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hopeslastreward[Music -- if it can even be called that -- comes through your PokéGear's speakers when you play this video. The image on the screen is of a grimy stone floor; after looking at it for a few seconds, one might eventually make out a series of runes, carved into the floor itself. For any English-reading characters in the audience, a little bit of hunkering down and focusing should make the runes start to look like a certain word:]
Light.
[WE NEED SOME LIGHT, FIRST OF ALL WE NEED SOME-- no okay not singing showtunes here.]
I've been through one of these chambers already, and that had a word on the floor as well. It took longer than I would have expected to figure out... but here I am. [Seriously, though. English isn't his first language, but for some reason it required a lot of focus to even decode the word "ESCAPE".] I won't tell you what the solution to that puzzle was; once you understand the cipher, though, this 'light' should be easy enough as well.
Oh-- and there's one other thing worth noting. [The Gear's camera moves up to show another tangle of Unown runes. Komaeda's been puzzling over this, too, for a good long time, but he's revealing the translation for the sake of the broadcast.] This passage here references an unidentified 'we' "erecting a Pokémon statue outside"... there are plenty of statues in these ruins, but all of them are within some chamber or another. One could easily assume that the 'we' in question created this statue, but it still lies buried... or it is hidden in some other manner. Perhaps some kind of criterion has to be filled before the statue will appear?
Ah. Incidentally [and by this he means 'not incidentally at all'], I understand that some people have gotten the opportunity to speak to people native to the region of Kalos -- which bears a striking resemblance to a country I know called 'France'. There are goodie bags presently being given out in at least one Pokémon Center that are supposedly from Kalos, which contain -- among other things -- a couple of French baked goods known as macarons. It makes one wonder exactly how many things from this world have been lifted from others. Has anyone noticed other similarities?
...Mmm, I probably should have said this at the beginning, but please feel free to disregard this message, if you haven't done so already. It's just some worthless babbling. [He laughs.] Well, in any case, good night.
Light.
[WE NEED SOME LIGHT, FIRST OF ALL WE NEED SOME-- no okay not singing showtunes here.]
I've been through one of these chambers already, and that had a word on the floor as well. It took longer than I would have expected to figure out... but here I am. [Seriously, though. English isn't his first language, but for some reason it required a lot of focus to even decode the word "ESCAPE".] I won't tell you what the solution to that puzzle was; once you understand the cipher, though, this 'light' should be easy enough as well.
Oh-- and there's one other thing worth noting. [The Gear's camera moves up to show another tangle of Unown runes. Komaeda's been puzzling over this, too, for a good long time, but he's revealing the translation for the sake of the broadcast.] This passage here references an unidentified 'we' "erecting a Pokémon statue outside"... there are plenty of statues in these ruins, but all of them are within some chamber or another. One could easily assume that the 'we' in question created this statue, but it still lies buried... or it is hidden in some other manner. Perhaps some kind of criterion has to be filled before the statue will appear?
Ah. Incidentally [and by this he means 'not incidentally at all'], I understand that some people have gotten the opportunity to speak to people native to the region of Kalos -- which bears a striking resemblance to a country I know called 'France'. There are goodie bags presently being given out in at least one Pokémon Center that are supposedly from Kalos, which contain -- among other things -- a couple of French baked goods known as macarons. It makes one wonder exactly how many things from this world have been lifted from others. Has anyone noticed other similarities?
...Mmm, I probably should have said this at the beginning, but please feel free to disregard this message, if you haven't done so already. It's just some worthless babbling. [He laughs.] Well, in any case, good night.
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Date: 2014-11-04 03:40 am (UTC)[I mean, considering nobody dies of horrible diseases out here.]
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Date: 2014-11-04 03:42 am (UTC)...Yeah. [ No need to go into that, ever. Or at least not unless he remembers it on his own. ]
Although I wish all the others were safely here as well, I think...they'll do okay back there, too.
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Date: 2014-11-04 03:48 am (UTC)You're right. After everything that's happened, their hope will definitely conquer anything and everything that the bear devises.
And for those whose hope was not strong enough... maybe this world is a kind of second chance for them.
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Date: 2014-11-04 03:50 am (UTC)I don't think any of them...had a hope that "wasn't strong enough". About that place and many things, you and I...disagree.
[ Don't talk smack about their classmates, basically. ]
...That things were as they were there couldn't be helped. If things had been different...no one would have done any of those things. Not even you would have behaved as you did.
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Date: 2014-11-04 03:57 am (UTC)Well, perhaps "wasn't strong enough" was a bad term. I didn't mean to imply that they were completely hopeless, far from it! All I meant was... all conflict, at its roots, is a battle of hopes. The stronger hope will win, and the weaker hope will lose. All of their hopes weren't weak... they just happened to be weaker in that particular match, you see?
And unfortunately, that match costed them their life.
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Date: 2014-11-04 04:05 am (UTC)...I don't think that's right. Sorry. Hope...isn't a thing that should be thought of like that...I think.
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Date: 2014-11-04 04:11 am (UTC)Why not?
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Date: 2014-11-04 04:32 am (UTC)...That's what I think.
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Date: 2014-11-04 03:08 pm (UTC)[He didn't try to kill people to compete with the rest of the class. He tried to kill people because he wanted the rest of the class to become better by facing adversity. It's simple stuff, Nanami!]
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Date: 2014-11-04 09:35 pm (UTC)...I don't think that's the way hope is meant to be raised. Your helping...sorry, but...we're never going to agree on that point.
But there's no reason to get into that here. You're doing...well?
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Date: 2014-11-04 11:25 pm (UTC)[But he doesn't say that, because contrary to popular belief, he's not an idiot.]
Well enough. I could ask you the same thing; were you involved with the event that happened at Tohjo Falls? No one we know is in serious trouble, right? [A lot of people have gone suddenly missing and... it was kind of freaking him out... he wants to make sure his classmates are okay!]
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Date: 2014-11-05 02:50 am (UTC)Yep. I was, I mean. Tanaka-kun's fine. And the other class.
[ Tsumiki's gone, though. So it's just the three of them from theirs. ]
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:06 am (UTC)You're missing someone.
[Guess who was never informed of Tsumiki's departure!]
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:08 am (UTC)[ This IS her way of informing you.
Apparently. ]
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:10 am (UTC)[That is to say, back to the chopping block?]
...How unfortunate... I wish I could have done something for her in the meantime... [Or even, you know, talk to her. Which Komaeda didn't do.]
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:12 am (UTC)Things will be okay for her.
[ Only one person in their entire class...really, truly died, right? Nanami has explained this to some of the others. The other class knows, and Gundam should be told, but...
...She remains uncertain how much she wants to or should tell Komaeda, all things considered. ]
...I believe that to be true.
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:17 am (UTC)[The resulting smile seems just a little too bright for the topic at hand.]
Her coming here may have altered something at home. It sounds like science fiction, but... this entire world sounds like science fiction, and -- well -- here we are.
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:23 am (UTC)[ Especially considering who is here, and what their memories have been. ]
...Anyway, it's...not important right now.
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:26 am (UTC)Not important? Why is that?
[After all, it might just be a game mechanic no one has told him about yet.]
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:29 am (UTC)[ They can't change things back home, or do anything about what has happened or will happen.
But they can make the most of this place. ]
Komaeda-kun should also make the best of this place, shouldn't he?
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:36 am (UTC)[Unsure if want... He really doesn't want to let her hope go, especially after seeing what kind of state she was in during the third trial. Conquering that issue is good, but averting the issue by repairing Tsumiki is better.]
[And as for Komaeda himself...]
Well, I've been working on the Badges, if that's what you mean.
[It's probably not what she means, and he knows this.]
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:41 am (UTC)[ She didn't see that happen, but...she knows it to be true. ]
On their own terms, and merits.
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:42 am (UTC)If that's how you want to spend your time here, sure. Have you challenged the first gym, then?
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:52 am (UTC)[And now he's hanging out doing puzzles with answers that should be easy but aren't.]
[He offers no response to the other part of Nanami's statement, though he is certainly still thinking about it. Nanami knows things -- it would be unusual for her not to know things. If he understands her correctly, she knows that Team Hope will ultimately win over Team Despair (which is a given anyway, because really), even though her previous claims about her point in the timeline suggest that she hasn't seen the ending herself yet. Perhaps she was lying to keep him away (which is, Komaeda has to admit, a somewhat understandable strategy given the class' general opinion of him). Or maybe someone else knew, and told her? Would the upperclassmen know? ...Would Arceus know?]
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Date: 2014-11-05 04:54 am (UTC)[ It's been a while since she was there, but...that sounds about right. ]
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