Backstory speculation
Dec. 14th, 2013 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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There are a couple of things in Little Busters! that aren't really explained and that I'm curious about, so I'm going to write up my thoughts about them,
Firstly: The traumatic event in Rin's past. This event was bad enough that Rin thought just living was scary. She didn't even want to go out and Kyousuke had to take her by the hand and surround her with friends. The details are scarce - we just know that it involved the dark and some scary adults. In Refrain, Rin mentions that some people pinned her down, though it could be possible that was the police arresting her in Rin 2 and she's actually vaguely recalling that memory, same as with playing catch with Riki and mentioning the "secret of the world". Goodness knows why the police would have had to pin her down when arresting her. Maybe it is more likely she was talking about her past.
So, about Rin and Kyousuke's childhood, I get the feeling there wasn't much parental presence there considering how Kyousuke was the one always looking out for and protecting Rin. Rin's grandfather gets mentioned, but not their parents at any point? I think their parents weren't around very much, perhaps they had jobs that required them to go travelling a lot and they still do. So they were probably in the habit of leaving their kids at home and just having someone pop in from time to time to keep them alive.
Absent parents and kids fending for themselves seems to be a very common trope in Japanese media.
So, my theory: One night, the parents were away as usual and it was late so Rin and Kyousuke were just sleeping, but then some robbers came to burgle the place, probably not knowing that there were kids in there. Kyousuke would probably have tried to fend them off and Rin would likely have been screaming in terror so they would have muffled her to get her to be quiet. That would be pretty damn traumatic. Holding her down while keeping her quiet would explain the pinning.
Imagine how goddamn scary criminals suddenly bursting into your house in the night and restraining you would be, especially if you were a child. Well, that's my theory.
The other thing I wonder about is Riki's parents. How did they die anyway? They died at the same time, we know that much, and Riki was there. I doubt it was an accident, unless Riki was just really lucky...
Suicide seems pretty unlikely. Not to say that morons who kill themselves with their kids around don't exist, but still...
I'm going to assume the anime's clarification of it being a car accident is accurate. Riki surviving because his mother protected him sure makes sense. Riki actually does say it was a car accident in Sasami's route too, though that was written by Tonokawa.
komarin]There are a couple of things in Little Busters! that aren't really explained and that I'm curious about, so I'm going to write up my thoughts about them,
Firstly: The traumatic event in Rin's past. This event was bad enough that Rin thought just living was scary. She didn't even want to go out and Kyousuke had to take her by the hand and surround her with friends. The details are scarce - we just know that it involved the dark and some scary adults. In Refrain, Rin mentions that some people pinned her down, though it could be possible that was the police arresting her in Rin 2 and she's actually vaguely recalling that memory, same as with playing catch with Riki and mentioning the "secret of the world". Goodness knows why the police would have had to pin her down when arresting her. Maybe it is more likely she was talking about her past.
So, about Rin and Kyousuke's childhood, I get the feeling there wasn't much parental presence there considering how Kyousuke was the one always looking out for and protecting Rin. Rin's grandfather gets mentioned, but not their parents at any point? I think their parents weren't around very much, perhaps they had jobs that required them to go travelling a lot and they still do. So they were probably in the habit of leaving their kids at home and just having someone pop in from time to time to keep them alive.
Absent parents and kids fending for themselves seems to be a very common trope in Japanese media.
So, my theory: One night, the parents were away as usual and it was late so Rin and Kyousuke were just sleeping, but then some robbers came to burgle the place, probably not knowing that there were kids in there. Kyousuke would probably have tried to fend them off and Rin would likely have been screaming in terror so they would have muffled her to get her to be quiet. That would be pretty damn traumatic. Holding her down while keeping her quiet would explain the pinning.
Imagine how goddamn scary criminals suddenly bursting into your house in the night and restraining you would be, especially if you were a child. Well, that's my theory.
Suicide seems pretty unlikely. Not to say that morons who kill themselves with their kids around don't exist, but still...
I'm going to assume the anime's clarification of it being a car accident is accurate. Riki surviving because his mother protected him sure makes sense. Riki actually does say it was a car accident in Sasami's route too, though that was written by Tonokawa.
