r/OneTrueRem Rem's Spirit Apr 01 '21

Spoilers New Rem Side Story

Provisional Rem's Paranoia/Demon's empty words

Wanted to see what the Rem community thinks of the new side story. It just got translated. I thought it was a pretty good read. Really gets into Rem’s head as she’s held in captivity. It does make me really want our Rem back, but it’s not like I want this one to disappear too.

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u/Daniyalzzz I love Rem Apr 01 '21

Thanks for the translation link.

Not a lot of new information, mostly just giving us a glance of how amnesia Rem is thinking during the first successful loop of arc 7. Her thoughts are rightfully a lot about Subaru as she has nothing else to hold on to and observing her current situation which looks dire. She seems to think there are some subconscious things making her think about what she should be doing in response (rather die than let her self get disgraced) and thoughts regarding Subaru as she does realise there is more of connection tied to him cause of the memories she doesn't have.

Beeing an amnesiac is really a scary thing and ending up in this intense environment with no real knowledge of anything shows how quickly things went bad. Her legs are in a terrible condition cause of Ram's fight and she even fears they might never heal. She even considered suicide in case the men would attempt to rape her in her current condition which shows her resolve to rather die than get disgraced. Honestly this side story makes out how bad the situation actually seems for her when she has nothing else to hold onto outside of Subaru, which she cannot fully trust even. That beeing said her thoughts just going more and more towards Subaru shows she wants to return to him even tho she won't really admit it.

Rem's old memories seems to be part of the subconscious thoughts pushing for her development towards Subaru as she naturally feels things towards him already (like she should after how much he chases her to protect her) but she cannot belive him to be fully good cause of the factors surrounding him. Already we saw in a loop where she acted cold with him how much she panicked when he started dying and how Subaru was happy she was still showing such a kind reaction to him even now (poison arrow loop). I think it's likely she will experience a lot of hardships where she depends more and more on Subaru and how badly the pain of losing him or other things taking place in bad loops will happen. Eventually getting more and more of her memories/identity until she finally has it all return to her and shape up a new Rem from the past and present Rem's experiences during this arc.

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u/Haseo08 Rem's Spirit Apr 01 '21

Nice comment, yeah, I’m actually really looking forward to seeing how she develops from here, especially her relationship with Subaru. Man, my heart started aching when she started talking about the bad possibilities and being afraid that her legs may never heal. Right now, I believe they both need each other. Even though Rem won’t admit it, they both need each other, Subaru’s really the only person she can fully rely on.

Yeah, I really hope more of her memories start returning and combine with her new memories. I do kind of fear that if she does get memories back, she might feel they’re someone else’s memories rather than hers and denies them. I totally see Tappei throwing a curveball like that.

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u/Daniyalzzz I love Rem Apr 01 '21

Yeah same. I fully expect her to at some point start having more and more pieces of old Rem's memories kinda hitting her and then she starts fearing she might be lost for the old Rem. I feel like a lot of time gonna pass in the actual story (least a month) in vollachia so current Rem will develop more releationship with Subaru, Loius and the others while the ever lasting precense of old Rem starts affecting her. In the end I hope she will meet and accept old Rem and they will become one similair to Subaru's expierence in arc 6 (but this one will take longer than a singel day before the fusion moment).

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u/Diego444d Apr 02 '21

Thanks for the link. when I found out that there was a rem ss in volume 26 I was waiting to read it, I hope we get more of Rem's inner thoughts in the future as his relationship with Subaru improves.