#also i mean. act 2 feels like It for the game and i wish theyd just. kept that energy for the final boss

[eggbagelz]

If i were the writer for the final boss fight in bg3 [which im not] id ensure all companions could be brought in for the fight bc um. It's a fight for all of us and extremely fucking stupid that we cant bring all our teammates in like why can we summon the owlbear cub but not our full fucking team

[icharchivist]

hello icha!!!!! learned from my mistakes and typed this out in a separate document. first i have to say im feeling a very deep connection with citron as of late bc i was giving myself a pep talk abt like physics and i told myself "face up and man the music!" and was like "...is that wrong. theres that song called man against the music isnt there... yeah it must be right" and. well i realized later. i also think the phrase "dont cry because it happened, smile because its over" is very good. also I’m halfway thru creating a very eclectic list of like. a Pokémon team for each a3 character which is… something. kinda knew it would happen to me. might take a while for me to finish it tho now that I’m halfway bc I’m suddenly having a crisis like “wait shit I’m only confident on my understanding and characterizing of like 4 characters am I good enough” so… it’s slow going lol. anyways. i finished that damn physics thing I was giving myself a pep talk about and so am treating myself to autumn/winter. happens that watching these events is also like. the only thing which reminds me to actually like. log into a3 lol. i am so bad at gacha games. probably a good thing in the long run. ok starting from the top!

hisoka going "zzz" as his reaction made me immediately go... oh dear, please dont fall asleep in the bath and guess what happened. yeah. good thing homare was there lol. speaking of i fucking adore homare and his poetry. id buy his collection. i also wish there was a collection like if there was a master list of every poem he says in like. at the very least main story. if not i will literally do it myself. i love homare so much im like him in that back when i had to play dodgeball id always be like kufufufu they cant hit me if im friendless enough that no one pays attention to me but like in my case it actually worked out. on the subject of the pillow fight tho, hisoka's crazy strong pillow fight throw... one more mark on the list for suspicious, maybe assassin occupation. this event made me realize how much i missed winter like. i saw the stranger pretty recently (which has caused the effect of be being like "taichi!! thats my boy!!" in my head everytime he shows up lol but anyways i havent gotten to a winter play yet so im VERY hype. especially bc this seems like it stars hisoka and homare??? like oh!! oh!!!! also detective fiction... im swooning. i also just enjoy the hisoka homare dynamic a whole fucking lot i think its nice how homare was like "yeah im ride or die for this funky lil amnesiac, why wouldnt you be?" and its just like. nice. feel like hes always reaching out to hisoka which is like. man homare is so nice.

back to chronology. ofc sakyo goes cheap for the hot springs lol. on brand as ever. was very hype for the azuma sakyo dynamic bc all i remember is like azuma trashing everyone including sakyo at some game or the other in one of the winter chapters and it was very good. or was this a clip in like a stage play? either way it was delightful. at first i misinterpreted taichi going "…" after azuma and sakyo said theyd never been on a field trip bc like. taichi being quiet or noncommunicative... after going thru autumn troupe act 1 it makes me fear for my life a little lol. anyways im glad he was just like planning fun times. speaking of taichi tho we got a tasuku taichi pair for etudes!!!! im not spoiling myself for later events but i hope to GOD tasuku and taichi do like a lead co lead in SOMETHING or at least like some mixed troupe event i want them to talk!!!

also dunno if this is an intentional pun but i enjoy that its called high spirits at the hot spring bc like oh theyre having fun but also bc like. "spirits" is used to refer to a certain type of alcohol i think? which is cool. dunno if its intentional but i liked that. anyways the talent show. taichis moving rendition of single ladies... ok i know it said single fellas but like. we know. wonder if that line was a different song in japanese? its not too old at ALL tho imo. anyways the way banri and juza being themselves Are the entertainment... flashback to when banri slaps juza live on stage instead of doing a stage slap lol. my reaction to azuma essentially went:

azuma: I can offer to bare my soul, and a little more ;)

izumi: what do u mean by that???

me: hey tasuku and omi were shirtless what's ur problem with azuma

anyways i reread and from what i understand they were maybe only flexing and doing a gun show? which like. no wonder it didnt last too long then lol. also explains why they didnt have shirtless sprites i suppose lmao. i am SO curious abt what azuma ended up doing tho that fade to black is so mysterious! did he tap dance? did he pole dance? the world will never know...

oh also im not like super familiar with azuma yet but my read on his personality is definitely like "I am so touch starved All The Time but I will be chill. :) :) this is fine :)" like he just seems to rly like being around people! just like basking in presence whether or not hes rly talking that much.

i enjoyed that juza mentioned pillow fighting with his lil brother... thats nice! i think a lot of this event was just focused on ppl having fun over the drama lol bc it got wrapped up sooo quick. i liked the bit where sakyos worried that izumi was out late searching for him tho it was so sweet. table tennis match was very fun although id argue calling hisoka and juza the two quietest tho lol like... banri exists so juza isnt quiet. just like inevitably. finally, the event cg!!! azumas hair tied up... so nice! thats how I tie my hair up sometimes tho it doesnt look nearly as nice lol. taichi rambling abt his first love for so long tho... lol. ill be honest i have to reread autumn bc i was not aware of this whole situation until it came up in the stranger and i like inferred from there. the end of this event was nice! it was cute. i dont rly have much thoughts on it but im so hype for the winter play

Hello:!!! so good to see you again, freshly learning from your mistakes then :3c

the connection with Citron is a BLAST to read about. I am glad that Citron is there, on your mind, supporting you at every turns of language. It's beautiful.

AND OH THE POKEMON LIST!!! thrilled to hear about it being a wip ongoing! take your time ofc and i hope you'll feel more confident as you go for your characters interpretation! i believe in you!

lmao i'm glad the events help you remember to play a3, i'm sure that by the time you'll be done with the events you will have unlocked so much of act 2 you won't have to worry too much about it. Anyway i'm glad you treat yourself to good things :3c

of course Hisoka fell asleep in the bath. tbh this event was a lot of "Hisoka almost dies in a spring house multiple times if it wasn't for his troupesmates". Between sleeping in the bath and almost swallowing the table tenis ball... where would we be without Winter, and especially Homare, taking care fo him.

I'm SO GLAD you like Homare that much! he's so so good! i'm sure there must be a masterlist somewhere, or well. can be done anytime i guess?? but yeah Homare is fantastic and LDJFDLKFJDF the evil plan to avoid dodgeball from both of you.. this is incredible DLKJFDLKF. But yeah alas he's loved by his own so he gets hit smh.

And yeah Hisoka is just acting sus huh.

BUT YEAH... YEAH... WINTER... BELOVED.... I feel regular and normal feelings for Winter as you know, s o .

(i'm so delighted that you feel that way about Taichi though, as he deserves!! what a good boy!!!)

But yeah Winter play next!!!!! i love the winter plays so much i hope you'll like it as well!! aND YEAH HISOKA AND HOMARE AS A DUO... for a DETECTIVE story?? so good.

I'm sO GLAD you like their dynamic! yeah i adore it too. Homare was so quick to leap into taking care of Hisoka? Like i mean he immediatly called him sleeping beauty when they first met, and immediately decided to be his roommates to watch over him, and then he did everything to take care of him and it's just so sweet. Homare has such a big heart he's so gentle with Hisoka. Homey and comfortable, whenever Hisoka admits it or not ahah.

ahah wouldn't be Sakyo if he didn't need to stay cheap. BUT YEAH the Sakyo/Azuma dynamic is pretty good. oh the event you talk about i think is in some of his very first backstage storyes (that you can read if you have them since they're at this point of the chronology). There's one where they play a mafia game and Sakyo is warry of Azuma because "people like him are those you need to worry about the most" and Azuma is just ":) you wound me :) i would never :)" and then Azuma wins the game and starts to mess with everyone. It was so fun. and yeah i see which clip you mean for the stage play!! it's so so fun they have such a neat dynamic and i loved to see it in this event as well.

and omg worrying about Taichi while he was just there preparing a fun time! this child really would have worried us all back then huh

but AHH YEAH TASUKU TAICHI.... It's such a neat dynamic! ofc i won't say anything but man i love the potential of their stories, as the two ex Godza boys. To see them bond and be comfortable with each other always make me so soft.

OH NICE CATCH FOR THE PUN! i think it must be the reason for it tbh, i love it! thanks for pointing it out!

The talent show was really fun yeah ahah! I wonder what it is in Japanese too but at least the localization was hella fun!

"anyways the way banri and juza being themselves Are the entertainment." THEY'RE SO SILLY I love them so much

AND LMAO YOUR REACTION AT AZUMA I LOVE IT. YEah i think Tasuku and Omi are just flexing (which is Still. SO FUNNY. Just there saying "our talents is.. our muscles...") meanwhile Azuma is like "my talent is that i'm crazy hot :)"

But YEAH Azuma... AZUMA WHAT DID YOU DO....

your read on Azuma's personality feels pretty spot on to me ahah omg. Staying with what you know about him, the fact that with his job and all, he seems like he's starving for connection while also terrified to make himself emotionally vulnerable. He loves staying with people, listening to them, caring for them, and he's touch starved as hell (i mean it's his job) but he doesn't seem to really know how to be on the receiving hand of affection. there's a flair talk, i can't remember where, with Omi at some point, where Azuma compliments him, and Omi is just "mhm.. but you know i think that it's more about you" and ends up complimenting Azuma in depth and it let Azuma dumbfounded because he didn't expect Omi to trick him at his own game, while Omi just genuinely don't get why Azuma is reacting that way. He gives he gives he gives, and he's genuinely happy with that, but he seems to have difficulties to take, or to demand for something, while also starving for it. I have so many emotions for Azuma.

Any mentions of Juza's little bro are the best things. I love this type of mention TwT

And yeah it was such a laid back event. Honestly deserved after the crying fest that was The Stranger imo. It's good to relax once in a while and it was nice to have them have fun. There was the bitterness of both Azuma and Sakyo's past that was always a bit looming but everyone was working so hard for them to enjoy themselves that the joy just overtake any sadness i loved it.

Sakyo worrying about Izumi is always adorable TwT

And yeah the Table Tennis match was so fun and chaotic LMAO. I love the dynamic between Juza and Hisoka. Just two usually quiet boys who like sweets. Except that yeah like you say, as long as Banri is around, Juza cannot be 100% quiet. Rip.

THE CG WAS SO PRETTY i loved seeing it. And omg you can share your hairtips with Azuma how nice :D Azuma manages to make everything look beautiful smh....

Oh yeah Taichi and his first love! if i recall he mentions it quickly at the begining, that Yuki reminds him of his first love, and he says that again at some point - then the fake Portrait he does he mentions his first love again. And since then it's been a reccuring topic so yeh :3c

but yeah! this event was really sweet and laid back, not much to say about it, but it was nice to have it at all!

Hope you'll like the winter play :3c

Take care and thank you again for your thoughts <33 i love reading them!! bless you!!

[edelblau]

danganronpa v3 endgame spoiler thoughts (mostly for the chat once we finish but yall can read if you want)

i hate the motive for rantaros death too and actually all of chapter 1 jhkadhjsdf why would “knew too much” matter at all of course he knows too much tsumugi you dumb bitch he was in the last one too like he survived to the end of season 52 you whore hes not gonna suddenly be an idiot in 53. and like. the lie about the trial motive ! the executing kaede for ???? fun i guess ???? even though the bitch wasnt the murderer. just breaking all the rules for that chapter i guess. good job tsumugi

honestly though im not as annoyed with the chapter 6 twist as i could be? its incredibly dumb but i think its also.... incredibly danganronpa and it was confirmed this was an alternate universe before release so im not too bothered since the universes of the two original games still count and are like... real over there

i wish keebo didnt die bc it was basically unnecessary and it felt like him dying was just sort of like. an excuse to have less survivors at the end to be edgy. at the very least they couldve tried to rebuild him with his memory chip or . like anything it was a pointless death he shouldve lived

kaito is not only the worst drv3 character but hes maybe the worst danganronpa character ever also. he treats people.... so badly..... like you can try saying hes doing it for good reasons but good reasons dont make bad behaviours acceptable and its never even mentioned how genuinely awful he is especially to shuichi and in chapter 2 ryoma and the way kaitos dick is sucked by everyone (maki exists basically exclusively to talk about how great he is)

kaitos treatment as some perfect being who can do no wrong only further highlights the games treatment of ouma who is like... a huge dick but is being a huge dick to stop the killing game and gets closer than... basically anyone and then kaito gets all the credit for it which is like. so bad. i dont even like ouma that much but its infuriating that everything he does gets attributed to kaito???? like. even considering kaitos weird dumb ass plan in chapter 5 to beat up monokuma(literally his plan from chapter 1 again btw lol) it clearly wouldve failed without the electrohammers which. were given by ouma. they wouldve died in the tunnel

also everyone just believing the guy whos been lying the whole game and has been, constantly making himself into a villain every trial to push them into the truth, including forcing himiko to show her feelings so she’ll finally face forward, when he says hes the mastermind is fucking crazy like i know he has his “proof” but especially when they find the flashback light youd think theyd realize something was up like. immediately. if i was like. oumas ghost id be so pissed off. if i was rantaros ghost id lose my fucking mind considering they literally accuse his ghost of murder in chapter 3 (tsumugi specifically does bc she be like that) and also theyre the wooooorrrstt at the killing game idk how like. anyone survives as long as they do. imagine being shsl survivor and this is what happens. i mean who knows how bad 52 went but 53 is terrible

actually imagine being the audience? 53 has such a bad mastermind. the blatant breaking of the rules. tsumugis weird incest fixation with kiyos manufactured personality + the monokubs. she knew the season would be bad so she had to bring back fan favourites keebo and rantaro but then failed at even that bc she killed rantaro when he got too close bc it was about to be the shortest danganronpa series in history like its such a mess who let her run 53. the chat hasnt played to the end yet so i might be wrong also but i think she was the mastermind of 52 too !!! after that how did they let her do another one . like was this one an exception, did danganronpa jump the shark because its usually not a good show if they start rebelling at the end of it 

also !! i mentioned it before but its infuriating that maki is just a device to develop kaito. idk why shes even a survivor tbh it wouldve been better served by, anyone else given she doesnt have much of a personality even though i tried so hard to like her. no matter how good she ends up being in chapter 6 one chapter isnt long enough to make her into a good independent character. i feel like like, miu wouldve filled her spot better OR KEEBO WHO HAD NO REASON TO DIE THERE SHOULDVE BEEN 4 SURVIVORS. but like. at the end of the day shes not a very interesting character bc she exists only to ride the dick of kaito and just.... it wouldve been better if another character survived in her place. she didnt really contribute except in chapter 3 where she was really good but its all downhill from there

ALSO. KAITO DIDNT EVEN NEED TO BE THE ONE TO TALK TO MAKI (OR SHUICHI FOR THAT MATTER). THE BITCH WAS SETTING OFF DEATH FLAGS SINCE CH2 AND LIKE. MAKI AND SHUICHI BOTH WOULDVE BEEN BETTER OFF WITH LIKE.... TENKO? AND SHUICHI ALREADY HAD KAEDE TO MOTIVATE HIM? KAITO IS COMPLETELY USELESS TO THEM BOTH. MAKI COULDVE BEEN A PARALEL TO OUMA TOO. i hate kaito a lot and he lives for way too long for no good reason and even in death he pisses me off by taking credit for a plan that wasnt even his somehow AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

also can we just talk about chapter 4 and how bad it was because AGAIN, two characters who DDDONT EVEN TALK TO KAITO. ARE USED FOR HIS DEVELOPMENT. THE ENTIRE TRIAL IS KAITO FOCUSED. IT TAKES SO FUCKING LONG TO GET THROUGH WHILE MIU LITERALLY ROTS SOMEWHERE AND THERES.. NO REASON TO FOCUS ON KAITO AT ALL THAT TRIAL. I UNDERSTAND WHY THERES SOME OUMA FOCUS BC UNLIKE KAITO HE ACTUALLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING TRIAL BUT KAITO GETS FOCUS FOR ?????????????? NO FUCKING REASON OTHER THAN TO BUILD UP FOR CH5 SO HE CAN ACT LIKE A HUGE BABY AFTER HITTING SHUICHI CH1 FOR BEING SAD OVER KAEDES DEATH FOR THE EXACT SAME REASON HES ACTING NOW.

i need to stop talking about kaito but hes such a bad bad character who after ch1 it feels like the whole game is focused around and its just.... awful. i legitimately cant find something to like about him. theres nothing to like about him unless i guess youre a straight man who hates suicidal ppl in which case i guess  hes your kin

anyways i cant think of anything else to say rn ill edit this post later i love rantaro “clown shoes” amami and i cant believe he literally died bc the mastermind cheated at the murder game ill complain about his death until i die

also a nice summary of my thoughts on drv3