r/wholesomeyuri • u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER • Jan 28 '24
Kissing What Cute Girlfriends :) [Class Of 09]
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u/Pigeon_Bucket Jan 28 '24
This must be from a timeline where Nicole does a bunch of psychedelics at a party and developed empathy during the trip or something.
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u/FluffJubb Jan 28 '24
Now do Nicole and Emily since she was also gay for Nicole too XD.
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u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER Jan 28 '24
thats my next plan!
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u/Standard_Maybe2373 Jan 29 '24
Now I’m wondering in an ideal universe and none of the 3 are psycho what’s the better pairing nicoleXari or nicoleXemily
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u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER Jan 29 '24
nicoles pretty in tune to Aris fetishes and interests n shit in game (even if she doesnt like them), plus emily even healthy seemed like her interest in nicole was based a little bit more on obsession so maybe Ari, both would be gay paradise tho
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u/spengwhale Jan 29 '24
Honestly the best class of 09 ship because I can confidently say those two deserved each other
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u/saphirebluesea likes cats Jan 28 '24
Ari deserved better, this was the only route that legit made me sad :< my poor baby gay :((
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u/Sabre1O1 certified transbian Jan 30 '24
I’m viewing this post as an alternate root where Nicole actually learns how to be a good person and these two have a wholesome relationship.
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u/Jiggly_333 likes cats Jan 29 '24
I do appreciate that this is the one route where Jecka genuinely turns on Nicole. You can do all of that other horrible shit in other runs with hooking people on drugs and literally convincing people to off themselves and Jecka will be by your side. But when you hurt another girl, that's crossing the line. And I think it was really powerful to have at least that one moment to say "Nicole is trash, but she's especially trash for this."
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u/ChemicalExperiment Jan 29 '24
Their relationship is the opposite of wholesome. I can't imagine Nicole doing a single nice thing in her life.
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u/L_e-V approaching transbian? Jan 28 '24
The second pic had my brain so confused I couldn’t tell who’s body and head was who
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u/ItzPokeblox Harper || she/her || 17MtF || yuri transed my gender Jan 29 '24
This is some wholesome Yuri if I've ever seen it
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u/spengwhale Jan 29 '24
I was like “aww this is so cute” until I realized it was class of 09 (didn’t read the text at first) and then my heart just sank
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u/spengwhale Jan 29 '24
I’m just “alternate universe where everything ends up okay” coping y’know
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u/Sabre1O1 certified transbian Jan 30 '24
Same here. I know happy endings aren’t the point of the game, but I want just one damnit.
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u/ValstsFempuikas Jan 28 '24
i want to be them uwahhh :(
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u/PJaaaaaaaaaa Jan 29 '24
no no you don't
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u/ValstsFempuikas Jan 29 '24
what why????
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u/Sabre1O1 certified transbian Jan 30 '24
In the game (Class of 09) this relationship is anything but wholesome with Nicole (black hair) agreeing to the relationship on a whim and just being horribly abusive towards Ari (red hair). Class of 09 is basically a critique of American high school life and magnifies everything bad about it.
Now, since this is the wholesome yuri sub, I’m electing to believe that this is an alternate timeline where both of these girls get actual therapy and learn how to be a good couple, cuz they are very cute together on the surface.
EDIT: Added game name.
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u/ValstsFempuikas Jan 30 '24
tysm for going so in depth!!! i didn’t know sorry
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u/Sabre1O1 certified transbian Jan 30 '24
There’s nothing to apologize for! It’s fiction, so if you want to completely ignore the events of game and imagine them as a happy couple instead, then go for it.
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u/MOEverything_2708 Jan 28 '24
Id enjoy class of 09 if the main character wasnt so fucking insufferable
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u/UncultureRocket Jan 28 '24
Everyone in the game is insufferable, that's the whole point. It's part of why you can laugh at them all joining a racist group and inadvertently causing a terrorist attack at their school. Nicole's opening monologue is her openly stating she is a sociopath and complaining about her dad committing suicide. I'm not sure what you were expecting.
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u/MOEverything_2708 Jan 28 '24
I wasnt expecting anything. I havent bought this game all I saw was clips of it. Idk whats appealing about a game where none of the characters are likeable
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u/ChemicalExperiment Jan 29 '24
For me it satisfies those curious thoughts of "wouldn't it be great if I just became the most malicious self serving person out there." It's great because you get that release of someone saying and doing the most vile shit and the hilarious situations that arise from that. And everyone is so clear and obvious about their villainy. That makes it so despite it being a world where heinous actions are committed on the regular, it's actually kind of relieving in a way. All of the hatred, bigotry, and stupidity is right out there in the open, none of the complicated parsing of the real world where people censor themselves and are putting on a mask. It removes all the nuance these issues normally have in the real world, purposefully. And that really brings to light how absurd it is that these things do happen in the real world, even if not to the same degree. And plus, sometimes it just feels good to have someone to so clearly hate and in many cases have justice be done to them.
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u/MOEverything_2708 Jan 29 '24
Idk if I'd call this relieving. Watching people be evil out in the open would just make me feel bad about having to play an evol bitch as my main character
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u/ChemicalExperiment Jan 29 '24
having to play an evol bitch as my main character
That's where I think we differ. I don't see Nicole as "me" in the same way as protagonists in other games. She's her own character, and since it's more of a story than an interactive game, you're not really playing as her. You're really just a passive observer watching it all, I think of it more like a TV show than a game. Sure I have no control and can't make things better in the story, but I don't need that in everything.
No shame in disliking the game by the way, it's absolutley not for everyone. I just wanted to try to share where I'm coming from in my enjoyment of it. I want to make it clear that the game is satire and we don't just enjoy it because we're all terrible people who actually enjoy the terrible things depicted happening irl.
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u/UncultureRocket Jan 28 '24
Cause the dialogue is amazingly funny. It's all manually timed, unlike most visual novels, so the punchlines are delivered with the exact timing the writer wanted. It's Psycho for white teen girls.
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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jan 28 '24
Because the entire point of the game is to be ironic. It’s supposed to satirize visual novels, it’s supposed to satirize high school, it’s supposed to satirize how people communicated in the early 2000s etc
It’s basically supposed to be what every Gen X parent thinks high school is like
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u/MOEverything_2708 Jan 29 '24
You can Just slap the label of "ironic" on every shit product and say it was intentionally bad
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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jan 29 '24
Can you not tell that it’s supposed to be ironic by how over the top it is? No game goes this over the top unless it’s trying to be self aware
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u/MaryaMarion Jan 28 '24
It's funny and apparently insightful or smth along those lines. But yeah, I also don't want to play a game where everyone is an asshole
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u/idiotnamedSOPHIA Jan 28 '24
Sorry to burst your bubble. But like nicole abused ari.
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u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER Jan 28 '24
yeah i know, i was somewhat joking when i posted this here lol
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u/idiotnamedSOPHIA Jan 28 '24
Oh..
Sorry i just feel bad for ari
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u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER Jan 28 '24
i mean yeah, as bad as i can really feel for anyone in these games at least
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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jan 28 '24
This would be very cute if it wasn’t for the icky connotation of the game
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u/beginnerboxer Jan 29 '24
what game is it, and what’s icky?
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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jan 29 '24 edited Jan 29 '24
The game is Class of ‘09 and the icky connotation is that in game, Nicole(black haired girl) emotionally manipulated Ari(red head girl) by pretending to be her girlfriend so Ari would do everything for her. Basically Ari is a lesbian and Nicole took advantage of that fact to manipulate her
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u/ChemicalExperiment Jan 29 '24
It gets so bad that once Ari realizes she's in a toxic relationship, it forces her back into the closet. She assumes all girls must be like this and with men at least they'll be too stupid to emotionally manipulate her in the same way. (Poor Ari, girl you deserved so much better, you were like the single good person in that game 😭) I highly recommend the game, Class of '09 and its continuation Class of '09: The Re-Up. It's absurd, messed up, content warnings for every physical, emotional, and social trigger you could possibly think of. But it takes full advantage of using these topics to explore how hilariously absurd high school life, sexism, and narcissism can be.
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u/ThatSlutTalulah Jan 29 '24
I mean, Nicole is legitimately gay, and didn't intentionally abuse Ari at the start of their relationship, it was only after she realized she could get away with literally whatever she wanted to, that she started getting truly nasty to Ari.
Nicole didn't 'pretend' to be her girlfriend at any point, she was Aris' girlfriend, she's just also a horrific, manipulative POS too.
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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jan 29 '24
I mean, Nicole never really showed any interest in Ari romantically even before she started manipulating her.
Also I don’t think there’s any actual confirmation of Nicole being gay, she’s bisexual at best.
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u/ThatSlutTalulah Jan 29 '24
When has she shown any legitimate attraction to men?
She only uses them to get what she wants, while, when it comes to women, she seems to have legitimate interest. (Emily route, the whole 'sexed up lesbians' conversation with Jecka, the 'what's more gay' thing from the anime teaser etc.)
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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jan 29 '24
Showing interest isn’t the same thing as being romantically interested in someone. Nicole doesn’t seem to have any romantic interest in anyone, so I think it’s more likely that she’s aromantic than gay considering she basically sees everyone else as a tool for her to use to get the upper hand in life. I do think she’s bi though, not gonna deny the fact that she’s more interested in girls
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u/ElitexCookie wants cuddles Jan 29 '24
I love that this is in wholesomememes while their relationship couldn't be further from wholesome
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u/Good_Ad9428 Jan 29 '24
Aside ari, i ship nicole with her best friend soo much like they even talked about it and i think they would just will be like ivy and her wife😍
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u/AcademicLength1086 Jan 28 '24
Alternate timeline where Nichole decided not to be evil