#I wrote this out of impulse

[aetherphobia]

Y'know what? I feel like throwing myself to the wolves today.

Hello Danganronpa fandom! I would like to hear unbiased opinions, please. Emphasis on unbiased.

In my opinion, V3 was honestly one of the weaker games of the franchise. And our resident asshole (/lighthearted) of the game, Kokichi, is believe it or not, not a perfectly written character.

Please do not come onto this post calling me a dumbass that is falling for "propaganda." I know his plan was to end the killing game the whole time. The problem is that he doesn't have a solid motive to do so. At least not one that is clear to the viewers. His plan may have been to checkmate the mastermind, but his plan seems to fall apart when you realize he has no proof Monokuma would end the killing game. He’s doing this massive elaborate plan, assuming Monokuma won’t just pick a random person to execute so the game can continue. Because fundamentally, this game is unfair. Kokichi assuming Monokuma would play fair makes his plan just seem redundant, as well put together as it may have been. A buddy of mine posted a similar opinion a couple days ago and got absolutely dogpiled because she wasn't absolutely praising the hydrologic press that he was crushed in (too soon? Nah it's been four years it's fine). In fact, one of the points made above was one I directly copy pasted got from her in specific and I took so that you as the readers could hear her without her getting all the notifications. will not be stating any names out of my respect and care for this friend. But for the love of god, don't dogpile anyone for their opinions.

The purpose of this post is to hear outsider, completely unbiased opinions about Kokichi as a character. So when replying to this post, take those biases and lock them away in a safe. You don't need to throw them away entirely, just put them away until you hit the post button. Info dump to me and clearly point out what exactly his motive was, based entirely on the context clues of the game. What are things that are clear as day? What can be read in between the lines? Why did he want to end the killing game? What was his motive? If you think you know the motive, explain to me what I apparently missed and when it happened. Provide me proof and screenshots. Just all around make it make sense without using profanity and calling me an imbecile for not understanding something that was not written in a way that was clear. I dont not want those kinds of responses, as they really do not help. And as lightheartedly as possible, calling me names in the replies over something like this really doesn't provide me with a reason to take your word for it.

And hey! If you agree with me, I would also genuinely love to hear your personal take on the whole thing and what you think could've been done better with his character. What are your ideas? What do you think would've been really cool and interesting if it had been implemented?

I do not condone the way a lot of you handled my friend's post. So please do not talk to me the same way. Please come in to this post with the assumption that I have already completed the game and I already know what happened.

I humbly await for your perspectives.

[fountainpenguin]

Shout out to the 'fic writers who go for realism vibes with the Hermitcraft Season 9 rebellion plot and do not change the name Soup Group to something "more serious"; I fall for the vibes and get sucker-punched EVERY TIME and can't stop laughing

[happi-tree]

⚔️👑 shield and scepter 👑⚔️

Howdy, y'all! So my wonderful mutual @raemeh did this really cool fanart of my royalty Swiftli au (the fic for which can be found here), and I had some little design ideas about them in my wips, so I thought I'd post the two of them here! Thank you so much to everyone who's enjoyed it <333

[sysig]

What is it that draws me to you (Patreon)

[saysflora]

rereading all my old fics to try and remember how I laid out dynamics is so weird tell me why the grammar in the earlier ones are ass and then I randomly wrote one in a completely different tense than literally every single other piece what was the reason

[chromotps]

…should I make shanks a little jealous of sabo’s reunion with Ace in this fic

[goingdownorup]

“I’m supposed to feel better.”

Etho looked at him with tired eyes, the moon high above the two of them as the sat on the very edge of skynet. It was stupid, anyone could come up and push them off, but Impulse was sitting on a few hours and Etho-

Well, Etho didn’t seem to care.

He never did, which was something Impulse…admired? About the other man. He had grudges, Impulse was sure of it, but it wasn’t something Etho seemed to let eat at him. He was more of a one and done kind of guy.

Impulse had let this grudge fester for three games.

“What do you mean by that?” Impulse looked up, watching the way Etho raised his eyebrow with what sounded like a bit of judgment. He ignored it, because that was kind of how Etho sounded and because Skizz and Tango were dead. They all were. Tango, Skizz, Cleo.

Bdubs.

“I should feel better that I killed him.”

Etho hummed, nodding a bit before leaning back on his elbows. Impulse didn’t feel the need to expound on who he was talking about, it wasn’t a secret that he was holding on to that rage he felt from 3rd life. “And you don’t?” He finally prodded after it was clear Impulse was getting lost in his head.

Somewhere in the background Impulse could hear Grian and Pearl whispering too, probably about their tentative alliance and how to get Scott and Martyn. This really wasn’t the time for Impulse to be up in his feelings like this. Still, he let out a sigh deeper then he meant it to be, something that soothed his bones and made his heart ache. “I don’t. I feel bad.” Impulse glanced out of the corner of his eye as Etho stared up at the stars. “I shouldn’t feel bad. It’s just the game after all, I can’t be faulted that he went out like that but-”

“You can feel bad.” Etho interrupted him, never taking his eyes off the pitch black sky above him. “I’m sure he would love that you felt bad about killing him if he was still around.”

Impulse snorted, something bitter crawling up his throat. Etho was mumbling something under his breath that he didn’t catch either, but Etho was talking to himself a lot recently. He thought he might have heard him say something along the lines of “well Cleo, next time you survive with me, you can pick the allies.” but he wasn’t so sure. Whatever Etho thought he was seeing wasn’t Impulse’s problem, though it was a bit disheartening to see his only alive ally slipping fast. “Do you regret it?”

That made Impulse pause.

Etho hadn’t taken his eyes off the stars, but his mouth was turned slightly down now and his hands were curled tight. Did Impulse regret taking the final shot on Bdubs? He felt terrible, that's for sure. Bdubs, for whatever reason, trusted him throughout this game even though Impulse showed him time and time again it was a bad idea. It wasn’t like Impulse was hiding behind a smoke screen like the first time. He had been very clear that he wasn’t teamed with him, that they weren’t allies, weren’t sharing a home and a bed. But as soon as Impulse pushed the minecart, it was like his gut went with it. When the death message popped up, Impulse almost felt like vomiting. It was sick, it was twisted and cruel to have him go out in such a way where there was no way that he could have fought back.

But did he regret it?

“I…” Impulse finally looked up to where Etho was looking, the stars and the vast galaxy blinking back at him as he felt his hour turn over. “It wouldn’t be fair, if I regretted it now.” He finally settled on. Etho’s shoulders visibly relaxed at the comment. He didn’t say anything, but Impulse knew he was probably agreeing with him.

Bdubs was dead at Impulse’s hand for once in his life, and it would be a shame if he wasted what he earned because of it.

[silverselfshippingchaos]

sometimes all you need in life is to imagine slow makeout sessions with your strong paladin girlfriend after a long day of fighting and adventuring... (swoons)

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

Iori Kagerou Daze cover when

[severin-photocopy]

anyway nothing can beat the french wikipedia on Sacher-Masoch. It's so fucking complete, filled with information and very well researched

[abyssalpriest]

thinking about this art of Ahi again.

[set-wingedwarrior]

Just saw a bunch of comments from a rwby critic about how Blake should have spoke out more about racism in atlas (and Weiss too considering how she grew).

Aside from the fact that Weiss throwing racist in a trashcan is defenitely a statement (lol), and that I don't necessarily disagree because it could have been cool to see other more explicit scenes with Blake, using these wishes as objective critics misses a couple of points.

First, as usual we got the limited runtime to consider. When writing episodes you gotta balance serious and fun moments, all while making sure that the main plot stuff gets all the exposure it needs to tell its story properly and without missing pieces.

Second, even if there was time for that, do you really think that every time a victim of something gets in a situation somewhat connected to their past experiences, they just start monologuing about it? How realistic do you think it is?

It depends on the situation. When Blake and co get in the mines they are on the job looking for grimm, do you think this would have been the best moment for a racism speech? Would YOU do that? It's just very unnatural. But we still get her behavior and body language. She doesn't talk about it but she thinks about it, as she should. And it's very clear, so I really don't get when people say she just ignored it.

Blake isn't constantly worried about it sure, but again not even the busiest activist spends 100% of their time about their cause.

Besides, friendly reminder that the show isn't about the faunus racism. It is part of it and the world, but the main story isn't that, so a constant focus on it just doesn't make sense (now, if it was a show ABOUT racism, that would have been different).

I understand some points because, yes, we all know that the whole white fang subplot could have been better (even if I am personally okay enough with it) and yes, Atlas had potential to bring out a few more comments about it and it would have been cool to see Blake talk about it more.

But it's not the fatal flaw critics make it to be, nor it's completely unmentioned as they like to say (Marrow referencing it? Blake's behavior at the mines? People's comments both before and during the evacuation? The "no faunus" sign in Cinder's flashback?). They just aren't paying attention.

[halonicheart]

𝓜𝓪𝔂𝓫𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓹 𝓻𝓸𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝓭𝓮 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓬𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓪 𝓲𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓫𝓮 ‘𝓱𝓲𝓶’… 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼, 𝓲𝓽 𝓭𝓲𝓭𝓷’𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻. 𝓘𝓽 𝓯𝓮𝓵𝓽 𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽.

“He’s here! He has to be!”

The chase led all the way to the Crystal Tower. The streets thankfully barren. “Please Mosha! Listen to me!” By the time Lovette catches up, they are already in the ocular. She grabs Mosha from behind and apologizes, all the while trying to calm her down.

The Exarch is there, stunned by the sudden intrusion. Mosha stills at the sight of him. Lovette mistakes it for her being calm and lets go with another apology on her lips. But the apology quickly turns into a gasp when she sees Mosha throw herself at the Exarch, arms wrapped tightly around him.

She is whispering to him. Lovette can only watch as her dear friend has her heart shattered.

‘You’re him aren’t you? It’s you G’raha isn’t it?’

The Exarch is silent for too long. ‘I am sorry. I am not’

[emmaspolaroid]

if i show up like “hey ya’ll i got married over the weekend 🥰” don’t be surprised lol

[dadbots]

August… time to get spooky.

[coffee-scrub]

Oh yeah I was planning to post this lil thing earlier but then forgot lol

anyways heres the first few bullets I made for the story

most of it is stuff that I added in the first chapter bc I never rlly made a long time plan/goal for the fic, so no spoilers :) but still fun to look at again