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The Caged Blue Bird: An Akane Kurashiki Manipulation Feat

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ForAllPosterity presents: The Caged Blue Bird An Akane Kurashiki Feat (HEAVY SPOILER WARNING FOR THE ENTIRE ZERO ESCAPE STORY) Part one: the setup This is Sigma Klim Fanart of Sigma (left) and Phi (right) Sigma Klim is the main protagonist of Zero Escape Virtue’s Last Reward, the second game of the Zero Escape series and is the character that you play as throughout the entire game. He is a compassionate, intelligent and a highly driven person who, despite some of his flaws, always makes sure to do what’s right for everyone around him. He has done nothing evil and is by all accounts, a good person. This doc is an analysis on how Akane Kurashiki completely and utterly ruined his life But first, it’s important to understand the overall story of Zero Escape VLR and ZTD as those two games are incredibly interconnected and relevant to the story of Sigma and how Akane manipulated him throughout decades in order to achieve her plans. Virtue’s Last Reward (VLR) exists in the timeline as a sort of “bad ending” to the entire Zero Escape story, it is an alternate timeline compared to the “good ending” and it’s entirely started within the game of Zero Time Dilemma (ZTD). Specifically, it was caused by the events of D-END 1 in the game but I will explain what that ending is later and why it’s important The earliest game in the series, Zero Escape 999, takes place in 2027 and is the earliest playable point in the ZE timeline. Zero Time Dilemma, the third game, takes place only …

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