For the useless trivia from me no one probably cares about for today, this sequence was based off ending 6 from the OG Shattered Time, Endless Summer. It was named after yet another Cascada song and it was my favorite ending from the original. I wanted them to end up together, but I couldn't without throwing the whole plot out the window. Some people said it ended too abruptly when Terankos shows up. So not only did I beef up the confession between MC and Natsuki (and fix the write-up about the curse since people were confused about it), but I added to when he shows up to give it a conclusive end, so to say. Seeing as the structure of the mod is no longer limited by the nature of the quick one and done endings, I was able to play with the time looping/return by death idea some more. And as some more useless trivia, Amy/Terankos and MC actually quote the lyrics of the song in certain parts, further paying tribute to the song and tying it back to the meaning of the lyrics and the ironic sadness that even though they're stuck in this repeating time period, MC and Natsuki won't be happy or free. "It feels like paradise, the world is closing in, it feels so right I start to fantasize about what where getting in, because now you're mine This is our time It's an endless summer, boy I want you close to me In an endless summer. We'll ____ and we'll be free It's an endless summer, boy I want you close to me In an endless summer. Now it's time for you and me"
"Don't take it too serious," huh? You do realize I took down Captive Heart for a while because of someone making "a few nitpicks" and their viewers straight up telling me I'm a crap writer who can't make a good story and essentially going out of their way to make me feel awful, right? No? Well, now you do. I know, I know, I shouldn't take it to seriously or personally, but when it's something that I put my heart and soul into (and in Captive Heart's case, my pain and struggles with school and dealing with a father that made you feel awful about yourself), it doesn't sit with me. Even then, I only put Captive Heart back up because I felt bad for a handful of people asking about it and because it seems a majority of people have forgotten about that mod and probably don't care anymore. When we say "it'll be explained later," it'll be explained later. Like for real, I could, but do you want me to spoil the mod for you and tell you how/why Natsuki remembers everything? I'm not as much of a hack writer as Rocketman or most people in the DDMC make me out to be, you know. I thought about that. I'm not that stupid. So save all questions until the end of the tour. I mean, you said so yourself. It gets explained later. And it does, just like right here. Maybe my logic isn't always the best, I'll admit, considering the mistakes I made with the original Shattered Time and Captive Heart that sparked the desire to give these another chance. If anything, if you play OG ST and come back to this, I'd like to think you can see that I learned a lot and started getting back into the motions of writing again. Anyway, that aside... Why does he care? Because he loves Natsuki. And yet, when she was screaming at him back on the roof about how she hates him, it broke his heart. Despite all that, he still loves her. He won't admit it to himself, but that's why he had to make sure she was okay. And that's also why he even said before how he was going to do everything he could despite her hating him, and by proxy, despite how she broke his heart and how painful it would be talking to her again. For him at that moment, he thinks the best thing for Natsuki is for him to never talk to her ever again, even if she doesn't remember why she hates him. Plus it would just make him sad since he loved spending all that time with her. He thinks it's all his fault that she hates him. So when she's there all "wait, don't go, stay here with me!" he's confused. He wants Natsuki to be happy, and he thinks staying out of her life will make her happy. He's just in so much shock that he's there questioning like "Yeah, what's going on here? You said you hate me, but now you want to see me again??" At the end of the day, he wants her to be happy, to be safe, and to stay alive. He's literally willing to do whatever he has to in order to make that happen. Best keep that specific thought in mind, since it's going to be important coming up soon.
For the useless trivia from me no one probably cares about for today, this sequence was based off ending 6 from the OG Shattered Time, Endless Summer. It was named after yet another Cascada song and it was my favorite ending from the original. I wanted them to end up together, but I couldn't without throwing the whole plot out the window. Some people said it ended too abruptly when Terankos shows up. So not only did I beef up the confession between MC and Natsuki (and fix the write-up about the curse since people were confused about it), but I added to when he shows up to give it a conclusive end, so to say. Seeing as the structure of the mod is no longer limited by the nature of the quick one and done endings, I was able to play with the time looping/return by death idea some more.
And as some more useless trivia, Amy/Terankos and MC actually quote the lyrics of the song in certain parts, further paying tribute to the song and tying it back to the meaning of the lyrics and the ironic sadness that even though they're stuck in this repeating time period, MC and Natsuki won't be happy or free.
"It feels like paradise, the world is closing in, it feels so right
I start to fantasize about what where getting in, because now you're mine
This is our time
It's an endless summer, boy I want you close to me
In an endless summer. We'll ____ and we'll be free
It's an endless summer, boy I want you close to me
In an endless summer. Now it's time for you and me"
"Don't take it too serious," huh? You do realize I took down Captive Heart for a while because of someone making "a few nitpicks" and their viewers straight up telling me I'm a crap writer who can't make a good story and essentially going out of their way to make me feel awful, right? No? Well, now you do. I know, I know, I shouldn't take it to seriously or personally, but when it's something that I put my heart and soul into (and in Captive Heart's case, my pain and struggles with school and dealing with a father that made you feel awful about yourself), it doesn't sit with me. Even then, I only put Captive Heart back up because I felt bad for a handful of people asking about it and because it seems a majority of people have forgotten about that mod and probably don't care anymore.
When we say "it'll be explained later," it'll be explained later. Like for real, I could, but do you want me to spoil the mod for you and tell you how/why Natsuki remembers everything? I'm not as much of a hack writer as Rocketman or most people in the DDMC make me out to be, you know. I thought about that. I'm not that stupid. So save all questions until the end of the tour. I mean, you said so yourself. It gets explained later. And it does, just like right here. Maybe my logic isn't always the best, I'll admit, considering the mistakes I made with the original Shattered Time and Captive Heart that sparked the desire to give these another chance. If anything, if you play OG ST and come back to this, I'd like to think you can see that I learned a lot and started getting back into the motions of writing again.
Anyway, that aside... Why does he care? Because he loves Natsuki. And yet, when she was screaming at him back on the roof about how she hates him, it broke his heart. Despite all that, he still loves her. He won't admit it to himself, but that's why he had to make sure she was okay. And that's also why he even said before how he was going to do everything he could despite her hating him, and by proxy, despite how she broke his heart and how painful it would be talking to her again. For him at that moment, he thinks the best thing for Natsuki is for him to never talk to her ever again, even if she doesn't remember why she hates him. Plus it would just make him sad since he loved spending all that time with her. He thinks it's all his fault that she hates him. So when she's there all "wait, don't go, stay here with me!" he's confused. He wants Natsuki to be happy, and he thinks staying out of her life will make her happy. He's just in so much shock that he's there questioning like "Yeah, what's going on here? You said you hate me, but now you want to see me again??" At the end of the day, he wants her to be happy, to be safe, and to stay alive. He's literally willing to do whatever he has to in order to make that happen. Best keep that specific thought in mind, since it's going to be important coming up soon.