Game of the Year: A Naruto Quest
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I'm considering it also.
I was fine with the team that got chosen, I thought that it was going to be a cool source of conflict as character growth, get away from the typical team dynamic.
But it seems like every vote since then has been the players being pragmatic rather than a choice influenced by the characters personality. We picked our team over our crying best friend, chose to coordinate the test as much as possible and now we're literally choosing to confide our greatest fear.
Where is the Daisuke of a few updates ago that considered going to Iruka and complaining about how awful the team allocations are? Where's the massive dislike that we've apparently built up for Mariko? Where's the emotional reaction to being forced into a genjutsu by someone he was supposed to trust?
I think I'm just annoyed that it feels like the dislike of the team is going to be handwaved away over a few shared experiences and it feels like Daisuke hasn't been showing much personality in the last few updates. I'll wait and see if there is conflicted character relations within the team
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Wasn't it mentioned at some point that we literally can't tell anyone about it or future events? Maybe it was in the original Game of The Year fic that had that.
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While it would be better for the trust between team members to be built up over time, I think that Kurenai is trying to make the point of "You're going to be trusting your team members with your very life in the field so the least you can do is trust them with your greatest fear." That's my interpretation of it anyway. I think that the test is unfair, but I don't want Daisuke to end up in the Genin Corps.
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- Staring into the void
[X] Answer truthfully. You'll tell everyone what you saw.
-[X] You were in a world where nothing around you was real. A world where maybe you aren't even real.
Changing to this.
-[X] You were in a world where nothing around you was real. A world where maybe you aren't even real.
Changing to this.
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- Middle of Nowhere
-[] You were attacked by your childhood protector who tried to kill you before you entered the Academy, and this time he was going to finish the job.
I honestly don't understand this as a response. Are we saying that the greatest thing we fear is Tokei rising from the grave and trying to kill us? Granted Edo Tensei is a thing, but I think we can be reasonably confident that this is a thing thats probably not going to happen.
I honestly don't understand this as a response. Are we saying that the greatest thing we fear is Tokei rising from the grave and trying to kill us? Granted Edo Tensei is a thing, but I think we can be reasonably confident that this is a thing thats probably not going to happen.
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I'd be totally fine with Daisuke being in the Genin Corps, it's something different! It'd take the story in a very different direction and would provoke character growth
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
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[X] Answer truthfully. You'll tell everyone what you saw.
-[X] You were in a world where nothing around you was real. A world where maybe you aren't even real.
Honestly? This is the MOST realistic answer. Our protagonist saw death and was reborn, and while disapproval and betrayal by one you trust is bad, the thought that everything you are, everything you do and everything around you is a Lie, fake. Is a fear beyond the first two.
-[X] You were in a world where nothing around you was real. A world where maybe you aren't even real.
Honestly? This is the MOST realistic answer. Our protagonist saw death and was reborn, and while disapproval and betrayal by one you trust is bad, the thought that everything you are, everything you do and everything around you is a Lie, fake. Is a fear beyond the first two.
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There's another reason why I didn't go with this... I actually know two people who have "psychotic episodes" where they experience that.
One of them has a seizure disorder; during and after the seizure, they become convinced that everything that they do is fake. That they're acting, that they only fell down and puked because they wanted to, even if there was no reason for them to want to and they were dreading it moments before they actually fell. Everyone, when they're having an episode, is just acting. Making up their lives for the drama, playing parts. That we are all just puppets to a mad god who is telling itself stories to itself to feel less lonely.
Then they recover, some twenty minutes later and they're back to normal.
The other person has a form of night terror on a daily basis. For the first hour they're awake, they're not sure if they're dreaming. In fact, they're frequently still dreaming despite being wide awake. So they're not sure if any interaction they have with anyone is actually real, or if their brain made it up. They spend a good portion of each day sanity checking things, trying to make sure that what they're doing is grounded in fact.
In short, I have lived with two people with that fear, and I have seen how it can crumble a person. And it's common in France, specifically. There it tends to be a mild anxiety that you're expected to grow out of but a lot of people don't. It's comparable to that feeling that if you have limbs sticking out from the covers of your bed, something bad's going to happen, or a fear of the dark.
The fear that your life is a story, and the person telling it will finish whatever interesting part and you'll just... stop existing without dying. The fear that the storyteller will just close the book and walk away.
That'd be a hard fear to actually explain, though. The first and second options we can explain by revealing that we're the bastard of the Daimyo of Iron, but not the third. Like, "I have existential questions about whether or not I am actually real or not and it's my worst fear" - we can't just explain that we're reincarnated. They'd think we're crazy.
[X] Answer truthfully. You'll tell everyone what you saw.
-[X] You were told by someone whose approval you once looked for that you make everything actively worse just by existing.
-[X] You were told by someone whose approval you once looked for that you make everything actively worse just by existing.
Kkutlord
Prince of Breath
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Regarding the popularity for Option 3 as being the best choice: Questioning Reality is a pretty natural thing, and naturally the answer is "You will never definitively know". For all Daisuke knows, he could be someone under the Infinite Tsukuyomi for whom the "Game Interface" is just his specific way of interacting with it. That... would actually be a good omake.
Anyways, the point is: since you can't do anything to undeniably prove everything is real, obsessing over the "realness" of things is unhealthy and self-destructive. It'll just result in Daisuke becoming paranoid, eventually reaching a dramatic moment where he kills someone or screws up majorly because he was convinced none of it was real.
Whereas Option 1 "Tokei", would mean upgrading his trauma of the event. Sure he knows the Edo Tensei is a thing and that people will be making liberal use of it soon enough, but honestly Tokei would be pretty mad about being revived as a murder weapon for some crazed ninja. So you got an Enemy Mine there, and Daisuke would be both stronger & surrounded by allies- thus making Tokei less of a threat, especially since dead people can't level grind.
Finally, there's Option 2 "It's a wonderful life": Sure, there's some downsides, but that's same for all of them. Option 2 might cause Daisuke to worry he's changing too many things, that he might be unwittingly dooming the world with his butterflies... but it is also the most reasonable fear for someone like him, having reincarnated across universes into a reality he formerly only read and watched before.
Really, it is the only one that seems in-character to me. "Oh, well the game interface supports Option 3": Well... Daisuke has been established having some recollection of non-Naruto things, and if he's seen Naruto/Bleach/One Piece/Dragon Ball? Then it isn't unreasonable he had watched some RPG Mechanics-type anime.
Plus, even if you remove the "Game Interface" part, you got the fact he reincarnated in a world he knew as fictional. That alone would be reason for arguing Option 3, so the "Game Interface" part doesn't actually add much.
Overall, in short: He already has reasons to be concerned about reality's realness, but getting worked up would be emotionally & mentally damaging. Being afraid of Tokei, after just successfully confronting the illusion, seems counter-productive since it could give off the impression Daisuke actually lost his nerve. Thus, being cautious that his attempts to be More Important Than Before doesn't screw over everyone is arguably a Boon as well as a Downside.
Anyways, the point is: since you can't do anything to undeniably prove everything is real, obsessing over the "realness" of things is unhealthy and self-destructive. It'll just result in Daisuke becoming paranoid, eventually reaching a dramatic moment where he kills someone or screws up majorly because he was convinced none of it was real.
Whereas Option 1 "Tokei", would mean upgrading his trauma of the event. Sure he knows the Edo Tensei is a thing and that people will be making liberal use of it soon enough, but honestly Tokei would be pretty mad about being revived as a murder weapon for some crazed ninja. So you got an Enemy Mine there, and Daisuke would be both stronger & surrounded by allies- thus making Tokei less of a threat, especially since dead people can't level grind.
Finally, there's Option 2 "It's a wonderful life": Sure, there's some downsides, but that's same for all of them. Option 2 might cause Daisuke to worry he's changing too many things, that he might be unwittingly dooming the world with his butterflies... but it is also the most reasonable fear for someone like him, having reincarnated across universes into a reality he formerly only read and watched before.
Really, it is the only one that seems in-character to me. "Oh, well the game interface supports Option 3": Well... Daisuke has been established having some recollection of non-Naruto things, and if he's seen Naruto/Bleach/One Piece/Dragon Ball? Then it isn't unreasonable he had watched some RPG Mechanics-type anime.
Plus, even if you remove the "Game Interface" part, you got the fact he reincarnated in a world he knew as fictional. That alone would be reason for arguing Option 3, so the "Game Interface" part doesn't actually add much.
Overall, in short: He already has reasons to be concerned about reality's realness, but getting worked up would be emotionally & mentally damaging. Being afraid of Tokei, after just successfully confronting the illusion, seems counter-productive since it could give off the impression Daisuke actually lost his nerve. Thus, being cautious that his attempts to be More Important Than Before doesn't screw over everyone is arguably a Boon as well as a Downside.
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- US
[X] Answer truthfully. You'll tell everyone what you saw.
-[X] You were told by someone whose approval you once looked for that you make everything actively worse just by existing.
-[X] You were told by someone whose approval you once looked for that you make everything actively worse just by existing.
will408914
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[X] Answer truthfully. You'll tell everyone what you saw.
-[X] You were in a world where nothing around you was real. A world where maybe you aren't even real.
-[X] You were in a world where nothing around you was real. A world where maybe you aren't even real.
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So by picking the approval choice, do we just gloss over the death fight with our childhood protector? Do we just tell them " Yeah I was told harsh things" and that's it?