#also makoto who is actually suicidal in some ways post-dr1:

[kotaerukoto]

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“ Enoshima Junko… Huh.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to forgive her for what she did. The lives she took won’t ever return... All because she just wanted despair, because she was bored, she stole everything from us. I'll never forget that. I can't. I won't. Everything that happened in that school is seared into the back of my eyes... And I'm going to carry it for the rest of my life. ...Even so, even then... When I look back on that year, I don’t think that it was a lie. I don’t know exactly how long she was planning what happened to us, to the world. But I can't just look back on the time our whole class spent together and think of it as fake. It was real. ... Like I feel towards everyone else in Class 78... I don't regret meeting her.

…I should have done something more. Back then, I should have moved to stop her. Dying isn't something that saves anyone. "

[hopeymchope]

Other examples of bad luck actually working in Makoto's favor: Mondo punches him out and knocks him unconscious, but he grows closer to Sayaka as a result, so Sayaka picks Leon as her attempted victim instead of Makoto. He almost gets executed in Kyoko's place, but Kyoko feels so guilty about it that she becomes one of his staunchest allies, and in DR3 she chooses to be poisoned rather than kill Makoto. In IF he's impaled by a spear, but this causes Mukuro to switch sides and support Makoto.

(Note: This is a follow-up to this post.)

I don’t think that Sayaka ever really targeted Makoto to be killed, right? Well…. other than in the trial, where she figured they’d all die, so I guess that’s the same end result. :P But I mean to say that I don’t believe there’s any evidence that she actually targeted him as her personal victim that she was going to stab to death, either before OR after the Mondo-knockout. I believe she didn’t even intend to commit any murders at all until she saw her “motive video” and at that point, it was Makoto’s “no matter what” promise that made him become her scapegoat.

I would also argue that he and Kyoko were fairly close allies before that incident where he was thrown down the garbage chute, but your logic still fits because that moment brought them so much closer together. Then again, it’s also not exactly “luck” that he was put into the spot of being declared guilty. I mean… maybe it is somewhat (perhaps it’s bad luck that Monokuma suddenly introduced a time-limit component), but it wass own choice to go along with her cover story and maintain the lie that there was no way for her to get back into her dorm room, at least. I guess real luck was his luck that he survived the execution thanks to Deus Ex Alter Ego :)

“IF” is definitely a good point. He receives the escape button from the Monomono machine through incredible luck but it gets him horribly wounded - potentially mortally - and yet that’s also exactly what leads to the a fantastic outcome for the DR1 cast: the entire cast escaping from the school alive (albeit at the cost of Junko still being on the loose/at-large, but still).

I guess I could cite DR3 as having some examples, too.  I mean, he does worm his way out of his restraints while testing the thesis about the monitors, allowing him to get to the knife and attempt suicide….   but before he can actually kill himself, Miraculously Alive Juzo shows up to both save his life and then shut down the game’s power before (re)dying. Which, okay, seems tragic, but again… a positive result overall for everyone left.

…..although I think the fact that he happened to be in the same room with a monitor when Gozu died and just wasn’t the person closest to it… that’s merely regular good-luck. :)

And oh hey, let’s toss in some Danganronpa Zero! Even his single appearance in that story could be suggested to have some bad-to-good luck elements: He goes to return something to Matsuda, but once he arrives there, Matsuda is already gone. Ryoko comments on how that seems to be bad luck for someone who’s supposedly lucky… but that’s why he’s present when Madarai shows up, which puts him in an immediate hostage situation… and yet that’s also why Mukuro comes to the rescue and defeats Madarai, who is obviously a pretty dangerous character: Because Naegi is in immediate danger. So basically, his bad luck gets Madarai taken out, which is good. :)