#mamamura

[toshkar]

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[jublubdubs-cone]

It would be really cool to have more wholesome interactions w Teruteru and his mom pleaaasee!! I love your art btw

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!! I’m finally done! Teruteru cooking with his mom <3

for the other people that have made requests, please be patient, I am working on it… I’ll have time this weekend!

THE PROCESS

[roobjoshi]

there is no canonical backing for this except for the fact that girls should kiss forever

(alt versions under the cut)

[kittencookiemeow]

another drawing today 🥰 mother and son

[kamimint]

Kitties

[thecrazyphantom]

Possible upcoming Afterlife Au?

[taldigi]

the only other person who can wrangle both Teddie and Yosuke at the same time.

[drawbauchery]

WILL MAMAMURA EVER BE ABLE TO JOIN THE BUS TRIP??? :3

[5daap]

making something

dis is mamamura in case its hard to tell

[danggirlronpa]

Crackship intrusive thought of the day: Mrs. Naegi/Hiroko. Guess what, Komaru? Your widowed mother is bisexual and is having a tender second love post-Tragedy with your chain-smoking surrogate mother figure

Honestly? Not enough mom shipping in the Danganronpa fandom. Why have I never seen a Mamamura/Chihiro's Mother post? Hiroko/Mrs Naegi? Gundham's two theoretical moms? Because this is a fandom of fools.

[toshkar]

Dangan parents ig

Previous version! it's truly a completely mess, but Mamamura's face is hilarious here. She literally has "who tf are these people" stare 😭😭

[the-earth-refused-to-die]

Amy. And Cherry and Miss Pauling and Chihiro and Angie and Peko and Mamamura and Miu and Fionna.

YES TRUE AND REAL!!!

[jublubdubs-cone]

TERUTERU HANAMURA CHARACTER ANALYSIS

After weeks in his wiki, doing the equivalent of liking the now empty chocolate packaging, trying to consume every last bit of canon that I was denied by this game.

And with all that info, I wasn´t just going to keep all my especulation to myself!

So if you are (or aren´t) a Teruteru fan, I hope you have a good time with this character analysis!!

(Meme by konxhk)

ANALYSIS 

Let’s begin with his relationship with his family. First his father.

From the in-game dialogue, Teruteru never mentioned his father, in one scene that he is talking about “his tragic backstory”, instead of talking about his whole family (siblings and both parents), the chef only mentions his mother, brother and sister:

The rise of family restaurants... Constant attacks by cheap chain joints... The bullying from a rival store... A grief-stricken mother...and frightened young siblings who were born to different mothers... To stop that crisis, I ventured alone and competed in a cooking deathmatch hosted by the Shogun of Taste... ...

This is widely interpreted in the fandom as his father not being present throughout his life. Which makes sense. But I don’t think that his parents were divorced though. 

That’s because Teruteru said that he and his siblings only share the same father, and still, he talks about them very intensely. (This is the scene, in his second free time event, that he tells Hajime that his brother and sister are the Ultimate Male Escort and the Ultimate Female Escort, respectively)

Jeez...it's obvious they're just exploiting their youth to make a quick buck! So what if they make a hundred million annually or whatever...? That much money doesn't mean a thing...

That's right! Money isn't everything! You gotta think about the big picture! They think they're so great earning more money than me!

I don't know if he's worried about them or just jealous of them... It's difficult to tell.

I think that if someone has siblings,  but has never interacted with them, or doesn’t know who they are, and only that they’re related, one is not going to care about them… This leads me to believe, not only, that Teruteru knew his siblings in person, but was close to them and possibly lived with them!

This sibling situation is related to the father because, again, Teruteru was born to him and Mamamura, but his sister and brother were born to their father and another woman. This whole shenanigan must have happened while the father was still close enough to Mamamura that she would be willing to care for his children. 

I think that Teruteru wouldn’t be aware of this whole situation.

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But I feel it’s important to keep this context in mind. Especially when talking about, none other than THE Mamamura!

Poor woman had a lot going on.

Basically she had to alternate between dying from sickness and saving the family dinner from bankruptcy, working day and night, nonstop. And mind you, most of the time she was doing both at once. So you might imagine she didn’t have much time nor energy to care for her children, the opposite happened actually, she had to be cared for: as Teruteru said before his execution, he was the one that cared for his mother every time she felt sick.

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With all of that in mind, here is how I believe that Hanamura family dynamic was like:

Mamamura was responsible for caring for 3 kids and the family diner, while dealing with a life threatening disease. Because Fathermura was never at home to help, she wasn’t able to look after her children, and was barely capable of handling the diner and her condition by herself.

Enter Teruteru, not only did he help his mom when she would pass out due to her disease, and was always present to help with the diner, but, as the older brother, Teruteru was the one taking care of his younger siblings, since Mamamura couldn’t do it.

I want to come back to the siblings for a little bit: throughout the Danganronpa series, we see that every Ultimate has always had a predestination for their talent, in other words, even before formally becoming an ultimate, the students already act like experts or prodigies in their field. Do you understand how this might be a problem for the Ultimate Escorts??? If Teruteru made some unnecessary comments sometimes, imagine what those gremlins were discussing at the dinner table. Add that to the fact that Teruteru was 24/7 with those kids growing up, and it instantly makes a lot more sense why Teruteru says such crude things in such a natural way! He is just using the vocabulary he used his entire life at home, the way of speaking he is comfortable with!

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However, even though he says inappropriate stuff out of habit sometimes, that is not the only reason why he makes those comments. Teruteru acts like that because he is insecure!!! (I am NOT justifying the things he says, I’m just trying to explain the Y of things)

His insecurities:

In one of the free time dialogues, the chef tried talking about his life to Hajime. For me this dialogue line sounds like he tried to tell a dramatic story, but still based heavily on the truth, but he gave up mid way through. I think because of shame.

The rise of family restaurants... Constant attacks by cheap chain joints... The bullying from a rival store... A grief-stricken mother...and frightened young siblings who were born to different mothers... To stop that crisis, I ventured alone and competed in a cooking deathmatch hosted by the Shogun of Taste... ...

...Juuuust kidding. A dirty tale of hardship like that doesn't suit an attractive urbanite like me! You'd rather hear me talk about my splendid and glorious life as a first-rate chef, right? Right?

Teruteru also lies about being from Nishi-Azabu district in Minato, Tokyo, when he actually is from the countryside.

Teruteru hides his accent.

Teruteru hides the fact that his family’s restaurant is actually a diner. He said that it was a fancy restaurant at first, then the next time Hajime tried to talk about it, he quickly changed the  subject of the conversation.

“Ok, but how do those insecurities relate to him being a creep?” I hear you ask, dear reader. And the answer is: To call attention to himself. Let me explain:

Knowing that Teruteru doesn’t like WHO HE TRULY IS (aka, his personality + backstory), we can assume that he thinks that he isn’t enough, not enough to hold a conversation nor call attention. And how do you think he would call attention to himself????

(You don’t know how much I hate this sprite btw)

But this defense mechanism of his is extrapolated even more, if we pay attention. He also uses that strategy to PUSH PEOPLE AWAY. 

When he feels someone is getting too close, or that he is too exposed, Teruteru might just lie (free time event 2), or he might throw out a sex “joke” to ruin the mood (in the free time event 6, for example). He doesn’t want people to really know him because he doesn’t like who he really is.

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YAY!! That’s all I’ve got for Teruteru in regards to analysis!! But dont think this is the end of this adventure! I’ve decided to split this project: one post (this post) for the analysis, and another (future post) for rewriting him in game. Then we’ll have the character development we’ve been denied in game!! Don’t worry, I already have a wip, so it won’t be too long until the next part!

[inland--empire]

Man i love Mamamura, i hope we learn more about her if there is any new DR content in the future

That would be nice

[loopyarts]

Happy Mother’s Day :)  in the uk. Here’s an oil pastel illustration of Teruteru with his Mama.

[kamimint]