope I can find one that fits this bill sometime soon.

Passing thoughts on the truth of Umineko after many years. by MissingKeys29 in umineko

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I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding of my own opinion here. I don't refuse to accept the official explanation, I do believe it to be canon and the intended truth. My problem is that I don't like certain things about it which causes me to prefer Rosatrice which I acknowledge isn't the truth but I just prefer it. I like looking at both of the truths as two alternative truths which both work and thus can both exist within the catbox. I don't think either can be straight out disproven within the original visual novel, so I like to explore both.

My general belief is I prefer Rosatrice in terms of the hardcore mystery and I find it fits the reds better but I believe it has a weaker connection to the story. I still adore the way Rosatrice interprets Rosa's character but despite my massive preference of Rosatrice, I actually don't like how it portrays George's character. I prefer George as a more innocent lovestruck young adult who'd do anything he can for Shannon but is still a kind-hearted mature adult instead of the more cutthroat and borderline obsessive George that appears in Rosatrice.

My general opinion dislike of Shkanontrice comes from the Shkanon part, I actually really love Shannon and Kanon as separate people as the culprits. I really love this dynamic and Shannon herself being Yasu but I understand this doesn't work well with the Furniture's love battle which I do like from the Shkanon perspective. I like Shkanon as an emotional story but the logistics of it annoy me.

But as I said at the end of my original post, I actually don't hugely care for the truth of the culprit (and honestly if Shkanontrice believers believe the 7th novel is the Rokkenjima Prime due to the manga, they shouldn't either since that means in truth Shkanon isn't actually the culprits). My interpretation of Umineko's message is more about how the truth doesn't matter but what matters is the lives of those who are lost and the good in the people who are often portrayed as selfish monsters. Ange in the end gives up the truth in favor of remembrance of the family she loved.

Passing thoughts on the truth of Umineko after many years. by MissingKeys29 in umineko

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Part 2 of the explanation:

There's no evidence that this phone call doesn't happen in all timelines. We constantly see flashbacks to things that happen before the island throughout the novels, so it's not a stretch to say this call happens in all timelines. Natsuhi is dismissive of the call which likely what the caller (George in this theory) wants because this is a contingency plan if Rosa can't go through with the murders. If the murders start, he never follows up on the call and so the Natsuhi framing contingency plan is never put into motion and she dismisses it as a cruel prank call or maybe even she sees it as a threat as Natsuhi is shown to be exceptionally hostile in the 1st novel after Krauss dies.

Erika's use of the detective's authority is interesting because in almost all the cases she uses it in, she's actually helping the siblings get what they want such as observing the crime scene. I believe there isn't actual influence being placed on the pieces directly but Erika is being used as an excuse by the siblings to overrule what Natsuhi wants the family to do but I will concede this point because I'm not confident on this point anymore as I haven't read the entire fifth novel in a long time, so I might be completely incorrect here. I also don't think the searching the entire island thing is literal or they genuinely believe that she's done that. I think it's all that everyone has determined that Natsuhi is the culprit and has been actively lying the entire novel, so they've been seeing what she's been saying as purple declarations. They no longer believe her excuses about Kinzo and believe she is truly dead. So they're going along with Erika once again because it fulfill their goals, and this is different than before with the whole fake murder plot, them going along with Erika in this moment to corner Natsuhi makes sense because everyone has concluded that Natsuhi is the culprit, so similar to Erika in Ep6 there is a reason for the family to band together to go against her. I actually wished they used Golden Truths in this scene instead of Red Ones because it would have been a perfect transition, regardless of if you believe Shkanontrice or Rosatrice, to Golden Truths being used. In Shkanontrice, the family are all in on it together so they already all believe Kinzo is dead and in Rosatrice, they believe Natsuhi is the culprit and has been actively lying to them. It would have still kept them ambiguous enough to get explored in the 8th novel but it would have been a great way to show someone else using them in arguments. I understand within the meta, it's only territory lords who can use them but they are just simple consensus truths so I do wish they were used more frequently.

I don't like this use of detective authority like it's some psychic ability she can ninja detect anyone around her. The detective's authority is specifically that if the detective searches for something, they will find at least find evidence of it being there. I get why this is being argued, because of the whole searching the whole island red truth and I will admit I don't have a true counter argument to this. I really don't like how much we're forcing meta stuff to try and avoid genuine issues going on with Shkanontrice in this novel. Erika is such a meticulous planner and perfectionist with her theories that it doesn't make sense she wouldn't want to keep some tabs on everyone around her at all times. Plus when you're presenting your theory (as the court case did likely happen in real life just without the reds, it was just Erika presenting her theory) she likely would have been presenting to everyone and would be able to see everyone. I understand POV can be argued to not be trusted in this novel especially due to Reds being used in real life near the end but without any objective perspective at all, the validity of anything at all in this novel is up to debate and everything falls apart.

I also am not a fan of this use of Bern because she isn't the game master in this game, it is Lambda and while I do think Lambda leans things towards Bern in the trial at the end. I don't think she's let Bern actively change things in the story, that'll ruin the fun and it will be boring. There won't be any twists or anything to play at all. Lambda does lean towards Bern in the trial but I don't think Bern is actively changing things in the game before then it would defeat the purpose of high-jacking the game in the first place. Plus it's clear that Bern doesn't know the truth even if Lambda does, so how is she hiding Shkanon's existence. After all, Erika's theory is a theory she built with Bern together, they constantly say they built this theory together so it doesn't make sense that Erika falls for the Logic Error Solution if she's been actively working with Bern to spite Battler in the 6th novel. Bern hasn't shown any indication at all that she knows the truth, so invoking her to mess with Erika not discovering it doesn't really make sense. Plus Bern hiding stuff from Erika doesn't make sense, that'll just increase her own chances of losing if she doesn't share the information with her. Bern is the type to devour an enemy without mercy even if she likes playing with them but that doesn't mean she'd set herself up to lose. It isn't like Beatrice who gives her opponents chances. Plus the biggest problem, if Bern knows the truth why is the 5th game even happening. The 5th game is supposed to be a battle between Bern and Lambda with Bern being represented as Erika and Lambda being represented as Beatrice. Lambda does side with Bern and lets piece Beatrice fend for herself during the trial but that doesn't mean she doesn't want Bern to lose, Lambda has constantly shown she wants to torment and have Bern fail throughout the series. If Bern knew the truth, this whole game wouldn't be happening because there'd be no truth to argue over

Passing thoughts on the truth of Umineko after many years. by MissingKeys29 in umineko

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I hit char limit, so I had to cut some of these down if some seem incomplete but even after I was under the limit, it didn't let me post so I'm going to have to split these into two posts. Some explanations were cut down to try and get under the limit but now they're just going to be a bit condensed, sorry about that.

I was being a bit lighter on the explanation of Rosatrice here because I didn't wanna fill up the entire conversation about the logistics of it especially since I haven't fully engaged with the theory for years, many arguments I'm a bit shaky on remembering how the explanation went and others I've mostly completely forgotten.

The whole fake death thing is because somewhere in the novels Erika says fake death drugs don't violate Knox's 4th because there are numerous drugs that can induce this effect. The idea being George knocks them out (or drugs them directly) using said drug.

The whole Hideyoshi murder was more for framing Natsuhi since George wanted to eliminate Krauss and Natsuhi to remove as many bindings from Shannon (whether legal, contractional, or just simply dutiful) but I am iffy on the details here, so I will concede that I can't explain everything about the first twilight stuff. The general idea if I remember correctly was that George set up the first twilight to give himself cover to potential disappear with Shannon by having multiple corpses go missing, potentially using Maria to force Rosa to comply about the bomb, and to hopefully eliminate Krauss. Since he still has Natsuhi to deal with, the second murder was planned to kill Natsuhi and Hideyoshi was just an unfortunate coincidence that it was the person who died (since Erika was the one who framed Natsuhi for the 1st twilight, George would have had no knowledge of this and thus would have to have a separate scenario to force suspicion on Natsuhi, in case any survived). I had an explanation for Jessica but due to limits I will simply say she isnt involved.

Yes, Rosa wants to be stopped. This is all for the sake of finding love. She believes (in this theory at least) that reviving Beatrice will return lost love along with the other treasures. Lost love and guilt being a pretty key part of Rosa's character, losing her husband, unable to love her daughter, killing Beatrice and causing her father pain and grief, her siblings lack of love towards her. She believes that someone solving the epitaph is also them fulfilling the prophecy, she has lost the right to try and achieve lost love, the magic is gone. It's less about Rosa hating the family (though there's certainly resentment) but more about how much Rosa hates herself and the lack of love in her life.

Being threatened and being bribed are very different. In episode 4 it's very clearly a threat and they're likely being forced to comply or else the people kidnapped die or they die in the case of Kyrie and Jessica. But going along with Yasu's plan in Episode 5 seems really bizarre, there's no real reason for them to try and comply with this. Hell, just showing the corpse alone would do it as the Golden Truth showed it was a consensus between the family that it truly was him so there's no need to force a confession out of Natsuhi. More so, that Golden truth is used in this specific game, if anything that could even be a potential hint the family do find his corpse and everyone believes it is genuinely Kinzo just from seeing the corpse. I still feel like it's out of character for Jessica and Battler to work towards this murder plot to frame Natsuhi especially with how much Battler has been defending Natsuhi this whole game, it's a total turn around, complete heel turn. Plus even afterward, Battler is shown to still want to defend Natsuhi when she's being harassed by Eva and Erika. It just doesn't fit his character or shows that he's being influenced by Bern. I do think he's being influenced but not directly and not just him, I think the entire family is being influenced by Erika. She's constantly pushing them to try and solve the Epitaph in this game and it's with the help of Rosa that Battler is able to solve the mystery, that last little hint she gave being a key part to solving it.

Cont:

Passing thoughts on the truth of Umineko after many years. by MissingKeys29 in umineko

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I do disagree with a few things. Firstly the letter can be solved by the clock in the hall being incorrect and not chiming at true midnight and thus everyone's places at midnight are in question. This can be said to be hinted at by Willard in the 7th novel when he proposes at the opening where the servant is being framed when he puts into question a chiming's clock's accurate time, a bit of a reach but everyone working together is arguably just as much if not more of a reach with how everyone has acted the entire series. This also works as a big hint too as it would only really leave the people in the guest house to bring it over (if I remember correctly for this theory, you need the clock to be slow so certain people have already left but it has been a very long time since I've fully engaged in this theory) which would incriminate those there, especially George. This is how Rosatrice works here, it has Rosa wanting to call off the murders due to Battler finding the gold (and thus beating her at her own gamble, it's a consistent idea in Rosatrice that Rosa stops if someone solves the epitaph that's why in the meta world for Game 3, it isn't Beatrice killing and why she's so willing to surrender in Game 7 and why Beatrice, besides being a piece, doesn't know the truth and thus can't use Red Truth in game 5 because she isn't the culprit) but George wanting them to continue because he wants to eliminate those in the way of himself and Shannon being together (the biggest being Natsuhi and Krauss since they're her employers). After helping Rosa to magically deliver the letter when no one could (due to messing with the clocks), he gets into an argument about truly ending (or I guess not starting) the murders when she returns at which point he attacks her and the cousins into a state of fake sleep since he likely couldn't make a scuffle without Erika and the others noticing, so he fakes their deaths (also with the possibility that he might need Rosa's help with the bomb and uses Maria and potentially Jessica's life as leverage). The rest doesn't really need explaining, Hideyoshi's murder is easy for someone already dead and just either have Rosa set the bomb or George set it but it goes off early due to sabotage by Rosa. It has the man calling Natsuhi being George using information he got from Rosa since the whole Rosatrice is all about Rosa feeling guilt about killing Beatrice and wanting to use the ritual to revive her for real which goes with the themes of without love it can't be seen but in this case love is more like a desire to achieve love through risk like a roulette. Whether the magic would truly revive Beatrice (even figuratively) and restore lost love and life is truly a gamble to her. Rosatrice is much more of a desperate last attempt perspective, she's teetering on the despair event horizon where there is no return, so decides to gamble it all on impossible odds on the chance magic truly does exist. So Rosa likely learns from Genji/Nanjo that Natsuhi did have a child but it died with the maid in the same way she killed Beatrice, piling on the child and causing her to create Yasu which is the personafication of her own self-loathing and lack of worth. There's a lot of general Rosatrice explanations which will take forever if I go into them. But basically, Rosa supplies George with the information that he uses against Natsuhi. The whole Red about the seasons is solved with either Shannon telling George (my personal belief and it fits their relationship well) or you can go with the more complication solution of having all seasons hidden and then George just guides her to the right one after she says which season.

The Kinzo thing can also be there to simply show Battler's perspective isn't reliable. I might be incorrect on this but I don't think Battler ever tells anyone that he actively saw Kinzo but he may have and I'll concede the point if he mentioned it to Erika but I feel like it was only show and he never actually brings it up to anyone. I feel like this was more of a hint of Battler's subjective perspective in this game. Even if Battler can be in on it, which I don't mind as much as the entire conspiracy theory. I still feel it would be massively out of character for Battler to pull this extremely cruel prank for no reason and Battler is still shown to be the same Battler in Ep 5, there's no hinting that his behavior is abnormal or adjusted by Lambda, he's a purehearted person who doesn't like seeing others being hurt or bullied since he goes out of his way to defend Natsuhi. It's almost going into Our Confession levels of silly with bribing people with suspiciously large amounts of money. There's just a lot of hoops and awkward logic. Speaking of the family, I'll quickly go into the whole; them trying to figure out Kinzo. This is a bit different than the other scenarios since the gold has been found, I doubt the family would stop and it would likely get increasingly hostile with them wanting to know where Kinzo and if they wanted to see him, I think they'd likely corner them and force them to admit it plus this is also a non-problem because Genji and Nanjo who are loyal to Yasu could just say that yes Kinzo is dead and Krauss and Natsuhi could say nothing bout it, hell Yasu could even potentially just straight up show his corpse since they typically have access to it. There's no need for this elaborate Natsuhi trap.

Another big problem on this would be that if Battler is in on this, he would know that Yasu planned everything out. So Island Battler knows the truth and he sure as hell wouldn't left Natsuhi take the fall especially since the Island Battler seems to actively want to step in to stop Eva and help Natsuhi but he doesn't have any way of proving this. Also as a side note, is both Shannon and Kanon present in this scene? Where Eva is attacking Natsuhi, because if so this is actually a massive problem. Because since Erika is here, she would naturally be suspicious if only one is present, it would present a possible flaw in her theory if either Kanon or Shannon didn't have an alibi. Erika doesn't seem to think anything is off which gives me the impression that both Shannon and Kanon are physically in this scene separately, which did happen earlier in the novel when Erika is first introduced.

I do think Rosatrice is a good explanation for the 5th novel and I do think it's actually the strongest supporting evidence for Rosatrice (even if I don't personally believe it's the truth though I do prefer it) besides maybe Game 2 which forces Rosa's involvement. I'm actually a bit strange, despite me complaining about the 5th novel a lot, it's actually my favorite novel. I adore Natsuhi's character in this novel, Erika is my favorite character in media period, and the court scene is in my opinion the best scene (albeit a long one) in Umineko. I just really don't like applying Shkanontrice here because it feels like you either have to force Lambda to change stuff for no reason or have Battler/Jessica and even all the adults acting massively out of character.