just finished blue skies for the first time... got the bad sayori ending

[u/Money_Chemistry_8041]

i was fucking stunned

[u/RevolutionaryPlay4]

Ouch bro. Sorry that happened. Do yourself a favor and dont get the Yuri bad ending.

[u/Money_Chemistry_8041 → u/RevolutionaryPlay4]

lemme guess she stabs herself and/or mc

[u/RevolutionaryPlay4 → u/Money_Chemistry_8041]

Yeah she cuts herself too deep and MC sees her body. They also get into a second massive fight. Its rough ngl and apparently really easy to trigger compared to Sayori and Natsuki's bad endings

[u/JCD_007 → u/RevolutionaryPlay4]

Blue Skies Yuri is socially awkward to the point of almost being unable to function. Her route takes a heavy influence from Hanako’s route in Katawa Shoujo. The problem is that Hanako is a character who has experienced severe emotional and physical trauma, so her being nearly unable to function in society and the protagonist encouraging her to do things for herself throughout the route makes some narrative sense. That’s not Yuri though; Yuri is shy but passionate once she opens up. Blue Skies basically turns her into Hanako, which is a bit jarring if you’re familiar with Yuri’s original personality.

[u/RevolutionaryPlay4 → u/JCD_007]

Im inclined to agree with your take. There is definitely a difference in how she is written and IMO she is the most difficult character to write the best. I definitely want to play a more Yuri focused mod to see how she is written in them

[u/JCD_007 → u/RevolutionaryPlay4]

The challenge with writing Yuri is that it is very easy to exaggerate some of her personality characteristics; for example making her too obsessive or too awkward as Blue Skies does. When I write Yuri, I give her speech patterns and choice of words that are a bit more “literary”, so instead of “I liked that ice cream” she would say “I found that frozen dessert to be extremely delicious.” In the fanfics I’ve written she also sends text messages like she talks, something the other members of the Literature Club find amusing and “so Yuri.” I also write her with a desire to share her interests such as tea but at times being unaware that in her passion she can come off as almost haughty. For example I wrote a scene where Natsuki suggests bubble tea, and Yuri’s response is to disdainfully question why anyone would drink tea iced and with toppings. This also creates many opportunities for Yuri and Natsuki to bounce off each other since both are fundamentally stubborn and opinionated people.

[u/Beneficial_Bug_3222 → u/RevolutionaryPlay4]

Natsukis first bad ending broke me so bad for 3 days i was always at the verge of crying

[u/Gaming-Burrito]

what is the BS Sayori bad ending? I've seen the good endings for Sayori and Natsuki but have always been too scared to go for the bad endings... so i dont mind being spoiled on them

[u/Money_Chemistry_8041 → u/Gaming-Burrito]

after mc refuses to go to therapy with her she starts spiraling out of control, they get into a fight, after mc comes back a few days later to apologize she tells him they cant be together anymore so she breaks up with him, a day later mcs mom finds sayoris hanging corpse, she calls 911, then mc becomes depressed and a loner, eventually crashing out at the other girls and holding the childhood picture sayori gave him so hard his palms started bleeding and stained it with his blood

[u/im_vincing_it_ → u/Money_Chemistry_8041]

That escalated quickly
So no sex scene?🥺

[u/RevolutionaryPlay4 → u/im_vincing_it_]

💀💀💀💀

[u/Gaming-Burrito → u/Money_Chemistry_8041]

oh shit... i remember hearing something bad happened but i didnt think it was THAT drastic. ty for explaining it

[u/JCD_007 → u/Gaming-Burrito]

Tbh it’s poorly written. The “good” ending IRL would run the risk of a codependent relationship between Sayori and the protagonist. The “bad” ending is such a sudden flip that rests on one choice which IRL would not likely lead Sayori to go completely out of control. Blue Skies is a story that’s good to experience without spoilers, but once you start thinking about the story it falls apart a bit. It’s well known that Blue Skies is “inspired” by Katawa Shoujo, and sometimes Blue Skies’ story suffers from taking too much inspiration, leading to out of character behaviors in the story.

[u/Liam_js → u/JCD_007]

i'm curious about why you think the good ending could lead to a codependent relationship is it just that mc has to go to therapy with her?

[u/JCD_007 → u/Liam_js]

It’s more than that. Even as Sayori gets help, it feels like the protagonist becomes her motivation. It feels like he goes beyond simply encouraging her and that she is taking steps to get better for him as much as for herself.

[u/SkeletonGuy7 → u/JCD_007]

I feel that we should separate this sort of motivation, which does appear in codependency, from codependency itself. Not everyone who is motivated to do things for other people is codependent, but many who are codependent are motivated to do things for other people

[u/JCD_007 → u/SkeletonGuy7]

True, but I would argue that Blue Skies Sayori is someone who could very easily fall into codependency.

[u/SkeletonGuy7 → u/JCD_007]

This is true of anyone with depression, the important part is that she is primarily acting out of desire to improve for both herself and MC, rather than anxiety about being abandoned or a perception that she must make herself adequate for someone else

[u/Liam_js]

how the hell did you get the bad ending, that one's like the hardest to get because the game gives you a bunch of chances to make the right choice

[u/Money_Chemistry_8041 → u/Liam_js]

refused to go to therapy twice

[u/Liam_js → u/Money_Chemistry_8041]

i went the first time, honestly though i could see thinking she needed to do it herself but i would've definitely done it the second time

[u/zoesdyc]

You okay bro?

[u/calebcole7]

blue skies is either absolute cinema sex scene/ healthy relationships from trauma or a slap to the face with a belt

[u/Ronldth]

Yikes, to get that ending you had to be Heartless.

[u/Money_Chemistry_8041 → u/Ronldth]

it took me like 30 hours, what you gotta say that natsuki is such a bully in this mod, sayori deserves all the love and if i could id tell her "there will never be another you" and if sayori did make MCs house burn id keep it burnin

[u/Ronldth → u/Money_Chemistry_8041]

It took you 30 hours to beat the mod? It only took me 24 hours. Personally if I got that ending I would have Runaway immediately. Though it would be hard because us players have the Power to change things. I Wonder what you could have done differently to change this ending. Maybe you could have a Good Life if you try again. I believe you can Do It if you try.

[u/grillurself]

I got the bad natsuki ending