#Sdr2

[senku-is-asexual]

sorry OP I’m handing this one to the danganronpa fandom

just something sexy about a man in total despair

[nottheartblogbuttheotherone]

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[foryoupeko]

[SDR2 Post-Canon AU]

I lost the original meme format, but you can pry "Everyone wants Fuyuhiko and Peko to join them" from my dead hands

[unifycurlyfry]

a late night sexuality talk with ibuki and kazuichi

i think there’s something really wholesome and intimate about having a discussion about your sexuality and/or identity with your partner <3

bonus:

[catboymoments]

I heart putting characters from one thing I like into another thing I like…. In my eyes I feel like the ronpa talents can translate really easily into the world of TOH so thinking about this au is really fun HEEHEE

also komahina is kind of raeda coded if you think about it

[1loer]

becoming a real komahina artist by drawing them cuddling in bed together.

[dontbullysora-blog]

I read Warm steel and cold hands recently!! Loved this fanfic with my whole heart!!! 🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧 so heres silly komahina

[nnykoi]

'My body's on the line now' 🧪💉

( This is some very late birthday art :D )

[pineappleciders]

[plum-pudding-everywhere]

[noxiatoxia]

Mikan wants to be "forgiven"...but what does that really mean?

Hello. This is something that has been quietly on my mind for a while.

It's something shown in the game in chapter 3. Mikan really focuses in on "being forgiven".

And while not a mistranslation per se, I think it's inaccurate to what is happening in the game.

I've talked about this extensively - the fact ENG DR team has a very bad habit of translating things literally or very directly. This leads to either clunky dialogue, missed nuances, or just incorrect interpretations sometimes.

I think this in particular falls somewhere between 2 and 3. I'll explain why.

If translated literally, the English text works just fine, but as with a lot of literal translation, it misses the "feeling" of what was trying to be conveyed. If you want my translation...

Mikan: Won't someone just tell me what I did wrong!? Why won't anyone just let it be already!?

While Mikan doesn't say "What did I do wrong", there is a subtle emphasis on her talking about herself...I feel like it's a more natural way to word what is essentially "What is it that I did differently [to warrant this]?"

Anyways, to the main point...I hope you can kind of see what I'm getting at.

"Forgive" feels like...Mikan is seeking people to "pardon" her for perceived wrong-doings. And while not untrue I would say, the way Mikan specifically uses the word and the context it is in, to me, feels much more like she is using it like "allow" or "excuse".

Let me use another example to better explain myself.

The last line to me reads like Mikan needed this person to pardon her for being born; for existing. That her existence in and of itself was a mistake or wrong-doing that needed to be forgiven.

I think that's missing the point, though.

Mikan: They allowed me to exist.

See, the point is...Mikan is a very troubled person. She admits as much in the freetime events that wherever she goes, she is horribly bullied just for existing. That she hated being bullied, but even more she hates being forgotten.

She emphasizes her beloved (Junko) did not hate her, and in fact allowed her presence...

This line was heavily misread, I think. 許して受け入れて was read as two verbs in one sentence (which it is) but as "forgive and accept" which is incorrect to what it means. It's closer to "they tolerated me" (like, accepting and moving on). Which comes to how I would translate it, and my final point:

Mikan: They accepted me for who I am.

This is why I think the "forgive" thing is not only incorrect, but actually opposite of what this scene was going for. Junko did not "forgive" Mikan for the sin of existing. Rather, she was the only person who seemed to not mind that she existed, that didn't bully or ignore her.

She didn't "forgive" Mikan, she allowed her to be herself.

Another reason DR3 totally missed the mark, but I digress...

I guess while I'm on the topic, we all know that scene where Mikan has a little back-and-forth with Nagito...that, too, was misrepresented somewhat.

Putting the English here just for comparison sake. And while not the worst translation in the world, it certainly isn't how I would go about it.

Nagito: I don't...really get what you're trying to say... Mikan: Oh, you don't? (lit: you don't understand?) Mikan: Is that because you don't have any loved ones in your life? Mikan: Is it because there's no one who will love you?* Mikan: Oh, you poor thing...I feel very sorry for you.

*Literally speaking, she says "Is it because you are a person nobody allows" but considering the context thus far, it's easy to conclude she means that there's no one who will love/accept him for who he is.

*Adding "also" to the line is a mistranslation, I believe. も means also but it is also used for emphasis, which I think it is here. Not that it's impossible Mikan is using it to say "also", but in these lines of dialogue she is intentionally contrasting how she does have someone who loves her and that she can love, so to then identify a similarity between her and Nagito, I think, wouldn't make much sense...

Mikan is one of my favorite characters, so little details like this matter a lot to me.

[fern--theplant]

doodle because i just finished case 5 in my personal playthrough and no matter how many times i see it im still devastated

[doggcity]

i like them so much… sigh

[foryoupeko]

You can put polyamory, gay hamsters, an incest freak whos killed 99 women but cant put a trans women in a pride image???

[Regarding my June piece I did for a DR Calendar]

First of all, Korekiyo hate isn't welcomed here, so jot that down.

Second, Sonia was originally supposed to be the trans flag. But because of her blonde hair, she looked more like the pan flag. So I switched Sonia (trans) and Kazuichi (Pan) last minute. In hindsight, I wish I made it more clear that Kazuichi was the trans flag.

Just because they only had one pride flag doesn't mean I didn't have more HCs for them.

Sonia is Transwoman in my post canon AU. So Gundham actually carries their daughter.

[artystaroc]

jazz hands, some Terus for yall. It has been too longgg