IkeSen Sasuke route, up to chapter 4
Jan. 10th, 2020 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waterscrollI think this route might be my favorite so far. Sasuke is a major history geek and likes to run around confirming or attempting to reenact historical anecdotes. This is all fun and games until he offers Mitsunari a persimmon and he refuses to take it. MC wonders what this was trying to prove, so Sasuke tells her this story. (Go look it up, it's too sad to retype.) MC says, what, sweet kind angelic Mitsunari is going to get executed? Sasuke says: I have to try my hardest not to change history. MC meanwhile starts to realize that Sasuke is a spy and not exactly working for her (Nobunaga's) side. So she decides to learn more about the time period on her own and see what she can do about it. We'll see where this goes but so far I'm very interested.
I'm also really enjoying Ranmaru as a major secondary character. He's gorgeous and charming and is both working with Kennyo and desperately loyal to Nobunaga. How is this possible? Which of the two is he actually betraying? I guess I'll find out! Ranmaru will apparently have his own route eventually and I'm looking forward to it.
Two-timing and double-crossing! Conflicted loyalties! History and actual plot! This is all very exciting.
Meanwhile in SLBP, I'm feeling like replaying Nobunaga's route was a good choice. I was resenting him until I was like 95% of the way through the route the first time and now I can appreciate him more. I can also appreciate the route more, now that I know that it isn't necessarily a tragedy but can also be the story of how Nobunaga learns, slowly and painfully, to accept help from those he loves rather than obedience.
I'm also really enjoying Ranmaru as a major secondary character. He's gorgeous and charming and is both working with Kennyo and desperately loyal to Nobunaga. How is this possible? Which of the two is he actually betraying? I guess I'll find out! Ranmaru will apparently have his own route eventually and I'm looking forward to it.
Two-timing and double-crossing! Conflicted loyalties! History and actual plot! This is all very exciting.
Meanwhile in SLBP, I'm feeling like replaying Nobunaga's route was a good choice. I was resenting him until I was like 95% of the way through the route the first time and now I can appreciate him more. I can also appreciate the route more, now that I know that it isn't necessarily a tragedy but can also be the story of how Nobunaga learns, slowly and painfully, to accept help from those he loves rather than obedience.
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Date: 2020-01-10 08:09 pm (UTC)...I would totally take an AU where Sasuke is the MC, though. He can just go around romancing people by confirming historical theories!
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Date: 2020-01-10 08:26 pm (UTC)Yes.
In one of the other routes - I think Hideyoshi's? - we see him with his boss Kenshin and they have a very close relationship that is mostly expressed by Kenshin threatening Sasuke and Sasuke taking it as affection. You could even read Sasuke/Kenshin as a romantic couple in that route, since Sasuke decides to stay for Kenshin just like MC decides to stay for her LI. But here, at least the way he relates to the Azuchi warlords, he *says* that they're people just like us but doesn't really relate to them that way.