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## The Transit Enthusiast
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MochaSoCute took her name from Aoba Moca of *BanG Dream!*.
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Whichever Mocha you have in mind,
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MocaKawai took her name from Aoba Moca of *BanG Dream!*.
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Whichever Moca you have in mind,
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both are impossibly endearing,
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both a little scatterbrained — the kind of person you can't help but look at twice.
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As a transit enthusiast,
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Mocha played a wide range of simulation and management games,
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including Rail Route and Cities: Skylines.
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Moca played a wide range of simulation and management games,
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including *Rail Route* and *Cities: Skylines*.
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She would often stare at route maps, lost in thought, designing the perfect transit network for some imaginary city.
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She also played *Fall Guys* and *Among Us*.
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She was always warm and lively in the comment sections of her videos, sometimes sharing little tips and tricks with her friends there.
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Having lived in Sanya for most of her life, Mocha knew the city's public transit system inside and out.
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She filmed a great many transit-related videos, the majority of which were forward-view POVs of Sanya's bus routes.
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Having lived in Sanya for most of her life, Moca knew the city's public transit system inside and out.
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She filmed a great many transit-related videos, the majority of which were front-window POVs of Sanya's bus routes.
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For those who follow transit POVs, what matters most is not the footage itself, it is the mood.
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A different route, a different hour, a different state of mind, and the POV becomes something else entirely, something hard to put into words.
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Mocha understood this.
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Moca understood this.
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She gave each of her POV videos a carefully chosen title, passing on that sense of being *there* to her friends:
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> *“Express from the two major hubs straight to the westernmost tip of Sanya”*
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> “Express from the two major hubs straight to the westernmost tip of Sanya”
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> *“Drifting into nightfall in the hypnotic sway of a sightseeing route at China's southernmost point”*
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> “Drifting into nightfall in the hypnotic sway of a sightseeing route at China's southernmost point”
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> *“Racing uphill through a downpour”*
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> “Racing uphill through a downpour”
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> *“Chasing the sunset on the expressway!”*
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> “Chasing the sunset on the expressway!”
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In September 2022, confined at home during COVID-19 pandemic,
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Mocha created a schematic map of [Sanya's rapid transit network](https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv18624078).
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Nearly a year later, she [revisited and refined the map]((https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv2497345811)), adding several intercity routes to the original design.
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In September 2022, confined at home during the COVID-19 pandemic,
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Moca created a schematic map of [Sanya's rapid transit network](https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv18624078).
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Nearly a year later, she [revisited and refined the map](https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv2497345811), adding several intercity routes to the original design.
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Her love for transit was much like the titles she wrote.
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Every bit of it sincere, and quietly romantic.
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## Escape from the Island
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In the summer of 2023, Mocha's mental health deteriorated sharply for a number of reasons, and she began to overdose.
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In the summer of 2023, Moca's mental health deteriorated sharply for a number of reasons, and she began to overdose.
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The pressure of her final year of high school soon followed.
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At the end of August, a suicide attempt landed her in the ICU.
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She survived, but things did not truly get better.
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After being discharged, she lost her partner, lost her friends, and her physical condition worsened.
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Afterwards, Mocha took a leave of absence from school.
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She had few friends in Sanya, so she decided to travel to the Yangtze Delta — to wander through cities she had never been to before.
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Afterwards, Moca took a leave of absence from school.
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She had few friends in Sanya, so she decided to travel to the Yangtze River Delta — to wander through cities she had never been to before.
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The trip allowed her to meet friends she had only known online, and for a while, it eased some of her pain.
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> Tried savoury doufunao for the first time? Not really my thing. Long live sweet doufunao!
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> Tried savoury doufunao (tofu pudding) for the first time? Not really my thing. Long live sweet doufunao!
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> McDonald's! It's so much cheaper outside Sanya, I'm so jealous…
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The substance she had purchased during her travels ultimately took her life after she returned to Sanya.
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She did not make it through that autumn.
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*“It's so damp… or maybe that's just my tears…”*
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“It's so damp… or maybe that's just my tears…”
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Rain or shine, silence or rush hour... All of it was scenery that Mocha wanted to share with us.
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Rain or shine, silence or rush hour... All of it was scenery that Moca wanted to share with us.
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Every route she cared about, she recorded with care and posted for her fellow transit lovers to see.
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She always liked to sit at the very front of the bus, watching the road unfold through the wide windscreen ahead.
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