I'm sorry about the delay, but I have some info now. It's sort of a lot to untangle and I'm not sure how helpful it all will be, but here goes!
[If Tomura thought the last text he sent was overly long, whoo boy.]
First, you should know I was only given three questions I could ask. One for each memory! I tried to get as much information out of her as I could, but she wasn't very forthcoming about certain things. Or she said it was only a guess, and she didn't know truly know the answer.
Anyway, for my first question, I asked if she ever got a better sense of what the resort takes from us and why some guests are considered more valuable. I said there was a theory going around that our intimacy is what powers the resort, but she said it's not just that. She said, "What the resort takes from us is our fate. There are those who are meant to play a greater role in life, and they offer more for the resort to sustain itself on." Then she asked me to consider the difference between an emperor who commands a powerful nation, and a servant who's destined to die young.
I couldn't really tell if she was saying the "emperor" is more valuable because he's fated to accomplish more in life, or what. But when I asked her to elaborate, she said her theory is that "playing the game changes our fate" by making us "have such an intimate encounter with someone we never would've met before coming here."
Next question! For my second question, I asked what happens to guests who don't provide enough energy, and if there's any truth to the rumor that the ones who don't sleep around much get turned to stone. She said "some people do indeed turn to stone." But then she said "whether it happens to every guest, I don't know" and "it didn't happen to me even after I lost my usefulness because of a deal I made."
Then for my third question, I asked why she was still here if the resort supposedly lets everyone go home once they've filled their so-called deck. She said that she did win her game, and that she could have used her wish to go home, but she used it to save her daughter's life instead. Her daughter was born with a heart defect. Apparently you only get one wish, and if you use it to save someone else you're just stuck here forever.
I told her I'd come back with double the memories if she let me ask three more questions, but she didn't seem interested, so that's it for now. Any thoughts on all this?
@ eve | text | sent to @p09 again and backdated to 7/6
I'm sorry about the delay, but I have some info now. It's sort of a lot to untangle and I'm not sure how helpful it all will be, but here goes!
[If Tomura thought the last text he sent was overly long, whoo boy.]
First, you should know I was only given three questions I could ask. One for each memory! I tried to get as much information out of her as I could, but she wasn't very forthcoming about certain things. Or she said it was only a guess, and she didn't know truly know the answer.
Anyway, for my first question, I asked if she ever got a better sense of what the resort takes from us and why some guests are considered more valuable. I said there was a theory going around that our intimacy is what powers the resort, but she said it's not just that. She said, "What the resort takes from us is our fate. There are those who are meant to play a greater role in life, and they offer more for the resort to sustain itself on." Then she asked me to consider the difference between an emperor who commands a powerful nation, and a servant who's destined to die young.
I couldn't really tell if she was saying the "emperor" is more valuable because he's fated to accomplish more in life, or what. But when I asked her to elaborate, she said her theory is that "playing the game changes our fate" by making us "have such an intimate encounter with someone we never would've met before coming here."
Next question! For my second question, I asked what happens to guests who don't provide enough energy, and if there's any truth to the rumor that the ones who don't sleep around much get turned to stone. She said "some people do indeed turn to stone." But then she said "whether it happens to every guest, I don't know" and "it didn't happen to me even after I lost my usefulness because of a deal I made."
Then for my third question, I asked why she was still here if the resort supposedly lets everyone go home once they've filled their so-called deck. She said that she did win her game, and that she could have used her wish to go home, but she used it to save her daughter's life instead. Her daughter was born with a heart defect. Apparently you only get one wish, and if you use it to save someone else you're just stuck here forever.
I told her I'd come back with double the memories if she let me ask three more questions, but she didn't seem interested, so that's it for now. Any thoughts on all this?