tl;dr meme

[glassinine]

Vilkommen, Herren und Damen, to the...



~TL;DR MEME~

Fucking magnets, how does this work?
Step 1: Post a list of your characters.
Step 2: Sit and twirl your moustaches until other people post their characters, then go and ask them questions about their folks. It can be anything, from "So how deep DO Tony Stark's daddy issues run?" (Answer: "they swim amongst giant squid and anglerfish and the trench the kaiju came out of") to "Tell me your least favorite thing about the DC canon" (Answer: "Holy shit are there some cockmongling dingleberries running that company").
Step 3: Other people will ask YOU questions. You go and answer those questions, and be polite - ask THEM a question in return after you're done answering it! (So, it's not just "Nick Burkhardt decided to become a cop when he heard about police brutality and wanted to get in on that" but also you follow up with "What magnificent auroch did Loki hunt to get those beautiful horns?") Then when THEY answer their question, they'll ask YOU a question! ("They came from being cuckolded in Shakespearean times. What are Nick Burkhardt's favorite sunglasses?") And the you ask THEM A QUESTION AGAIN! And they ask YOU! And you ask THEM!! And they ask YOU!!!! So that it's a great big patty-cake of QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS!!!
Step 4: Repeat ad infinitum until we break the motherfucking internet

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Jean

[databoner]

With Houka "shitnerd" Inumuta.

[hoboagogo]

how was prison for him

So, what are Inumuta's plans with all the data he collects on people? Is he just holding it out of habit, or for something familiar? Does he have any SEKRIT PLANS??

And in regards to his position in game, what are his biggest fears?

[databoner]

he's everyone's favorite boy

It's mostly out of habit. The other devas and Satsuki, whenever they want to know anything, they go to him. If Sanageyama or Gamagori needed to know something about someone, he'd feel kind of like a failure if he didn't already know it first. But he's also looking into people's abilities for anything really particular, to potentially use as a means of finding a way back to his respective world. His SERKET plans mostly arent really too secret since he's already done it once: get as much info as he can from Cape Canaveral.

His biggest fears... probably losing Gamagori and Sanageyama, in some way. Like, death or going back home. Which he knows is selfish, since he wants them all to go back eventually, but he doesn't really want to be the last man standing.

[hoboagogo]

So Inumuta really does care about his friends more than he may let on- How much loyalty does he give them? And is it out of friendship or duty or pride, or some weird mix?

Would he feel troubled if he was offered a trip back home, and the other two weren't guaranteed it?

[databoner]

200% loyalty. "Would very literally die for" loyalty. Which yes, is misleading to how he acts compared to the other elite four, but that's more because he has slightly less SHOUNEN ENERGY than the others. They're essentially his family as far as he's concerned, considering he ditched his parents when he was like twelve. It probably started out of duty and then turned to friendship over time.

He wouldn't go, honestly. As much as he wants to go back, it's all or nothing.

[hoboagogo]

Does he have any unexpected hobbies, or tastes? Soft spot for animals? Anything?

[liverletdie]

I want you to talk about Houka's tech experience! Talk to me about his interests and everything about him and technology c:

[databoner]

EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM AND TECHNOLOGY. Okay. I think this is everything, but I might have forgotten a few things here and there.

He didn't have much tech experience until he was ten, when his parents gave him a laptop. And then it was love at first sight. Within two years of having said laptop, he had self-taught how to code, program, and hack, which he used to break into the stock market and change numbers to be in his favor, to change his records on the Tokyo police's servers, and run away from home. Daddy issues, heyooo.

So he lived on his own for a couple of years, writing small AI programs and continuing to be some kind of 90's grunge hacker who stole money from the stock market. Eventually he got bored enough with ripping off major businesses that he decided to try and take down the biggest company in Japan, REVOCS corporation, via crashing it's stock numbers. Which... didn't work too well, and he was caught like IMMEDIATELY. Which led to him working for the daughter of the REVOCS company, so. Getting caught messing with someone else's business and then proceeding to work for them is not exactly a situation he's unaccustomed to.

TIME SKIP A FEW MORE YEARS so now he's in high school, and using his research/data collection capabilities for the benefit of Satsuki Kiryuin. Since he's basically been granted tons of money to do research for Satsuki, it's probably safe to say he's developed programs that would collect and analyze data for him in the show rather than having to do it himself all the time. Oh and then he later fakes an embezzlement charge on his father (the vice-director of the police) because he felt like it.

That's all I could think of right now??

[attainment]

What are some things Inumuta would like to be better at? Why?

[databoner]

WELL NOT GETTING HIS ASS CAUGHT, FOR ONE.

But, more serious answer, being more suave would be something he'd like to be better at. He's already been called creepy one too many times here for it to not cause some kind of concern. Of course, asking someone if he can analyze them just sounds creepy by default, so not really sure how he's going to get around that one.

FORGOT TO ASK A QUESTION BACK, what does Barnaby think of how ...relatively wacky a crosscanon world is. I mean, T&B universe has superpowered people, but MoM has aliens and time travel and vampires, etc. I know he's pretty grounded in reality for the most part as a character, so is he just taking this stuff all with stride, or internally like "WTF" every time something weird happens?

[nekked]

suave Inumuta??? PFFFFFFFFFT--

oh wait you're being serious........

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

pls the only way Inumuta's getting suave is with shampoo and conditioner.

[databoner]

WOW LEAVE

A MAN CAN DREAM

[attainment]

HE GETS A GOLD STAR FOR TRYING?

Aww, he's one of those socially awkward techie types. If Barnaby found out he wanted to change that about himself, he could probably point him in the right direction since he had a similar problem in his teens, LOL.

He's mostly been taking things in stride, actually! That's partly because a) he's good at compartmentalizing, b) he realizes a lot of his preconceived notions about reality probably won't apply to this alt verse anyway, and c) he's generally detached enough from other people that he doesn't really care if someone says they're an alien/vampire/time traveler as long as it doesn't wash over into his business.

What's the first thing Inumuta notices about someone? Does he do the friendship thing, or not really?

[databoner]

HE'S NOT AS AWKWARD IN CANON okay that's a lie, he's not as awkward as he could be but still.

Compartmentalizing isn't always a good thing, Barnaby!! You need to let it out. In a form that is not punching something or crying.

I'm not sure there's a "first thing" he notices so much as he tries to take in their whole attitude/speech/disposition before speaking to them, to try and best access how to approach them. If someone's speaking clearly and understands the situation they're in (like in a first post on the network) he'll treat them with more respect than someone who's just going "WHERE AM I, WHAT'S GOING ONNNN" etc. He's pretty standardly an asshole to people at first though.

He totally can do the friendship thing, he's definitely keeping a distance from developing real friendships here. He doesn't foresee himself spending too much time here, and so he doesn't really plan on making too many friends? BUT TIME WILL CHANGES THINGS I'M SURE.

I'm really awful at questions UMMM. how much time does it take Barnaby to get his hair THAT flawless?

[attainment]

HAHAH, yeah, I remember the way he got kind of troll-y toward Barnaby in the beginning. He seems like he'd have an easy time pissing off other characters when he's in the mood for it.

As for hair care, Barnaby doesn't like having to fuss with cosmetic stuff too much, so he probably uses fewer products than one might think. His mom's hair was naturally curly, so I figure his curls are probably pretty natural too. Still, he's nothing if not a perfectionist, so he canonically goes to the hair salon twice a month to make sure his hair always looks ~fabulous~.

Why does Inumuta prefer communicating with people on the network via audio?

[vengefulshades]

Clearly Inumuta is in the possession of a lot of skills/power. How responsible is he with it? Are his motives and means pure, or would it be easy to imagine him getting a bunch of bad ideas and going to the dark side with his mad tech skills?

[databoner]

NEVER RESPONSIBLE EVER. The most "pure" his intentions ever are occurs when he's working for/with Satsuki Kiryuin. She's trying to fight off the end of the world, and he helps plan/coordinate/gather info/hack into things for her, but even then, some of the things he does are pretty borderline grey area.

But for most of his life, he's been rigging the stock market in his favor, changing police records, rewriting his ID in government records, etc. It's not that he's ever been doing things for the sake of being evil, it's always been for self-serving purposes, like needing money or needing to establish a housing situation for himself. A perfect example of Houka's dedication to The Grey Area Of Morality is that, at one point, his father (vice-director of the police) was investigating the REVOCS corporation. Investigating REVOCS at that point in canon would probably wind up with his father dead. Despite hating his dad, Houka decides to help him... By faking an embezzlement scandal under his dad's name, so his dad is kicked off the police force. Of course, he has it rigged to reveal itself as a fake after a certain amount of time, but he also didn't tell his dad he was doing this, just because he's an asshole.

SO. Possibly corruptible? Definitely.

What about Yomiel? He seems like he already leans more towards The Dark Side, but does he have any soft spots for anything? Like...puppies?

[vengefulshades]

Hohoho, oh, you little scamp with your hacking skills! At least he rigged it to get his dad off the hook... eventually.

Why yes, he does! Kitties, actually. Yomiel has a pet cat named Sissel that is his only friend in the whole world. He adopted him as a stray kitten in the park, and for a while after Yomiel died he was actually sharing Sissel's body with him, until he could get his own back. Since then, Sissel has gone everywhere with him, and even got a dapper little red bandana.

General fanon says he spoils the little guy rotten. Not having him around in Heropa isn't doing Yomiel any favors, emotionally.


Where did Houka learn to hack, anyway?

[databoner]

Oh no, pet feels. Not a full length question here, but would Yomiel completely reject another cat, if he had the opportunity to take care of another one?

It's not really detailed much in canon, but presumably it was self taught. Mr. Antisocial here probably never had a friend for most of his life, except his computer which he was given when he was ten. He hated his parents, and wasn't close to anyone in school (again, presuming because he's a side character with very little backstory), so he was probably on his computer as much as humanly possible. He was twelve when he cracked the police's server to change his ID, so that means he learned how to do that sort of thing in... two years. Which is pretty unbelievable, but y'know. Anime.

LEGIT QUESTION NOW, I'm totally canon blind, but I know the main premise of the game is that Yomiel is dead since the start of it, right? Is Yomiel glad or miserable to be alive again?

[vengefulshades]

Hahaha, so he basically hung around on 4chan a lot and figured out how to hack by Googling. Or found some really helpful youtube channel.

Yomiel does like cats in general, so if he found another one here he'd take care of it. Sissel is of special importance to him, though, because he found him in the park the day that he died.

Ghost Trick is a hella confusing game because it's all a twisted mystery to be solved, but actually Yomiel is not the character that you play as. That's another character who happens to look exactly like Yomiel for reasons I will not go into on a meme. The main character is murdered before the game starts and the plot involves him trying to figure out why and to regain his memories.

Yomiel is a super special case and has actually been physically dead for 10 years. He died in an "accident" and as a result of the accident, his soul was ripped out of his body and now exists as a ghost with superpowers. His body also became immortal, stuck in the moments between life and death. So Yomiel has spent 10 years as a ghost driving his own dead body around, unable to sleep, eat, breathe or feel pain.

And he is absolutely miserable.


Would Houka ever accept instruction on more complicated computer problems? What would he do if he had the skills to accomplish absolutely anything with a laptop in his hand (I mean... more than manipulating the stock market and fucking around with his dad, apparently.)

[sanguineseams]

I was thinking about this while forcing my friend at gunpoint to watch watching it with a friend...

All of the E4 have their own personal reasons for their loyalty to Satsuki (Gamagoori's deep-seated need to protect others, Sanageyama's drive to become a better figher, Jakuzure's...uh, lesbian boner, I guess? idk...) It seems like Inumuta is associated with the idea of "changing the world" much more than the other E4, and I started wondering just how much his motivations are really "changing the world" or more being given the opportunity to use his normally destructive skills to the benefit of society. Do you think that his interests lie more in having global-scale impact, or merely being given a purpose that he can fulfill instead of hacking the stock market for shits and giggles? In extension, which of these is the major source of his loyalty to Satsuki?

[databoner]

oh no i love this question I'VE THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT THIS but i've never actually written it all out so it's going to be incoherent.

To start, just a run down of E4+Iori family. Jakuzure has both parents, although we don't hear diddly shit about them, they're still there, and presumably Nonon still cares about them (because I believe we'd heard about it otherwise, and part of those E4 excerpts mentions she's still talking to her dad), Gamagori has a great relationship with his mother, Sanageyama gets along shittily with his parents, but it's only a strained relationship, not entirely severed, and Iori has his uncle. By the time Satsuki finds Inumuta, he's essentially on his own, just as she is essentially on her own in terms of direct family that she's aware of.

The E4 all have a very close relationship with Satsuki, of course, but I think Houka and Satsuki kind of understand each other on a different level than the others. There's less reverence in his actions and when speaking to her than what the others give, which might be seen that he doesn't respect her as much as the others, but it's the opposite. It's because he can be this way around her, as a previous antisocial recluse, that shows he respects her more than if he was simply obedient and silent. She knows what it's like to feel like it's them against the world.

And to a degree, he gets away with a lot more than the others probably would have. Sanageyama has to go fucking blind for her to forgive him, Gamagori nearly has to kill himself- Inumuta just WALKS AWAY from the Natural Elections and she's like "okay, that's chill." I mean really do you think anyone else could get away with saying this?

Houka's always had an interest in changing the world in some way. But once he got a computer and knew of "the digital world" digimon jokes kill me with this he thought that was the only kind of world that mattered, and he learned how to change that easily.He wants to see her change the world, fact, because she's the one who made him realize there was more of a world to change. He was so wrapped up for years in computers and escapism that he wasn't actually looking at the real world at all. He owes his opened view of the world to Satsuki, and promising him she could change something as massive as the whole world, made him entirely fascinated with her. If there's anyone who tries to understand her the most, it's Inumuta. Any time she does anything at all, he's usually there either questioning why she's doing that, or having already pieced together her meaning. So basically, at first his loyalty was more temporary, because he was likening her to a subject to study and understand (as he did with everything) and somewhere along the way it became genuine respect for the way she does things and makes her decisions.

I don't think his goals have ever been as noble as trying to benefit society, but more that he wants to prove to himself and others that he's not as insignificant as he used to feel like he was as a child. By aiding Satsuki, he just happens to be helping save the world, but if Satsuki really had been on Ragyo's side and was striving for total domination of the world, he probably still would have gone along with it too, as long as she was the one leading the charge. In a way, morality doesn't matter to him as much. He'd rather be an active villain than a passive hero.

WOW THAT SURE WAS AN ESSAY.

[sanguineseams]

If there's anyone who tries to understand her the most, it's Inumuta. Any time she does anything at all, he's usually there either questioning why she's doing that, or having already pieced together her meaning.

iawtc so hard

[databoner]

IT HAPPENS SO MUCH like at least six times i can remember but that's probably not all of them.

also they both love tea what more proof do you need

[sanguineseams]

pretty sure the only one in canon that doesn't like tea is sanageyama tbh

the scrub