r/natsuki • u/Prankcallatticks • 4d ago

Why didn’t Natsuki get a job?

I obviously mean taking the story at face value as if they all had free will. Apparently she is 18, she doesn’t like to be home, her father didn’t seem to really care if she was around, and obviously she struggled to feed herself and her father wasn’t providing enough. I’m not trying to victim blame or anything, it just seems like the logical thing to do. Where I’m from, most high schoolers get jobs at like 16, sometimes even younger. Is that not the same in Japan because they focus more on school or was it just Salvato’s writing? Makes me think she really was meant originally to be younger and they just didn’t want the issues that could come with that for a suggestive and messed up dating sim parody. Idk, just been thinking about this.

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u/Personal-Limit-8859 4d ago

Are her finantial stuggles canon? I could swear it was a blue skies adition. Its been AGES since I last played vanilla DDLC

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u/Prankcallatticks 3d ago

I mean she passes out from starvation in the original and Monika gives her a protein bar or something. I don’t know if that’s because her dad starves her just to be cruel or if they don’t have a lot of money and he doesn’t view having enough food in the house as a priority.

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u/Personal-Limit-8859 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm pretty sure thats just because Monika cranked her dad's abusiveness up to 11, I don't think there's any implication of poverty in the base game. and in blue skies where there is, they actually aged her down from 18, so there ya go

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u/Prankcallatticks 3d ago

Fair enough my main point still stands though

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u/Zere7515 2d ago

Ehm... primero, la mayoría de los jóvenes no trabajan, solo se dedican a estudiar y eso ya agota.

Segundo, Natsuki seguramente tenía un estado psicológico terrible. Solo la depresión te arruina la vida, las energías, la felicidad y el gusto de muchas cosas ¿Crees que una persona así, siquiera va a poder trabajar durante la menos 2 semanas? Es como si la mente tuviese gripe.

Tercero, ningún trabajo siendo estudiante te va a dar lo suficiente para arrendar un departamento barato, salvo que tengas muchísima suerte (en cuyo caso, estos suelen ser peligrosos o suelen quedar lejos de tu zona residencial, lo que lo hace una mala opción).

Cuarto, es una narrativa muy poco desarrollada por la autoría. Encontrarás vacíos, mejores opciones y mejores conductas. Pero si asumimos que son personas reales, entonces la narrativa se vuelve más realista si estas personas no siempre hacen lo mejor o lo correcto, ni piensan como nosotros pensamos.

Quinto, es ficción, así que siéntete libre de deliberar todo lo que quieras al respecto, fantasear con rutas alternativas y juzgar argumentativamente todo lo que se pueda juzgar. A mí me hubiese encantado que Natsuki tuviese una ruta narrativa mucho mejor para ella.

NOTA: Recordar que la relación con su padre era muy mala. Supuestamente abusaba de ella.

Un abrazo ❤️

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u/Prankcallatticks 2d ago

Thank you for the kindness. I’m around her age ish and I’ve done a few odd jobs here and there, a lot of people in any school got full on part time jobs at 15 or 16. So, I’m just going based on my experience. Maybe that’s an American thing though. I dunno. Also, I wasn’t saying she’d be able to move away, just that she would be home less and judging by how she talked about the literature club she seemed to like that. I understand I’m being a bit weird by looking at it as if it were real, it’s just fun for me lol.

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u/TasteYester 4d ago

Because she’s 18

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u/Prankcallatticks 3d ago

Yeah, like I said where I’m from most people get part time jobs at 16.

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u/Icy_Adagio7958 2d ago

That's almost entirely exclusive to America, most people in other continents don't work till 18, in some countries it's even illegal to put people to work at such ages.

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u/Prankcallatticks 2d ago

Interesting… Well us ‘Mericans are either gonna be built different or just really traumatized lol

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u/Icy_Adagio7958 2d ago

I've heard it's really rough there, some of my friends live there and the situation to me just seems absurd.

I mean this not to brag, but I havent paid a dime of my own nor my mom's in the 3 years I've already been at college. It's not even a public college, so just the idea of having to pay crazy amounts of money that you NEED to work to support such studies is really disheartening for y'all there

That doesn't mean college here is any easier of course, given how we don't have the time constraints of a job we are demanded to be more scrupulous with our studies. On really bad times I've gotta study 4-6 hours daily to be able to head towards my exams with confidence

My friend and I have had looks at eachothers exams out of curiosity for the differences and we agreed on mines being a far superior difficulty (both of our colleges have to do with math/science so we share some subjects such as chem)

So yeah, all of my life and shit aside. Working at 16 is mostly an American thing, most people where I live (Spain) don't work until they're done with their studies, that unless they wanna make some money for something else (like paying bills, a car, etc)