The World Overflow

[justonezero]

Nsfw threads marked accordingly.

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[justonezero]

It's okay, my character's backstory is about how he grew up in poverty because the land was taken over by a cruel lord with a bunch of shady ninja at his beck and call, so he trained in the blade so he can fight them off himself!

He's got bones from three ninja who attacked him tied at his waist as lucky charms.

[Not... That it's easy to tell through the blobby pixel art.]

[deto]

Wait. Is my character in love with yours? Are you the mark?

[justonezero]

Huh? No. The mark isn't playable. Most of the playable characters' stories don't really intersect until the end. They didn't fix that until the sequel!

[deto]

[ oh, the sequel. that means sequel dates. he’s ok with that ]

Then don’t we need to come up with a story for why our characters are traveling together?

[ also why are these ninja clans just attacking everyone ]

[justonezero]

Oh... I guess we can?

Maybe it was a meet cute? They ran into each other or something...

[deto]

Meet… cute…?

[justonezero]

Yeah. Like when two characters turn a corner and crash into each other, only to find out they're in the same class!

Except in this case I guess they realized they're both after the same guy?

[deto]

[ that sounds like shoujo stuff his sister would like ]

And then they… fall in love? What’s the cute part?

[justonezero]

Their meeting is so awkward, it's cute! Plus it forces them to get to know each other faster than normal.

[deto]

Were we one then?

[ was it awkward at first? not enough to keep them from talking and talking. or from him reaching out and brushing yoshi’s hair aside to see his startling eyes better ]

I did meet a cute.

[justonezero]

You know... I guess we were?

[Huh!]

[deto]

So we’re a trope.

[justonezero]

...I guess we are, huh...

[Kind of paused like this is a Big Realization.]

[deto]

I dunno if we would make a good video game, though. Not even a dating… what, sim? I think? A dating sim.

[ early stages mean it only takes him the slightest bit of concentration to play and chat ]

[justonezero]

[Nanase's played this enough times that he's barely paying attention and moving almost entirely on muscle memory. He'd be a great streamer, honestly.]

Dating sims usually have more than one target, anyway.

[deto]

[ (streamer bun… deto would be the first to subscribe and follow- )

he makes a face at yoshi ]

It’ll be a beat-’em-up if game me has competition.

[ (and if he were made a mod, he’d auto-ban anyone who flirts with bun) ]

[justonezero]

[He cannot have an audience based in thirst...]

Haha! Maybe if it combined the visual novel stuff with the beat 'em up stuff?

[deto]

Can it still be visual novel if the only true ending is you with me?

[ a beat ]

There’s no bad end because you should get everything that you want.

[justonezero]

I guess there's some visual novels where it's just a story with pictures, music, and voice acting.

[deto]

Glorified picture book? - We’re losing track of this plot, though.

So. Meet cute. [ he nods at the pixels on the screen ] How many more chapters before my character can convince yours to ditch the other guy and run off with me.

[ no one likes a rushed plot ]

[justonezero]

A glorified picture book... for adults!

[And/or teens.]

Oh. Um... I think it might break the story if they got too close too fast. So... probably a lot?

[deto]

Well, if we gotta fight a hundred assassin ninjas in this slowburn, then that’s what we’ll do.

[ … ]

… For adults?

[ oh right technically they are legal adults, but also ]

[justonezero]

Oh- I mean, sometimes it's because it's got sex scenes but... There's also ones that are just really dark.

For these two, though... Maybe they realize their love of each other in the last stages, but they agree to take out the big bad anyway so they can get closure before they elope?

[deto]

There’s that thing, right? Like if you try to leave the yakuza, they hunt you down? I thought ninjas were the same. Do they keep fighting after?

I think we’d have sex scenes, but I dunno how dark it’d get.

[justonezero]

Oh, that's true. Hmm... Fall in love, and then elope and reappear as regular villagers?

S-Sex scenes, though... I guess we would, huh?