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cantflyaway) wrote2015-05-21 05:52 pm
cantflyaway) wrote2015-05-21 05:52 pm
Hatoful Boyfriend BBL History etc.
Just a little write-up I can link to, since I don't feel the wiki goes over enough salient points.
Major spoilers for the entire game will be past this point. Don't say I didn't warn you!
A bit of background, first: in the world of Hatoful Boyfriend, which takes place in 2188, humans are the minority. Instead, the majority of the populace is now sentient, self-aware birds. Nanaki Kazuaki (a button quail) best explains this with a bit of background history during class:
"Back when we birds were still beasts and pets, a virus known as A(H5N1) appeared. At first, it only infected birds, but it underwent a mutation and spread to humans. This mutated strain was highly infectious and had an extremely high mortality rate. It became clear that it posed a threat to the survival of the human species, so the humans engineered a powerful virus to cull birds and prevent A(H5N1) from becoming pandemic. In hindsight, it seems foolhardy and rash, but the world leaders of the time saw no better option. ... Except the new virus didn't work. Infected birds didn't die. Rather, their brains grew in size and power. Starting with doves. That's why doves make up the majority of professionally qualified workers today. Other birds, including quails like me, are still adapting to social life.
Anyway, the development of social intelligence in birds had a huge impact on their predators. Which leads me to the next point... Since their gambit failed, humans were left defenseless to A(H5N1). Most died out. The few that are left now live peacefully with the birds, though in the past there were large conflicts."
Also worth noting here is the fact that, according to supplementary information, humans nowadays are mostly unallowed to live their lives without avian supervision over them, and they have pretty limited rights, for what ones are left. So for someone like Hiyoko, living independent is only possible in cave.
These large conflicts are part of what has so scarred Nageki's life. Nageki Fujishiro is a mourning dove, though he never knew his parents well--he, like so many other birds, lived in an orphanage. There had been many wars between the remnants of humanity and birdkind; it was during one such war that Nageki's parents were killed. Ever since then, he lived there with his 'family'. Nageki didn't particularly resent people, despite all that humans had taken from him. On the contrary, he had no desire for bloodshed whatsoever. He lived with the rest of his makeshift family in piece. Hitori Uzune took care of most of them, doing his best for his family to provide for all the children there. Hitori, too, was also a war orphan.
However, one day, Nageki and Hitori's happy life was again shattered.
You see, Nageki had always been very sickly. His immune system was weak, and because of it, he had to stay inside. Going outside too often resulted in him always being sick, and the older he got, the worse the dove's condition became. However, Nageki managed just fine, but what he couldn't have possibly known about himself would be the tragedy his very own body would cause. The parents of the protagonist, a human girl named Hiyoko Tousaka, were mediators and advocates for peace between bird and humankind. They negotiated between the two extremist groups, hoping to create peace. Unfortunately, this is not what happened when a group of human extremists barricaded themselves inside the war orphanage Nageki and Hitori lived in. They were dispatched to negotiate a peace treaty between the armed humans and their bird hostages, but they died.
When the human swat team saw their negotiators dead and not returning, they sent in a squad of armed people to dispatch of everyone inside. All the humans died. All the birds, save Nageki, who had hidden, and Hitori, who had been out of the house, also died. What Nageki could not have possibly understood at the time was that hidden within him was a deadly strain of the Avian Flu, one that could kill humans within mere minutes of coming within contact with him. Shuu Iwamine, who saw all this happen and had determined to grant the promise of the young Hiyoko and Ryouta, who just wanted peace and no more fighting between humans and birds, realized the potential the strain of virus in Nageki had. No one really knows how Shuu figured it out, but the partridge was smart enough to invite Nageki to St. PigeoNations, a school and medical facility which was slowly being infiltrated by the Hawk Party, who were an advocate of the idea that the only way for birds to live in peace would be exterminating humans from the world. In reality, the school was really just Shuu's testing ground, his large experiment.
The Hawk Party, and Shuu, using them as a resource, would send Nageki the invite. As Nageki and Hitori were the only ones left, and Nageki was too sick to work, Hitori urged him to accept the invite to St. PigeoNations. Their options had run out. No one could cure Nageki, and he might soon die. It took some convincing, but realizing he was not getting any better, and that his condition was indeed worsening, Nageki reluctantly took the invite. He was told the staff would look after every single cost of his medical care and his tuition at the prestigious high school and facility. For a time, although he made no real friends there, Nageki was happy despite all that had happened.
The problem was, Shuu Iwamine, the bird behind the invite, recognized the potential of the virus in Nageki's body. As Nageki's immune system was weak, he was the perfect carrier for the virus he'd dubbed the "Charon Virus". Any human that would come into contact with the dove would die within minutes of all their vital organs shutting down, and their air supply being cut off. The strain did not affect birds, who were immune, or any other animal--only humans. Eventually, Shuu took the step of manipulating Nageki and fooling him into thinking that he was going to work on improving his health and trying to fix the condition, so they took him to the underground medical facilities at the campus. There, Shuu worked over time to develop the strain, nursing it to be stronger and deadlier. And, soon, Nageki realized that they were not there to cure him, but to use him. Unfortunately, he could not escape, and he could also not tell Hitori that he wasn't, in fact, fine at all--that what was going on was experimentation and the forced death of every human the Hawk Party captured and brought to him.
Time and time again, they would take human prisoners to Nageki, and the prisoners would slowly die of being unable to breathe by merely being around him. Unfortunately, Shuu did not anticipate that Nageki did not, in fact, desire revenge at all. He had never hated humans despite all they had done to him (he hardly remembered his parents, anyway), and seeing them die repeatedly and painfully in front of him traumatized the young bird. He came to a tough conclusion, one he had to make by his lonesome: He had to kill himself.
If he didn't, the Charon Virus would be released into the world, and the remains of humanity could be exterminated completely. As this wasn't what Nageki wanted, he waited until the right moment and he started a fire, locking himself in a room all by his lonesome. Hitori showed up only in time to see Nageki slowly burning to death. There, he told Hitori to live on. He was resigned to die, because there could be no other choice. He hid evidence in the library of all that had happened, desperate for this news to reach someone.
... But Shuu had other plans for the Charon Virus still, and preserved his remains. Nageki's plans failed, and thus he became a ghost, trapped within the library of St. PigeoNations school, haunting the place he'd stored the hidden records of what had occurred. Time passed, and eventually, he became numb to everything, forgetting things the longer he stayed there. No one saw him, no one knew he was there at all... in fact, it can be speculated at the point he meets Hiyoko, he's very nearly forgotten even his own name. Luckily, in his route, he does meet Hiyoko, who can see him when no one else can. The two become close, her always showing up for library duty and talking to him, eventually, in his route, he comes to love her and experience a full year of school there. As he begins to fade, he has no regrets left. He loves Hiyoko, but it is time for him to go.
In the ideal situation, nothing bad would happen, and Hiyoko would be left with his fading presence as she finds out he's dead and will never be coming back. Sad as that is, it's vastly to preferable to what happens in the BBL, or the Bad Boys Love route of the game, where Nageki is from.
Most of the beginning of the route does not involve Nageki, so I will go over it briefly: it begins with Hiyoko going missing and Ryouta subsequently finding her head, severed, in a print box. Her body has been cut up and distributed throughout the school. Nageki at this time has not yet remembered and, regardless of what choices the player makes, nothing in BBL changes due to Hiyoko not getting enough time to be with everyone long enough for them to develop feelings with her. What can be said for sure is that Hiyoko hangs out with Nageki regardless, and that after she dies, the school is put on lockdown, a large concrete dome around it. Sakuya Le Bel Shirogane and Ryouta Kawara, her childhood friend, and a bird who had been at the orphanage at the time of the massacre, is now unwittingly connected to Nageki, although he does not know it, are investigating Hiyoko's murder as well as the general lockdown on the school. They're told it's because of a disaster, but they find it couldn't be farther from the truth: Hiyoko was chosen as a human representative, and her death would cause a lockdown on the school. Humans would then surround it with guns, and shoot every bird on sight.
The Hawk Party designed this so that they could cause the next war between humans and birds. Hiyoko's death would be used as a trigger for it. While the two investigate, Nageki spends his time in the library he cannot leave (except for traveling vertically), talking with Hiyoko's spirit, who fades in and out. Hiyoko's brain goes missing, though the rest of her is gathered and autopsied. As it turns out, Shuu is behind all of it. He uses Hiyoko's brain to create the scarecrow-like creature known as Labor 9, a human analogue with her brain. Several times Hiyoko likely attempts to communicate with Ryouta and Sakuya, though because Shuu has made Labor 9, she is forced to attack them as the "Scarecrow-man". Her death?
... The Charon Virus, which has reared it's ugly head yet again. It turns out that Ryouta, who had also had a weak immune system, had been prepared by Shuu as the newest carrier for the Charon Virus after Nageki's death. You see, all of this is to grant the wish Ryouta and Hiyoko made when they encountered Shuu: to stop humanity and birdkind from fighting. Shuu's reasoning? ... Humans can't fight with birds if there aren't any left. Twisted, right? Well, it gets worse.
Nageki finally remembers everything, and in the end, the group outs Shuu as the culprit. They meet him in the abandoned underground medical center, and there, Ryouta and company learn about the Charon Virus and Ryouta and Hiyoko's past, and that Hiyoko is, in fact, Labor 9. Or... that she was, until they killed it. Shuu taunts Ryouta further by telling him that he had only just injected the virus into him that day, and the biggest twist of all is that Ryouta learns no one murdered Hiyoko at all... rather, she went to see him and died as a result of being exposed to the Charon Virus. Learning this, Ryouta falls into a pit of despair and allows himself to become the carrier for the virus that Shuu wants. His final purpose before dying will be to infect the humans outside, and have them infect more humans, until humanity is wiped out. Even if he dies by being shot along the way, Shuu sees it as a worthy sacrifice. At this point, Ryouta is brainwashed and has had Nageki's old liver transplanted into him.
After an arduousboss battle battle to reawaken him to his senses, Ryouta comes back in time to stop things, but the time limit for when the humans will kill them all is drawing near. Everyone is going to be evacuated through the underground exit, thankfully, but...
... Kazuaki pulls another huge surprise on them by pulling out a gun and shooting Shuu, who had given up at that point, having done all of this, using Yuuya to help him cut up and carry Hiyoko's body, making Labor 9... and so on. There, he reveals he is, in actuality, Hitori Uzune, or Nageki's brother. Turns out Kazuaki is haunted by a self-created shadow of Nageki that he believes is telling him to murder Shuu for killing him, and to live miserably with him and never forget him. Kazuaki turns to Ryouta and takes him in at gun point into another room, taking a scalpel in the same room in the basement where Nageki killed himself, and breaks down, repeated the name of his little 'brother' repeatedly. He thinks if he cuts the liver out, he can somehow do what he needs to get Nageki back, but Nageki himself shows up, able to finally travel outside the library. He asks to borrow Ryouta's body, and does so, speaking to Kazuaki/Hitori about how what he is doing is wrong and how these were never the wishes they wanted or had made. The player learns about their history, then, and about Nageki's life before all of this in full.
Crying and despairing, eventually Nageki and Ryouta bring Hitori/Kazuaki back to his senses, and no one is further harmed, in the end. The shadow disappears, and Nageki feels he can finally rest peacefully after having a word with Ryouta and Hitori, as well as Hiyoko. Ryouta decides to stay behind with Labor 9's remains, or Hiyoko, whom it turns out is still alive enough to talk to him, fortunately, until modern medicine and technology can rebuild her and cure Ryouta of the Charon Virus. Sakuya and the others promise to come back when that day shows itself, so that Ryouta and Hiyoko can leave, together. Nothing is really known about what happens to Nageki after this, but we do know that Nageki likely finally moved on, his clock no longer stopped in that school. Only that he is there to wake them, come the epilogue.
Major spoilers for the entire game will be past this point. Don't say I didn't warn you!
A bit of background, first: in the world of Hatoful Boyfriend, which takes place in 2188, humans are the minority. Instead, the majority of the populace is now sentient, self-aware birds. Nanaki Kazuaki (a button quail) best explains this with a bit of background history during class:
"Back when we birds were still beasts and pets, a virus known as A(H5N1) appeared. At first, it only infected birds, but it underwent a mutation and spread to humans. This mutated strain was highly infectious and had an extremely high mortality rate. It became clear that it posed a threat to the survival of the human species, so the humans engineered a powerful virus to cull birds and prevent A(H5N1) from becoming pandemic. In hindsight, it seems foolhardy and rash, but the world leaders of the time saw no better option. ... Except the new virus didn't work. Infected birds didn't die. Rather, their brains grew in size and power. Starting with doves. That's why doves make up the majority of professionally qualified workers today. Other birds, including quails like me, are still adapting to social life.
Anyway, the development of social intelligence in birds had a huge impact on their predators. Which leads me to the next point... Since their gambit failed, humans were left defenseless to A(H5N1). Most died out. The few that are left now live peacefully with the birds, though in the past there were large conflicts."
Also worth noting here is the fact that, according to supplementary information, humans nowadays are mostly unallowed to live their lives without avian supervision over them, and they have pretty limited rights, for what ones are left. So for someone like Hiyoko, living independent is only possible in cave.
These large conflicts are part of what has so scarred Nageki's life. Nageki Fujishiro is a mourning dove, though he never knew his parents well--he, like so many other birds, lived in an orphanage. There had been many wars between the remnants of humanity and birdkind; it was during one such war that Nageki's parents were killed. Ever since then, he lived there with his 'family'. Nageki didn't particularly resent people, despite all that humans had taken from him. On the contrary, he had no desire for bloodshed whatsoever. He lived with the rest of his makeshift family in piece. Hitori Uzune took care of most of them, doing his best for his family to provide for all the children there. Hitori, too, was also a war orphan.
However, one day, Nageki and Hitori's happy life was again shattered.
You see, Nageki had always been very sickly. His immune system was weak, and because of it, he had to stay inside. Going outside too often resulted in him always being sick, and the older he got, the worse the dove's condition became. However, Nageki managed just fine, but what he couldn't have possibly known about himself would be the tragedy his very own body would cause. The parents of the protagonist, a human girl named Hiyoko Tousaka, were mediators and advocates for peace between bird and humankind. They negotiated between the two extremist groups, hoping to create peace. Unfortunately, this is not what happened when a group of human extremists barricaded themselves inside the war orphanage Nageki and Hitori lived in. They were dispatched to negotiate a peace treaty between the armed humans and their bird hostages, but they died.
When the human swat team saw their negotiators dead and not returning, they sent in a squad of armed people to dispatch of everyone inside. All the humans died. All the birds, save Nageki, who had hidden, and Hitori, who had been out of the house, also died. What Nageki could not have possibly understood at the time was that hidden within him was a deadly strain of the Avian Flu, one that could kill humans within mere minutes of coming within contact with him. Shuu Iwamine, who saw all this happen and had determined to grant the promise of the young Hiyoko and Ryouta, who just wanted peace and no more fighting between humans and birds, realized the potential the strain of virus in Nageki had. No one really knows how Shuu figured it out, but the partridge was smart enough to invite Nageki to St. PigeoNations, a school and medical facility which was slowly being infiltrated by the Hawk Party, who were an advocate of the idea that the only way for birds to live in peace would be exterminating humans from the world. In reality, the school was really just Shuu's testing ground, his large experiment.
The Hawk Party, and Shuu, using them as a resource, would send Nageki the invite. As Nageki and Hitori were the only ones left, and Nageki was too sick to work, Hitori urged him to accept the invite to St. PigeoNations. Their options had run out. No one could cure Nageki, and he might soon die. It took some convincing, but realizing he was not getting any better, and that his condition was indeed worsening, Nageki reluctantly took the invite. He was told the staff would look after every single cost of his medical care and his tuition at the prestigious high school and facility. For a time, although he made no real friends there, Nageki was happy despite all that had happened.
The problem was, Shuu Iwamine, the bird behind the invite, recognized the potential of the virus in Nageki's body. As Nageki's immune system was weak, he was the perfect carrier for the virus he'd dubbed the "Charon Virus". Any human that would come into contact with the dove would die within minutes of all their vital organs shutting down, and their air supply being cut off. The strain did not affect birds, who were immune, or any other animal--only humans. Eventually, Shuu took the step of manipulating Nageki and fooling him into thinking that he was going to work on improving his health and trying to fix the condition, so they took him to the underground medical facilities at the campus. There, Shuu worked over time to develop the strain, nursing it to be stronger and deadlier. And, soon, Nageki realized that they were not there to cure him, but to use him. Unfortunately, he could not escape, and he could also not tell Hitori that he wasn't, in fact, fine at all--that what was going on was experimentation and the forced death of every human the Hawk Party captured and brought to him.
Time and time again, they would take human prisoners to Nageki, and the prisoners would slowly die of being unable to breathe by merely being around him. Unfortunately, Shuu did not anticipate that Nageki did not, in fact, desire revenge at all. He had never hated humans despite all they had done to him (he hardly remembered his parents, anyway), and seeing them die repeatedly and painfully in front of him traumatized the young bird. He came to a tough conclusion, one he had to make by his lonesome: He had to kill himself.
If he didn't, the Charon Virus would be released into the world, and the remains of humanity could be exterminated completely. As this wasn't what Nageki wanted, he waited until the right moment and he started a fire, locking himself in a room all by his lonesome. Hitori showed up only in time to see Nageki slowly burning to death. There, he told Hitori to live on. He was resigned to die, because there could be no other choice. He hid evidence in the library of all that had happened, desperate for this news to reach someone.
... But Shuu had other plans for the Charon Virus still, and preserved his remains. Nageki's plans failed, and thus he became a ghost, trapped within the library of St. PigeoNations school, haunting the place he'd stored the hidden records of what had occurred. Time passed, and eventually, he became numb to everything, forgetting things the longer he stayed there. No one saw him, no one knew he was there at all... in fact, it can be speculated at the point he meets Hiyoko, he's very nearly forgotten even his own name. Luckily, in his route, he does meet Hiyoko, who can see him when no one else can. The two become close, her always showing up for library duty and talking to him, eventually, in his route, he comes to love her and experience a full year of school there. As he begins to fade, he has no regrets left. He loves Hiyoko, but it is time for him to go.
In the ideal situation, nothing bad would happen, and Hiyoko would be left with his fading presence as she finds out he's dead and will never be coming back. Sad as that is, it's vastly to preferable to what happens in the BBL, or the Bad Boys Love route of the game, where Nageki is from.
Most of the beginning of the route does not involve Nageki, so I will go over it briefly: it begins with Hiyoko going missing and Ryouta subsequently finding her head, severed, in a print box. Her body has been cut up and distributed throughout the school. Nageki at this time has not yet remembered and, regardless of what choices the player makes, nothing in BBL changes due to Hiyoko not getting enough time to be with everyone long enough for them to develop feelings with her. What can be said for sure is that Hiyoko hangs out with Nageki regardless, and that after she dies, the school is put on lockdown, a large concrete dome around it. Sakuya Le Bel Shirogane and Ryouta Kawara, her childhood friend, and a bird who had been at the orphanage at the time of the massacre, is now unwittingly connected to Nageki, although he does not know it, are investigating Hiyoko's murder as well as the general lockdown on the school. They're told it's because of a disaster, but they find it couldn't be farther from the truth: Hiyoko was chosen as a human representative, and her death would cause a lockdown on the school. Humans would then surround it with guns, and shoot every bird on sight.
The Hawk Party designed this so that they could cause the next war between humans and birds. Hiyoko's death would be used as a trigger for it. While the two investigate, Nageki spends his time in the library he cannot leave (except for traveling vertically), talking with Hiyoko's spirit, who fades in and out. Hiyoko's brain goes missing, though the rest of her is gathered and autopsied. As it turns out, Shuu is behind all of it. He uses Hiyoko's brain to create the scarecrow-like creature known as Labor 9, a human analogue with her brain. Several times Hiyoko likely attempts to communicate with Ryouta and Sakuya, though because Shuu has made Labor 9, she is forced to attack them as the "Scarecrow-man". Her death?
... The Charon Virus, which has reared it's ugly head yet again. It turns out that Ryouta, who had also had a weak immune system, had been prepared by Shuu as the newest carrier for the Charon Virus after Nageki's death. You see, all of this is to grant the wish Ryouta and Hiyoko made when they encountered Shuu: to stop humanity and birdkind from fighting. Shuu's reasoning? ... Humans can't fight with birds if there aren't any left. Twisted, right? Well, it gets worse.
Nageki finally remembers everything, and in the end, the group outs Shuu as the culprit. They meet him in the abandoned underground medical center, and there, Ryouta and company learn about the Charon Virus and Ryouta and Hiyoko's past, and that Hiyoko is, in fact, Labor 9. Or... that she was, until they killed it. Shuu taunts Ryouta further by telling him that he had only just injected the virus into him that day, and the biggest twist of all is that Ryouta learns no one murdered Hiyoko at all... rather, she went to see him and died as a result of being exposed to the Charon Virus. Learning this, Ryouta falls into a pit of despair and allows himself to become the carrier for the virus that Shuu wants. His final purpose before dying will be to infect the humans outside, and have them infect more humans, until humanity is wiped out. Even if he dies by being shot along the way, Shuu sees it as a worthy sacrifice. At this point, Ryouta is brainwashed and has had Nageki's old liver transplanted into him.
After an arduous
... Kazuaki pulls another huge surprise on them by pulling out a gun and shooting Shuu, who had given up at that point, having done all of this, using Yuuya to help him cut up and carry Hiyoko's body, making Labor 9... and so on. There, he reveals he is, in actuality, Hitori Uzune, or Nageki's brother. Turns out Kazuaki is haunted by a self-created shadow of Nageki that he believes is telling him to murder Shuu for killing him, and to live miserably with him and never forget him. Kazuaki turns to Ryouta and takes him in at gun point into another room, taking a scalpel in the same room in the basement where Nageki killed himself, and breaks down, repeated the name of his little 'brother' repeatedly. He thinks if he cuts the liver out, he can somehow do what he needs to get Nageki back, but Nageki himself shows up, able to finally travel outside the library. He asks to borrow Ryouta's body, and does so, speaking to Kazuaki/Hitori about how what he is doing is wrong and how these were never the wishes they wanted or had made. The player learns about their history, then, and about Nageki's life before all of this in full.
Crying and despairing, eventually Nageki and Ryouta bring Hitori/Kazuaki back to his senses, and no one is further harmed, in the end. The shadow disappears, and Nageki feels he can finally rest peacefully after having a word with Ryouta and Hitori, as well as Hiyoko. Ryouta decides to stay behind with Labor 9's remains, or Hiyoko, whom it turns out is still alive enough to talk to him, fortunately, until modern medicine and technology can rebuild her and cure Ryouta of the Charon Virus. Sakuya and the others promise to come back when that day shows itself, so that Ryouta and Hiyoko can leave, together. Nothing is really known about what happens to Nageki after this, but we do know that Nageki likely finally moved on, his clock no longer stopped in that school. Only that he is there to wake them, come the epilogue.