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At the Nukani Animate Cafe, if you spent 2000 yen, you'd get a random character card. These cards have emails to Eiden from the characters (or Eiden to his boys). Below is my translation of all of them!
Date 06/17
From: Eiden
Subject: Wrap Party!!!!
Good job, everyone! I'd like to throw a party for everyone, now that finals are done.
I know you're still busy regardless, so make sure you make time to stop by! It'll be at...hmm...How about we borrow an empty classroom and do karaoke? Bring any sort of snacks or board games you like!
I want to talk about a lot of stuff, so let's meet at our usual place after class tomorrow!
Date 11/12
From: Aster
Subject: Big News ☆☆☆
Master, did you know? The bread store received a new batch of super flashy hot dogs!
They'll sell out if you wait too long. I'm going to go get some soon, so you should come with me. (◡‿◡)♡
I have to update my socials if I get it!
So you should take pictures of me, because I'm soooooo cute! (@•̀ᴗ-)✧
Date 04/13
From: Morvay
Subject: Purchased Bread
Hey, have you eaten the new bread that came in? I just randomly lined up to buy one when I was going out with that shitty vampire, but it's surprisingly good! It's shape is amazing, and it's delicious too!
...Except, there was a crowd jostling me around, so the hot dog got all over the inside of my bag (;Ɐ;) Either way, you should definitely try it if you get the chance, Master!
Date 12/08
From: Yakumo
Subject: Today's Lunch U-Umm, thank you very much for helping me carry the club supplies today!
I made you a bento box as thanks. I hope you'll like it...
Umm, if it's okay, could we eat lunch together today? I look forward to your response. Date 03/21
From: Edmond
Subject: Recommended Food
You told me before that you wanted me to eat properly, even though I'm so busy with extracurricular activities, so...
I've lately been eating that simple sandwich you made for me the other day. It could be sweeter, but it's both healthy and delicious. I give you my thanks.
The tournament will be soon, so I'd like you to...no, never mind. Let us both work as hard as we can. I will correspond with you again.
Date 10/03
From: Olivine
Subject: Milk Pudding
Thank you for helping me with the choir the other day. By the way, you've been busy lately...are you sleeping okay?
Oh, right! I bought some milk from the store. It's delicious! Milk contributes to sound sleep, so you should drink it to properly relax.
I was thinking I'd make milk pudding at home...but, if you're up for it, I'd love your company.
Date 09/14
From: Quincy
Subject: I was asleep...
I heard you were looking for me.
The sunlight filtering through the trees feels nice, so I fell asleep behind the gym. It is really green there. Topper likes it.
Want to come with me, Eiden? I'll wait for you while I eat my lunch, onigiri.
But I might just fall asleep again...
Date 05/22
From: Kuya
Subject: URGENT -- Supplementary Lessons After School
Supplementary Lessons After School
Time: 6:00 PM (end time TBD)
Place: Classroom A10
Required Items: Writing utensils, previous test
Goodness, how did you manage to score 9 on this test? Quite embarrassing.
Please come to the chemistry classroom after school. I will give you a special one-on-one lesson.
By the way, you must get a perfect score to pass.
Date 11/28
From: Garu
Subject: Let's Eat Together!
Sorry about earlier!!!
I didn't bring my lunch so I sprinted to get it...I wasn't paying attention and knocked you over...
My latest favorite food is a stamina bowl that's sold at the cafeteria. It's really good when paired with a sports drink! After I'm done running, let's go eat together!
--
I-I don't really want to eat with you. Don't get it twisted!
Date 02/02
From: Blade
Subject: I drew something cute!!
Hey, hey! Darling, let me tell you something!!
I was painting on the ground the other day and I knocked over a whole can of paint. The paint spread all over and made a really great painting! (@>‿<)
I'll come to your classroom after school tomorrow to show you, so wait for me, okay?
Date 08/09
From: Dante
Subject: Finals
Are you studying for finals? I heard that you did well on the last quiz. Surely that was because we studied together. If you do well on your finals, I will take you to the cafe we went to last time as a reward. They have superb spiced naan there.
The most important thing is that you do your best and don't laze about.
Date 07/11
From: Rei
Subject: You came again?
Hey, you used the doctor's office's bed again to rest, right? Father told me. Oh well, it's good you're not injured, at least...I'm glad you like to keep yourself rested, but I'm a busy man. Don't give me more work to do.
...Since you have so much energy, how about joining me for some experiments? If you agree to that, you can come use the bed as often as you'd like.
Date ??/??
From: Rin
Subject: I'm always here.
Brother...
The people around you are so loud lately...
I know you're popular, but that can get you into trouble, you know? Your school life needs to be quieter...
Let me know if you get depressed. I'll make any problems disappear for you, brother...
Thinking bout that specific behaviour where someone eats somethign and starts to make a "this is yucky" face and the mom of the group naturally reaches out ezpecting a spitout
wlw being mentioned in Nu Carnival lore made me so happy
Little Dante concept I was possessed to do a couple hours ago
well! the years start coming and they don't stop coming (palette)
Some sort of post-first time maybe scenario
separate versions under the cut
@requiodile I'm still thinking about Eiden: "you have PENIS" Rei: "do I look like I use it for pussy?!" absolutely incredible exchange. lives in my mind rent free
briefly rewatched a blood key room to remind myself of the tone and framing of the flashback (relevant to @contacthigh520's time travel posting)
age diagnosing points:
Olivine refers to Agnus as a senior classmate. most likely just as in older classmate and not in the American sense of the term, since nuca's translators are based in Taiwan. since ST seems to be a university equivalent it could be a mixed age class, and it could be that Agnus is on the older end of the typical age range or he's been a student longer or just that he's older than Olivine specifically
no one's particularly concerned on the angle of "you're openly admitting to knowingly letting a kid watch you fuck?" which may point to Olivine being not that young here, or it could be that people are so caught up on "Olivine simply would not" that the fridge horror doesn't occur to them
also, the defenses are focused on Olivine specifically being too good for it, as something that makes him special. so he's at minimum an age where someone of his age would be expected to have sexual interests, making him exceptional for supposedly not having sexual interests
so based on this scene I would ballpark Olivine as 16+, I think. maybe 14+ if we consider the possibility of Klein being more blase about minors and sex
Quinya Comic - Yearning
My first NU: Carnival and Quinya comic is out...! It's a small comic about Quincy x Kuya with some divorced feelings hehe. You can purchase it over on my Ko-Fi, thanks so much...!
SORRY forgot to add, but if you're international and/or having payment issues, feel free to DM or message me and I can do an invoice or something! ^^
messy nuca time travel thoughts
i’ve been thinking about what a nu carnival time travel fix-it might look like (the thoughts happened mostly before chapter 16, i should preface so no huey stuff (although would any huey stuff really be a fix-it if it would eliminate the existence of eiden??)). anyways. the thing with nu carnival is there aren’t an abundance of ‘key points’ or like Singular Terrible Events. things tend to happen in a slow collapse that are hard to circumvent.
for example, you can’t really ‘fix-it’ quincy because his big problem is that everyone he has ever loved (plus, in his eyes, will ever love in the future) will die before him. and the cause of that problem, him becoming a clan member to defend his tribe, is difficult to get around. even now, we can tell that he stands by that decision, to some extent, because unlike other older clan members, he hasn’t chosen to die. (i think maybe i’d read it as a sort of what-if path rather than a fix-it? a bittersweet thing where he died surrounded by family that loved him, lauded for his feats of strength and protection.)
(in going through the process of rethinking what might be a ‘fix-it’ option for everyone, i’m realizing it might just be eiden giving any given clan member a friend while they struggled through their lives. because really, the biggest absence most of them have is a friend that could stand by their side. anyways, that’s not what i initially thought of— so i’m tucking that away for another time.)
ok. so. right. thinking about a Big Event that caused a Lot of Cascading Stuff that could be changed via time travel (i love time travel). who would be sent back? what would the event be?
well… (<- guy who has a very strong bias), there’s the riot that killed dante’s parents…
the thing is, the initial issue is still there: the riot was caused by numerous decisions from dante’s parents that they really stood by! like dante, they had very strong convictions that would be difficult to sway, even with the interference of a time traveller.
if dante was sent back in time into his puny kid body before the riot happened, he probably couldn’t convince his parents to fight off bandits or not waste money on his happiness. like, they might fortify the palace or make contingency plans for their safety, but they wouldn’t stop being Really Committed Pacifists in the Bandit-Death Desert.
so like… what would dante do? he’d be in a very similar situation to his original kid self where no one would listen to him and he had no power.
well, he’d try to get back to his original solaria.
though there are numerous things he’d probably like to change, his ultimate commitment is to his Solaria. it’s what he built, what he knows, and what he wants to protect. there’s no telling what changing the past would bring and there’s the very real chance that this is all just… magical shenanigans.
it’s kind of obvious that no one in solaria can or will help him. his parents love him, which is a problem, because that means they won’t let him leave the palace (an age-old problem). and dante is still Super Sick.
but, hey, he stopped being ill after he went through the trials of the elemental spirit of fire so… that’s one piece of the puzzle
and! he has a rough idea of the people who could potentially help him: the other clan members. the level of sorcery that this time travel nonsense would take is probably beyond the average magic user, so clan members are his best bet. plus, there’s a chance he wasn’t the only one impacted by whatever is going on.
(this is also my ploy to make it a group adventure…)
so, like, dante sneaks out with a horse and, with a whole lot of difficulty, manages to get to and pass the trials of the elemental spirit of fire. (i imagine it’s easier because he knows where he’s going. it’s potentially harder because there’s no riot to distract the bandits around town. cest la vie. the trials are probably as difficult as before but!! i imagine the content would change because time travelling dante doesn’t have the same concerns baby dante had.)
dante running off leaves solaria in a panic (despite the note that dante thoughtfully left behind) and dante in better health with his trial markings.
so where does dante go from there? aster, maybe, since he knows that aster is connected to the grand sorcerer, even if eiden isn’t around…
i didn’t actually come up with a plan for how dante got back to the present or what sent him back.
in my initial planning, i thought it would be very funny for dante to go to quincy. quincy’s a good option because he’s strong (dante kind of needs that) and he’s reliable (unlike many of the other clan members).
the idea of pre-eiden quincy (incredibly tired + depressed) having to deal with an pompous, demanding baby foreign prince is a fun image, esp. because its so baffling to quincy.
looking at the map of klein… dante probably picks up blade and garu (and maybe even gramps!) while he passes through the dead zone? he’s probably pretty blatant about picking up clan members. it would be difficult to override huey’s ‘orders’ to blade, but maybe blade could be convinced to come on the basis that it was ‘for the grand sorcerer’? and gramps would probably not leave this rambunctious child on a horse to travel alone.
man… and baby karu would still be fully hidden in garu… (also i wonder how gramps feels about potential future knowledge that garu’s ‘master’ actually does come to be?)
so blade + garu (+ gramps(?)) and then quincy.
kuya probably comes along uninvited because its not his circus, not his monkeys, but he is an intrigued audience member.
from there maybe they put together some puzzle pieces about needing all the clan members?
going in map order, that’s like: yakumo (baby snake!) -> aster, morvay, edmond (baby edmond!) -> olivine (baby…) -> rei (rei!)
tbh, they probably bullshit to get baby yakumo along, if his grandma and grandpa even let him go with the strange group of people. gramps probably does a lot to help smooth things over.
a big bid in their favor is that they know about yakumo’s gem and tell him about it? let him know that he’s not so alone in the world…
aster and morvay are probably the MVPs in letting the group progress in their research. dante leverages his knowledge about aster and the grand sorcerer Super Hard. plus, aster and morvay wouldn’t let any remotely trustworthy lead about their master fall through.
i think aster would maybe help them get into the sorcerer’s trials? for the library or w/e…
and that’s how they meet baby olivine
laying out the ages:
dante: ~8-10 years old
garu: ~15-16 years old or ~5-7 years old(?) (he doesn’t get a younger looking sprite in his flashback since they just use n-r rarity sprites for those. and he doesn’t act much younger? so i’m leaning towards him being pretty similar to how we see him in canon) (of course, i might be fudging the timeline a lot to even have him be around at all instead of in kolt’s clutches. ah well…)
yakumo: ~9-11 years old (he has a kid form iirc? and that’s the form his grandparents picked him up in)
edmond: ~11-13 years old
olivine: ~12-15 years old
and then this is fun because of Conflict!! dante doesn’t really know much about the past of the others to have any real insight on them during these time travel shenanigans. BUT! he does know about olivine cutting himself which makes things Interesting
honestly, i think it would be super cute if olivine acted as their guide during the group’s visit because he has a gemstone? and he also turns out to be pretty helpful because he’s pretty deep into technical and theoretical magic.
and then they whisk olivine away for their group adventure because 1) he’s a clan member and 2) they need his brain. (dante’s pretty informed on essence and elemental spirits but i wouldn’t say magic is his forte)
and then, finally, around the water territory, they meet up with rei, who comes to them because what are garu and gramps even doing there??? and then we get some semi-rare olivine and rei discussion as they discuss The Situation…
it’s just so fun to see how different these half-formed versions of everyone are before the present…
- quincy’s so much sadder (but hey! he still has topper… who is not named topper yet)
- blade is still quirky but much harder to communicate with (unless it’s with other members of the old guard who are kind of used to him)
- yakumo’s a nervous baby (but maybe has his anxiety less in-grained in him? less convinced that all these people like him would reject him thoroughly? esp since they came to see him)
- edmond is still prickly but more transparently because he’s been hurt before? i feel like he makes pretty fast friends with the other kids (he shores up yakumo’s shyness (little knight behavior), he responds well to dante’s taciturn but earnest nature, and well… garu is garu (puppy friendship power!)).
- kuya is probably pretty mean but less mean than i would expect, esp w/ the promise of curiosities and the novelty of (ahem) getting the band back together.
- rei is similarly intrigued by the gathering of clan members and is even more intrigued by dante’s issue and the possibility of time travel… (he probably has some things he’d like to time travel about but the canon i’ve read for him so far is vague enough that i couldn’t pin it down). (im also maybe fudging his timeline bc idk if he’d even be in klein with father 10-13 years ago…)
![Duke’s Eyes And Mouth Are Gone In [Puzzle Revealed]…](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c18e40b87bb8b276a5f21ac839f38d86/2541d68b678dc3bb-60/s640x960/e6a05fb25bd93a629a8b5143b7511fb1975e89c2.jpg)
duke’s eyes and mouth are gone in [Puzzle Revealed]…
I always liked Quinte.
Mainly because of how Dante and Quincy look together in an aesthetic sense.
BUT then their little cannon dynamic came out.
Now you may be wondering....what dynamic??? They barely interacted in game- yES that is true, Quinte began as a rarepair crackship.
BUT. HEAR ME OUT.
The winter event gave this ship quite the assortment of ~crumbs~.
What I'm talking about is the way Dante is trying his damn hardest to be respectful towards Quincy. Tries his best not to offend him....HE'S BEING SO SUBMISSIVE-
Like the in the carving that boat scene???
Dante was like "ew who did that it's so plain 🙄"
And Quincy responded with the least amount of chalanting ever "I made it what's wrong with it"
Dante iMMEDIEATELY FOLDED LIKE
"nOOO I DIDN'T MEAN TO OFFEND"
It was so funny
Immediately rewired my brain towards them
THEY HAVE THE PERFECT "schoolboy crush" DYNAMIC.
DANTE IS TRYING TO IMPRESS QUINCY SO BAD AND QUINCY'S JUST LIKE: 👍
He yearns for the dilfy embrace in silence....
Like you wouldn't catch Dante DEAD seeking for the approval of others.
But idek there's something about being sometimes acknowledged by an aloof forest daddy that makes him a little giddy...
DO YOU SEE MY VISION- DO YOU SEE MY VISION- DO YOU SEE
*copium*
dante kiss data
how were kisses counted? kisses are counted by animation (when the lips meet and part). text is also counted (ie, the text says someone kissed the another). this is specifically because in icy equilibrium room 5, eiden kisses dante but the camera pans away because they didnt make an animation for eiden leaning up. (which is fair enough. this (probably) contributes to why dante is always kissing eiden.)
this also means entire conversations can occur during one ‘kiss’; a kiss operates on the same rules of a blowjob in nu carnival. even if an individual has their mouth full of cock or tongue, they're still pretty articulate.
it's funny that after dante got his first kiss, he immediately went for one million smooches. (this is partially bc icy r5 is pretty focused on kissing but still.) the reason i ended up noting all this down is because i was rewatching his H-rooms and noticed there was a lot more kissing than I remembered. (i usually press-and-hold through the H-rooms so i tend to miss stuff in them;;)
it should be said that i don't really know how if this is a lot of kissing relative to the clan? im not super aware of the kiss rates in other clan member's rooms. so if anyone else has kiss rate knowledge, hit me up... i want to compare our tongue tango data and also catch up on other clan member intimacy stories.
other fun reoccurring bits (h-rooms tend to focus on one kink/situation so whatever repeats is extra noteworthy. (i might have missed some)):
dante playing with eiden’s nipples (blazing coliseum r5, icy r2, infernal r2, circus r5)
biting (blazing colesium r5, eternal hanabi r5)
dante’s cock growing bigger/harder mid-sex (sometimes multiple times) (multi-phase boss type of penis) (eternal hanabi r2, eternal hanabi r5, sunburst r2, cowboy r2)
dante telling eiden not to give him orders or not to move (Story H-Room, SR H-room, OG SSR r5, eternal hanabi r2, eternal hanabi r5, icy equilibrium r2, icy equilibrium r5, sunburst r5, cowboy r2)
other dante takeaways
he fucks pretty hard lmao… eiden’s shoulders/hips/back tend to take the brunt of his thrusts. dante also has a tendency to thrust as much of himself into eiden at once (as opposed to easing into it)
given the chance and the right mood, he seems to enjoy marathon sex (eternal hanabi r2, cowboy r5, circus r5)
he’s quite sensitive to being touched (<— touchstarved), overtly sexual or not (SSR r2, eternal hanabi r1+2, icy r5, cowboy r1)
other notes (that are also about mostly dante)
for the some of the rooms w/o kissing, some of them i attribute to positioning. blowjob dante (beach r2) was unlikely to get a kissing animation with eiden for a number of reasons. same with circus spanking eiden (circus r2). still!! there was kissing even outside of h-rooms which surprised me. icy r4 wasn't surprising since that's The EnEi Kiss (ie, Dante's first kiss). but scorching sun surprised me and so did cowboy dante! i kinda thought they'd limit all the kissing to being animated. i appreciate the text kisses. an arc that i wasn't sure how to quantify is dante's control arc? we kind of see it in the number of times dante tells eiden not to order him or not to move. it's very common for dante to also try to order eiden around or express general frustration with eiden doing confusing, sexy things that wrest his body's control from him. he's most comfortable when he's controlling the movement and positioning (like eternal hanabi r5 or icy equilibrium r2). this is probably part of why he doesn't get his cock out in a lot of rooms. (this is most notable to me because they always mention that his cock is hard in the rooms. it's just that... it stays packed away for a rainy day.) he seems into overwhelming eiden (which probably started in eternal hanabi r2 where he got all flustered about eiden moaning after dante tried to 'push him to his limits'). we get to seem him get most flustered when eiden is 'in control' (like in OG SSR r2 or maid r2). this is why eiden has to basically ask him for control when he rides him in beach r5 (u may have seen it mentioned around). its a switch up in their dynamic! the fact that dante lets eiden control the pace (for a little) shows his trust in him. another motif that i didn't quantify is how their sex is usually framed! frequently, it's framed as an exchange of some kind: reward, punishment/retribution, competition, trade, etc. they're usually having sex for a reason (rather than having sex for fun). this makes sense because dante doesn't really believe in fooling around or having fun for the fun of it. there are a few exceptions to this of course such as beach r5 and scorching sun r2. he's really warmed up to eiden so he's probably more amenable to casual sex than him or eiden realize. dante has hardcore fallen for eiden. and eiden has also really warmed up to dante! but, as to be expected with how tsundere dante is, there are a few missed signals. for example, eiden tends to assume dante doesn't want to play when dante is ready to have fun (kleinmas r3, cowboy r4) or eiden missing when dante's supermoon sized crush on him is showing (the threelegged race in the beach event + the small story after). after the circus event, i'm very excited to see their relationship develop. they're at a funny stage where they try to one-up and fluster the other. sex IS something you win
