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Gina Szanboti
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| Thesarum wrote: | | In terms of Nao's reaction... I think mostly it's that she's too shocked by the barrage of questions to form a coherent response. But also the need to "help the Original" is somehow hard-wired into replica personalities. Like Asimov's 3 rules. So Nao totally understands Mori's desire to sacrifice herself or otherwise take on her original's fate. That element isn't really surprising to her. |
I get that Nao understands what Mori wants, but I don't know why she wasn't shocked that original Mori was apparently dying in the first place. "Omg, what happened to her?!" would be the first thing out of my mouth before she could ignore me and keep bombarding me with questions.
You're right that she would know about Mochizuki. I didn't think that through. 
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Thesarum
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2026 5:50 am |
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| Gina Szanboti wrote: | | Thesarum wrote: | | In terms of Nao's reaction... I think mostly it's that she's too shocked by the barrage of questions to form a coherent response. But also the need to "help the Original" is somehow hard-wired into replica personalities. Like Asimov's 3 rules. So Nao totally understands Mori's desire to sacrifice herself or otherwise take on her original's fate. That element isn't really surprising to her. |
I get that Nao understands what Mori wants, but I don't know why she wasn't shocked that original Mori was apparently dying in the first place. "Omg, what happened to her?!" would be the first thing out of my mouth before she could ignore me and keep bombarding me with questions.
You're right that she would know about Mochizuki. I didn't think that through. |
I don't want to give too much away  but be assured. She's not uninterested in that question. She just didn't ask it in the moment.
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Gina Szanboti
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2026 2:34 am |
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Ep 9
So Ryu didn't know about Mochizuki's confession after all. Because she was created years before and never "put away" since. Do I have it right yet?
And Nao never did ask what happened to Mori - Ryu just finally got around to telling her, obliquely anyway.
I guess Nao does take after Sunao even if they're different. While I applaud Sunao for bothering to ask if Nao was close to the deceased (which would seem pretty obvious from her open mourning), she never asked who died. Does Sunao not know any of the people who go to her school? At least enough to want to know if she knew the person who died? I just can't imagine a scenario that would rationalize how "Who died?" is not the first question out of her mouth, other than Sunao is a narcissistic psychopath who couldn't care less that one of her schoolmates is dead. :/
I dunno, after that mic drop someone's got a lot of 'splainin' to do. Even more so than when Nao got trainsplattered in front of witnesses.
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Thesarum
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2026 6:02 pm |
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| Gina Szanboti wrote: | | Ep 9
So Ryu didn't know about Mochizuki's confession after all. Because she was created years before and never "put away" since. Do I have it right yet? |
Yeah, I was wrong earlier. Somehow I'd totally forgotten she has been living away from Mori since they were little, and existed but wasn't around at the time of the summer festival.. I blame being old.
| Gina Szanboti wrote: | |
And Nao never did ask what happened to Mori - Ryu just finally got around to telling her, obliquely anyway.
I guess Nao does take after Sunao even if they're different. While I applaud Sunao for bothering to ask if Nao was close to the deceased (which would seem pretty obvious from her open mourning), she never asked who died. Does Sunao not know any of the people who go to her school? At least enough to want to know if she knew the person who died? I just can't imagine a scenario that would rationalize how "Who died?" is not the first question out of her mouth, other than Sunao is a narcissistic psychopath who couldn't care less that one of her schoolmates is dead. :/ |
I also can't quite remember how this plays out in the books, and whether the likely slightly expanded version includes a bit more detail in the conversation that happens before the play rather than the one after. I think she indirectly asks, and indirectly gets enough of an answer before the play - she's at least put enough together to know that Ryo was genuinely unaware of Mochizuki's confession not just ignoring him (we see her react to letting that slip before Ryo does). That's certainly my recollection... but apparently that's not so reliable.
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