#SDR2 may be my least favorite but i do love chiaki and komaeda and hajime. i also love the plot twist and SDR2 had better trials than DR1

[protect-namine]

it's probably obvious but I should at least say it in my liveblogging tag that I am a V3 ending liker. or at least, of what I remember from the ending.

idk what the current popular opinion on it is now. I remember it was controversial when the game first came out. I didn't know how to feel about it at first when I played it a few years ago either, but V3 is my favorite installment of the franchise for many reasons, and one of them is the ending. despair timeline vs Team Danganronpa™ timeline to me is like. 1984 vs brave new world. and personally I really like brave new world as a dystopian book more. plus like... V3 isn't that far off from reality tbh. netflix greenlighting a squid game reality show, anyone?

I really thought I'd be a despair timeline truther forever too but the more time passes, the more I like V3's world more. not only for its own merits, but also. I was there when we only had the fan translated PSP game and we called them Super High School Level talents instead of Ultimates (I'm still fond of the SHSL titles). I knew the despair timeline world for a long time. so it's kinda amazing to me that V3 made me like its world more. I think it's precisely because V3 sits on the shoulders of the first two games that it works effectively. it's the kind of game that only works as a sequel because it does cheekily poke fun of its predecessors, and I like the poking that it does. I think it's a fun way to end a series.

also probably because I thought that DR3 anime sucked and was terrible and it kinda put me off the despair timeline tbh. like. I literally do not remember liking it that much. or at all.

I think the theming as well just resonates with me more? hope/despair and past/future are all very cool and neat, but I looove meta narratives. I love truth/lies and fiction/reality themings, I love postmodern stories like that. determining your truth, figuring out what actually matters to you, whether that thing that matters lies in fiction and lies or truth and reality, these are all important elements in driving hope. hope is a discipline, and you need a foundation for it to stand on. hope to me was never the first step to moving forward, at least I'm not that kind of person. it's very hard to have hope! and to keep it up for a long time! hope to me is the second step, right after you first determine your truth, your belief and worldview that you'll fall back on when times get rough. so V3's ending and themes resonate with me more in that way.

to me, V3 is still very danganronpa. yeah it breaks the premise of the series but it's still, at its core, very danganronpa. idk, I just really love V3 a lot.

[your-dr-imagines]

I feel like with this request, they got longer and longer as I kept writing. I really like this imagine, though! I think Fuyuhiko’s was my favorite to write!

~ Mod Hajime

SDR2 and (partially) DR3: Despair Arc Spoilers Below

SDR2 Boys with a Younger Sister!Reader

Hajime Hinata:

- Hajime is a fantastic older brother.

- He loves you with his entire heart. You’re the most important person to him.

- He trusts you, a lot. Not only does he tell you things he wouldn’t feel comfortable telling others, but he also trusts you in the decisions that you make.

- Of course, like any good older brother, he’s still protective of you. If you make a decision that he sees as iffy or perhaps not the best, he lets you know and tries to steer you in the right direction.

- Hajime is a great person to talk to. His level head helps you solve problems that you may have.

- If the problem is more emotion based and he can’t really find a good solution, he’ll sit you down with your favorite drink, junk food, and movie so that he can distract you.

- You do the same for him. He admits to you that he feels like he shouldn’t be at Hope’s Peak because your parents paid for him to be there. You have to remind him a lot that talent isn’t everything.

- He’s extremely supportive of you! If he sees that you’re getting into an activity, he’s making sure that you have everything you need. If he sees the inkling of you being an ultimate, he nurtures that talent, wanting to see you succeed.

- If not, he tells you about what Chiaki told him. You don’t have to be defined by a talent. That’s not how people work. He may have the opposite of that drilled into his brain, but he won’t let you be the same way.

- Hajime loves and cares for you. He never lets you forget that.

Nagito Komaeda:

- Nagito is a good brother, but he’s still difficult.

- You’ve been around his luck your entire life and yet, you seem to be unaffected by it, like there’s a magical bubble around you.

- You didn’t get along with him well for a period of time after your parents died. He had to act more like a father or a guardian for a few years and that put a rift in your relationship.

- Eventually, you realized he did his best and you became grateful for what he did for you.

- You quickly became practically deaf to his hope speeches. He didn’t seem to mind when you would put your headphones in.

- It was when he would become self-deprecating that you would yell at him and tell him he was the most important person to you.

- He returned the favor whenever you would compare yourself to the popular girls at school. You were perfect to him.

- You were able to roll with the effects of his luck, like when he was kidnapped but then returned home safely with a winning lottery ticket.

- It was hard to believe that his luck would pull through when he was diagnosed with lymphoma and frontotemporal dementia and only given a short time to live.

- Just when it seemed hope was lost, he recovered and won a certain lottery.

- When he was invited to Hope’s Peak, you were ecstatic! You almost slapped him when he told you he didn’t accept. With convincing from both you and the academy itself, he went.

- You were never prouder of him than when you watched him walk into the building.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu:

- Fuyuhiko is tough on you and it hurts your relationship. That much is clear.

- Being older than Natsumi and younger than Fuyuhiko is tough. You want to make sure you’re a good, strong example for your younger sister, but you’re also supposed to look up to Fuyuhiko and make him proud of you. He makes sure you remember that.

- But despite the fighting between you and the occasional real aggression when you train with each other, he really does care about you. He knows how difficult it is in your family.

- It’s dangerous, even when you’re just with your parents, so he does everything he does to keep you safe. He pushes you and sets his expectations high so that you improve as much as you can.

- When you finally realize just what he’s doing for you, you talk to him in private about it. When he admits to it, his usually brash and tough exterior melting as he expresses how worried he really is about you and Natsumi. Your relationship greatly improves after the confession and a tight hug.

- When you both have free time away from your family, people almost wouldn’t be able to tell that you have far from normal lives. You usually pull him off to watch a movie or you’ll pull Natsumi along as well and play some type of board game. Of course, the competition can become violent. That’s just in your nature.

- You’re extremely proud of Fuyuhiko, as well as Peko when they’re accepted into Hope’s Peak.

- You also have a life at the academy, whether it be with your older brother in the main course in the class below him or with your younger sister in the reserve course. You’re happy to be there no matter what.

- Your relationship with Fuyuhiko strengthens after Natsumi’s death. You don’t talk about it, but you would’ve killed Sato yourself if he hadn’t.

- Fuyuhiko loves you and is protective. Everything is for you.

Teruteru Hanamura:

- Teruteru, despite his inappropriate jokes, is a wonderful brother.

- His love for your mother is also there for you, there’s no doubt about that.

- While your siblings hadn’t always had the biggest interest in the family business, your love for him made you also have a love for cooking.

- He happily showed you everything that he had learned from your mother and what he had learned on his own. If you messed up, that was okay! You could fix it. If you did something right, he praised you, wanting to make sure you did well.

- You’re one of his biggest inspirations and motivators and he’s yours. While you push him to try new dishes and work forward even when something gets messed up, he’s there pushing you forward in whatever hobby you may pick up.

- He appreciates how you help him with caring for your mother. While your other siblings didn’t seem to want to bother making sure she was cared for, you were right there helping him in everything that he did.

- You’re the entire reason he didn’t feel too guilty about leaving for Hope’s Peak. When he knew that he would leave your mother in your hands, he was okay.

- If you join him at the academy, he’s still at ease, knowing that you’re always going to check in on her.

- He tried his best to keep his newfound raunchy personality on the lower end when he’s with you, but it doesn’t always work out.

- He loves you no matter what and he makes sure you know.

Gundham Tanaka:

- Gundham is a completely different person when he’s with you.

- His eccentric personality isn’t there, or not as large when you’re with other, whenever he’s with you.

- You’re the one that he trusts the most, even more so than the animals that he keeps around him. He claims it’s simply because you have been seen as worthy, but everyone knows that it’s because you’re his little sister.

- You easily go along with his personality, knowing the reason behind it. Parts of it, you understood. Hell, you picked up a few of his mannerisms. He appreciated that.

- You’ve always loved talking to him about your problems. That’s when you see him at his softest point. He’ll usually take you outside to talk so that animals will come over as well, helping to calm you.

- He’s not always the best at giving advice, but him listening to you is almost always enough for you.

- Gundham is very supportive of you. He sees it as him being supportive enough for two people, replacing that hole that your father had made. You appreciate it a lot.

- He likes to try and get you into his area of expertise. Oftentimes he’ll pull you along with him whenever he goes to a veterinary hospital to help them. He’s not disappointed if you don’t take to it but if you do he’s ecstatic!

- You’re very happy for him when he learns he’s been accepted into Hope’s Peak! You have to reassure him that you’ll be okay while he’s at the academy. You still have your mother and you’ll be old enough to move out in a few years, anyway.

- If you eventually find yourself scouted for Hope’s Peak, he’s very pleased. He won’t admit it, not even to you, but he was grateful you were at the school.

- If not, he keeps in constant contact, reporting to you everything happening.

- He loves you, even if he doesn’t always show it.

Ultimate Imposter:

- Your older sibling is as big of a mystery to you as they are to everyone else, but you love them all the same.

- You aren’t biologically related, but you may as well be. They came across you when you were younger and decided to bring you in, taking you along for a bumpy ride.

- You’re the only person they know that they willingly show their true self to. That only makes sense. They’ve been around you for a good portion of your life. You already know their true self.

- They’re thankful that you’re able to go along with whatever disguise they choose. At times they’re convinced that you might be the Ultimate Actress.

- They’re always easy for you to talk to, no matter what form they may take. Oftentimes, that’s easier. You get different advice and responses each time that you approach them. It gives you different perspectives on similar problems.

- Still, they may give you advice as theirself when the problem calls for an older sibling to properly help with the situation.

- They don’t get to see you as often as they would like to, in public at least. To avoid suspicion while under the guise of someone else, they typically have to avoid you so people don’t question their relationship with you. It doesn’t bother you, which they are thankful for, but it doesn’t keep them from feeling guilty. As your older sibling, they should be there for you at all times.

- You have to give them a bit of nudging to go to Hope’s Peak. They didn’t want to leave you on your own. It was a miracle they even had you. You convinced them that you would be just fine on your own. You had done it before.

- You happily waved them off as they left your latest home in the form of Byakuya Togami, the Ultimate Affluent Progeny.

- They’re rather grateful if you start attending Hope’s Peak. Though at that point, they’ve changed appearance to the Ultimate Animator, Ryota Mitarai, you still know that’s your sibling.

- You don’t interact often, but the love between you two is there no matter what.

[serahne]

ok how about sdr2?

Favorite Male Character

Hajime has been there for a while. Maybe Nagito will end up on top of the list eventually. For now, I just adore Hajime. I adore the way he changed and grown and became a person he could be proud of without needing someone else to set the rules.

The world would be a better place with more Hajime in it.

Favorite Female Character

Mikan, sweetheart. Again, I love broken people and Mikan is really good at making me wanting to take care of her. I just wish her so much happinness in her future. She has a past I wish I knew more about, but I feel like it doesn’t matter in the end, and she won’t let her past defines her, and good, my child, GOOD.

Least Favorite Character

Chiaki. Probably Teruteru ? Again, I’m just very uncomfortable with characters who are written as sexual predators. I honestly can’t do his FTE because he drugs Hajime and just… no.

Favorite Ship

I WONDER. Take a guess, anon.

Favorite Friendship

Is that… sad that I’m drawing a blank, here ? I’ll go with Hinata/Koizumi, more because of my headcanons than anything else, but my city, my rules.

Favorite Quote

( Souda ) : I’m never gonna give her up !

( Hinata, thinking ) : You may let her down, though.

Worst Character Death (if any)

Komaeda always gets me. It’s just… you know how the game is being a pain in the ass about someone dying, how everyone is crying for hours and repeating how amazing this person was ? None of that with Komaeda. Just cold, brutal death without a chance to say anything more. It just… shocks me, in a way.

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment

Tsumiki being a happy bean while playing video games is why I’m here for.

Saddest Moment

Everything about Komaeda, especially his last FTE. I swear to god, my kid, you better be happy in your next life.

Favorite Location

The beach ! I noticed that I really put it in a lot of my fanfictions, for reasons.