Locations

**Locations** are places that are visited or mentioned throughout the visual novel *Butterfly Soup* and *Butterfly Soup 2*.

## **Playground**

The playground is located in Oakland, California. It is a popular hangout of young Diya, Min-seo, Jun-seo, and Hayden.

* Top Level
* Slide Interior
* Bottom Level

## **Oakland Coliseum**

The ballpark is also located in Oakland, California, and is visited by young Diya, Min-seo, Jun-seo, and the twins' father.

* Seating View
* Wideview
* Seating Walkway
* Stairs Walkway

## **Diya's House**

Diya's house is where Diya and her parents live. It has at least two floors as seen from the exterior, as well as a garage. Akarsha frequents the house whenever she and Diya leave for school. There is a bush in the front yard that is home to the caterpillar.

* Exterior View
* Lawn View
* Diya's Laptop

## **High School**

The high school is where Diya, Akarsha, Min-seo, and Noelle get their secondary school education. It is heavily populated by nerds and is generally a higher standards school. The campus is somewhat large, and some of the various areas within it are the auditorium, the locker room, the entry courtyard, the school library, the students' bathrooms, the courtyard, the classrooms, the field, and the track. Notably, there is a family bathroom located in the auditorium. They have an unofficial baseball organization, the Baseball Club.

* Courtyard Exterior
* Courtyard Seating
* Courtyard Locker Interior
* Classrooms Exterior
* Classroom Interior
* Locker Room Exterior
* Locker Room Corridoor
* Locker Room Interior
* Auditorium

## **Happy Fish Swim School**

Noelle once threw up in a trashcan because she was so bad at swimming that she inhaled half a gallon of water.

## **Home Depot**

Diya especially enjoys the lights section because of the amount of lamps in one place. The designs are described to be cool and the aisle is really bright, making it feel like a special place in another world. The rest of the store is ordinary, though.

## **Ravine**

A ravine with green colored water surrounded on either side with trees atop a hill. There is a dark tunnel with a dog park on the other side.

## **Dog Park**

Min-seo takes Diya to the dog park. It contains enclosures for large dogs as well as smaller dogs. It’s very grassy and surrounded by trees, with a few paved pathways, one of which lays adjacent to the entrance of the dog park.

* Entrance Gate
* Interior; Small Dogs
* Interior; Large Dogs

## **Noelle's House**

Noelle's house is home to Noelle and her parents. There are at least two floors, of which are connected by a carpeted semi-spiral staircase. Noelle’s room is upstairs, and the living room is downstairs.

* Entryway
* Noelle's Bedroom

## **McDonald's**

Young Min-seo, Jun-seo, and Hayden visit a McDonald's for lunch. It’s a generic fast-food chain that offers a kids’ menu from which one can choose one option from a few categories (one such meal would be 6 piece Chicken McNuggets with milk, fries, and apple slices), along with either the girls’ toy or boys’ toy of the month, back when a gender bias was still prevalent.

* Counter
* Eating Area

## **Min-seo's House**

Min’s house is where Min-seo, Jun-seo, and their parents call home. The living room contains two adjacent grey couches with a cushion of the same color, an end table with a potted plant, and a painting, and beige curtains lit up by the sunlight coming from white window shutters. The floor is brown with streaks. There is a treadmill in the living room that Min used trying to impress Diya.

* Living Room
* Bedroom Mirror

## **Niles High School**

Jun-seo, Hayden, and the rest of the Killer Whales baseball team go to Niles High School. It is known as an average or somewhat less academically competitive high school.

## **School Library**

Noelle and Akarsha determinately visit the library trying to find Diya and Min-seo. The library chip that Noelle secretly sewed into Akarsha's backpack sets off the alarm. The library is also where Noelle and Min-seo meet before the trip to the buffet.

* Exterior
* Interior

## **Mall**

The mall houses Bombay Garden, a GameStop, and several other stores. A noticeable structure within the mall is a mall fountain.

* Mall Fountain

## **Bombay Garden**

The Bombay Garden is an Indian buffet restaurant located inside of the mall.

* Buffet Table
* Interior

## **Snowcastle**

Snowcastle is a boba place that also sells shaved ice. It is very close in proximity to the high school, so students make up the majority of its customers.

* Exterior
* Interior
* Shaved Ice

## Trivia

* Brianna wanted a scene set at Chinese school in the story but couldn’t figure out how to work it in.

1. ↑ https://brianna-lei.tumblr.com/post/165996723949/butterfly-soup-asks-batch-10