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Sobriety crew gets no mercy from drunk shenanigans

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Makoto: Wow, rich people don't have any fun, do they? Byakuya: No, fun is free, but we can afford nice things.

Source: Helluva Boss ("Sinsmas")

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It's not often that Makoto calls in sick...

When he does, Kyoko spoils him silly

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How is it I've just realised that you're probably the only one posting in the kamuegi tag and for that, I have incredible respect for you because I love your writing(hence why I keep going back to that tag)

Anyways, I wanted to ask: what do you feel about Naemondo? I've seen a good amount of Naeishi here, but I don't think I've ever seen Naemondo talked about here and I wanted to hear your thoughts on it!

Thanks so much, lol.

Mondo and Makoto are very cute together. I always have the temptation to make that ship polyamorous, since it's so easy to throw Taka and Chihiro into the mix, but focusing on specifically Makoto and Mondo:

I'm torn between the inherent cuteness of having Mondo be super protective of Makoto, and the arguably-closer-to-canon inherent hilarity of having Mondo interpret Makoto as someone who can keep up with him as far as roguish ferocity is concerned. Like, we have the option of Protective Mondo or Mondo who thinks Makoto can drive a motorcycle and watch his back in a knife fight.

(Honestly, pulling Taka into it a little, I kind of love the idea of Mondo completely misreading both Taka and Makoto, where he thinks Taka needs to be protected and Makoto can scrap anywhere anytime, whereas in actuality Taka is the one who can actually take and/or land a hit and Makoto is the one who will pass out and also somehow have a broken arm after one punch. Could be cute. Could be some fun "I didn't know you had it in you," in Taka's direction, and some fun "I'm sorry I dragged you into this," in Makoto's direction.)

I've already invoked this trope for Mukuro, but I'm doing it again: Imagine Mondo showing up on Makoto's doorstep injured late at night and Makoto has to patch him up and hide him from cops or other gangsters or whatever else.

Mondo meeting Komaru. Maybe teaching her to drive a motorcycle.

Just generally, Mondo being great with Makoto's family and Makoto being great with Mondo's gang friends.

I think Naemondo just needs an AU to thrive in. Naeishi gets to thrive in the Kamukura Wrangler AU; Komaegi gets the Undead AU and Mini Classmates AUs; Naeouma gets the Makoto in V3 AU; Naemondo just needs a home.

Ya know, Mondo likes dogs...The werewolf AU might be calling...

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Saw a twitter post about Makoto wearing his glasses and it made me smile

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Time for my yearly Danganronpa re-play— if you followed me years ago for Danganronpa and STAYED youre a real one bc my art was AWFUL

Sidenote I love Kyoko and I love Naegiri and I think people reducing her to “girlboss” is such a disservice to her

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So I was looking at the thh characters and noticed that Leon and makoto actually have something in common in the character design.

That being the print on Leon's shirt and makotos hoodies hood.

Leons is a scull made with with blood splatter.

Makotos is a gasmask also done in red.

However the interesting thing about this is that the places where the prints are is where the main blow of their executions was landed aswell as being a nood to who will eventually live and die.

Leons first blow was on his stomach where the print once was.

Makotos execution caused him to get turned upside down witch would likely make him land on his head.

Lets not talk about how crazy it is to have a scull being smashed in for a baseball player and a gasmask for the lucky student.

Don't mind the messy redraw I tried.

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I think it's genuinely heartbreaking we never got a canon Makoto and Monaca interaction.

Character analysis and general yap session ahead.

Makoto Naegi grieves Junko. He blames himself for her death. He TRIED to save her. Deep down Makoto thought Junko could be good but ultimately knew he could not change or fix her. And he regrets that. That's why he had fought SO hard for the remnants.

Monaca is Junko's successor. She looked up to her. Junko was the only person in her entire life to treat her like a human being, like they loved and cared about her. She knew that she was using her. Monaca did not care. In her own words she did what she had to do to survive.

I think it's a damn shame we never saw them interact because GOD could you imagine? Makoto, fresh out of the killing game looking this little girl who acts so similarly to the one person he failed to save? And Monaca looking up at this man who embodied everything her family was not? Makoto did everything he possibly could to save the remnants of despair, no way he wouldn't have done the same for Monaca.

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Daily Danganronpa Fun Fact #354

In English, Hifumi tells Makoto that he has a face that could get him a “magical girl harem”. In Japanese, Hifumi says Makoto’s face could “bring in all the fujoshi”.

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Speaking of underrated Yandere characters... what about Makoto? What would he be like as a Yandere? Can we even yan-ify the lad? I imagine the amount of power he has as Ultimate Hope (if this is post-everything) could be wielded in a real scary fashion... but at the same time, Makoto has so little malice in his body I'm really struggling to think of actual harmful yan-yan activities he could do that wouldn't just make me want to pinch his cheeks and go, "You're adorable!" ....Maybe that's a skill issue on my side, though. Since I find everything Makoto does to be babygirl

OKAY, let's do this. 🤩

As you've kind of observed, this needs to be divided into Pre-Tragedy Yandere Makoto vs. Post-THH Yandere Makoto. (There's a gap in there, between the Tragedy and the end of THH, because anything he does as a yandere while locked in Hope's Peak would be less interesting and so I'm ignoring that time period.)

I'm trying to keep this as in-character as possible, so I should say, before I begin, that it's also possible to go a "Makoto's canon personality is a front to cover his creepy yandere side" route, instead. That just wasn't my choice for this post. There are a lot of ways to go with this, and I'm kind of zeroing in on one interpretation.

(You can read this as x Reader; the best canon character to use as the darling for this is probably Hajime or some other non-Ultimate character.)

Pre-Tragedy Yandere Makoto: The yandere side doesn't kick in until they're in an established relationship. Makoto is pretty great at pining and having unrequited feelings for people; pre-Tragedy, I'm willing to say there's a generous off-ramp where the person doesn't return Makoto's feelings and nothing comes of it.

Pre-Tragedy Yandere Makoto, the trap only closes if he starts to date the person or get close to them in a way that is understood to be romantic, at which point his behavior is...extremely considerate. Or I should say, extremely thoughtful; considerate implies there are robust boundaries.

It's like, he's constantly giving his darling things they'll like, or things that remind him of them.

He of course doesn't announce to his classmates that he's dating someone; they notice the change in indirect ways (since he still doesn't talk about himself or his life that much). They notice he's often in a noticeably good mood, and he's often going above and beyond to accommodate his darling's needs. (The more true this is, the worse it'll be later.)

If his darling likes a certain musician, he's finding a way to get them sold-out concert tickets. (Maybe it's Ibuki's old group, and he has to do her homework for a week to get her to call them to get him tickets.) If his darling is home sick from school, he's making sure he has their notes for the day and doing favors for Teruteru to get them some soup and just generally, the vibe is, "Wow, Makoto really likes this person; he's going all out. They're so lucky. He's so great."

So, if the person ever tries to break up, some of Makoto's less scrupulous friends are going to be a serious obstacle.

Something like, Byakuya ordering them to take Makoto back, like, "His birthday is coming up, I didn't know what to get him, so I bought the bank that owns your house. Take him back, or I'll evict you."

Kyoko doesn't blackmail them, but she does some standard detective-ish stalking, enough to be like (if it's Hajime), "I wondered why you would break up with him, but then I found this [Kamukura Project signup sheet]. Needless to say, I think he'd like to know that the reason wasn't anything to do with him. I'll be taking this with me."

Mondo not explicitly threatening them but cornering them and asking a bunch of questions. "So, what gives? There's no way he fvckin' cheated; he was practically doodling your name in hearts 'n sh!t. So what's the problem?" (And Fuyuhiko might pull a similar thing. Makoto makes a lot of friends.)

If his darling tells him what his friends are doing on his behalf, he'll just smile sheepishly like, "Oh, sorry about that," and do nothing to stop them. He didn't tell them to do any of it, because he doesn't have to, and he kind of knows that and lowkey uses it.

Post-THH Yandere Makoto: Post-THH, the opt-out isn't there; if he's spending enough time with someone to develop feelings for them, his friends notice the change in his mood and that's pretty much a wrap, whether they start dating or not. "You can't leave. I haven't seen him this happy since before the killing game." "With everything the world is taking from him, he deserves one thing."

In either case, he's a very persuasive yandere. It's easy to explain away any clinginess or off behavior he shows. Anything he does personally (as in, not via being-sad-around-his-friends), he does for a reason. His yandere self is a weird parody of normalcy, where keeping tabs on the person he loves makes sense for a lot of reasons that seem obvious when he says them in that simple, innocent way, but he'll look away shyly if the person he loves were to take their shirt off.

Anything he can't explain away, he'll just apologize for. He's a really easy person to get along with. He adapts to people very well, and he has molded himself around his darling.

He catches them in a lie– even just a normal lie, like exaggerating what time they got back to their room after school, work, or whatever else –and gladly accepts any reasoning for it, and it always seems like he's the one being taken advantage of, because he's always so eager to accept his darling's excuses, but hey, why were you able to point out the lies in the first place, Makoto? And why did you?

Example:

"Yeah, sorry I didn't answer your text. I didn't get out of my study group until, like, 9pm, and by that point I was just too exhausted to check my phone."

"Really? That's weird. Chihiro told me you got out at about 5:45. And I heard that you were scrolling Instagram on your way to your room."

"...Yeah...Well I just...I accidentally checked my texts during study group, so by the time I got out, everything was marked as read and I forgot to text back."

"I figured it was something like that. No hard feelings! It's not like it was an emergency or anything. Hey, I got you something from the school store...!"

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Hey there. Here I'm again with content Makoto in V3!AU. I wanted to make his report card in V3 style. Hope you like it. Have a nice day! :)

I love it! He looks great in the lineup. 😁

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Makoto if he don't give a shit anymore

The reference

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Makoto: You'd think the "Ultimate Despair" would be too busy for mischief making.

Junko: Oh, no. Mischief making is one of my principal responsibilities!

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you ever think about how makoto naegi can understand anyone but no one understands makoto naegi. and that this is the one fundamental thing he shares with junko enoshima.

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Just imagine in true pacifist playthrough asriel is all like talking about nagito and how he wasn't that good (I don't remember exactly what asriel said so correct me if am wrong)

And makoto is just sweating bullets because nagito is right beside him hearing all of this and makoto doesn't want to agree but he also can't disagree because nagito's beliefs certainly isn't something he would have accepted had they met under better circumstances

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"I know why Nagito climbed the mountain," Asriel said. He was staring at the spread of flowers almost wistfully. The light from above turned the ends of his white fur almost yellow. "It wasn't for a very happy reason."

"I didn't tell him that," Nagito said quietly. Where usually he hovered behind Makoto, whispering over his shoulder, he had gravitated close to Asriel as he had to no one else. The sunlight warped his image in a way that made it hard not to look. "I didn't...mean to tell him that."

"Makoto, I'll be honest with you...I think Nagito kind of hated humanity. He would say he didn't, but...His beliefs and his feelings were different sometimes, and I think he felt very strongly about that."

"He..." Makoto paused. Were it not for Nagito's earlier request that he not tell, he would have, in that moment. "Humans can get kind of complicated about a lot of things, just like monsters. I mean, monsters can love their homes and feel trapped in the Underground at the same time. It's kind of like that for humans. A lot of humans feel...trapped, in different ways. I think that, whatever Nagito went through on the surface, he probably felt like there was no way out of the bad feelings he had, and because of that, even when he loved or cared about someone, there was still that trapped feeling. And he didn't know how to make it better. I think that what he felt for humanity probably did feel like hate for a while, because...well, humanity didn't help him the way you guys did. And I think he would be really happy with what you did today. Freeing everybody. I think, wherever he is, he's happy. And maybe he wishes he could tell you that."

He couldn't say more without letting on that he knew Nagito personally, but hopefully he'd given Asriel some kind of...comfort? In all of that...

Asriel's face turned towards him, his eyes glittering. "You really are different from him. You have similar voices and wear a lot of the same colors, but...I don't know why I ever acted like you were the same person." His gaze dropped back to the flowers. "Honestly, Nagito...wasn't really the greatest person."

A quiet sigh from Nagito. An airy laugh of, "Yeah."

Makoto felt an ache in his chest. Compassion and understanding sat heavy in the air. He knew that something important was happening for Asriel and for Nagito, but he also couldn't image how he would feel if he heard Komaru say something like that about him after he died.

"You're the type of friend I wish I always had," Asriel continued. "So maybe I was kind of projecting a little bit. Let's be honest, I did some weird stuff as a flower."

All three of them laughed sadly, at that.

"I'm glad you're my friend, too," Makoto said sincerely. "Obviously, I'm glad you're not a flower anymore, but...I also really liked spending time with you then, too."

"I tried to kill you a lot."

"Yeah, but you were bad at it."

"Maybe you were just bad at getting killed."

"Definitely not."

"Just ask Undyne," Nagito teased.

Out of a brief silence, Asriel said, "Thank you for the flower pot. I know I told you I didn't need it, but...the fertilizer actually felt really good."

"I knew it!"

"Do you have any more of those spider macarons you made with Muffet?"

Makoto took out a bag of spider macarons in various colors. He sat down in the flowers, and Asriel sat down, and Nagito sat down.

"I wish I could eat," Nagito sighed, leaning against Makoto's side with his head on his shoulder.

I wish you could, too, Makoto thought.

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wait did i tell you guys that i had a dream about the itsy bitsy au where everyone found out that tim has a tattoo because peter caught him before he could cover it up and begged to color it in. and like because tim just couldn't say no, damian walked in and saw it