#byakuya just gets more annoying as the series continues to pretend he had an appreciable character arc in the first game | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

starryoak · 9 days ago

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You know, it really is such a vibe that when I first played Danganronpa with a friend, literally every time I said I liked a character, not being that invested in spoilers, I was informed they died, and then after experiencing this at least five separate times, I then get informed when I ask, that the literal only two characters I actively wanted to see die lived.

#danganronpa #danganronpa spoilers #trigger happy havoc #and before you assume! No! I like hagakure he’s fine!#the actual characters I was referring to were #toko fukawa #and #byakuya togami #toko at least gets upgraded to mildly tolerable after ultra despair girls #byakuya just gets more annoying as the series continues to pretend he had an appreciable character arc in the first game #and writes him as a nicer person in each subsequent appearance in the timeline #Which is a form of character arc I guess or at least it’s gesturing at one #just without any of the self reflection or actual change in personality inside the games themselves #rather they just assume they’ve done the necessary work to write him as a nicer character than he was last game #it’s odd because the UTDP manages his character at least competently iirc #Which probably shows it’s not actually so much that I hate byakuya so much as I hate how the narrative responds to him #it’s that his behavior does not feel like it has appreciable consequences #he desecrates chihiro’s body and explicitly says that it’s because the original murder would have been too easy to solve #in a game where if the killer gets away with murder everyone else dies #And IIRC it literally just never comes up after this that he directly endangered their lives and he’s treated as only weirdly standoffish #say what you will about how the other casts treat their antagonists but they at least treat them appropriately as dangers to their lives #discourse #negativity

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