#Kage saihara

[pey-up]

"The pregames are the opposite of their ingames" hc is very good, but im very annoyed with how people carry it out! Do more than just making kokichi a soft crybaby, shuichi a yandere, and kaede a jerk!

Kokichi is guarded, calculated, and a (loveable sometimes, but still) asshole. So his reverse would not be an uwu soft boy, he'd probably lean more toward being kind though. Wouldnt it make more sense for this version to wear his heart on his sleeve? Not that he'd never ever lie, but he's definitely unfiltered, and couldnt plan or scheme to save his life. He's not flamboyant or loud, although maybe the reason he joins danganronpa is he *wants* to be, but instead the thing in game kokichi hates most. *Boring*. Predictable.

Shuichi being yandere makes me soooo mad. I hate it. BUT I do love him being a super fan of the games, and idolizing Kyoko. I dont think he'd be a junko fanboy, but like most fans of the game, agree that shes fun and iconic. My favorite hc I've given pregame Shuichi (or Kage i guess since thats the name people gave him for some reason?) Is that he is INSANELY confident. Did you see him in that tape!? He was so confident he was going to be a killer (but he also planned his own execution, so he knows that danganronpa would never let a killer go because that's not the point of the games, so hes got enough sense to realize that). If you havent noticed already, i reallyy like contrast and parallels, and pregame saihara being confident that he's the worlds best detective and most clever contestant is just amusing to me. I like this one a lot...<3 why does he have the hat in pregame? Uhhh idk, either he thinks it looks cool and mysterious (very likely), or he's just bad at eye contact (autism)

Kaede being Jecka from class of 09 coded is kinda funny to me tbh, but the whole "i have no faith in humanity!" line strikes me as she totally has a pinterest board of dark emo quotes and unironically believes them. You just know she tells people she has a dark and twisted sense of humor, and she loves danganronpa because shes soooo messed up. In game kaede is sweet, hopeful, and a leader, so this one is mean, doesnt believe in others, and girlfailure. I kinda love the all the same though, even if she couldnt inspire a plant to photosynthesize</3

"Wait wheres kaito" IDK WHAT TO SAY FOR KAITO. HES LIKE KAEDE BUT JOCK. IM DOING MAKI INSTEAD BECAUSE YOU LOT DID HER DIRTY.

Im so mad at peoples pregame maki. Why doesnt she get the swap treatment too, huh?! She deserves it! Maki is cold, calculated, strong, etc. So this ones my favorite. Shes a dork, she's still strong but very silly. She has a super loud laugh that she tries to cover, and i love her so so much. She definitely made her assassinsona though and showed it to tsmugi like shuichi did with his own detectivesona. Not because shes a dangan superfan! But because shes played assasins creed 5 times and can tell you how historically accurate it is with alarming detail. Shes clumsy and dorky but she is NOT weak or stupid, shes still like slightly intimidating just by sitting there (as is oma) but she wouldnt ever do anything! Shes just a lil gal!!<3 a little gal who has every historically significant posion memorized, but nevertheless!

(she listens to murder mystery podcasts with shuichi and she and kokichi are friends dont @ me.)

Ok ok, thats the end of my rant, i also kinda want to write a oneshot about shuichi and kokichis relationship because i have a super cool concept in my head. But we will see..

[saiainopresai-v3]

some rough pg saimatsu from last fall!! a guilty pleasure of mine bc of how absolutely terrible i think they'd be as a couple tbh. actually i think any pairing with kage is terrib-

[akechiguro]

the dr detectives are so so cool i love doodling them and i am very normal about them

[expys]

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

Why is PreGame Shuichi always seen as a yanderé when he's just an antisocial DanganRonpa fan?

Excellent question!

This has roots back into the japanese fandom so its hard to fully research actually, however we know kagehara comes from the japanese fandom through a compound kage, and hara, aka shadow saihara, kagehara 影原. This is likely chosen due to persona's use of shadow selves if i had to take a guess, which might also be why kagehara tends to have a much harsher yellow eye color like the one seen below on Shadow Yosuke, before this became so main stream there was also inchara 陰キャ原 for in character + saihara but this has never seen any popularity in the english fandom to my knowledge. There's also these names for the rest of the characters but only bonkichi really saw any traction in the english fandom

So now they we know the basis of the name, where does the yandere come in?

The first fanfiction i can find on ao3 that seems to lean into this view of pregame Shuichi of him being a dangerous creepy guy is This Must Be What Fun Is from 2017, while it lacks some of the more common later tropes and even has shuichi marked as aromantic, the obsessive and bloody traits commonly associated with it is definitely all there.

The first fic in the tag "pregame-shuichi" is audition from february 2017, however they used the tag ORIGINAL saihara which got tag wrangled in, and the first REAL use of the tag is from Can't Help Falling from December 2017

After that the first use of Kagehara in a fanfic description is At Least It's Something from July 2018 which is a selfcest fic with some WILD plot points actually i might need to look at that one later just out of morbid curiosity

From this, we can know the trope has its roots from the very start of the games release. Where the character of pregame shuichi in the audition tapes easily slid into an otaku characterization due to his obsession with danganronpa.

Thus, its easy to see where his creepy pervert personality come from, otaku stereotypes. You'll see this stigma in a lot of anime where characters try to hide being an otaku and such. This is why Kagehara often is soon as very reclusive, spending all his time and money on one thing, danganronpa, and not caring for anything outside this thing. To the point of antisocial behavior or becoming a threat to others. Immature, obsessive, and sexual deviancy. Classic stereotypical otaku characterization.

One of the stereotypes is usually being a creep towards an object of affection, and thus as the most popular ship, kokichi easily slotted into that stereotypical role of the object of affection. He's small, easily made a bit more feminized, and thus able to be the soft kawaii to be harassed.

Which as this becomes popular, likely for the same reasons any "zomg the main character is EVIIIIL actually" kinda thing gets popular, led to more people playing in the space and pushing it further and further until we get to where we are today!

Though, just between you and me, i have my own personal theory. I can't back it up with anything but it makes sense to me.

The audience comments in v3 are unhinged at times, with comments like "I wanna see the color of Shuichi’s blood" and "I want to break Shuichi’s fingers <3" the audience although only here for a short time has a very strong characterization and interesting dialogue. However, how do you portray this in a story? You really can't without someone to act as the proxy.

With the most fanboyish audition video, and the popularity to back it up, Shuichi ended up being this proxy. Kagehara isn't actually a reflection or evil version of shuichi or anything, it's the proxy to hold the audience in a way thats easy to write, and without the risks of say, writing an oc.

All of the fucked up things we hear about the audience and outside world, all the bad things, the talk of how boring everything but danganronpa is, these elements need a surrogate to embody it or else it can be hard to write with them. That's what kagehara is, the audience and what tsumugi tells about the outside word in a convenient familiar character shaped proxy Kokichi just got nabbed along for the ride as the most popular ship

[ao3feed-danganronpa]

Leave Me Breathless..

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Jr0AsFb

by Kokicni (Cevtoons)

Drabble? Sort of? Old vent, so TW.

Ouma wants Kagehara to finish the job.

Words: 599, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: DRV3, Danganronpa, New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Other

Characters: kagehara - Character, Pre-Game Shuichi Saihara - Character, Shuichi Saihara, Saihara Shuichi, Kokichi Ouma, Kokichi Oma, Ouma Kokichi, Oma Kokichi

Relationships: Kagehara/Ouma Kokichi, Kagehara/Kokichi Ouma, Oma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi, Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi, Kokichi Ouma/Shuichi Saihara

Additional Tags: Choking, Not in a kinky way, But it's written to sound like it had sexual intent, It's not sexual at all though, Desperation, Attempted Murder, Assisted Suicide, Murder-Suicide, It's playing off the desperation for/during sex, but it's actually about, Desperation for Death, Yearning to die, This isn't romantic either, And it's not even ambiguous it's just not romance at all, No Romance, No Sex, Suicide Attempt, There's nothing healthy about Kage/Ouma's relationship, Kage is eager to please, He craves approval, Pre-Game Personalities (New Dangan Ronpa V3), Pre-Game Saihara Shuichi, Pre-Game Oma Kokichi, Pre-Game Ouma Kokichi - Freeform, Pre-Game Kokichi Ouma, Ouma's perspective, POV First Person, Ouma doesn't like Kage at all lol, it's not mutual, Unrequited, Unrequited Hate, Ouma's very angry and bitter

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Jr0AsFb

[alazyparallelworld]

ooh yes this is sort of mumblings, but, mm... when i exercise, i tend to frequent in 2 different 'fantasies' - saiouma, and, uh. my GF and i lol. yesterday i focused on us, and i thought, 'i should expand our playlist,' something i tend to do eventually.

's how the mind cycles. today, it was - envisioning one-sided kage/bon to "rapture rapes the muses," then postgame saihara to "set fire to the third bar," and ingame trial 4-5 ouma to "set fire to the rain"...

oh, yes, yesterday, and i rb'd it - was INTENSELY "tear you apart" ingame ou/sai (huge imagery of him clasping his mouth and his... You know... outside the dormitories, at the lines of "obsess about it, heavy for the next two days. it's only just a crush, it'll go away. it's just like all the others, it'll go away")

this morning, i think, the songs were. "obsessed with you" and "me and mr. wolf" centered around girlfriend and i. his mind as of late. has been centered on yandere tendencies, lol. kinda cringey to admit. and these songs are soooo blasé. painful

me, after exercising: wow "set fire to the rain" is so ingame ouma to saihara 4+5 and "set fire to the third bar" is so postgame saihara to ouma

[heibon-hiroo]

Remember those doodles I shared weeks ago? Well, I finished them.

[onebizarrekai]

hi. I bet you're wondering how I got into this situation

[saiainopresai-v3]

im with saihara on this one (which one? take your best guess before checking tags!)

[breezere]

i will run this joke into the ground

[akechiguro]

sorry for inactivity i’ve been inactive irl and horribly obsessed with saw and other stuff 🫡 here’s kagebon doodles to make up for it

[twisted-lies]

@pgshuichi asked: May I Please Request 600x1280 BunnyCore PreGame! SaiMota WallPapers?

Oh! And if it's Okay, Please don't Tag as Kin?

Hey hey Kage! Here's your pregame Saimota bunnycore wallpapers you requested! Just let me know if you need me to change anything

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

actually, where did the kagehara come from for pregame shuichi? also whats pg ouma's name again

Kage means 'shadow', so kagehara means shadow hara, or in other words, shadow saihara, this is as kagehara is often a dark mirror to shuichi, the shadow self, something something persona 4

Bon means like 'normal' or 'average' I think, so bonkichi means normal kichi, or in other words, normal kokichi, a kokichi stripped of all his abnormality and strangeness and now just, a normal dude, kokichi but hes just some guy

[pathetically-inexcusable]

There was a small beeping noise that came from your side of the camera. Beep! Beep! Beep! Then.. silence. There was a small click to be heard as the monitor’s display flickered to life.

A boy with a dorky looking hat and navy blue hair appeared in screen. He looked to be.. maybe a high schooler? Maybe, older.. who knows! He looked at the screen, waving. He twirled his thumbs a bit before he finally decided to introduce himself.

“Uhm… hello, my name is Saihara Shuichi. I also tend to go by Kagehara, it’s just a name my… friends call me, so I guess.. just call me Kage?”

His eyes brows furrowed for a moment. “I guess.. it would be nice to maybe chat with a few people while I’m here..” He managed a small smile for you.

(( Hey hey! Mod Elliot here! Feel free to respond to Kage’s promo if you would like. He’s not very talkative so uhm—yeah. Or you can just simply reblog this promo to get it more publicity! Anything would be appreciated on my part. <3 ))

[alazyparallelworld]

otp sketches over the past month. in varying quality lol