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emmjay wrote:I tend to think that while Kenji's parents aren't as crazy as he is, if you were to meet them, you'd see where he gets it. I also don't think Hisao kept in touch with Kenji after graduation. (Unless maybe Kenji kept asking to borrow money.)

Kenji must have some sort of mother issues, and his father might be a right-wing patriot. It'd be sad if Hisao didn't keep in touch with his only canon male friend after Yamaku…

Speaking of Kenji, and I've posted this before this thread existed (in reply to a line of Kenji's where he discusses the "brainwashing feminist fascist media"):

bhtooefr wrote:You know, that line actually contributes to my headcanon of where Kenji's family lives (combined with his family living somewhere remote enough to actually have land to build a fallout shelter and far from any military bases).

I'm thinking extreme northern or eastern Hokkaido.

It even fits with the politics of the prefecture - Hokkaido's governor is female, and displaced the Socialist/Communist alliance there.

El Zilcho wrote:- After Rin's neutral ending, she has a very successful art career following her university studies, gaining a degree of fame and wealth. However, she quickly burns out and quits professional art entirely, dropping out of public life to focus on raising her child (conceived during a college fling) and living off the income from her brief art career. Rin eventually pursues a second career as a writer, with her unusual stream-of-consciousness style achieving some level of literary success.

I imagine Rin going on to a performance art career. If I were writing her future into my book (I'm not, she wears me out and I'm already fighting fatigue with the project), she'd become famous for vomiting paint on stage while dancing to a live band that sounds like Ruins.

brythain wrote:The simplest explanation is that Miki hit him in the head until both got injured, hence the fresh bandages on both of them.

My headcanon for Miki is that she lost her hand doing something incredibly stupid, and most likely outright criminal. The only reason she isn't in a correctional facility over it is because it was deemed that she's unlikely to repeat that mistake.

Well, at least she was pretty unlikely to repeat it more than once.

Guest Poster wrote:Well, at least she was pretty unlikely to repeat it more than once.

She'd be doubly handicapped then…

My own headcanon is that she had her left hand dissolved in hydrofluoric acid by kidnappers attempting to extract concessions from her parents. They immersed her fingers in it first. But the way HF works is pernicious, and by the time everything was over, there wasn't much of anything left below mid-forearm.

I actually think Miki was born without the hand.

She just decides to bandage it so as not to show the stump around everywhere.

I don't know if I've already said in this thread, but I imagine Miki lost her hand in a rather dull or silly manner. Something that means she doesn't have a heart-wrenchingly tragic, tear-jerking backstory.
Something like "I touched a lathe when it was one. I dunno why, I was just curious to what it felt like. Then it caught on my finger and pulled my arm in."

Just a lapse in common sense, is all

I never had any real opinion on how Miki lost her hand, other than "some kind of accident". I do tend to think it was fairly recent, given that not only is the stump still bandaged, but she seems to act like she hasn't gotten used to only having one hand.

A present. Have the oldest piece of Miki writing, from the first draft of L path.

"Looking over to the door, I see two girls talking, with one pointing directly at me."

"The one pointing's a girl from our class - a tomboyish and athletic dark-haired girl called Miki who accidentally lost her hand thanks to her father's powertools."

I recall having heard that Miki lost her hand in a workshop accident, but I didn't know if it was something the devs ever said or if it originated in a fanfic at some point.

Thank you based suriko.

Now starts the argument of what kind of powertool did it...

I vote for Soldering Iron.
It was a time consuming accident

Munchenhausen wrote:Now starts the argument of what kind of powertool did it...

I vote for Soldering Iron.
It was a time consuming accident.

I'm just going to ignore the alpha tidbit, although it's a nice curiosity from the past. That's because power tools are so… plane. Also, I always think of Misha instead.

brythain wrote:That's because power tools are so… plane.

That's it confirmed, Miki used a plane to try and trim her nails

Suriko wrote:A present. Have the oldest piece of Miki writing, from the first draft of L path.

"Looking over to the door, I see two girls talking, with one pointing directly at me."

"The one pointing's a girl from our class - a tomboyish and athletic dark-haired girl called Miki who accidentally lost her hand thanks to her father's powertools."

That's metal.