(The first OVA, "Trust/Betrayal", of course. This post is inspired by
this site, which I found shortly after seeing the OVA for the first time and then obsessively watching it over and over again for about two weeks.)
There are a lot of flowers and plants specifically depicted in Trust/Betrayal. I mean, a whole lot of them. Several of them are recurring motifs, suggesting a strong component of deliberate symbolism. Once I've got this material straightened out, it'll probably form the core of the Beginner's Guide to the RK OVA which I've had in mind for a while, ever since my initial bewilderment at certain aspects as well as gradually realizing how many subtle things ADV got wrong. Not that I'm nec'ly getting stuff right either, but at the least, this is an attempt to clarify some things which were initially WTF for me. Most of the dialogue will be paraphrased from the original ADV subtitles.
Spoilers are inevitable. This is still a work in progress.
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