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tenshinoakuma) wrote2011-05-16 11:21 pm
tenshinoakuma) wrote2011-05-16 11:21 pm
Today in out of context theatre
Shooter: Yeah, bro! It’s like your fiery passion slams into the other guy’s, like WHAM!
Joshua: Hee hee. Sounds like a fun time.
Joshua: Neku, you have Reaper friends, too? My, my. You certainly do get around.
Neku: Sounds like a fight... That promoter's chewing out Spicy Tuna Roll.
Joshua: ...Spicy what?
Neku: Oh, uh... never mind. Let's go see what's up.
Prince: Hold it!
Joshua: I was thinking. “Something different”... Maybe everyone in Shibuya is here searching, struggling for a peek into their neighbor’s worlds. When those neighbors change, they get scared, feel they have to change themselves-- even what makes them who they are.
Neku: Right. You don’t want to change, but you don’t want to be left behind either.
Joshua: Of course not. We can’t go through life alone. We’re part of a community. We have to live by its rules. And the move we connect with people, the trickier those rules get.
Neku: Yeah, and the more people hold you back. Screw living in a world choked by rules. I’m living free. Like CAT. It’s just easier on my own. Nobody else’s baggage. Nobody else tying me down. ...People aren’t meant to figure each other out.
Joshua: My thoughts exactly. I’d rather just get rid of them.
Neku: What?
Joshua: Same as you, Neku. Those headphones you wear say it all.
Neku: (Yeah, so what? I don’t like other people. I’ve got no use for the next world over... so don’t come barging in on mine. My own world’s all I need... Unless...)
Joshua: Aww... see, Neku? That wasn't so hard. All you had to do is put your mind to it.
Neku: ......
Joshua: Hee hee. What, would you like a pat on the head?
Neku: (Rrgh...) How 'bout we just get the wall cleared?
Joshua: Well then! Let's begin, hmm? We'll start by gathering testimony. Let's ask 777 for more info.
Neku: (He's enjoying this. The little weirdo is enjoying this. Enjoy the moment... I guess?)
Joshua: He should be back at A-East. Let's mosey on that way.
Tenho: I thought it’d stop you two fighting. I don’t want us to break up...
Neku: Please. I don’t do groups. I never met anyone fun to be around.
Joshua: Hee hee. Me neither. We seem to have a lot in common. You know, Neku... Shibuya’s a lot like you. Cut off.
Neku: Where did that come from!?
Joshua: The UG is split into different areas. Shibuya’s just one of them, just like it’s only one part of the world at large. Each UG area has unique rules. You can’t travel between them.
...
Joshua: As I was saying, every area has its own rules. They never meddle with
each other. Sound familiar?
Neku: That could apply to anyone.
Joshua: Hee hee... Maybe so. As long as we all have our own worlds, people will never really understand each other.
Neku: Right? They’re them, and I’m me. Talking to them gets me nothing. I thought I’d never respected anyone, until I saw CAT’s mural and discovered a new philosophy.
Joshua: “Do what you want, how you want, when you want it,” was it?
Neku: Yeah. It blew me away. CAT was living the life I always wanted to, but never thought I could. “Finally, someone who gets me,” I thought. Enjoying the moment’s about freedom. I just need to do my own thing like CAT. Forget about other people and just enjoy my life...
Joshua: Absolutely. Who needs other people’s values? It’s easier to just live by your own rules.
Neku: Yeah... (But... I don’t feel that way anymore. Since coming to the UG, reading people’s minds-- Shibuya’s full of people with just as many viewpoints. Mr. H said the world ends with me. To expand my world, I have to learn to look farther-- not write off other people’s values as inferior. ...Maybe I had it backwards. Maybe I need to open up to really enjoy--)
Joshua: Yoo-hoo? Neku?
Neku: ......
Joshua: Well, we may be stuck in Shibuya. But you can still see a fair ways. Why do you suppose that is, Neku? Why show us what we can never reach?
WOW Neku really thought Joshua was someone he could relate to in this day and the previous, huh. Possibly even started to consider Joshua as a potential friend. That kind of excuse-making from Neku at Udagawa really is a sign of him not wanting to know if Joshua had a hand in his death, and he might have excused his way out of scanning Joshua... except Joshua said more to arouse Neku's suspicions again. Probably on purpose. Course that inkling of a friendship gets shot to hell when Neku scans Joshua and finds out Joshua shot him.
Neku: ......
Joshua: Well, Neku? Let's go see Mr. H. I hope you haven't forgotten the way. Let me help you. His café is on Cat Street. That's--
Neku: Past Cadoi City and Towa Records.
Joshua: Very good, Neku! Oh, I'm so proud.
Joshua: My guess is they've set up walls along Route 2... all the way to Cat Street.
Reaper: ...... Want past this wall? Then turn D+B into the hottest thing around. Make it number one in the area. Watch what pins and threads you wear into battle, yeah?
Neku: Make it number one?
Joshua: You seem a little lost.
Neku: We just gotta wear D+B pins and items into combat.
Joshua: Wow, I'm... I'm a little surprised. I didn't think fashion was your area.
Neku: (Shiki taught me.)
Joshua: I see... Well, let's take care of this.
[After D+B is Number One]
Neku: OK. D+B's on top of the charts. ...... Uhh... What's with all the bleach-blond scenesters?
Joshua: Hee hee. Behold, the power of trends. Now, let's get that wall cleared, before the rankings change again.
Actually, now that I think about it, Joshua becomes a lot less grating as the week progresses. I mean, he's still a jerk, but at least not everything out of his mouth is condescending.
Reaper: ...... Want past this wall? Heh heh heh. ...You. Orangeylocks.
Neku: Me?
Reaper: Yeah, you! Come back wearing all Mus Rattus threads. Do that, and I’ll let you pass.
Neku: Mus Rattus, huh?
Joshua: That's the bargain brand that's branched out all over Shibuya. Sounds like you'll have to deck yourself out in it, Neku.
Neku: Me? Wear that? Ugh, I hate these walls...
[once Neku is wearing all Mus Rattus threads]
Neku: All right, I'm a walking ball of Rat. Can we get that wall cleared now?
Joshua: Pfft... Snrrk!
Neku: Can I help you?
Joshua: Oh, no. I'm just fine. Ready to go... Ratty McRatterson?
Uzuki: Ugh! Why’d he pick you? I have seniority!
Beat: Beats me. Now you senior citizens can hobble off, aight?
lmfao Neku's fanboyism
Joshua: Use your Player Pin.
Neku: What’s this got to do with--
Joshua: If you know what people are thinking, it’s easy to grab them.
Neku: It... it would be an advantage.
Joshua: Right. Why bother with talk? With sifting through the lies we all tell? You could talk till you’re blue in the face and not hear the truth. Andwe all see things differently anyway.
Neku: It’s true. We’re not mean to see eye to eye. (But... I dunno, maybe it’s better that way. Sure, people don’t think alike. We don’t know what’s going through the other guy’s head. But we can TRY to find out, right? Expand our worlds through each other. Maybe that’s a better way to go-- the real way to enjoy each moment.)
Joshua: You OK, Neku?
Neku: Yeah, I could try to be CAT with this pin. But why? Where’s the enjoyment in that? I’d rather broaden my world my own way.
Joshua: What if I am the one who killed you? You’re going to do something about it?
dick.
Neku: Yeah? What about the people who aren’t? Screw the Game! These are people, not toys!
Joshua: Why the sudden interest? I didn’t think you cared about other Players.
Neku: No...
Joshua: No what?
Neku: Sure, other Players are strangers. Not just Players. Everyone. I don’t know who they are, where they’re from, what they care about. But... since I came to the UG, I... I’ve talked with them a little. Got to know them a little. Felt them a little... Felt my world grow. Just a tiny, tiny bit. It’s different now. They’re not just some strangers. I can’t shut them out like that.
Joshua: My, my. This isn’t like you at all. Well, just don’t get your hopes up. You’ll never really understand the people around you.
Neku: Enjoy the moment.
Joshua: Hmm?
Neku: Enjoying your world means making it bigger. I finally get that. The world as one person sees it is tiny. You’ve gotta... gotta reach out to other people.
Joshua: ...... Hee hee. Maybe so. Only by allowing strangers in can we find new ways to be ourselves. It’s possible. Now, are you ready? It looks like this mission’s up to us.
Neku: “Game 7: Erase the Game Master at Pork City. time = 600 minutes. Incompletes will be erased.” Nngh... Well, this is it. Just us and the Grim Heaper.
Joshua: ......
Neku: What?
Joshua: This mission seems odd.
Yeah, actually. The format is different from Sho's mission mail. The first clue that it wasn't issued by him, huh.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm caught up to where I was before I decided to reformat the script.
Man, sometimes I forget what a jerk Joshua is. I think it might have been because For all the praise I've gotten on Joshua's characterisation, he's still a tricksy guy to pin. There are a lot of aspects of his characterisation I don't think I've managed to touch (I've gone into detail about this before) and there's the fact you don't ever really know how much of it is an act. Also, there's the small matter of Neku being caused physical pain every time he's near Sho when Joshua's around. I've always thought that was directly caused by Joshua, and I remember putting forth the idea to some people in the TWEWY comm that it's possible that the version of the conversations we see between Joshua, Sho and Neku aren't actually what happens. That Joshua's altering Neku's memory of the event.
Consider this. The game is primarily told from Neku's point of view, aside from the occasions where the plot pans to other characters. When we're playing as Neku, we are seeing his version of events. Note that every time Neku and Joshua encounter Sho, Sho's dialogue is always with Joshua alone. Sometimes Neku makes some confused comment through his headache, but Sho blows it off in favour of taunting Joshua. Granted, it's well within Sho's personality to just ignore people, but it seems rather lucky that Sho just happens to say things that happen to spur Neku to act in a manner in Joshua's favour? Not to mention that same sharp static Neku associates with Sho also appears when he tries scanning Joshua, or when he sees a modified flashback of how he died when they confront Sho, and what he sees then are definitely manipulations from Joshua. So it's entirely possible that the conversations with Sho didn't go quite as we saw in game, though I doubt Joshua would have gone to the trouble to rewrite the entirety of them. More than likely, he just modified small parts of it; he deals in mostly truths, after all.
I've never actually done anything with this theory, though; haven't figured out a way to use it in a story.
... I've also apparently lost a bunch of other scripts (like, all the Knights in the Nightmare work I did) when I did a tag clean up. Google has FAILED me.
Joshua: Hee hee. Sounds like a fun time.
Joshua: Neku, you have Reaper friends, too? My, my. You certainly do get around.
Neku: Sounds like a fight... That promoter's chewing out Spicy Tuna Roll.
Joshua: ...Spicy what?
Neku: Oh, uh... never mind. Let's go see what's up.
Prince: Hold it!
Joshua: I was thinking. “Something different”... Maybe everyone in Shibuya is here searching, struggling for a peek into their neighbor’s worlds. When those neighbors change, they get scared, feel they have to change themselves-- even what makes them who they are.
Neku: Right. You don’t want to change, but you don’t want to be left behind either.
Joshua: Of course not. We can’t go through life alone. We’re part of a community. We have to live by its rules. And the move we connect with people, the trickier those rules get.
Neku: Yeah, and the more people hold you back. Screw living in a world choked by rules. I’m living free. Like CAT. It’s just easier on my own. Nobody else’s baggage. Nobody else tying me down. ...People aren’t meant to figure each other out.
Joshua: My thoughts exactly. I’d rather just get rid of them.
Neku: What?
Joshua: Same as you, Neku. Those headphones you wear say it all.
Neku: (Yeah, so what? I don’t like other people. I’ve got no use for the next world over... so don’t come barging in on mine. My own world’s all I need... Unless...)
Joshua: Aww... see, Neku? That wasn't so hard. All you had to do is put your mind to it.
Neku: ......
Joshua: Hee hee. What, would you like a pat on the head?
Neku: (Rrgh...) How 'bout we just get the wall cleared?
Joshua: Well then! Let's begin, hmm? We'll start by gathering testimony. Let's ask 777 for more info.
Neku: (He's enjoying this. The little weirdo is enjoying this. Enjoy the moment... I guess?)
Joshua: He should be back at A-East. Let's mosey on that way.
Tenho: I thought it’d stop you two fighting. I don’t want us to break up...
Neku: Please. I don’t do groups. I never met anyone fun to be around.
Joshua: Hee hee. Me neither. We seem to have a lot in common. You know, Neku... Shibuya’s a lot like you. Cut off.
Neku: Where did that come from!?
Joshua: The UG is split into different areas. Shibuya’s just one of them, just like it’s only one part of the world at large. Each UG area has unique rules. You can’t travel between them.
...
Joshua: As I was saying, every area has its own rules. They never meddle with
each other. Sound familiar?
Neku: That could apply to anyone.
Joshua: Hee hee... Maybe so. As long as we all have our own worlds, people will never really understand each other.
Neku: Right? They’re them, and I’m me. Talking to them gets me nothing. I thought I’d never respected anyone, until I saw CAT’s mural and discovered a new philosophy.
Joshua: “Do what you want, how you want, when you want it,” was it?
Neku: Yeah. It blew me away. CAT was living the life I always wanted to, but never thought I could. “Finally, someone who gets me,” I thought. Enjoying the moment’s about freedom. I just need to do my own thing like CAT. Forget about other people and just enjoy my life...
Joshua: Absolutely. Who needs other people’s values? It’s easier to just live by your own rules.
Neku: Yeah... (But... I don’t feel that way anymore. Since coming to the UG, reading people’s minds-- Shibuya’s full of people with just as many viewpoints. Mr. H said the world ends with me. To expand my world, I have to learn to look farther-- not write off other people’s values as inferior. ...Maybe I had it backwards. Maybe I need to open up to really enjoy--)
Joshua: Yoo-hoo? Neku?
Neku: ......
Joshua: Well, we may be stuck in Shibuya. But you can still see a fair ways. Why do you suppose that is, Neku? Why show us what we can never reach?
WOW Neku really thought Joshua was someone he could relate to in this day and the previous, huh. Possibly even started to consider Joshua as a potential friend. That kind of excuse-making from Neku at Udagawa really is a sign of him not wanting to know if Joshua had a hand in his death, and he might have excused his way out of scanning Joshua... except Joshua said more to arouse Neku's suspicions again. Probably on purpose. Course that inkling of a friendship gets shot to hell when Neku scans Joshua and finds out Joshua shot him.
Neku: ......
Joshua: Well, Neku? Let's go see Mr. H. I hope you haven't forgotten the way. Let me help you. His café is on Cat Street. That's--
Neku: Past Cadoi City and Towa Records.
Joshua: Very good, Neku! Oh, I'm so proud.
Joshua: My guess is they've set up walls along Route 2... all the way to Cat Street.
Reaper: ...... Want past this wall? Then turn D+B into the hottest thing around. Make it number one in the area. Watch what pins and threads you wear into battle, yeah?
Neku: Make it number one?
Joshua: You seem a little lost.
Neku: We just gotta wear D+B pins and items into combat.
Joshua: Wow, I'm... I'm a little surprised. I didn't think fashion was your area.
Neku: (Shiki taught me.)
Joshua: I see... Well, let's take care of this.
[After D+B is Number One]
Neku: OK. D+B's on top of the charts. ...... Uhh... What's with all the bleach-blond scenesters?
Joshua: Hee hee. Behold, the power of trends. Now, let's get that wall cleared, before the rankings change again.
Actually, now that I think about it, Joshua becomes a lot less grating as the week progresses. I mean, he's still a jerk, but at least not everything out of his mouth is condescending.
Reaper: ...... Want past this wall? Heh heh heh. ...You. Orangeylocks.
Neku: Me?
Reaper: Yeah, you! Come back wearing all Mus Rattus threads. Do that, and I’ll let you pass.
Neku: Mus Rattus, huh?
Joshua: That's the bargain brand that's branched out all over Shibuya. Sounds like you'll have to deck yourself out in it, Neku.
Neku: Me? Wear that? Ugh, I hate these walls...
[once Neku is wearing all Mus Rattus threads]
Neku: All right, I'm a walking ball of Rat. Can we get that wall cleared now?
Joshua: Pfft... Snrrk!
Neku: Can I help you?
Joshua: Oh, no. I'm just fine. Ready to go... Ratty McRatterson?
Uzuki: Ugh! Why’d he pick you? I have seniority!
Beat: Beats me. Now you senior citizens can hobble off, aight?
lmfao Neku's fanboyism
Joshua: Use your Player Pin.
Neku: What’s this got to do with--
Joshua: If you know what people are thinking, it’s easy to grab them.
Neku: It... it would be an advantage.
Joshua: Right. Why bother with talk? With sifting through the lies we all tell? You could talk till you’re blue in the face and not hear the truth. Andwe all see things differently anyway.
Neku: It’s true. We’re not mean to see eye to eye. (But... I dunno, maybe it’s better that way. Sure, people don’t think alike. We don’t know what’s going through the other guy’s head. But we can TRY to find out, right? Expand our worlds through each other. Maybe that’s a better way to go-- the real way to enjoy each moment.)
Joshua: You OK, Neku?
Neku: Yeah, I could try to be CAT with this pin. But why? Where’s the enjoyment in that? I’d rather broaden my world my own way.
Joshua: What if I am the one who killed you? You’re going to do something about it?
dick.
Neku: Yeah? What about the people who aren’t? Screw the Game! These are people, not toys!
Joshua: Why the sudden interest? I didn’t think you cared about other Players.
Neku: No...
Joshua: No what?
Neku: Sure, other Players are strangers. Not just Players. Everyone. I don’t know who they are, where they’re from, what they care about. But... since I came to the UG, I... I’ve talked with them a little. Got to know them a little. Felt them a little... Felt my world grow. Just a tiny, tiny bit. It’s different now. They’re not just some strangers. I can’t shut them out like that.
Joshua: My, my. This isn’t like you at all. Well, just don’t get your hopes up. You’ll never really understand the people around you.
Neku: Enjoy the moment.
Joshua: Hmm?
Neku: Enjoying your world means making it bigger. I finally get that. The world as one person sees it is tiny. You’ve gotta... gotta reach out to other people.
Joshua: ...... Hee hee. Maybe so. Only by allowing strangers in can we find new ways to be ourselves. It’s possible. Now, are you ready? It looks like this mission’s up to us.
Neku: “Game 7: Erase the Game Master at Pork City. time = 600 minutes. Incompletes will be erased.” Nngh... Well, this is it. Just us and the Grim Heaper.
Joshua: ......
Neku: What?
Joshua: This mission seems odd.
Yeah, actually. The format is different from Sho's mission mail. The first clue that it wasn't issued by him, huh.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm caught up to where I was before I decided to reformat the script.
Man, sometimes I forget what a jerk Joshua is. I think it might have been because For all the praise I've gotten on Joshua's characterisation, he's still a tricksy guy to pin. There are a lot of aspects of his characterisation I don't think I've managed to touch (I've gone into detail about this before) and there's the fact you don't ever really know how much of it is an act. Also, there's the small matter of Neku being caused physical pain every time he's near Sho when Joshua's around. I've always thought that was directly caused by Joshua, and I remember putting forth the idea to some people in the TWEWY comm that it's possible that the version of the conversations we see between Joshua, Sho and Neku aren't actually what happens. That Joshua's altering Neku's memory of the event.
Consider this. The game is primarily told from Neku's point of view, aside from the occasions where the plot pans to other characters. When we're playing as Neku, we are seeing his version of events. Note that every time Neku and Joshua encounter Sho, Sho's dialogue is always with Joshua alone. Sometimes Neku makes some confused comment through his headache, but Sho blows it off in favour of taunting Joshua. Granted, it's well within Sho's personality to just ignore people, but it seems rather lucky that Sho just happens to say things that happen to spur Neku to act in a manner in Joshua's favour? Not to mention that same sharp static Neku associates with Sho also appears when he tries scanning Joshua, or when he sees a modified flashback of how he died when they confront Sho, and what he sees then are definitely manipulations from Joshua. So it's entirely possible that the conversations with Sho didn't go quite as we saw in game, though I doubt Joshua would have gone to the trouble to rewrite the entirety of them. More than likely, he just modified small parts of it; he deals in mostly truths, after all.
I've never actually done anything with this theory, though; haven't figured out a way to use it in a story.
... I've also apparently lost a bunch of other scripts (like, all the Knights in the Nightmare work I did) when I did a tag clean up. Google has FAILED me.
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TWEWY had an uncommonly excellent script. I wonder if not having to worry about voice-acting let the writers really cut loose.
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