"Oh come on, you can touch them, it's fine. We're good friends, after all, right?"
Friends. That's all she thought of me? She was offering up the most intimate parts of herself to a... friend? I let the idea roll around in my head, staring absentminded at her areolas. They really were beautiful, but... friends? That was it? After what we had done... what we had shared...
"Friends... is that all we are?"
I guess... even with a girl offering herself to me... I had to know. Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I should just accept the gift being given.
And Miki got that sly look she always had when she was toying with me.
"Oh, come on, you really think I'd let a "friend" even see my breasts? I don't think I've ever let anyone see me naked. Well, apart from family when I was very young. So yeah, we're a bit beyond the "friends" point. Now let's get to second base before we get hit by a meteor or something."
This was going to be a difficult night to get through.
Beautiful artwork (especially for two things in particular--the face and the hair), even if I think her skin tone is a bit light versus how she looked in the game.
>Oh, come on, you really think I'd let a "friend" even see my breasts?
It is obvious that she said it to every guy she wanted to fuck.
It is obvious that it worked every time.
Miki is now officially “the girl with healthy adolescent lack of prejudices and stereotypes about sex and gender roles”.
@42652: They have awkward, two-sided barely legal sex.
I can't think of any canned drama to add to it. Miki's just cool in every sense of the word. I can't give her immaturity because I don't think she *is* immature.
That's not to say they aren't inexperienced. Hisao and Miki would love each other like children. Each looking for new ways to have fun with the new things they've discovered about each other and their bodies. And probably not stopping until one or the other got hurt.
Out of all the girls, I really enjoyed Miki's "company" in the sense of actually liking her as a person/character and not thinking "gosh Hisao should fuck her, I wonder when he will fuck her" like I did with some other characters (before I latched on to them near the end).
Although I do think that Hisao and Miki should fuck. I think he might on the side if the ol' ball-and-chain doesn't work out.
Oh I've got some canned drama. Miki isn't just that horny, she's trying to escape from her own repressed feelings of homosexuality with a sexual relationship (yes this does happen). Despite it just being physical she grows to care more and more about Hisao until she finally realizes she has to come out and acknowledge who she is to keep from hurting him in the long run.
And it's possible to have and interesting dynamic without DRAMA. There are things they each have trouble doing. They compliment each other, not like Emi and Rin in the literal sense, but in a sense of who they are.
And this dynamic was only lightly brushed upon. With Miki's "Math is dumb" comment, there was an interesting story to be had. Miki is kind of like Kenji in terms of relationship, albeit replacing his batty shades of personality with those of her own. But you can't branch into another person when you're in the Hanako route. And that made me sad, because in a few short moments, I liked Miki way more than Hanako.
She was straightforward without being excessive, and was totally upfront and real with Hisao, asking him because she sincerely wanted to know and be friendly.
@42712: Most of the characters feel upfront and friendly when you first encounter them. It's not until after you spend time with any of them that you start to really get to know them and see what they may be hiding.
I'm sure if there had been a Miki route, you would have found out there's more to her character than first impression would imply.
In the game, Miki looks like a tomboyish and more confident version of Hanako. It made me think that this is what Hanako could be like if she had not lost her parents in the fire.
@43741: The thing about phantom limbs is that you can feel them, they just can't feel you (or anything else, generally excluding phantom pains and whatnot)
CID 42598, posted on July 8, 2012: