#k1 spoilers

[kenzan-kiwami]

been hunting for excuses to write about him again before rgg8 and i finally found one

i didn't think much of this scene when i played through it initially, but going back to it i suddenly remember that scene from the start of yakuza 1 where he tells kiryu that kazama used to be the tojo clan's top assassin. being as close to kazama as he is, i have no doubt he already knows the true nature of sunflower and the deaths of kiryu and nishiki's parents at this point.

a big part of the reason i like to lowball kashiwagi's age (29 or 30 in Y0; mid-sixties in IW) is because i don't think he'd have had such an idealised view of kazama had he been any closer in age to him when they first met. i don't know if they'll ever tell us how long kashiwagi was in the family before he made captain, or why he swore up in the first place, and frankly i don't ever feel informed enough to make those kinds of decisions for my own headcanon. but if he was, say, in his late teens or early 20s, i don't think it would be a stretch to say he might still take some influence from kazama's mentality. absolutely not as much as if he was a sunflower kid (...could he have been a sunflower kid??), but enough to inform decisions he makes later in his life.

to wander further down the path of non-canon, i'm not sure kashiwagi would have decided on his own not to say anything to the boys for thirty-odd years. kazama clearly harbours a lot of guilt around the fact he murdered enough parents to fill an orphanage, and keeping it from the kids means he doesn't have to confront that fact every day he sees them. they miss their parents, but they look up to kazama for offering them a new life. they enjoy his company. they're happy. why risk demoralising them, kashiwagi, after all that?

on the other hand, he could have just kept himself out of it on purpose like he does here. it's an interesting parallel to how he's described in yakuza 3 - staying out of ichiban's drama because he trusts him to sort it himself, vs staying out of clan drama to not bring anything down on his head as clan captain (which obviously doesn't work). still, he refuses to relay daigo's whereabouts to kiryu, because he thinks it best kiryu doesn't know. for valid reasons, but it's there.

i want to say something profound here but i don't think i can. i just really like him in this game. it's nice to be able to see how he's grown and changed as a person since the 80s; since kazama's death; since he got gunned down in his office and died in the arms of his last remaining family figure. but it's also nice to see the ways in which he's stayed the same. this scene from 7 is one of the things that makes me long for a more kazama-centric game, or at least more exploration of kazama's character, because if that gaiden substory is anything to go on he's been informing kiryu's decisions for basically his entire life. it'd be cool to get a more direct peek into kazama's story.

[hamvases]

started danganronpa v3.

[templegate]

Drv3 chapter 6

[conwise]

*finds one of his friends dead* Keebo to the audience: How do we feel about this chat

The Danganronpa brainrot continues

[le01zk00l]

“ᴸᵉᵗ’ˢ ᵍⁱᵛᵉ ⁱᵗ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ʷᵉ ᵍᵒᵗ! ᴵᵗ’ˢ ᵖᵘⁿⁱˢʰᵐᵉⁿᵗ ᵗⁱᵐᵉ!!”🔪🩸

I really, really hope this doesn’t flop, it took me 26 hours..in..2 weeks? Yeah..I took my time with this one ^_^ (click for better quality!)

Fun fact..Korekiyo is my fav! His story is interesting I love him…he’s silly! Just needs a bunch..bunch of therapy and..just..help

ₘᵢₗₗᵢₒₙ gᵣᵤₑₛₒₘₑ wₐyₛ ₜₒ dᵢₑ!!

[hellscap3]

misc stuff i forget if I ever posted

[azumetapraline]

Drawganronpa Days 18, 22, 27: Hope vs Despair, Chapter 6, DRV3

“We will not accept an ending without hope or despair. How dare Kiibo defy us? He is our surrogate! How troublesome. That’s why we voted to erase his personality. Now, we can have the ending we want… Hope or despair, which one will it be?”

“Kiibo is gone. Not a sliver of who he is left in these empty eyes; now, they are mere screens for the audience to project their thoughts and desires. The feeling brutally hits me; I miss Kiibo. I miss his kind smile, his over-the-top confidence, and even his sensitivity to robophobia. I’ll never get these moments back. I feel anger coursing through my veins. I won’t give the audience what they want. They’ve taken too much from us already. Thank you, Kiibo, for giving us this last chance to defeat them. I’ll never forget how much you truly cared about us.”

@shsl-islandmode-events

🔁 > 💟

[tobyisave]

Lore/Art dump for my postcanon Kiiruma AU

Because I don't think I have it in me to write actual fic for this at the moment so just picture it with me ok?? I call it Anhedonia and it's Miu centric!

Plot / more art under the cut~

Basically, everyone's data is recovered from the NWP and Shuichi & co use it to simulate Miu, thinking she can help them rebuild Kiibo. She agrees under the condition that she builds her own body first so they can't throw her out after (which they were kinda considering ngl).

Once in her new body, she realizes she doesn't have her constant stream of ideas anymore and it really freaks her out. She starts spending all her time trying to recreate her perfect goddess body (because she believes it housed all her talent — but also fueled by a disastrous attempt to seduce Shuichi). Since her self image is completely unstable, she’s stuck making a never ending series of robot models, each one a more distorted caricature of herself than the last.

Of course she’s too busy doing this to design a new body for Alter Ego Kiibo, so she just sticks his AI inside one of her older models. But now she can’t really stand to be around him anymore, since looking at his temporary Miu body just triggers her own obsessive dysmorphia. She’s also starting to resent her existence as a robot in ways that Kiibo really doesn’t appreciate. 

The bodies are named MIU3.0, MIU3.1, etc. because Miu considers this the 3rd incarnation of herself. The first died in a car crash, and the second died in Danganronpa. 

Kiibo is also on his third life; his first self died after hurting Iidabashi, and his second self died after destroying the school — which starts to make him wonder if the world is just better off without him, since it seems that in each life he’s doomed to snap and destroy himself along with everyone he loves.

Not to mention he now has to share his Ultimate title with someone who's actually very knowledgeable and accomplished... and who won't look him in the eye anymore.

So...... basically it’s a huge trainwreck!

^^^^ Art has been most to least recent btw! This is the fake CG I drafted right after I finished V3... I started planning robot Mius the second I found out she died lmao

[finsterkiibo]

some inner voice centric kiibo pieces! the first one I literally made today while the other was made a few months ago! i always love (when I get the chance) to explore kiibo and his inner voice and his feelings towards said inner voice as the game carries on. would he come to hate it and the things it says? I can imagine the audience making dark comments and morbid thoughts flow through his head as each trial and execution passed… would it make him question his own morals? he only ever mentions the good parts of said voices to the others in game but I can’t help but think there is so so much more to it. I can’t even imagine how fucking gutted he felt when tsumugi dropped all at once on him that he was just some camera for the outside world and his bigger decisions weren’t even his own…but… maybe he was a little relieved that all those horrid violent thoughts weren’t his own too…

[fixateforonce]

Day 26- Train: *Shuichi violently sobbing*

[metamatronic]

The ghosts are trying their best to get the V3 crew rescued by the Future Foundation, but it’s a challenge.

[Btw, for those who mention it—I know the SDR2 cast technically didn’t die. But I like drawing them and their interactions, so they get to stay.]

[likereallyswag]

Beep boop

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I feel like a missed opportunity in the ending of Danganronpa V3 was that as soon as it was revealed the game takes place in the real world, it should’ve switched to live-action. This would be to show that the main game was how they were perceiving the world because of the memory manipulation, and the switch to live-action is to show how they actually are.

Also, this would emphasize the point that the V3 cast are people who were so obsessed with Danganronpa that they allowed their brains to be tampered with, to the point that they started perceiving the world differently. Which is dark, but makes sense since this is a future where the Danganronpa obsession got so big that people volunteered to be in it.

Tsumugi transforming into the characters of the first 2 games would still be animated, to further emphasize that they exist in V3/the real world as just fictional media.

(This is straight up something Black Mirror would do lol)

[charlie-pippin-faraday]

i've reached the investigation portion of danganronpa v3 chapter 2, which is the last point to which i had watched youtube content and thus everything beyond will be new to me. my chapter 2 commentary thus far:

kaito really just decided that he and shuichi were going to be best friends and shuichi didn't have any choice in the matter lol

nobody needed to tell me that kaito was the one incessantly ringing my doorbell, i knew it was him lol

i have been referring to tenko, himiko, and angie as "the girlies" and i am 100% confident that every single one of them is going to die before this game is over

lmao shuichi asking himiko "how have you survived this long?" same bro i also wonder this about her

kaito threatening to slug kokichi and then kokichi literally bolting out of the room is the realest thing that has happened in this game so far

i've made a habit of clicking on ALL the characters every free time to see if they have any fun dialogue before i choose who i actually spend free time with. on i think the first free time slot in chapter 2 i went to kokichi who said something about being scared that kaito had caught up to him because he was afraid he was gonna slug him (or something along those lines), and then when i talked to kaito he immediately said "you seen kokichi around anywhere?" implying he had indeed been looking for him to deliver said slugging. made me laugh my fucking ASS off

by sheer dumb luck, i had gotten the parasol from the monomono machine in chapter 1, so i was able to talk to tenko before doing the flashback light scene in the gym and unknowingly unlock what i later found out was one of the secret scenes (and let me tell you i was delighted by this development and that it happened naturally). and thus i was able to witness ~the girlies and keebo at the pool~. subsequently, i have SO many questions lol. tenko kind of implied that she kind of wanted just to hang with himiko, and angie was probably there because himiko invited her and tenko can't say no to himiko, but why did tenko invite keebo? lmao tenko you're such a hot mess

during the free time session i was planning on hanging with kaito first, but then i spoke to keebo and he asked so vulnerably "shuichi if you have free time would you like to spend it with me? there's something i want to ask you" and i changed my plans SO fast i would die for you keebo

"maybe someone like miu would appreciate his mechanics" shuichi you're not trying to play matchmaker are you?

lmao there was a stark difference in shuichi's reactions to that day's free time events with keebo and with kaito, both of which involved them talking about their skills/stuff they'd learned. about keebo, shuichi said "okay...he's weird and i don't understand him." about kaito, shuichi said "wow, kaito's incredible!" these were incredibly similar interactions. lol okay tell me how you really feel shuichi. you can't tell me he doesn't have at least a little bit of a crush on kaito

hm a "gyoza in the shape of a face - a dumpling that's modeled after someone you swear you've seen somewhere before." hm gee i wonder who that could be. (definitely doesn't look like makoto naegi or anything. haunting the narrative much?)

the fact that korekiyo was definitely in the top half of most reasonable people i spoke to in this chapter is a sign that the world has been flipped upside down

every one of these games has had one weird, obsessive, one-sided, and likely ill-fated romance, and i knew this time it would be tenko's weird thing for himiko. i can't believe i'm saying this but i feel a little bad for tenko. a little, at least. i get the feeling i won't be feeling bad for her in the future. for whatever reason, i get the sinking feeling that in a future chapter this obsession with himiko and her jealousy over himiko spending time with angie is going to end with tenko snapping and someone ending up dead

actually why is everyone obsessed with himiko? tenko claims to care for her and wants to support her and believe in her magic, and she definitely wants to get in her pants, and angie also wants to be friends with her and has successfully brainwashed her to her atua cult and convinced her to put on a dangerous magic show. and like, why? himiko is not that cool, she's lame and pathetic. she eats termites on accident, can barely go to the bathroom by herself, and is super fucking lazy and uncooperative. i get that she's afraid/sad and is susceptible to brainwashing (she's not the only one here easily manipulated *cough cough* gonta), that part's understandable and i'll give her a pass, but like what is she bringing to the table? i don't get why all the girlies are obsessed with her. i'm with shuichi on the "how did you survive this long?" train of thought. i'm torn between "tenko you deserve better" and "all 3 of you toxic girlies fucking deserve each other"

definitely my favorite event thus far has been miu and da boyz clowning on kaito in the casino. true teenage bonding experience. (and i mean da boyz literally, all the boys who were alive were present except gonta and keebo, who is only debatably a boy.)

"i guess you can't underestimate luck" you did it, you boiled down the entire character of makoto naegi to one sentence

but fr tho every time someone utters the word "luck," "hope," or "despair" in danganronpa games i feel myself suddenly at FULL attention, like those words aren't there by accident, there's always hidden meaning there. and i am once again wondering at the lore/secret behind this particular game, i still don't know what it is

immediately after this casino event is when i finally spent free time with miu. it was the first time i'd approached her as shuichi and she didn't threaten me. and she was even in the casino when i approached her! where we'd already spent time together clowning on kaito! so it was perfect timing

speaking of miu, she needs to get laid SO bad. maybe she'd chill out. like she acts like she's had a bunch of sex but given how much she talks about it there's no fucking way she's gotten laid, she's absolutely projecting her insecurities. someone nail this girl please it's what she needs and tbh it's what we all need. side note: kiyo telling her to stfu in the casino was fucking hilarious lol

question do the friendship fragments not carry over from kaede to shuichi? i had updated report cards from hanging with gonta, keebo, and maki as kaede, but they're not there anymore. do i not get to keep the friendship fragments that i earned from them?

another question, was i just not allowed to hang out with maki in chapter 2? every time i approached her during free time she fucking threatened me. did i the player do something to lock her out or is that simply not allowed?

bro tenko is gonna fucking lose her mind. i approached her in i think the last free time and she was just muttering himiko's name over and over again, big yikes. and then "my saliva makes injuries heal faster can i spit on you" girl what???

i think tenko needs to move on, perhaps to one of the other girls. miu, perhaps? if they could fuck i think this would solve some problems for both of them

in the bug room, kokichi said something about a "mean" difficulty and not being a coward in the killing game and i felt so called out lol, because i have all the trial action set to be as easy as possible lmaooo

keebo my beloved saved the day in the bug room and got the first major non-verbal victory in the keebo vs. kokichi war. i'm proud of him, but this will definitely not be the last of it

i do wonder what "snafu" kokichi was referring to when he was running around that caused him to be late returning to the bug room. they never addressed that, and i hope they get to it during the trial

bro did kokichi get rabies or something???? right before the magic show, gonta said kokichi wasn't there because in the bug room his mouth bubbled and then he passed out lmaooooooooooo

what were kaito and maki up to this entire time? making out? aside from ryoma, they were the only ones who were absent from both the bug room and the magic show. miu and kirumi weren't in the bug room, and kokichi wasn't at the magic show and left the bug room for a portion of time, but those two were nowhere to be seen for any portion of both events. i need some answers

noooo don't use keebo as a battering ram!!! that's so rude!!! kokichi definitely won that particular battle in the keebo vs. kokichi war, and we are nowhere near over. i want to see where this rivalry goes, 'cause tbh i think it's secretly the most tense one here

bro i hate himiko uuuuuugggghhhhh. "we need you to tell us how your trick worked so we can figure out how the culprit killed ryoma." "i can't tell you, i did it with my magic and that's the only answer you're getting" god shut the fuck up you're annoying and unhelpful and you never listen and you're actively getting in the way i want one of these dudes to punch you

i have some HEAVY suspicions about who i think is the culprit. and tbh i've held these suspicions since before i even played the game, back when i just watched some youtube content up to this murder. i don't know what will happen from this point forward, but if i'm right about who i think did it, i am gonna be SO stoked about it

[bronze-and-silver-keys]

do Kiibo and Chiaki become ghosts in your au or not sense they are ai/robot?

With Kiibo, yes, he has a spirit and if he's killed he becomes a ghost since he existed in reality/outside of a simulation (don't worry about the Ultimate Real Fiction he's real to me)

Since AI Chiaki exists within the confines of the NWP, she technically doesn't become a ghost outside of the program. She does exist after she dies as a spectator as Hajime and the gang go through chapter 6, and i like to think that her program slowly rebuilds itself after NWP was shut down and reboots, but she doesn't remember what happened during the killing game.

Now that you ask, i might use this in my fics...

[azumetapraline]

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