#i dont have translation nor full image sorry

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Terukane bonus on volume 22

Teru has a fidget toy now :)

[i-cant-stop-fandoming-help]

RAISING HAND!!! SORRY IF IM BUTTING IN!!

Okay, so;

From my understanding, Mikako does not remember Kokoro, nor the experiments. So crossing that off of reasons she could be clingy.

The only guess I have is fear of being alone. I have this idea, due to the fact that it is never confirmed if Mikako remembers her birth father, Sojiro.(not to be confused with Kojiro Otori.)

If my memory serves correctly, Hanzo found Mikako floating in a river, which makes me think that Sojiro suffered a death from drowning. (I think this would also make Mikako afraid of water for a while.) If she remembers her birth father, but didn't know he died until a few years after adoption, i think it could lead to a case of autophobia.

As well as that, I don't know if it's ever said what age Mikako was when adopted. If she was around 5-6, she may not understand what death is, and if not carefully explained to her, she may think her father just up and abandoned her, since he never was coming back.

I dont think this would be the case, though, as the sdra2 ch6 trial art shows her lookimg about a similar age as she did in the kisaragi family photo.(or perhaps a year older in the photo)

I am rambling, so this is probably all over the place, but i dont have any other ideas on what could cause any autophobia, nor what could cause her to be clingy.

It doesn't feel in-character for her to be so clingy, either. (Or as emotional as we see her in that one crying sprite.)

The only thing i have against yamato being portrayed as an angel is one single scene from chapter 6's flashback sequence. (Will be relying on the zephirum translation for these screenshots)

Its not the full scene since im not allowed to add any more images, but it does end up eith mikako slapping him(deserved).

This was the only scene where he's shown to not be oh-so angelic, i believe.

Moving on from my rambles, i do think both characters were done dirty. If Yamato came in by chapter 3, perhaps itd be better that he had so much involvement. And I feel like Mikako should've had more involvement as well, as she's shown to be at least semi-observant. (Pointing out the incorrect tying of the rope in chapter one, and being able to keep track of what people are doing in chapter 4.)

I also think certain things shouldve been delved further into. I'm curious about Mikako being able to handle her hunger so well in dra chapter 4, as the only other person who seems to be handling it well is Rei.(i have an idea of why Rei could handle it.)

I also want to know how Yamato figured things out about Akane and Utsuro, when someone like Rei couldn't. It seems stupid, i guess.

Overall, i think linuj did mess up here and there with them. (i despise ch0 mikako with all my being.) (And i think yamato shouldve had more involvement.)(AND I THINK IT SHOULDVE BEEN SHOWN THAT THEY ARE SIBLINGS AND I THINK LINUJ IS WEIRD FOR WHAT HE SAID IN MIKAKOS CHARACTER SHEET)

I do like that Mikako canonically slaps peoplr when angry (shown twice in chapter 6. Earlier mentioned scene, and mikako slapping yuki about 15 times in the choice scene)

I gotta get back to watching ayame's FTEs and trying to ignore yuki being yuki. Please pardon any spelling errors, i type too fast for my own good.

This was originally a reblog to some other post but the topic was so far off from it that fuck it, I'm giving its own post for this rant because if there's one thing i really don't like about Dra is how Mikako was written/the role she was given in relation to Kisaragi.

Just take look at this excerpt from her character sheet (credits to Toastcat333 on Reddit for the translation)

Like i hate to be that person here but why does the guy that showed up for a single chapter and died almost immediately gets to come back from the dead to have his big moment in the finale of the game while the girl that had been there the whole time just dies without ever reaching the point of her character where we get the payoff for what had been set there through the storyline.

Why was she denied the big moment we had been waiting for the whole game to serve as set up this other character who just showed up, and that quite frankly, it's not nearly as interesting as Mikako herself.

And I get so pissed reading her sheet and seing Linuj go "Oh it's a shame i couldn't give her a bigger role" my guy you absolutely could??

Mikako only dies because of Linuj's insistence in killing her off because if she hadn't dropped dead in the post trial for some barely explained reason (like,, what actually killed her? Was it the memory storage device? The chip on her brain going haywire? Something Monokuma himself put there?) She wouldn't have died at all because her execution stops before the karts explode. Trully a slap in the face of anyone who became even remotely invested on her character.

My god, just let Yamato die! He's the Mukuro Ikusaba of this game anyway, or just have them both come back at the 6th trial! Just please don't reduce her entire participation in the story to a tool for his role that's just so shitty.