Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32460917-20190106033320/@comment-32460917-20190128015120

None of this is actually confirmed but based on what’s implied in the logs, Kaori was a poor girl living in Node 03, an area notable for gang activity. She was childhood friends with a boy named Hayato. She was the pianist and possibly vocalist in the band she and Hayato was in.

Aroma was raised by her older sister Helena. Helena used to work as a waitress in order to support the two of them. Later, Helena married a man named Noah. He was a researcher at ARC and a former student of Nora’s father figure

Aroma was scouted out for her talent in singing by Monophonic Entertainment. Sometime between then and her debut, Noah stumbled into the sisters’ home while drunk and raped Aroma

Yeah uh

He’s real bad

Even when not drunk

Hh

The day Aroma debuts arrives, and the three of them board the car. Aroma sits in the passenger’s seat since Helena isn’t feeling too well. While on their way to the venue, they get involved in a car accident

Helena is able to recover, but Aroma is stuck in a coma for nine months.

Meanwhile, glitched logs show that someone attacked Kaori. She tries to run, but gets tased and passes out

The Lvl 25 log takes place during the time that Aroma was supposedly in a coma

The conclusion that the fandom has arrived at is that Aroma wasn’t going to wake up. Instead, for unclear reasons (as of yet) Kaori was kidnapped to be Aroma’s replacement. Some kind of cloning device was brought up/used before by Nora’s father figure and that’s what was probably used to make Kaori look like Aroma. They already did resemble each other quite a lot but to fool even her sister, it needed to be exact. The Lvl 25 log was Kaori getting her memories overwritten so that she wouldn’t be able to remember she had a different life than what she would wake up into.

‘Aroma’ wakes up from her coma with total amnesia. She’s able to recover from there, but she’s given three stabilizing disks that float around her head. Helena/Noah claim that the disks are there to help prevent further damage to her brain from the accident. I think there’re there to keep her brainwashing in check

Also, Aroma is able to play the piano, something she wasn’t able to do before. Kaori was the pianist in Hayato’s band

She can also remember the lyrics to a song she’s never been told to sing before as PAFF

Anyway, that was all basically me trying to recount what exactly happened to Kaori/Aroma over the course of the story. She’s currently hiding at Neko’s place.

Æsirfest was an event that erased the memories of its participants, but ironically Kaori/Aroma gained memories from it. She started getting flashbacks that didn’t line up with who she was supposed to be. It grew even worse when she tried to perform ‘Gravity’ on stage since it was the song that she performed during Æsirfest. After her collapse and recovery, she refused to perform. Ultimately she chose to run. She wandered on the streets for two weeks (somehow wasn’t caught??) before arriving at Neko’s house.

Neko didn’t like PAFF before since she thought she was some cold-hearted bitch while at Monophonic. Neko agreed to write out an instrumental for a collab between the two of them, but for some reason Helena never allowed Neko to talk to PAFF. Later, when the collab was done, the company didn’t even credit Neko

PAFF wasn’t aware of that and sincerely wanted to reach out, but she didn’t have the chance. I’m really happy that they seem to get along well after Neko takes her in 😔👌 Neko’s already trying to help Kaori find out more about herself and yah!!