#i love danganronpa as you can see

[theangelcatalogue]

Can't take the thought of Yandere rottmnt or tmnt 2012 with a Tsumugi Shirogane!Darling (that is a backstabber that works with the bad guys or is a villain)

Imagine to discover that the silly geek cosplayer you have a crush cof cof obssesion cof cof

Is actually a shapeshifter who just was faking it or really cared about you but had to do their job(cause Tsumugi cared about Angie and Gonta death's and you can't change my mind)

IT WOULD BE SO COOL IF THEY SAID SOMETHING LIKE

" IT WAS ALL FICTION!!! " THE MOMENT THEY BETRAY THE TURTLES

The despair of being lied to,and how delusional they would be about that think you dind't wanted to do that(or you really wanted or no,your choice)

[hajihiko]

Nice night 🌘

[kiwibongos]

my friend looked at teto and said she looked like kiyotaka (bc of the eyes) and god dammit. yeah. why not.

bonus

[windcarvedlyre]

The more I try to analyse Komaeda the more apparent it becomes that he's a hypocrite about everything. Ever. All the time. Cognitive dissonance all the way down.

[vexedmilky]

The duality of Shuichi

[terukotime]

You say you don’t like the killer reveal, why? I actually think dev made some great choices and I’d love to talk to you about your perspective.

i don't want to get too deep into it because, like i mentioned in my previous post, i don't want my criticism to come off as negativity towards the series or discourage anyone involved in the production of the show because it's honestly not a huge deal. like, it in no way ruins the show or makes it less enjoyable for me. and i don't think the choice of who the culprit is is a bad one at all, i'm mostly unsatisfied with the way the chapter handles it.

[spoilers beneath the cut, obvi lol. and please remember this is just my opinion. me having and expressing my opinion is not hate towards the series. i'm nervous enough as it is posting just this and not a bigger essay on all my thoughts because i really don't want to have this be misconstrued, nor do i want any criticism i have to give, regardless of how innocent and respectful my intentions, to make drdtdev or anyone who works on the series feel bad.]

i think Ace being the killer DOES make sense. i have no qualms with him being the blackened, in theory. do i think he could've made for a great survivor, or have really interesting growth throughout the coming chapters? yeah! i would have loved for Ace to be kept around for much longer. but him being the killer this chapter isn’t inherently bad. it's now clear that there's a specific direction Ace's character was meant to go in this story and i think that's fine.

my problem is with what *didn't* happen with Ace's character up to this point.

the chapter hasn't concluded yet so there's still a chance for my thoughts to change, though i don't think it'll make much of a difference. but i'm still waiting to see if it can stick the landing. and even if it doesn't, that's okay. i've already accepted it, i'm just still disappointed by it all the same.

Ace, honestly, hasn't played much of an active role in the story. he's been a source of conflict and comedic relief, and that's okay, not every character has to be as important as Xander or David...but he hasn't really gotten to *do* anything. this series is very character-driven, and thus is very focused on the relationships between other characters. Ace has only had one notable relationship (outside of his feud with Nico, but i'm not really including that as a "relationship" for obvious reasons), and that was with Levi. and that didn't even stay positive for very long. and we also know now that Levi didn't even care about him to begin with because he doesn't care about people in general.

not only did Ace never really get to establish any other relationships, no one ever LIKED him. of course a good portion of the fandom likes him, but in the actual story, no one cares about him. no one will miss him. his death is honestly kind of meaningless character-wise. does it serve as a lesson to some of the other characters? sure. but he's going to be dying here with no one ever liking or caring about him.

Min's story wasn't just a cautionary tale. people did like her, people did care about her. she was friends with a lot of characters, she got to have an impact in the daily lives of others. we got to know her better, the things she liked, her deeper thoughts and opinions on things. she got to do stuff, and we got to learn about her. her death meant more to the characters beyond just being the first culprit. she died as a person, not just as a character.

most of the stuff we know about Ace is surface level or things confirmed in Q&As. he doesn't get to contribute much aside from the aforementioned conflict/comedic relief. i understand where the show is going with that idea, and why him not being liked by anyone is a specific part of what led him to murder, but that's not really what irks me. it's that Ace never got to really be a *person.* he's essentially a plot device, serving the greater "good person" theme going on this chapter, and filling in the smaller roles in the story when needed, like an antagonist in a scene or delivering a gag. yes, his admittance to killing Arei and eventual post-trial trauma dump will give him a bit more humanity and character...but that's not really enough.

we only get to see Ace how the other members of the cast see Ace: his loud, combative, aggressive side. the side that makes people think he's nothing more than an angry meathead who can't do anything right. we never got to see much of his other sides, of a much more somber, melancholic Ace. receiving even a hint of the Ace we see in his confession of guilt beforehand would have given him the depth we needed before this point.

to explain what i mean: imagine how unsatisfying it would have been if we never got to actually see Arei's breakdown in the playground. if Teruko had left before it happened, and we only get to learn what happened from a flashback from David's perspective. we already feel the weight and tragedy of Arei's death when her body is discovered because we knew beforehand why she behaved the way she did, how she never even liked being the way she is, and wishing she could be a good person like Eden. if we didn't get to see that happen beforehand, Arei's death would feel very flat and detached. her character growth would've happened entirely retroactively.

that's how i feel with Ace. it's not like he didn’t get enough spotlight this chapter, he certainly did. but every scene he was in really didn't really add anything new to him. the only thing that "progressed" with him was his hatred and paranoia. we just see him descend with no uplifting moments, no emotional hook to make us feel anything for him. the closest we get is the scene where he's arguing with Nico and Veronika at lunch, ranting about how poorly everyone thinks of him and that they all assume that he's for some reason happy to be the way he is. but it's really the barest of scrapes towards the deeper layers of his character.

a big problem is that there were a lot of chances for his character to actively be *explored*, but instead, the narrative perspective of him stays completely stagnant. the time we get with him this chapter doesn't give him any greater focus. and sure, you could say that that might be a big giveaway to him being the culprit, but i think if the time between character spotlight is distributed evenly, that would be easily circumvented. there was a lot more time that could've been spent building Ace's character beyond his animosity and self-loathing tendencies. we could have had someone actually attempting to bond with him, even if it doesn't turn out well. even if all the characters distrust each other to varying degrees, there's still a lot of characters that like each other or have unique bonds with each other that make them stand out and feel worth remembering, because those bonds contribute something to their characters. but with Ace? he truly gets the short end of the stick, because this isn't just the characters neglecting him, it's the story itself. if Ace got to have a moment like Arei, maybe someone to confide in, even if he wasn't really friends with them or liked them at all, him being vulnerable just once and having a moment with someone else would have rooted him in more as a person who fell victim to what the killing game wanted from him and not just a fictional character fulfilling the purpose required of them in the story.

honestly, it's a bit of a slap in the face, the way the show goes about it. because in hindsight, Ace's whole character is *meant* to be wasted potential. after all, his related phrase on Mai's bio page is "a girl who had a bright future".

he was set up to have the potential to change, the potential to add more to the story, the potential to show us more than what we were given. and i think the show kind of knows that and specifically perpetuates that. the scene where Teruko tells Levi to give up on trying to apologize to Ace almost reads as the show itself telling you to give up on Ace. that, why should we care about him? he's not going to amount to what we want from him. there's no use in investing our feelings in him.

whether or not any of that actually was intentionally doesn't matter, unfortunately, because rewatching so many scenes having this new context really makes it all seem like Despair Time doesn't want you to care about Ace. that Ace is meant to be a waste, that that's the core of his character. him being the epitome of wasted potential could have been great, actually, if they chose to use even a slight bit of that potential to build him up more before his inevitable demise. instead we watch him eat shit throughout the entire show thus far only for him to get royally fucked at the very end in the worst way possible. Ace's theme of wasted potential is only wasted potential because nothing is ever done with him. not actively, anyways. whatever his post-trial confessional is like won't really give us what we needed from the start. Ace didn't just deserve better in his life. he deserves better as a fictional character. he deserved to be a person and not *just* a character. he deserved to have deeper, emotional character moments outside of the trial, long before his murder confession and rapidly approaching demise. he deserved to be 3-dimensional.

again, this is all just my personal opinion, and there's still a chance the show can stick the landing and make Ace as the culprit feel a lot more natural and deserved. i'm not really confident in that happening, but drdt is full of surprises as well as a lot of great writing. that being said, even though i believe they kinda fumbled the bag with Ace here, i don't hate this turn of events. although he's a big favorite of mine, i still wanted Eden to be innocent over him, because she's also a great character and her killing Arei would not only be pretty huge character assassination, but would also make Arei's death meaningless. and i also think there were other characters who could have been better candidates as the chapter 2 killer (not just Hu, i think Levi, Arturo, and maybe even J also could've made for compelling culprits with the right reasons).

i'm content with this. i'm heartbroken he's going so early and i wish the execution of his guilt had been a lot better, but overall it's not terrible. he just deserved so much more in many different ways.

[danggirlronpa]

Komaru + Junko: Visual Parallels

[saiainopresai-v3]

im with saihara on this one (which one? take your best guess before checking tags!)

[yoldels]

Thh crew save me Thh crew....

I wanted to post drawings + some headcannons of all of them at the same time but that's taking too damn long so I'm doing it in parts instead

[fried-manto]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[quinns-art-box]

and an extremely late thing i did for saimatsu week day 7!! tiny little comic the prompt was birthday :] absolutely adore the hc that kaede's bad at cooking but she is trying so hard and that's always good enough. plus they can just do it together <3

[theangelcatalogue]

TIME TO VOTE!!!

Hey my dear! How are u? Your room is good? Want me to cook something?

OH! You saw the sign,i am happy that you saw it

I am hosting my first vote! It's for a 2012(Or Rotmnt,or both! If you like these multiverse thing!) Yandere story with many chapters!

You know these fics where the Reader is based in another character? Yup! This time,so this is for:

WHO READER SHOULD BE BASED OFF??

Peko Pekoyama! || Danganronpa

Mukuro Ikusaba! || Danganronpa

Maki Harukawa! || Danganronpa

(I dind't found a gif for her sorry!)

Hibiki || The Last Blade and Samurai Shodown

( Dind't found a gif for her!!)

Valeria || Dislyte

(Guess what?)

[junoverses]

I love being the defender of games that end up being kinda polarizing in their respective communities. I fucking adore Zero Time Dilemma for how stupid it can be, Nirvana Initiative might be my personal favorite Somnium Files game (at the very least until we maybe get that third game,) Danganronpa V3, for all its problems was extremely fun to see develop. I think the "Apollo Justice" Ace Attorney trilogy is a lot of fun (extremely generous name aside) and introduces probably my favorite character in the series with Blackquill. I feel like people focus on a game's supposed quality more than they do about how much fun they have with it. I get that quality (or lack thereof) can very much affect how much you enjoy something, but did you have fun with it though? I think it's important to at least try and interact with something on its own terms for a bit, to take it seriously as much as it wants to be no matter how silly, because games are supposed to be a fun experience, whether it be a satisfying gameplay loop or theorizing about and analyzing a game's narrative and individual plot points

[giggly-squiggily]

Hello!! For the candy hearts event, I was wondering if I could get some Lee!Leon from Danganronpa with the prompt of Sweet Heart/“Are you ticklish?” 💛

Honestly, any character dynamic works for me, if you want an exact character, Mondo, Taka, or Makoto works for me! But I’m not at all picky. I just like the goofy redhead 😭🫶 thank you!!

Leon my BELOVED!!! He was one of my favorites from the first game! :D This is so cute, friend! I've gotcha covered!

Sweet Heart- "Are you ticklish?"

“Are you ticklish?” Makoto tilted his head curiously at the baseball player, watching his face flush several shades of red. He didn’t know why he wanted to know, but the more time he spent with him, the more curious about the day to day things he became.

That, and Leon had been tickling him relentlessly for the past few days. Maybe he wanted payback?

“W-What? No, no way- I’m not..” He stammered, looking everywhere but Makoto. Finally, he seemed to give up, shoulders slumping. “Fine, yes.”

“You don’t seem too happy about it.”

“Cause it’s embarrassing! What kind of cool guy is weak to tickling?” Leon seemed to shrink further into himself, worrying Makoto. “It totally blows my image.”

“I don’t think it does. I think you’re cool as heck, even if you’re ticklish.” The brunette shrugged with his honest words, making Leon flush even more. “If anything, I think it makes you more likable. You’ve got a nice laugh.”

“What? Huh?”  The redhead sputtered, and Makoto laughed. “Seriously? Y-You can’t go and say things like that out of nowhere!”

“Too late. I already did! And sorry, but I’m also doing this!” He quickly dived behind Leon, grabbing his sides and tickling. “Gotcha! Gotcha gotcha gotcha!”

“AH! Ahehahahahah, Mahahakohohohto!” The baseball player collapsed on the spot, sinking to his knees and wrapping his arms around himself in a hopeless attempt to disappear. “Cohohohme ohohon, thahhahat’s so uuhuhuhnfahhahair!”

“No it isn’t! It’s fate! Destiny!” Did he know exactly what he was saying? No. He did however know going for Leon’s neck made him squeal and fall backwards, kicking his feet like a child as he squeaked and swore. “Take your tickling like a man!”

“Ahehahahhahaha! Sohoohohn of a-gehhahaha, ohohohkay ohohohokay!” Leon squawked as he shot his hand up, tapping rapidly against Makoto’s wrist. “I gehehhet it, I gehehet it!”

“Glad you do.” Makoto giggled as he finally stopped, feeling Leon lean back into his legs. “All that laughing, and I still think you’re cool.”

“Gah! What did I say- come here!” Twisting rapidly, he grabbed Makoto’s knees, making the lucky student squeal and collapse- bring their whole ordeal full circle.

Send Me a Prompt and I'll Write A Dabble For It!

[neodiekido]

would maki harukawa fw red guy dhmis

[cinnamonrollofdoom]

gift art i did for @firecooking for the @drv3giftexchangeclub summer swap!! i had SO much fun drawing this it was a good time