#also: first time actually posting my hiyoko design!

[glazeliights]

second birthday post in a row, but this ones for a BIRD

(aka I draw anghels fantasy universe cause its his special day and he deserves it)

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A few notes before I start: Sorry about the white backgrounds, that’s how they showed up and I didn’t know how to fix them. Also, these summaries are going to be a lot shorter than they have in my last few posts just since there are so many characters. Anyway, let’s begin.

Literally godly, this should be your regular outfit -

Rantaro Amami - I shouldn’t have to be the first person to point out to you that he’s hot. Not to mention that the pink bottoms work wonders with his hair.

Nagito Komaeda - Hhhhhhhh

Byakuya Togami - I will admit, I’m basing this position more off of his appearance in the promo art. I don’t know how much I like this look on his regular sprite, but he’s so hot in that promo art, you don’t even know.

Show me who picked this out for you so I can thank them -

Sayaka Maizono - SHE LOOKS SO CUTE OML. I’d go through each detail, but in short: everything.

Gundham Tanaka - Shirtless Gundham, what more can I say?

Ibuki Mioda - I absolutely adore how her swimsuit doesn’t just go with her hair, but matches it. Perfection.

Korekiyo Shinguji - When the trailer first dropped and I saw the screen with all of the released swimsuits, I immediately started scanning to see if they put Korekiyo in a wetsuit and by God, they did.

Shuichi Saihara - He looks more tired than usual, but I just have a gut feeling his other sprites will look better.

Mondo Owada - I probably should’ve put him in standard, but he looks so good without a shirt on, I couldn’t possibly.

Kaito Momota - Space shorts.

Sakura Ogami - She was actually going to be somewhere in the first tier originally, but I just can’t put her there because of the color. I probably should’ve put her down with the other people with this problem (Uhhh... okay... I guess) but I couldn’t bear to.

Cute!/Cool! -

Chihiro Fujisaki - a;lskdfh;adskfijshdkjc He’s so cute, someone help. I’m drowning in cute. He looks so excited to be wearing it, too. I think this was the best choice they could’ve gone with to not give him something too masculine or feminine, fantastic choice.

Leon Kuwata - This category was originally just going to be “Cute!” but his bottoms looked so cool, I had to put him up here.

Toko Fukawa - Not only does her swimsuit look good on her, but I love the way that they designed her and Genocide Jack to be wearing the same swimsuit in different styles. Super cool.

Tenko Chabashira - I think this was one of the only palette swaps that I actually liked. There are probably a few other swaps that I didn’t even notice, but I like this one specifically because of the color swap. She looks great in pink.

Kyoko Kirigiri - I think I would’ve normally put her in standard, but her gloves are just too cool.

Mukuro Ikusaba - Love the colors and love the pattern. Simple, yet great.

Mahiru Koizumi - Mahiru, your camera. You can’t take that in the water. Mahiru- MAHIRU

Akane Owari - This is actually the swimsuit she wore during chapter 2 in the original game and I thought she looked great both times.

Chiaki Nanami - Same as Akane, so there’s not really any reason for either one to be higher or lower than the other. Peko would be up here too, but it’s really basic.

Gonta Gokuhara - I just really like the pattern and also that he’s still carrying the thing over his shoulder. It’s really weird who got to keep accessories and who didn’t, but we’ll get there.

Masaru Daimon - He just looks so cool in his shorts, I’m sure he’s excited to have them.

Shirokuma - Despite how I may feel about Shirokuma, this is a very cute outfit for them.

Standard -

Kaede Akamatsu - Definitely the best-looking of the protagonists, even if Shuichi’s higher. He’s only higher because I have faith that his faults are because of the sprite choice. If I’m wrong, sue me.

Kirumi Tojo - This is another instance of getting to keep the accessories. She still has her headband on. Why?? It wasn’t crucial to her character or anything. I get that Kyoko has backstory reasons and Gonta and Mahiru’s personalities revolve around their items, but why Kirumi? She had other things that defined her better.

Peko Pekoyama - Like I said before, basic and kinda bland. She still looks good, though.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu - He actually gained an accessory. Why does he have a necklace now? His shorts are nice, though.

Hajime Hinata - O r a n g. Or maybe red.

Maki Harukawa - Basic swimsuit, no color change whatsoever. A nice swimsuit, but nothing special.

Genocide Jack - Everything I said before about Toko’s swimsuit still applies, Genocide Jack’s is just way more boring.

Aoi Asahina - A good color swap, but not good enough to make up for her basic swimsuit.

Monomi - I like that they put her in a one-piece. Very cute. Wish they would do that all the time...

Monaca Towa - I just noticed that she is the only character other than Monomi to wear a one-piece. Why??

Makoto Naegi - The most basic swimsuit imaginable combined with his regular color scheme and pattern.

Hiroko Hagakure - I think I like that she kept her jacket? Maybe? It’s a different jacket, but it still counts.

Nagisa Shingetsu - Black and white bottoms. Okay. You do you, buddy.

Imposter - It’s fine. It’s just fine.

Izuru - I like that they gave him a separate swimsuit from Hajime, but why is it so bland and boring?

I love you, so I’ll forgive it -

Sonia Nevermind - She actually looks great and is so cute. So cute that she’d be in the top tier if not for one crucial fact. If you’ll notice, I mentioned earlier that Peko, Chiaki, and Akane are all wearing the same swimsuit here that they had worn in the original second game. However, there’s another character that appears in the scene I’m talking about that is wearing a different outfit than they are here. That charcter is Sonia, who was seen in a wetsuit in the original game. It was thrown off as a joke, but I still can’t stop thinking about how pretty she looked in that wetsuit. It’s literally my profile picture for my main blog, that’s how pretty she is wearing it. I’m mad because they’re basically agreeing that she didn’t look pretty/sexy in the wetsuit when that couldn’t be more wrong.

Celestia Ludenberg - I literally just wish she was wearing a one-piece, it can be the same style and everything. Honestly a missed opportunity.

Kotoko Utsugi - It’s just a weird pattern. Love the colors, though.

K1-B0 - I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love the floaty, but he still deserves more respect.

Miu Iruma - The pattern is... fitting... but still bad.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru - Taka... sweetie... why...?

Uhhh... okay... I guess -

Angie Yonaga - I like the look, but it’s exactly what she usually wears just without the jacket. Does that mean that she’s always wearing a swimsuit? Why? Even Asahina didn’t wear a swimsuit as her regular outfit.

Kazuichi Soda - I definitely like this color better than the piss yellow he used to have, but it’s still not great. I like that he got to keep his little logo thing, but I’m confused as to why he gets to keep his hat. It’s just like Kirumi keeping her headpiece. I’m fine with it in this case, but why him and not...? Well, we’ll get there.

Komaru Naegi - A lot of the outfits in this tier are just because I like the look and not the color scheme, including Komaru. Yellow’s just an odd fit for the shade of green that her hair is.

Tsumugi Shirogane - The same as Komaru. Nice style, but the yellow and blue clash for me.

Hiyoko Saionji - Surprise surprise, it’s the same thing. I think the style really fits her, but I hate the yellow and green. Not into it.

Junko Enoshima - Ok, we’re out of the color scheme repetition. I don’t know why she’s wearing a tanktop. It just looks a little off, but I can’t place why. I don’t know why she isn’t just wearing the regular swimsuit like she was in the promo art. If she was, I’d probably put her in Standard.

Yasuhiro Hagakure - I’ll be honest, I didn’t notice the alien pattern on his shorts until after I had already downloaded the picture and closed out of the tier list tab. If I had noticed before, I’d probably put him in Cute!/Cool! but I still don’t really like the color scheme. Fitting, but not pleasing.

Kurokuma - The only reason he’s above Kokichi is because he has a water gun and I think that’s cute.

Kokichi Oma - Literally just gut instinct. I like that he kept his checkered pattern and purple color scheme. Something just told me he should be down here.

Monokuma - It just feels wrong, but I can’t place why, same as Kokichi.

Teruteru Hanamura - I probably would’ve liked his outfit better if his shirt was buttoned up at least a little bit. Now that I think about it, Mondo should’ve had one of these, too.

Who signed off on this? -

Usami - WHY IS SHE IN A BIKINI??? SHE’S A STUFFED RABBIT.

Nekomaru Nidai - I can absolutely see him picking this swimsuit to wear, but that doesn’t mean I like it.

Mikan Tsumiki - You know why she’s here.

God no. I hate it -

Ryoma Hoshi - So Mahiru gets to keep her camera, Kirumi gets to keep her headpiece, and Kazuichi gets to keep his hat.. but Ryoma doesn’t get anything? I genuinely had to take a second to figure out who this was the first time I saw him. He can’t even have a sunhat or anything? That would’ve been cute.

Himiko Yumeno - I can’t imagine a world in which she would choose this swimsuit for herself. The color is off, the style is off, I could much more easily see her wearing something similar to Monaca’s swimsuit. Basically, just let some of the girls wear one-pieces. They don’t all have to be in bikinis.

Jataro Kemuri - The pattern. I can’t even stand to look at it long enough to figure out what it is.

Hifumi Yamada - It did take me a second to figure out what his swimsuit was, but as soon as I did, he hit the bottom of the list. Again, it’s definitely fitting, but I still hate it.

[komahinasecretexchange]

Title: Visions

Author: @nadisabug

For: @cellophanerose

Pairing: Hinata x Komaeda

Warnings: mild language, other than that none

Prompt: I used two of the three prompts: Hinata being ‘haunted’ by Komaeda, who is still in a coma post sdr2 (whether the hauntings are real or not is up to you) AND Komaeda tracing Hinata’s “Kamukura project” scars when Hinata is overwhelmed with self-identity issues

Author’s notes: I really enjoyed writing this, I hope you like it! I will also be posting this to my AO3 so look out for that link later!

“Hinata-kun.” Gorgeous green eyes smiled at Hajime, arms open wide in an invatation that made Hajime’s heart ache.

Hajime was tired. That had to be it. He had just been relieved from duty by Fuyuhiko from watching over the program because he “was no use to anyone sleep deprived.”

It was a twenty hour shift he had just taken, marked only by the fact that Fuyuhiko worked four hours each day at the same time like clockwork. Everyone gave into the structure Fuyuhiko demanded, knowing that it was more for his wellbeing than anything. Nevermind, Kazuichi, Owari, and Fuyuhiko each watched over the simulation for four hours in rotating shifts, the last eight hours of the day designated as Hajime’s watch. Hajime usually did not abide by the rules, staying past his shift, and only Fuyuhiko had enough strength and little sympathy to tear Hajime from the monitors.

They knew once their peers began to wake up from the simulation - if they would wake up, Kazuchi was always wont to mention - their shifts would become shorter and shorter. However, they all knew Hajime’s would get longer and longer until he woke up. Hajime was obsessed with waking them up, using all of his talents and skills to manipulate the system into releasing them. He worked with the AI he met inside the simulation, Alter Ego, unlocking firewalls that barricaded them from previously accessing certain areas. He knew that they were so close. So close to waking them up. To waking him up.

So Hajime wasn’t sure if it was because he hadn’t slept in the past twenty-eight hours, or if it was because he was actually going crazy, but Komaeda was standing in front of him.

Crazy as it may seem, this was not a rare occurrence by any means. He had been seeing Komaeda everywhere, his eyes chasing his silhouette in peripherals, a flash of cream coloured hair when he opened his eyes in the morning, honeyed greens smirking at him in reflections.

But this, this was the first time the apparition had spoken.

Maybe Fuyuhiko is right, I am overworking myself, Hajime thought to himself. He squeezed his eyes shut, shook his head quickly, then opened them back up, expecting his vision to be gone.

But it wasn’t.

Komaeda was still standing there.

Arms open.

Hajime couldn’t help but imagine himself running into them. He had much clarity since he woke up from the simulation. He had regained his memories, and with that, clarity on his feelings, on how he always felt, about Komaeda. The moments they shared in the simulation were some of his most treasured memories now, seeing as they did not interact much before the simulation. He knew that Nevermind still clung to her… what was it called, boat? No, a ship. Her “ship” of Hajime and Chiaki, but everyone else was aware of how Hajime felt. It was hard not to - Hajime was on his last thread of sanity, so keeping his mouth shut was hard. Not like he cared either. They could know or not for all he cared. He just knew that they knew and they knew that he knew they knew and no one really spoke about it. Well, except for Kazuichi’s occasional lighthearted jabs. They never quite landed right though.

But, despite the fact that everything was so peaceful and no one cared about anything here, Hajime felt himself growing angry. He had been working his ass off all day and all night to bring everyone back, to bring him back, and he had the gall to show his stupid sexy face all smiling and offering something that Hajime wanted so fucking bad but knew he could never have. It was just so…. so… infuriatingly Komaeda.

So he did what an overworked, stressed, tired, angry, and quite frankly horny person would do.

He briskly walked past Komaeda, flipping him off on his way.

After the initial acknowledgement, Komaeda became more talkative. He would chatter while Hajime worked, while he ate, while he pretended to sleep. Komaeda would just follow Hajime around, talking to him, and Hajime would ignore him. He figured out that only he could see him - not that it had been confirmed or denied at this point - and as a result wrote it off as a hallucination from being over worked. Playing into it would only make it worse, he reasoned.

“You should take a nap,” Komaeda murmured, reaching out to stroke Hajime’s hair. Hajime didn’t so much as flinch at the action. He knew Komaeda wouldn’t touch him. He hadn’t yet. And Hajime couldn’t let him know that he wanted it. Even if it was fake Komaeda. At least it would be good practice for when real Komaeda woke up, pretending not to crave his touch. If he woke up. “Or just rest even a little. Just because no one has woken up yet means you are a failure.”

Hajime continued to type on the keyboard.

“Such… such hope…” Ah, here he went again. “You could have left them. You could have left us all but you haven’t. There is nothing saying that we will wake up. Honestly, everything is pointing towards us not waking up. And yet still you persist, you push on, you have such hope that we will wake up. Quiet foolishly actually. Idiotic really. Sacrificing everything for just your bizarre hope that something-”

Hajime was glad Komaeda abruptly stopped talking. He wasn’t sure he would be able to keep up his regimen of ignoring him if he hadn’t stopped speaking. However, he was concerned about why Komaeda stopped talking. He looked over at Komaeda and saw his eyes fixated on a single monitor, his mouth slightly ajar. Hajime stared at Komaeda a second longer than necessary before turning to the monitor he was observing. The displays for the still eleven occupied pods held a steady green light-active. Well, all except for one. Pod four was blinking orange. Deactivating.

Hajime ran to the pod room as fast as he could, completely forgetting on his way to notify the others.

He ended up not having to tell the others, as they ended up walking into the cafeteria where he was catching up the Ultimate Imposter to their situation. They were not happy they were left out of the beginning of the celebration, but they seemed to understand because of Hajime’s mental state at the moment.

During the celebration, Komaeda made only a short appearance. He strolled up to Hajime while he was alone at one point, leaning up against a wall next to him. Hajime gave him a smug look, then turned to the Ultimate Imposter. I told you so. I fucking told you so.

Komaeda just laughed. “Your hope was always stronger than any reality.”

Hajime wasn’t sure what it meant, but it made him feel warm for some reason. It wasn’t a normal compliment, not by any means, but it was a compliment by Komaeda’s standards. And for some ungodly reason, that was enough for Hajime. The vague but positive comments on Hajime’s hope still made Hajime feel happy, just as if Komaeda were telling him his hair looked nice, or his face was attractive or something.

…Maybe it was Hajime’s inexperience in dating. That definitely had to play a part, but it still took a certain kind of person to actually listen to Komaeda’s comments and hear them for what they actually are.

You were always strong. Stronger than anyone and anything.

That’s what he really meant. And it made Hajime feel good, even if it was just Hajime’s delirious hallucination of Komaeda.

And with the awakening of the first classmate, everyone else’s hope began to burn brighter. While they had been skipping out early on shifts before the Ultimate Imposter woke up, now they stayed late and even doubled up. They did make comments every once in a while that because they were six now Hajime could take four hour shifts as well, but those comments flew in one ear and out the other. As more peers began to wake up, Hajime began to work more and rest less. The World Destroyer Program he created was working, it was waking up classmates, but it still wasn’t waking up him. It wasn’t working enough. With each passing day he worried that somehow Komaeda was different, that maybe he wouldn’t wake up like the rest. And with each passing day, his theory only seemed stronger. Koizumi woke up, and Hiyoko, and Nidai, Teruteru, Pekoyama- and the rest. Next thing Hajime knew everyone except Komaeda was awake.

It stayed that way for a few days, which was not too abnormal. After the Ultimate Imposter woke up, it took a week for Teruteru to wake up. Yet, every single day that Hajime was awake and Komaeda wasn’t was one too many for Hajime. It was pain. Not to mention that when he did sleep he had terrible nightmares of the simulation. Visions of Chiaki being crushed all over again. Scenarios of Junko surviving despite all that everyone had done to prevent it. Images of Komaeda dead, blood everywhere. In every one, Hajime was just helpless. Useless.

Though those were the best dreams compared to the other nightmares Hajime suffered from. The ones about… the project. The worst part about leaving the simulation was regaining his memories of what happened at Hope’s Peak. And what happened when Kamakura was in control.

It was during one of these dreams when Hajime woke up screaming. He shot up in his bed, clutching at the sheets that were soaked with his sweat.

“What’s wrong?” A worried Komaeda fluttered to Hajime’s side. But he did not soothe Hajime.

Anger boiled in Hajime’s veins. Anger at Hope’s Peak. Anger at the ones who created the simulation. Anger at the people who created the Kamakura project.

Anger at himself.

So much anger towards him and only him. None of this ever would have happened. The biggest, most awful, most tragic event in human history would have never happened. Nothing would have happened if Hajime just wasn’t so weak. So unhappy with his pathetic, talentless self. Kamakura wouldn’t have taken those lives. Junko would have never gotten the firepower Kamakura provided. The uprising would have never happened. Nothing would have happened.

It was all his fault.

He let out a strangled scream and stood up, kicking the sheets off of him, and stormed to his bedside table. Then, in one fell swoop, he threw the bedside lamp onto the floor. It shattered into a million satisfying pieces, the lightbulb letting out a little pop. He stared at the broken mess for a second. Then, suddenly and all together, all the rage that he had been seething drained from his body. He felt like an empty shell. A ghost.

He collapsed back onto the bed, elbows on his knees, back in a tired hunch. His scars hurt. He hurt.

He felt the bed shift next to him.

Hajime cleared his voice, hoarse from screaming, and spoke. “I hate how weak I was. How weak I am still-”

“Bullshit.”

Hajime looked to Komaeda. His eyes were hard and his face stern.

“I didn’t know you were that deluded to be honest. To think that Hajime Hinata is weak- hah! You are anything but weak. At the last trial, you were given two choices. What did you pick? Neither. You made your own choice. When you woke up from the simulation, Makoto told you to leave, Byakuya told you to leave, Kirigiri told you to leave. Did you leave? No. You stayed and created a program to wake us up. You are strong Hinata, you just don’t believe you are."

"But the mistakes I made-”

“Everyone makes mistakes! And I know everyone says that but its true. We are imperfect creatures. We speed, we cheat, we lie - everyone does wrong in their life. Just because you think your wrong that you did is the worst possible one out there doesn’t mean that you should hate yourself for it. Someone else has probably made the same mistake before. Its how life works. We make mistakes. We stumble. We fall. And when we do, we don’t hate ourselves for it, we push through and become better. Because we have hope for an even better future. We have hope for a future that is perfect because it is imperfect.”

“I don’t want to have hope for a better future, I want my life to be better. I want to not have made these mistakes. I want to not hate myself.”

“Well, no one can take back what has been done,” Komaeda reached out and stroked the scars on Hajime’s head. “We can only make the best of it.”

Hajime leaned into the touch, forgetting for a moment that this was a hallucination.

“How can I do that when I don’t even know who I am? I am not Hajime Hinata, and I am not Kamakura. I am some sort of freak in-between and I hate it.”

“Does it matter who you are?” Hajime didn’t know how to respond. But he did know what he wanted Komaeda to say. I still love you, either way, whoever you may be.

“And just for the record, I don’t hate you, whoever you may be.”

Hajime smiled. That was enough for him, for now.

“Thank you, Komaeda,” he murmured. And he meant it.

“Even the strongest have their moments,” Komaeda agreed. “And you are strong,” Komaeda asserted.

Hajime smiled and turned to face Komaeda. In the dim lights his eyes shone like beacons of hope, of acceptance, of… love. Before Hajime could even think he was leaning toward Komaeda his eyes closing his heart beating his mind swirling his-

“Hinata-kun!” Fuyuhiko burst into the room snapping Hajime out of his trance. He was still sitting on his bed, leaning towards an empty space.

“What?” Hajime responded to Fuyuhiko’s curious gaze. “I couldn’t sleep. Now what is it?”

Fuyuhiko seemed to shake his confusion off. “Get dressed. You’re gonna wanna see this for yourself.”

Hope burst in Hajime’s chest. He couldn’t wait to know. “Is he…?”

Fuyuhiko nodded.

Hajime never got dressed faster in his life.

When Hajime made it to the pod room, he was breathless. He ran up to Komaeda’s now-open pod and leaned towards it. Komaeda was still asleep, eyes firmly closed, which allowed Hajime a moment to catch his breath. About once he did, he saw Komaeda’s eyes begin to flutter.

“Hey! Can you hear me?” Hajime called out to his peer.

It took a moment, but then Komaeda responded. “Ahh… Izuru Kamakura?” Komaeda held out his hand towards Hajime. “No, you’re, uh, Hajime Hinata, right?”

Fueled by his earlier revelation, Hajime responded confidently. “They’re both me.”

“I suppose I should thank you for waking me up? I knew you’d make it to the lowest stratum- I believed in you." Komaeda lifted his head, seeming to remember something. "How are the others?”

Hajime just smiled as the door behind him opened, revealing the rest of their peers waiting outside the pod room. “You’re the last one out.”

Komaeda smiled. Then, he looked pointedly into Hajime’s eyes, a small smirk present on his face. “You’re hope was always stronger than any reality.”

[clovers-in-despair]

Hi! So, if you know me, you know I’m not the biggest fan of Danganronpa 3’s storyline. I won’t go into detail as to why in this post. Instead, I’m going to show off my Danganronpa 3 rewrite! It mostly focuses on the Despair Arc and then adding on to things like UDG, SDR2, and the Hope Arc. Please note this contains spoilers. I’ll write it in bullet points because it’s easy for me to get things down in this manner, especially since I don’t have every moment of every single day rewritten. Maybe one day I’ll write fanfiction for this! Forgive grammar n stuff, I’m super tired and just spewing my ideas out without structure. So hit that “keep reading” and let’s get this party started.

-In my rewrite, Chiaki Nanami’s punishment isn’t what pushed them into despair. Rather, Junko Enoshima played on everyone’s weaknesses and individually pulled them into despair. In some cases, she used those she already converted as pawns to drag down their fellow classmates. For example, I like to believe Junko played on Nagito’s desire to be loved. And eventually, Nagito understood what she was doing to him.. But rather than stop it, he let himself become despair because he couldn’t wait to see the hope that would be born from it. For another example, Junko might have pulled Mahiru into despair. In turn, Junko uses Mahiru to drag down Hiyoko. I like the idea of Junko’s analytic and manipulation skills being more relevant. A slow process of taking everyone down and hitting them in their weak spots feels more satisfying than everyone going down at once, in my opinion.

-Again, Chiaki Nanami’s punishment isn’t what pushed them into despair. Rather, it was a test. Junko uses Chisa as a puppet here, and Chisa is the one to subject Chiaki to her punishment. Think back to DR3, and how we saw Junko on all the screens as Chiaki navigated the death maze. Now, what if we saw Chisa there instead and narrating the entire thing? What could be more despairful than your own teacher putting you through this death trap? And of course, since I’m a sucker for angst, I like to imagine her classmates NOT watching on in complete devastation. What if they were basking in the feeling it gave them? Cheering on as Chiaki navigates her way through the maze… 

-Now, remember in DR3 where we see Kamukura cry as Chiaki is dying? Remember how Hajime’s attachment to her caused Kamukura to subconsciously care for her? Now, this will come into play later. But let’s get back to Chisa Yukizome. What if Chisa had the same thing happen? A subconscious desire to.. Well, not see her die. So she leaves Chiaki with a very slight chance of survival. The footage of Chiaki navigating the maze cuts out before anyone really sees her die. Of course, the assumption of Class 77B would be that she IS dead. 

-And here’s where Kamukura comes in. He subconsciously cares for her, though he does not know why. I like to imagine he saved her with his talents. And because he is neither on the side of hope or despair exclusively, Chiaki is now a new pawn in this “war” between hope and despair. Just something new to hopefully cure this boredom and bring something new to the table. 

-Well, after treating her, he turns her loose. Keep in mind, a recovery like that doesn’t happen overnight though. 

-Chiaki Nanami ends up in Towa City, and takes refuge in the Resistance. However, she joins under a new identity. Miyuki Watanabe. The fake name stems from the fear that she would be killed if her true identity is discovered, and people realize she is associated with the remnants who had faked their deaths and mistake her as a remnant herself. I tried to design a concept for Chiaki while trying to hide herself. A mask to hide her face, and she has longer hair due to not really getting much of a haircut lately. A wrinkled up shirt, and all that. She has grey bag with two things that are rolled up sticking out of the bags, perhaps posters of some kind.

-Chiaki eventually meets Komaru and Toko at the resistance camp under the name Miyuki, but she eventually reveals her true identity to them and what had happened to her until that point. Of course, Toko was skeptical of this at first but was talked into helping by Komaru. When Byakuya was eventually rescued, he tipped Makoto off to Chiaki’s presence in Towa City in their video call at the end of Ultra Despair Girls.

-Makoto is able to come to Chiaki’s rescue. Of course, once Chiaki is brought back, she’s met with lots of interrogation and DNA tests from other members of the Future Foundation prior to being held in a high security cell for precautionary reasons.  

-She does end up receiving some grooming like a haircut and fresh clothes. She remains here until eventually Makoto asks for her assistance. He explains he intends to use the Neo World Program to reverse Junko’s influence on her friends, and asks her to help monitor her classmates’ behaviors from the outside, as she knows them all best. 

Here’s Nanami after getting a haircut and some fresh clothes to wear. Of course, she still wears her signature jacket over these fresh clothes.

-And oh boy, seeing everyone’s faces on those monitors… hearing their voices again.. It both hurt her terribly and warmed her heart. 

-Let’s not forget real-life Chiaki’s reaction to the AI within the program. Before I continue, please note Chiaki is traumatized and not quite the person she was back at Hope’s Peak. 

-Seeing her AI within the program? It causes a bit of an identity crisis. Her AI does remind Chiaki of better days, however, she also feels envy and frustration towards it. She’s a little envious that the AI is there, interacting with her classmates and Hinata again the way she always hoped to do again. Frustrated, because sometimes the AI would respond in ways real-life Chiaki would have done differently. She has zero control over her own AI, by the way. So she can only watch it interact with everyone.

-Though once she learns why the AI is herself, she finds it to be bittersweet.

-But when the killing game begins, her world comes crashing down AGAIN. Still, she was told to continue monitoring the behavior of her classmates’ despite this.

-Might I add that AI Chiaki’s execution brought back some really, really terrible memories for real-life Chiaki? 

-Rest assured, in the end, Chiaki was able to reunite with Class 77B and Hajime Hinata. And they all live on the real Jabberwock Island together.

-In my rewrite, Hajime’s relationships with others tumbles a bit as he comes overprotective over Chiaki, despite her insisting he doesn’t need to be. He worries greatly about her due to their past. The romantic feelings are still there between the two, but the interest in a romantic relationship is low as they both require lots of healing before they’re ready for this. Hiyoko remains on iffy terms with Fuyuhiko and Peko, while Mahiru does the opposite and repairs her relationships with them. Kazuichi is on OK terms with Gundham, and actually ends up falling for Mikan and they get together. Akane is oddly one of the first to be forgiving towards Nagito and they become friends, though I will add that Nagito is a little desperate for Hajime’s attention, which he has directed to Chiaki very heavily. Mahiru and Hiyoko remain besties. Fuyupeko is semi-canon. They acknowledge their feelings but neither has made a move. I’ll make a chart of everyone’s relationships with each other someday and tack it on with a reblog. Right now, it’s just me spewing out my ideas as I’m dead tired.

-Oh, and they provide relief to the world as a way of atoning for their sins. Sometimes their missions require everyone on the island! Other times, it requires a certain number or a certain talent. They’re just here to try and make the world a better place after all that has happened.

[Credit for Chiaki model in replies, hyper links eat my posts]

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Since people liked my Teruteru posts, I’m going to be listing every character in V1 and V2 and saying if they are overrated or underrated and why. WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR BOTH GAMES/ANIME

V1:

Junko: overrated, obviously. She’s very pretty but other then that? Not the best lmao?? Abused and manipulated Mikan and Mukuro

Makoto: Boring, was carried through the whole game by kirigiri. Not even all that funny in the anime, he’s just a boring kid.

Togami: A spoiled rich boy that messed with poor Chihiro’s body. He’s cute but a total asshole and a twink (derogatory). He should have been a victim.

Toko: I love her personality and her design is very pretty, but the way they are further demonizing DID with her character is horrible and I do not stan. 

Leon: Underrated boy, everyone gives him a lot of shit for being the first murderer. He’s cute, he’s got a funky lil shirt (that he shares with nagito?) and hes got some scottish roots like me. A good boi (minus the fact he killed someone.) 

Maizono: Overrated, shes not even all that pretty. The REAL musical ultimate was Ibuki and you can’t convince me otherwise. 

Hifumi: He never did anything *wrong* in v1, but he gives off this horrible vibe. Probably has a body pillow of Kisa from Fruits Basket or smth gross like that. 

Kiyotaka: In the fandom, his personality has been muddled down to “old gay man” but lets be real, if this dude wasnt in a killing game, he’d be a c*p (o)

Aoi: Her personality is literally eating and big boobs and closed lesbian. Not a fleshed out character and honestly, Sakura should have survived, not her. 

Mondo: You’ve heard of mommy and daddy issues, now get ready for “I accidently killed my big brother when he gave me his biker gang when I was literally 15 years old and now I lay awake for nights thinking about and on top of that I might be gay and oh my god I just got turned into butter.” issues

Yasuhiro: 100% underrated. Is there colorism in the fact he’s one of the only dark skinned characters in this series and his personality is literally “spout off random bullshit and have the whole fandom think i’m a druggie?” yeah, but if i remember correctly, in the anime, he’s actually really smart or something? (in the second anime, not the first.) And he was really kind when he was taking care of Kiyotaka when Mondo died. He’s a good character, minus the obvious racial stereotypes

Sakura: Deserved to live. She was a great friend to Aoi and sacrificed herself so her friend could keep going. She’s a good gorl. 

Chihiro: Prefacing this with I’m a Chihiro Kinnie: overrated and everyone in the fandom sexualizes him. Or headcanons him as mtf or nonbinary. It literally explains why he dresses as a girl (he was v v weak and sickly so if he convinced everyone he was a girl, they wouldnt pick on him for being a weak boy). Headcanon what you want, but dont come at me with the “hE wAnTs To Be A GiRl” cause youre literally erasing his entired character and the REASON mondo was able to kill him. 

Celestia: She’s so creepy and mean? and not even in a cool way I just don’t like her. If Junko wasnt the mastermind behind this game, it totally would have been celestia. Manipulated Hifumi, framed Yasuhiro, and killed Hifumi and Kiyotaka. Not a fan with the double kill tbh

Kirigiri: I personally don’t like her cause she has no personality beyond “gotta solve this mystery like im fuckin scooby doo” and “I can’t believe its daddy issues!”

Mukuro: literally wants to fuck her sister. No. 

V2: (I’m not finished with it yet, just finished the Mikan trial) 

Teruteru: underrated and over villainized. he’s literally a horny teenager and was just trying to a) protect everyone from nagito cause he thought twogami was nagito and b) just wanted his mom. 

Nagito: literally insane lol. If I hear him say anything else about hope, I’m going to scream. 

Nekomaru: No personality minus “I need to take a shit”

Akane: (see Aoi) they are literally the same character

Ibuki: overrated, but I can see why. She was really nice and cool. (I also have an Ibuki interject in my system so I can’t really bad mouth her.)

Mikan: Annoying at most. If Junko didnt hurt her, she probably wouldnt have killed anyone. 

Chiaki: I get.... v bad vibes from her, but I also kin her so its an odd toss up

Hajime: Whole personality is “fuck off nagito” and “orange juice in a wine glass” 

Mahiru: No my favorite, I didnt really like her, but she was really nice to Hiyoko so she’s okay in my book. 

Hiyoko: Underrated because no one takes into consideration: she is litearlly like 16 or 17, shes under 5 feet tall, she’s never gone through a killing game before, shes probably terrified. Thats why she’s mean. And she’s not even mean to everyone, just to Mikan really (who didnt deserve if but she was a really easy target)

Fuyuhiko: boss baby, tiny boy, underrated. He lost his sister and his best friend, let him be. 

Peko: Eh?? if she didnt have a literal slave mentality she’d be cool (and i dont think it was hiko’s fault, cause there are many times where he was just trying to treat peko like a friend and she was in full human shield mode.) 

Gundham: nice design, but the theatrics are getting on my nerves. Whats with the hamsters? I like his scarf though

Kazuichi: literally a giant perv, but i like his design and I have a small soft spot for pervy characters. If he would have left Sonia alone, he would have been an okay character. 

Sonia: overrated, annoying, would fuck ted bundy and run a true crime blog on this gods damn website. Not a good girl and I’m surprised she hasnt killed kazuichi yet. 

I dont think I missed anyone so here you go. Read it and weep /j 

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NDRV3 character ranking

WARNING! THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS OF NDRV3!

So, I just finished the new danganronpa and it was mentally exhausting. I was just sitting for hours, playing danganronpa like i'm not busy at all, so, i just want to share my character rating from least to my most favorite characters in NDRV3, including the reason why. (PS: i tried not to mention who died and who's the killer but i think i failed at it HAHA)

16. Tsumugi - At first I was like "OMG, an ultimate cosplayer? Atlast, a character that I might relate to" But then I got a rip off Sonia, Nevermind.... (HA). Anyway, it's true that she's so plain (Atleast she admitted that), and also, I was kindof expecting the kind of "twist" that this person have. (I mean cmon guys, cosplayer and junko? those 2 blend in together).

15. Korekiyo - Honestly at the demo ver, this person caught my attention. I'm like "Eyyy, this guy is hot af". But then I got a rip off Toko. TBH THO, I really felt toko's presence w/him.

14.  Angie - AHHH this girl keeps on saying Atua Atua Atua. At first I thought she was an adorable little girl and I thought I would love her since i'm an artist too, but.... Idk she just pisses me off.  ATUAAAAA

13. Ryoma - the prince of tennis. He really didn't caught my attention tho his backstories and his motive video is painful af... I didn't really disliked him, it's just, he didn't caught my attention.

12. Kirumi - She's pretty af, she's responsible af, she's the potential waifu.

11. Rantaro -  the ultimate bae. He too hot for meh. The green komaeda LMAO.

10. Kokichi - *cracks fingers* AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "God dam KOKICHI, stop playing with my mind! I don't have time for you". But then, I realized how complex he is. I'm just pissed that I never found out his true feelings since he's a fekin liar. I actually wanted to know when  and where he became genuine about what he's saying. I just kinda dislike him bc of what he did with gonta. rhakjakdjh

9. Tenko - DEGENERATE MALESSS!!! Tenko is a pretty interesting character. She's super fun and energetic plus she's soooo gay. I like how this person reminded me of ibuki mioda.

8. Himiko - this person represents my laziness level. Hiyoko 2.0. She's actually ALOT better than hiyoko! I really loved himiko's character development, it was su pretty.

7. Maki - the ultimate tsundere. Goth kirigiri. Maki is one of the characters who had a drastic character development although her personality is very generic. I loved how she adapted to the things that's happening around her.

6. Kaito -  THIS IDIOT! I like Kaito because he's a walking motivation. He motivated maki and shuichi and I really think that he balanced the heavy and dark mood of ndrv3. I was expecting him to be useless af but he left a big HOLE IN MY HEART. I love this guy

5. Kaede - .... i'm too sad to write a description.... She's a waste of character, not because she sucks but yknow, everything was so unexpected. I really loved her personality and she's a walking sunshine. It's just a waste of a useful and very lovable character.

4. Miu - the first time I saw her, she reminded me of junko, so I was like, WHAT IF SHE'S JUNKO! But naah, miu's a fekin whimp HAHA. I loved her green jokes and such and she was such a useful character. I loved her talent and I loved how "overused" she was HAHAHHA. Overused in a sense that she actually helped in a lot of things.

3. Gonta - I DON'T REALLY USUALLY LIKE THE TALL MUSCULAR CHARACTERS BUT GAD DAM, GONTA IS SUCH A BABY. I loved his innocence and he's sooooo adorable! He's such a big buy yet his talent doesnt match his character design, and he's such a gentleman. I really loved him because he's such a nice guy. Tho he made me cry.

2. Shuichi - I equally love shuichi and keebo. Honestly, shuichi is so dam fekin smart. He was able to solve all of those complicated cases which made me love him even more. I just can't believe that he's super logical and his intelligence made me bang my head on the wall. He's also a cinnamon roll. 10/10 would adopt.

1. Keebo - I equally love keebo and shuichi. I don't know where to start. I actually thought that keebo is kaede's lead because of his ridiculously big ahoge. But then, you'll feel hopeful because of him. He is such a warm character and I loved all the teasing that they did to him. I also love his scream and his everything. I can't explain, I just love keebo.

 Anyway I tried not to spoil the entire series but I think I failed at it.

Honestly NDRV3's ending is killing me. I don't really know how to react towards it. All I know is that I feel a certain pain in the heart everytime I remember the ending. Although I KINDA did expected that kind of ending, it was still too much to take.

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Talking Hatoful Boyfriend pt 1

I just cleared Holiday Star a day after clearing OG Hatoful Boyfriend. Click for BIG JUMBLE of thoughts on the two games, mostly the first one. Obviously, don’t click if you don’t want spoilers. (Seriously, the image right after clicking is a spoiler-iffic one)

Okay, so after I cleared my first route with the True Okosan ending, I ended up looking up a guide because I couldn’t figure out how to get the other Okosan ending (choosing No at the previous option just got me the “You’re Fucking Dead, Chief”)

I basically went:

Okosan > Azami > Shuu > Sakuya > Yuuya > Anghel > Kazuaki > Nageki > Ryouta

I didn’t bother with Tohri until after BBL. I’ll get to him when I talk Holiday Star though.

As far as preferences go: I ended up enjoying Okosan, Azami, Sakuya and, surprisingly, Ryouta’s, routes. I saved Ryouta for last because I never liked “childhood friend” trope. Despite this, his melancholic ending ended up being a good mood-setter for the final route (which is all about seeing that poor, dress-wearing cinnamon roll suffer).

If I had to choose an absolute favourite bird, it’s down to Ryouta and Sakuya. Okosan is kind of a bastard in the OG version of the game (I don’t really like his treatment of Hiyoko towards the end of his route) though BBL and Holiday Star make him much more harmless. Azami is coo’ but just isn’t in either game enough. And between Ryouta and Sakuya, it has to be Ryouta; Sakuya’s fun, a ‘rich asshole’ type character without the asshole part, but I was actively going in, wanting to dislike Ryouta... and ended up liking him anyway. He gets props.

In terms of characters I didn’t like: it’s between Shuu, Kazuaki and Nageki.

Kazuaki and Nageki are just... there. I was indifferent to Kazuaki being mysterious, but once the mysteries about Kazuaki were actually revealed, I actually started to actively dislike “Kaz” (especially with regards to Holiday Star and it’s main villain).

I’m also indifferent to Nageki. The ghost reveal is okay. I think the biggest problem is that I like all the synergy between all the different characters and Nageki has almost no interactions with the others. Yes, this is purely by design, but just because it’s intentional doesn’t mean I have to like it. While Holiday Star’s main story made me like him a bit more, he’s still one of my least favourite characters tbh.

And then there’s Shuu, and Shuu is just an *actual bastard*. While it is hilarious how painfully, obviously evil this guy is, it’s also kinda frustrating that he is this way. You gotta play 100% dumb to get his route, so you kinda deserve it, but the fact that he’s as exactly as evil as he appears is disappointing. It’s not helped that this guy never seems to face punishment for the shit he pulls.

Yeah, he dies in a glorious chorus of gunfire in his route, but that’s only after he’s butchered you, Yuuya and Anghel. And in the BBL route? I was actually angry that this guy got to live after pulling all that shit. While I’ll admit that the dude is entertaining when he goes full ham as a villain... dude is also somehow looks good in both forms (bird form is adorable, human form is freakin attractive). But Shuu is still the character I like least.

On to the actual story: um yeah, that all happened.

Okay, first off: I kinda figured out HBF was post-apocalyptic pretty early on. Adventure Time totally popularized the “cute and bubbly setting is actually super grim dark with implied horror!” trope and the game totally telegraphs this shit anyway (you live in a *cave*, you’re a hunter gatherer, also the scene with Azami always shows a destroyed city somewhere), it’s just a matter of connecting the dots.

Still, even knowing that, the final route is still insane. I actually didn’t find the main game to be too weird (aside from the obviously bizarre endings for Anghel and Okosan’s routes), though I also went in with the very specific mindset of expecting weird shit. But yeah, the final route is where all the insane shit happens. There’s secret conspiracies, murder mysteries, ghost transplants, joke characters being useful, Shuu being the absolute worst genie I’ve ever seen etc. It was pretty wild. 

I think if there’s anything to criticize about the final route, it’s that the main game is pretty freeform, while BBL is very, very straightforward and linear. It kind of gets by with all the crazy twists and turns, but if you’re already tuned into some of the twists (I pretty much called Ryouta killing Hiyoko in some way) then it’s a less involving experience (even if it’s more emotional). I also personally felt the melodrama was too much after a point. Like, I was ready for the route to finish when they brought back Ryouta... Kazuaki then pulling out a gun and going yandere over ghost liver had me actually going, “seriously? We’re still going on with this?”

It was pretty depressing at first, but I got okay with it eventually. Most of it is realizing that rather than being a ‘true route’, BBL is more of a an uber dramatic route that gets character to confess things they’d never say under any other circumstances. Yuuya, for example, never tells Sakuya about the circumstances of his birth in any other route (including Holiday Star). We would never know this shit either without BBL basically forcing him to. Holiday Star makes this pill much easier to swallow too.

The other half is realizing “eh, Hiyoko becoming ghost girlfriend to Ryouta ain’t so bad”. Can’t forget that even if Hiyoko and Ryouta got together, Hiyoko would have outlived Ryouta anyway. That inter-species romance is gonna be sad either way, at least Hiyoko won’t be waiting long in the afterlife... maybe... not sure how it’d work with human and bird afterlives apparently being different (...but let’s save that for the Holiday Star discussion).

There’s still a bit more to the main game I want to talk about, but it’s mostly about the design of the main game (with all the different routes) and I’m not really in the mood to talk about visual novel research atm. The Holiday Star post will probably go up tomorrow.

[ladylucindae]

Komaeda’s Wonderland

Let’s appreciate little details from the OVA and new informations/ headcanons based on it! I’m assuming that world from the OVA was based on Nagito’s feelings for people he was aware of. Despite Alter Ego’s knowledge or Izuru Kamukura’s influence it was designed to be familiar for him.

[POST WAS MADE AFTER WATCHING VERSION WITHOUT SUBTITLES]

LIST:

1. Komaeda overrates Naegi to the point that even Sayaka is stunned by his charm at first glance.

2. He wants to be considered by Fuyuhiko and Souda as friend.

3. He acknowledges Mikan.

In his perfect world Hiyoko doesn’t bully her and they’re actually in good terms. He also remembers about Mitarai’s and Imposter’s wishes to be part of the class.

4. He likes Souda more than Gundham that’s why Sonia in OVA is interested in him.

5. He never actually wanted to destroy Seiko’s, Izaoyi’s and Ruruka’s friendship.

6. He knows Matsuda. [POSSIBILITY]

It’s theory but I think Nagito was one of his patients. It would explain why he recognizes Ryouko and Madarai.

7. He doesn’t like Chiaki. [POSSIBILITY]

She is absent in all scenes of the OVA. At this point of the story everyone’s data should be installed in the program. The other possibility is that with her around Komaeda wouldn’t feel able to make friends. She would steal his spotlight.

8. To protect his friends Komaeda is ready to trust power he hates so deeply.

9. He wants Monaka and other Warriors of Hope to be happy even if they’re not so precious to him as his classmates.

10. Last but not least. Komaeda deeply cares about his classmates because they are accepting him the way he is in this world. Look at Fuyuhiko after Nagito attacked him! He easily got over it and acted normal without yelling. That’s how friendship suppose to look like.

I’m done for now! Thanks all of you.

EDIT: In my opinion Hinata’s absence is justified. No one in OVA actually recognize him so data for his world’s perfect state must have been taken before events of SDR2. In that time Nagito didn’t know Hinata and his memory of Izuru was erased from his mind.

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Oh I'm glad I saw your Sakuya's sister HatoOC art again I had forgotten who made that OC and couldn't find it again... can you tell me more about her???

Omg I’m really like, flattered that you asked. I’ll put it under a readmore because I kinda got a bit wordy here.

Well, the oc, Michel (Le Bel) Himura, is sorta shared between my friend Pro (@yukinoyayoi) and me. We came up with her around late 2014 I think after we went through Holiday Star and it was confirmed Sakuya had siblings.

Even though it’s confirmed he has an older sister, we decided our oc would only be a few months older than Sakuya so they could be in the same grade.Her backstory is pretty much that her mother left the Le Bel family after she realized her daughter wasn’t going to be the heir. She met a rich man belonging to the Himura group, which is another rich family but isn’t as like powerful(???) as the Le Bels. The two eloped and Michel’s mother moved herself and her daughter to Japan.Though while Michel was living with the Le Bels, she would hang out with Yuuya a bit before he left and eventually joined the Dove Party. The two of them got along pretty well and she did miss him a lot. Michel kinda sees Yuuya as like, a really good brother and more like family than her actual brothers since he’s nice.

So time skip a bit, Michel is now attending St. Pigeonations. She’s been there since her first year so she isn’t a transfer student like Sakuya. I’m going to focus more on her 2nd year a bit because in that situation she’s in the same class with Hiyoko, Sakuya, and everyone else. So Michel doesn’t really like Sakuya. Her mother kind of influenced her into disliking him because he was the heir. She also has some disdain based on how he acts and treats others. The two of them tend to butt heads and I’d imagine Sakuya might look down on her for ditching the Le Bel name entirely. In school, Michel is the president of the sewing club and is actually the only member. She got it started up herself because she actually has a fondness for sewing and fashion. In what would be the equivalence of her “route” Hiyoko would join the sewing club and just learn more about her passion for design. Though she is afraid of like, going into the fashion world because she wants people to judge her work what it actually is and not based on like, her coming from a well-known family.With Hiyoko, I imagine her crush on her kinda starts as her respect for like her individuality and self-confidence. I also like to imagine Michel making Hiyoko a sweater or scarf for Christmas or inviting her to spend the night at her place. (But I’m kinda just being self-indulgent and gay at this point)I hope this is cohesive it probably isn’t I finished it at 1am. If more people are interested I may try and like, put information about her in an organized post. Once again, thanks so much for this ask! 

[the-apocryphal-one]

Both trials four and five have finished!

I’ll skim over trial four because it’s kind of boring.  The starving to death idea was kind of nice though, and I like that the game takes away your run control because Hajime is so exhausted.  The writers were able to pull off a murder pretty well with the characters they were given since none of the people there were exactly willing to kill their friends to get away.  Having a character with the mentality that it would be easier for two people to die than everyone is definitely a mentality that one of the people there would have.  If that was the case, though, why Gundham didn’t up and say he was the one who did it.  Pride, maybe?  Hajime said that he kind of easily admitted to what he did and I guess that’s true, but why did he go to such lengths during his crime not to be found out?  Did he really believe in his classmates that much that they’d figure out what happened, even though the two things he didn’t predict (the broken handle, and Fuyuhiko in the lounge) were the main factors for catching him.  It doesn’t add up.  I’m sure if I really wanted to try to justify it I could, but I don’t care enough to try.  Trial four was kind of boring.  I didn’t dislike it, but figuring out the funhouse wasn’t exactly riveting.  Oh, and there must be a problem with the PC port because the game glitched out and I had to reset three times: when I visited the funhouse for the first time, when I went to talk to Akane right before Hajime was going to try his hand at the escape game, and when I was walking down the hall from one of the towers to…do something.  I can’t remember what we were trying to do.  That was annoying.  It’s nothing wrong with the plot or anything, it’s probably just a bug with the port.

Chapter four was just the calm before the storm though because chapter five is nuts.  It goes everywhere, to bombs, traitors, Nagito being weirder than usual, fire, and so much more!  I had a lot of fun with it.  The massive, massive trap set by Nagito was crazy.  Nagito’s crazy.  I already knew he had a few screws loose, but someone must have gotten a screwdriver and unscrewed the rest of them.  Or not, because he already seemed willing to sacrifice whatever for hope or something.  He’s really desperate to be called the Ultimate Hope, huh?  Yeah, I’d be excited to throw away the “Ultimate Luck” title too.  Everyone knows that’s the worst stat.  But THE TRIAL.  OH BOY, THE TRIAL.  The execution!  I already knew Chiaki was going to die near the end of the game because spoilers are really hard to avoid, but I didn’t know why or how she did.  It already sucked that everyone I liked was dying, but she was one of my favorite characters!  And I already liked Monomi and felt sorry for her.  Seeing that image of them holding hands and waving bye was both the worst and best things ever.  I mean, other than that, this chapter also killed off the two people that actually figure stuff out during the trial.  Come on, man, I still have, like, one more trial to go through.  

Anyway, I felt the tension and friendship between the characters when Hajime named Chiaki the traitor so much more heavily than the last chapter in the first game.  The new voice clips when Hajime is taking apart people’s defense of her certainly doesn’t help.  I’m not saying the first game did a bad job at establishing friendship, but it helps that I like all of the characters still alive and is invested in the protagonist.  I don’t know why, but the friendships seem more…real in this one, I guess I could say?  I’m more invested in the second game’s plotline and characters than the first so that might be why.

Oh, and Byakuya isn’t dead?  I’m stuck somewhere between “so close,” and “good, I was actually kind of missing him.”  It means that his impostor has a better personality than him so ha.  Joke’s on him.  'Sides, we already have a much better “asshole blonde who is heir to family power and prestige”.  I’m so glad Fuyuhiko hasn’t been killed off so far.  Please, please, I want him to make it to the end of the game.  He’s become so much more likable since the beginning.  ALL OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS ARE DYING.  Barring Hajime, of course, but he has handy Plot Armor.  …Maybe.  Probably.  Oh, geez, I hope he makes it to the end of the game too.  Will he?  I mean, I saw that Makoto will come back as the lead of Danganronpa 3 so… crap, Hajime could die.  Hopefully he’s just busy with other stuff.  Man, I’d have so opted for Ibuki over Akane.  I like Akane alright, don’t get me wrong, but I liked Ibuki so much more.  Is Akane related to Hina in some form or another?  Or did they design her after Hina for the fanservice?  I’m kind of thinking the latter but I’m not sure.

Anyway, I could tell that Nagito was going to be killed off just from the chapter’s title alone but I certainly did not expect that he would try to kill everyone.  What’s his problem?  I think it’s safe to assume that his story isn’t over yet, though.  Finding his body was brutal, not gonna lie.  I really felt what Hajime was feeling–he was crazy but he didn’t deserve that to happen to him.  Then, “wow, I can’t believe I felt sorry for you.”  

On the topic of Hajime, he has no ultimate skill.  If it wasn’t treated like how it was in the game, it could have been a joke because of how anticlimactic it was.  The game went in the opposite direction and I don’t really mind.  Either one would have worked.  Talent aside, I like him so much better than Makoto.  Admittedly, that’s not very difficult considering how low the bar was, but I still really like him.  He has a reason for believing in his friends–it’s not a blind faith.  Basically, he’s Makoto except with a more realistic personality.  He’s friendly and sociable, but he’s not stupid.  Not Makoto-bashing and all but…he was a really flat protagonist in a story and character-driven game.  That’s generally not really a good idea.

Oh, and you asked me what ships got my attention?  None really.  I’m not really much of a shipper.

I don’t proofread these things.  On a scale one to ten, how obvious is it? cx

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I think Gundham didn’t say anything less because he had faith in them, and more because he didn’t want to die. He would if he had to, but if they failed to figure it out and he got to live? That was also okay with him. I feel the murder motivation was good, as was the murder mystery itself. And yep, I liked the little detail of Hajime losing his ability to run as he got hungrier and hungrier.

Trial 5 is such a great trial. The mysteries! The emotions! The execution! I loved Chiaki to bits too, broke my heart what happened to her (and Monomi! Poor Monomi!). Poor Hajime’s going to have to do everything from now on. Also yes, agreed about the voice acting. I like his Japanese seiyuu too, but JYB is so great in the latter half of the game.

I seriously urge you to avoid spoilers for Chapter 6 (sucks you got spoiled on Chiaki). Seriously. All the secrets come out there, and they are good ones. Blacklist everything related to DR on Tumblr. Don’t look at any of my DR posts besides this one (since I don’t spoiler anything, it’s very very hard to do that in this fandom). Go into an Internet coma.

Ahaha yep, Byakuya’s like a tumor--he grows on you even though you don’t want him to. I really like the Imposter though (and YES Fuyuhiko is much, much better than Byakuya. Right up there with Hajime and Chiaki as my top three faves).

He might, he might not~

Akane’s not related to Aoi, it’s the latter. I also would have preferred Ibuki over her, or hell, even Hiyoko. Akane just kinda...stops contributing. Or developing (and that’s a far worse crime in my eyes).

You’ll find out Nagito’s problem later. But yes, he was insane and brilliant and much as I don’t like him, I was also really shocked by his body. Because that was a really brutal way to go. You really have to respect the sheer fortitude he had to do that to himself.

Hajime being so ordinary is what’s so great about his character. He’s nothing special and that gives him SUCH a huge complex. Because DR’s world only cares about special people, and he’s not, and that tanks his self-esteem. That’s what makes him so relatable to the audience, I think, because who here hasn’t wanted to be recognized as someone special?

7-ish? You ramble, but that’s a good thing, and I never spot any obvious errors!