The World Overflow

[justonezero]

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[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?

[deto]

Or travel the world together. Unless one of them really wants to settle down.

[ thinking hard about the rating… ]

I guess I could live without sex, but I don’t think I could live without kissing you or holding you. Does that bump our rating down at all?

[justonezero]

If you take out the sex scenes, that definitely bumps it down a bunch! Unless it got really dark?

[deto]

Uh - it’s definitely more likely for us to have a bunch of sex or go on a kama sutra spree than for things to get dark.

[justonezero]

Some pretty dark stuff happened in Fragment, though...

[deto]

[ deto’s pretty much written it off as a one-time thing, which is very different from sex - that is: an all-time thing his brain and sometimes dreams bring up, a most-times thing once they’re living together and/or married, a forever thing

but, ]

Is some of that inside you still? The dark stuff?

[justonezero]

Hm? What do you mean?

[deto]

Like… the grief. The people that didn’t… make it.

[justonezero]

[...Oh.

This much does distract him from playing a little - not enough to die in the game, but rather take down enemies before pausing.]

...I still think of them, every so often. Wondering what Hien would think if he saw how much I was going out now... Even if I didn't end up going into medicine.

[deto]

He’d be proud. I think he had a big soft spot for kids.

[justonezero]

...I hope so. It feels like all the steps I'm taking are pretty hard, even if they're small.

[deto]

But you’re taking them anyway.

[ deto sounds set, like it never crossed his mind that yoshi would choose otherwise ]

[justonezero]

I should at least do that much, right? ...Besides, it means I get to spend more time with you.

[deto]

Y’know, whatever you do, you’ll always have me. You don’t even have to do anything.

[justonezero]

Seems unfair if I don't, though?

[deto]

Why’s that?

[justonezero]

I want to be doing stuff, too.

[deto]

What else do you want to do besides get married?

[ which, ok, is what deto wants to do, ]