I HAVE ZENO

There are a few places you can see this! First off, there are a ton of lines in basegame ZENO about Fuyu wanting to kill Aki for what he did to Natsu–ranging from when Fuyu’s ZENO is active to when he’s a lot calmer in Ushirono Part. It’s fairly present throughout most of Fuyu’s interactions during the game!

Even in the sidegames, Fuyu’s wish for vengeance is still very much present. In ZENO 4.1, the main indicator for if Fuyu has ZENO or not is in the way he talks about Aki and wanting to kill him.

There are more tweets than these about Fuyu’s thoughts on killing Aki, but I’m just going to share the couple that I have immedaitely on hand–You can always go keyword searching through mazu’s twitter for more :)

(The MTL here is a bit finicky, but basically they’re saying that since Fuyu killing Aki himself would be salvation for him, Fuyu is hesitant to do it himself)

GOING TO DIE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM . OAUUUUUUGHGHGH

The small moments of tenderness despite everything get to me so bad… it’s the never talking about it but still reaching out and showing they care…

GOING TO DIE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM . OAUUUUUUGHGHGH

The small moments of tenderness despite everything get to me so bad… it’s the never talking about it but still reaching out and showing they care…

GOING TO DIE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM . OAUUUUUUGHGHGH

The small moments of tenderness despite everything get to me so bad… it’s the never talking about it but still reaching out and showing they care…

What’s really interesting about ZENO is we actually don’t get very much of Aki’s perspective in general outside of a few short stories and ZENO NOVEL! ZENO Remake is at it’s core Tsugino’s story, with Ushirono part being added to make sure that Fuyu had a satisfying ending too… You see more about how Tsugino and Fuyu feel about Aki than how he feels about them, and I feel like it contributes a lot to how people tend to water down his character in the fandom (though that’s an entirely separate rant haha)

Aki would absolutely let Fuyu kill him if he tried to, in my opinion. He would see it as a kind of penance he deserves to pay for what he did to Natsu… Which is exactly why Fuyu ultimately doesn’t give him that satisfaction, no matter how much he wants to. Aki has to live in order to truly atone, he isn’t allowed to take the easy way out. He’s the kind of character that thinks so little of himself that he’s willing to sacrifice himself over and over and over for those he cares about– you see it in the base game, you see it in Daily Life, and you see it in ZENO NOVEL.

If you want to see more of Aki’s thought process and perspective, ZENO NOVEL is the april fools game centered around him, and the aquarium short story with tsugino pretty clearly shows how he feels about him.

There are a few places you can see this! First off, there are a ton of lines in basegame ZENO about Fuyu wanting to kill Aki for what he did to Natsu–ranging from when Fuyu’s ZENO is active to when he’s a lot calmer in Ushirono Part. It’s fairly present throughout most of Fuyu’s interactions during the game!

Even in the sidegames, Fuyu’s wish for vengeance is still very much present. In ZENO 4.1, the main indicator for if Fuyu has ZENO or not is in the way he talks about Aki and wanting to kill him.

There are more tweets than these about Fuyu’s thoughts on killing Aki, but I’m just going to share the couple that I have immedaitely on hand–You can always go keyword searching through mazu’s twitter for more :)

(The MTL here is a bit finicky, but basically they’re saying that since Fuyu killing Aki himself would be salvation for him, Fuyu is hesitant to do it himself)

BEAT HIS ASS BABYGIRL BEAT HIS ASSSSSS!!!

I’m very glad you enjoyed daily life!! The fuyuaka moments we get from it make me soooo unwell in the head I start frothing at the mouth

Though I do have to say that ending 3 is my personal favorite! It really feels like the ultimate culmination of akis self-sacrificial tendencies, and then combining that with the fact that his sacrifice contributes to kanrais motivations makes me bounce off the walls if I think about it too hard

The third one is the ZENO RPG!! Where ZENO 4/1 and ZENO NOVEL are fuyu-centric and aki-centric respectively, ZENO RPG is kuro-centric! There’s no English translation for it publicly available, but it’s pretty easily playable through MTL like Google lens

It does contain spoilers for daily life, as well as for the base game!