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kotaerukoto · 5 months ago

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Oh yeah, just a small detail for Makoto's regular modern/urban fantasy verse, he's not actually a student at Hope's Peak Academy there! He's either at Dusk High School, or in his first year of university. Probably somewhere like University of Tokyo, considering how in his canon verse he managed to get into an über prestigious school too. The inspiration of this was the scrapped extra ending of DR where, upon seeing a secret NG+ scene, it's revealed that the whole plot of DR1 was just a wacky daydream Makoto had, and he ultimately decides to not attend after all. But frankly, since it's Makoto, he's not going to have a normal life for long-- especially in the urban fantasy version of it. I imagine eventually his life becomes similar to the life of the MCs of those long-running light novel series, like Toaru Index or Monogatari, in the sense of getting into situations to handle all of the time. His inability to not try and help out when other people are in trouble combined with how his misfortune gets him near those situations anyway/attracts them to him, make it really hard for him to live a normal life.

#out of character — hey‚ the radio’s on the fritz!#the idea of makoto in university is funny to me bc you know he's fighting for his life trying to graduate on time #but he is just too much of a weirdness magnet (and someone who will involve himself in things) to stay normal #part of why i leave the school unspecified is so that i can drop Makoto almost anywhere bcuz the most important thing #about his entire character is that he's just some guy. he's completely ordinary!! he's not bsing when he says he's ordinary he really is #so he can fit almost anywhere as long as it lines up with the broad-strokes. he's very versatile #if you've read novels/watched anime like index or monogatari you know exactly what i'm talking about btw. i just know he'd deal #with so much in an urban fantasy setting #god urban fantasy is one of my favorite genres out there. it's so kino

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