by taitofan Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:49 am
I love love LOVE Yume Nikki. Hell, I love Nightmare Fuel period, which is why I got into the game in the first place. And that was over three years ago.
As for my theory on Madotsuki and her dream world... It's really spoilery (as in, I give away the ending), so please, beware of that if you choose to open this.
- Spoiler:
Madotsuki is obviously a hikikomori, but I think there's more to it then that. I think that the prominent figures in her dream (Poniko, Masada, Monoko, Monoe, the Toriningen, etc) are all people she knew in real life. Masada was her music teacher, Poniko/Monoe/Monoko were her few friends, the Toriningen were the bullies that picked on her--she went to school with all of them.
But then things started going wrong. Monoe just disappeared one day. Monoko was in a car crash that mangled her. Masada was stabbed by a burglar. Then something really big happened. Something that turned the world post-apocalyptic. The fallout melts Poniko's face before she dies. Now in a post-apocalyptic world and the few people that cared for her gone, she becomes a shut in. It isn't safe to go out even if she wanted to. So she lives in her dreams, keeping her dream diary because she figures that at least her loved ones will remain in her memory.
But poor Madotsuki finds that no, things aren't okay. Her mental scars run too deep. If she tries to talk to Monoe, she still disappears. Monoko is still mangled. Poniko turns into Uboa, who resembles her form post-fallout. Masada has his own deformity. The Toriningen still hate her, or ignore her completely. And she can't stop her dream self from knifing her friends. But she thinks, 'if I can just collect these effects in my dreams, maybe I can make them better.'
Of course, all that happens is that she has nothing left. Nothing changes. Her friends are still dead in real life and constantly tormented even in her dreams. So she drops the effects, wakes up, and jumps off her apartment balcony. Because if she's destined to be alone in real life and her dreams both, maybe she'll have more luck in death. (And really, it's post-apocalypse; she won't leave and her family is dead. She likely would have starved to death eventually.)
Yeah, that's my oh-so-cheery tl;dr head-canon. Personally, I'm up for anyone's theories, though I think the transexual one is the least likely of all the main ones. XD A lot of popular theories are in mine too. I have theories on effects too, but they're mostly what everyone thinks, so I won't go into those right now. I can back up my own theories if anyone wants to know why I think something in particular, but this is already
looooong so I'm just gonna leave it as-is.
Gosh, I'm depressing myself. Um, I'll just add that I really dig MasadaxMadotsuki and PonikoxMadotsuki. I want an Uboa plushie~ I'm not sure who my favorite character is...probably Madotsuki or Poniko.