Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.48.0] [Selebus]

Yet more for the "Ami knows stuff" wagon. This is from her first night with Akira (amifingered event):
Funnily enough, one of my biggest questions for this event is: Where the hell did Maya go to sleep at?
Maya is friends with literally no one else to the extent of sleeping at their homes. She has no other home either. Where would she go and why? Did she go to sleep at Akira's house? I don't think so, since he returns there after this. Did Ami tell her to leave? Actually, it would be more likely that she has manipulated Maya into leaving since I think Maya doesn't know that Ami knows that she knows about the two of them... Anyway, a lot of questions here too.

Lastly, I think this is the first event where we see Ami's eyes turning into "god's" eyes (out of the breed your niece segment).

givemeabeer said:

I have a hard time conceive the probability that Maya IS a god. I mean, of course her story about the stars «Vega and Altair» may have some mirror with Sensei and her, but... it sound to simple.
I arrive way after the battle, I'm sure of it, so, sorry for that.

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I've always said that gods don't exist, All it takes is for you to stop believing in them.

So if you were a LiL deity, you'd probably want to stay alive, and the way to do that is to get more followers which in turn makes you more powerful. Having only one person believe in you means that you're in the process of dying and powerless, barely hanging by the wires.

Though I might hate her, I know a lot of people like Maya. If she is indeed a deity, she would still be alive by virtue of having multiple people still believe in her prime version. She's just someone's prisoner.

givemeabeer said:

I have a hard time conceive the probability that Maya IS a god. I mean, of course her story about the stars «Vega and Altair» may have some mirror with Sensei and her, but... it sound to simple.

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Maya being a god is a theory that has gained power because of the last few updates, have you reached them? If so, it comes basically from evidence that she shouldn't/doesn't exist, her overall function being stolen from someone else, and Akira being able to fish/summon forgotten gods from the bottom of the well to serve his needs. There's obviously a lot more to say about it, I am simply trying to keep it spoiler light if you haven't catched up.

Moonflare said:

Maya being a god is a theory that has gained power because of the last few updates, have you reached them? If so, it comes basically from evidence that she shouldn't/doesn't exist, her overall function being stolen from someone else, and Akira being able to fish/summon forgotten gods from the bottom of the well to serve his needs. There's obviously a lot more to say about it, I am simply trying to keep it spoiler light if you haven't catched up.

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Update 0.45? Yep, I just missing the «Alexa» thing, but that's all.
About Maya, tough, that I understand she may not exist in every other dimension, and maybe she is correlated with the death of Sekai, but... well, it can tell the fact that she is an anomaly.
I mean, for all we know, the other reality where Sensei and Sekai are married, and Maya doesn't exist, can still have the reset thing. Which mean, if the reset is to punish a god (Maya) from falling in love with a mortal (Sensei), why should it appear where she's not exist?
And if it don't happen there, which is also possible, why Ami killing someone have no (?) consequences?

A lot of questions at my side, I know, and that mostly because there's to few answer by now. Or I just miss some. That's possible.

Moonflare said:

Funnily enough, one of my biggest questions for this event is: Where the hell did Maya go to sleep at?

Maya is friends with literally no one else to the extent of sleeping at their homes. She has no other home either. Where would she go and why? Did she go to sleep at Akira's house? I don't think so, since he returns there after this. Did Ami tell her to leave? Actually, it would be more likely that she has manipulated Maya into leaving since I think Maya doesn't know that Ami knows that she knows about the two of them... Anyway, a lot of questions here too.

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Akira and Maya are doomed to be ships passing in the night.

Thus the following headcanon: Maya, in a moment of weakness, goes to Akira's house to get her freak on, but he never comes home. By the time he gets home, she's come to her senses and returned to the dorm.

Moonflare said:

I think this has also been brought up before, but why is Am I Okay invoking Ayane's lustname during "tick tock tick tock"?

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She also uses Ami's lust name. I assume it's just because those are the game's first two lust names (the only ones at that point?) and Sensei's brain is free associating.

Moonflare said:

Also also, aramaug, get in here please. Remember the whole Teacher isn't Sekai thing? I noticed this random line which might be interpreted as this being Sekai after all. So, not only the whole AGAIN SHE LIVES is playing the whole time, but there's this:

Spoiler: tick tock tick tock

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Well, if it's Sekai then she's talking about the fact that he actually impregnated Ami. So it would be "be careful of making another daughter", rather than "be careful of making another dream baby". I ask you because if I recall you were vocal against T being for Teacher/Sekai.

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I'm not sure what you're asking here, or if you just wanted me to comment on the Sekai/letter T thing. I personally think that both Maya and Ami are dream babies for reasons independent of this passage, and it could be interpreted to support that, but as you point out neither AmIOkay nor Sensei outright states that anyone is a dream baby.

AmIOkay doesn't just represent Sekai in this event, since Sekai is a big incest fan whereas AmIOkay disapproves.
This is even more confused though, since refusing to have sex on her best friend's bed points to Maya, but if she was just the Maya we know, having sex with Akira wouldn't be incest no matter what bed it's on. I think Akira's mind is just jumbling a lot of things together, and AmIOkay is some combination of his thoughts regarding Maya, Sekai, and Ami here.

In regards to the girl whose name begins with the letter T, I do think that refers to Sekai, though maybe not directly and maybe not exclusively; it could be someone outside the simulation that Sekai is a reflection of or something like that. The part I've always been opposed to is the idea that the T stands for teacher - I still think it stands for something that we don't know.

Actually, there was something in the last update relevant to this. Previously, some people argued with me that Akira knew her as "Teacher" because she was an English teacher and thus used an English title, but in the alternate timeline she revealed that Akira called her Sensei, so that theory is out.

givemeabeer said:

Since I the one who brought this up, I guess I'm the one to finish it :

Spoiler: Rin's opinion

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On another note :


I have a hard time conceive the probability that Maya IS a god. I mean, of course her story about the stars «Vega and Altair» may have some mirror with Sensei and her, but... it sound to simple.
I arrive way after the battle, I'm sure of it, so, sorry for that.

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Just a bit of geeky Weeb-note-iness: The Vega-Altair “bridge of birds” myth is one of the great romantic tales told throughout East Asia. Equivalent to Romeo & Juliet or Orpheus and Eurydice. So I just took Maya invoking it to be her trying to give the love story of Maya and Akira some narrative street cred.

aramaug said:

She also uses Ami's lust name. I assume it's just because those are the game's first two lust names (the only ones at that point?) and Sensei's brain is free associating.

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I just looked up the event in the code. It uses [amimaster], [ayanemaster], [amimaster] and [mayamaster] in that order.

Why? I have no idea but it's there.

Oh god... it just hit me, if we ever get to have a lustname with Io... setting it to 'Mommy' will be an experience...

Bingoogus said:

Oh god... it just hit me, if we ever get to have a lustname with Io... setting it to 'Mommy' will be an experience...

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Definitely another opportunity for Maya to appear and call Akira a idiot. Would also be a hoot if it was a loophole to see Maya Prime.

Yarazin said:

Definitely another opportunity for Maya to appear and call Akira a idiot. Would also be a hoot if it was a loophole to see Maya Prime.

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Make it a whole happy event

Think more: Imagine setting Yasu's lust name to "HOPE" or "GOD".

Moonflare said:

Funnily enough, one of my biggest questions for this event is: Where the hell did Maya go to sleep at?

Spoiler: No one can see us

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Camping out at a traveling watermelon festival.

Moonflare said:

Funnily enough, one of my biggest questions for this event is: Where the hell did Maya go to sleep at?

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Since like you said there is literally no other place for Maya to stay, I am betting on Maya making an intentionally excused absence (and perhaps just waiting somewhere outside instead of staying somewhere) so that Ami could get alone with Sensei that night. Considering this was still early in a cycle where her statistics still worked, this might be something scripted enough that she could predict but couldn’t avoid. Or, she received heavy unsubtle hints from Ami that night, and she couldn’t stop it or didn’t have enough reason or heart to stop it, and definitely didn’t want to witness it.

TBone9 said:

Camping out at a traveling watermelon festival.

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I mean, I figured playing an all-night D&D session (though the Emerald Guardian hasn’t shown up then, has she?)

But you win.

TBone9 said:

Camping out at a traveling watermelon festival.

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I just found out that Watermelon festival is a thing that exists and I don't know what to make of it.
I'm now picturing Maya at a sort of secret Burning Man but with Watermelons.

Antosha said:

I mean, I figured playing an all-night D&D session (though the Emerald Guardian hasn’t shown up then, has she?)

But you win.

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Molly is part of the anime club along with Maya, Ami, Sana and Rin, (am i forgetting anyone? Ayane?), they were playing DnD the whole time, probably even before the resets.

Bingoogus said:

Molly is part of the anime club along with Maya, Ami, Sana and Rin, (am i forgetting anyone? Ayane?), they were playing DnD the whole time, probably even before the resets.

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There you go.

Moonflare said:

I just found out that Watermelon festival is a thing that exists and I don't know what to make of it.

Spoiler: yeah

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I'm now picturing Maya at a sort of secret Burning Man but with Watermelons.

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“May you find someone to smile at you the way Maya smiles at watermelon.”

Antosha said:

There you go.

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Also, Maya is a nerd.