#no thoughts just Danganronpa

[flowersnfireworks]

unwanted empathy

Little gift for @spittyfishy, based off her V3 Remnant AU! You guys should all go check it out :)

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Read on Ao3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/43444395

Relationships: Iruma Miu/K1-B0, Harukawa Maki/Momota Kaito, Akamatsu Kaede & Harukawa Maki & Momota Kaito & Ouma Kokichi & Saihara Shuichi

Characters: K1-B0, Iruma Miu, Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi, Momota Kaito, Harukawa Maki, Akamatsu Kaede, New Dangan Ronpa V3 Ensemble, the others are just mentioned

Additional tags: Remnants of Despair (Dangan Ronpa), Despair Era (Dangan Ronpa), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mental Instability, Mental Breakdown, Guilt, Minor Character Death, not detailed though, Canon-Typical Violence

Language: English

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“Are you done yet?” Ouma whines childishly, swinging his legs back and forth from where he’s sitting.

“Quit your whining, I’ve almost got it,” Miu grumbles. She pulls at a wire on the back of Kiibo’s neck plate before abruptly changing her mind and grabbing a screwdriver instead to loosen something.

“But Iruma-chan is going sooooo slow!” Ouma complains. Miu flips him off, an action which Ouma returns in kind.

Kiibo beams. He’s so happy that his friends are getting along with each other!

“I still don’t get the point of this,” Saihara interjects. “Right now, Kiibo-kun does everything we say, why undo that?”

Ouma sighs dramatically. “Kiiboy’s so boring now! The emotion blockers Iruma-chan put in keep him from being interesting!” He smirks. “So this is just for fun!”

Momota snorts. “Of course you would think this is fun.”

“Well, I’m sorry you have a terrible sense of humor,” Ouma snarks back.

“Everyone, shut up, I’ve almost got it,” Miu orders, having returned to adjusting the wires at Kiibo’s neck.

“I believe in you, Miu!” Akamatsu cheers from her position draped across Harukawa, who bears it with an expression of complete stoicism.

“I don’t!” Ouma chimes in cheerfully, prompting an indignant “Oi!” from Miu.

“One last touch…” Miu mutters. There’s a slight jolt as she clicks something into place, then a larger one as she yanks a wire out. “Got it!”

There’s nothing for a second, before something clicks.

Images pour into Kiibo’s mind immediately in a dizzying whirl. Momota and Saihara laughing as they burn a building to the ground. Shirogane infiltrating the Future Foundation, sabotaging their efforts from the inside. 

What…

Harukawa fully embracing her assassin side, killing people mercilessly left, right and centre. Chabashira becoming so infatuated with Enoshima that she starts to push everyone away, completely blind to the monster Enoshima really is. Yonaga spreading her new ‘religion’, desecrating locations worldwide and bringing despair everywhere she goes. 

Why didn’t I stop this?...

Akamatsu weaving beautiful, horrifying pieces of music, plunging anyone who hears it into mind-numbing despair and smiling. Gonta, the gentle giant, abandoning all his values and dreams of being a gentleman, descending into being completely feral. Shinguji sobbing as his beloved artefacts are mercilessly destroyed, despite his attempts to save them.

No…

Ouma brutally slaughtering DICE, his closest friends as tears run down his face and he laughs in ecstasy. Miu herself, constructing machines that bring destruction to the world, the complete opposite of her goals. Tojo, snapping under the constant pressure and deciding to take control of everyone in order to fulfil people’s wishes.

Stop it…

Everyone else. Yumeno, Hoshi, Amami Kamukura- and Kiibo. Standing and watching as the world burns. As his friends carry out these atrocious acts. Smiling. Encouraging them. Doing nothing to stop them.

Stop it!

“Stop it!” he screams, completely overwhelmed by the rush of emotions. “Stop it stop it stop it…” he dies off to a whimper, clutching his head in pain.

“So, Kiiboy! How’re you feeling?~” Ouma sing-songs. When Kiibo looks back at him, he’s grinning madly, eyes alight with something psychotic. 

(He can only think of how Ouma screamed and wailed and sobbed as he killed DICE, his friends, his family in all but blood, yet had kept on at it, smiling through his tears. How broken he had looked afterwards, blood staining his clothes and dripping down his body.)

The feeling gets worse as he looks at the rest of them, flowing through his insides like poison. Of how broken all of them look, hollow shells filled with despair, eyes swirling but empty at the same time-

Kiibo whirls to face Miu, holding onto her desperately as he begs, “Put it back! Please, Miu, just- whatever it was, put it back please!”

He squeezes his eyes shut, unable to bear the sight of all his friends with their red, swirling eyes. He thinks he hears Ouma, Saihara and…Momota, maybe? All laughing as they watch his breakdown. 

“Please…It’s too much- I…I can’t-” he manages to gasp out. His circuitry is going haywire with the sheer amount of emotions pouring into him, not meant to withstand this many. And maybe it’s selfish, to want to get rid of these feelings, when he should be trying to stop them - his friends - from doing all these awful deeds.

A small part of his brain is screaming at him to activate his rocket boosters and fly away, find the Future Foundation and help them to fight against the Remnants. 

But Kiibo was designed to mimic human traits as closely as possible, and thus he is flawed and imperfect and selfish, and he just wants these feelings to go away-

“Aw, not so easy with a conscience, is it?” Miu coos, wrapping her arms around him. “Don’t worry, baby, I’ll fix you up again in a sec.”

“Little baby Kiiboy can’t handle all these emotions?~” Ouma giggles, leaning into his space. “Can’t handle knowing that you were the cause of so much destruction?”

“S-Stay away from me!” 

From behind, Akamatsu pouts. “That’s not very nice, Kiibo-kun. Aren’t we friends?”

“Yeah! We’re all on the same team!” Momota chimes in, slinging an arm around Harukawa, who leans into his touch. The assassin doesn’t add on, but her eyes lock on to Kiibo’s, sending a chill up his spine. 

“Working towards the same goals, right?” Ouma moves back slightly, letting Saihara approach from the other side.

“You’ve got as much blood on your hands as we do!” Saihara chirps, his normally kind eyes containing nothing but cruel amusement.

“N-No, I-” Kiibo glances down at his hands in distress.

(The worst part is, they’re not lying. Blood drips through his fingers, staining his metal red. Waterfalls of it pool at his feet, thick and cloying. When he closes his eyes, it’s all he can see.

Everywhere.)

“Don’t be so modest, baby, we both know how good you are with your hands~” Miu purrs, grabbing his face gently in her hands.

“Please,” he whispers. “Please just put it back.”

Miu sighs loudly. “And after all the time I spent taking it out. Fine, only for you, baby.”

As she guides him away, Kiibo hears Ouma giggle, “Well, he hates us and himself now! I’d consider that a win.”

“Yeah, that was fun,” Saihara agrees.

“Kaito, if we don’t get out of here in the next one minute, I’m going to slaughter that rat.”

“Gotcha, babe!”

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[absintheancandle]

say what you will about danganronpa, at the very least the characters are fun to try to stylize.

thought i'd give a shot at it even though i dont really plan on doing anything more with these

interested in commissioning me? check out my pinned post!

[evercelle]

someone help him

[bluuscreen]

triple masterminds ?

[shira-ceres]

Who's the protagonist?

[accirax]

sprite redraws be upon ye! i missed drawing the guys :,)

[clearlydusty]

Game grumps just started playing danganronpa v3, so I might be kaito posting for a while if thats cool with ya'll

[en-chi-la-da]

they're being "bow"-friends haha heehee get it

[hajihiko]

Hold me back 😡😡😡

[lampochkaart]

Kiibo, please, don't ask him complicated questions. He does NOT have emotional strength to think about any of this too hard right now

[zl4ta-exe]

I HOPE NO ONE HAS DONE THIS YET

[woolying]

am i too late do people still like maid david

[loneliestcelebration]

Inu-tsuki, Inu-tsuki! Speak like a human, die like a dog!

[grapecherry]

The Tragedy of David Chiem & Arei Nageishi: A Comparative Analysis

the absolute Tragedy of arei meeting the exact fate she feared for eden. david reprimanding arei for having a gentler worldview that he is responsible for fostering — one she reprimanded eden for having.

the Tragedy of arei using cruelty to protect eden and david using kindness to disarm arei. arei who hated seeing the hurt her efforts yielded for others’ benefit and david who relished in seeing the relief his efforts yielded for his own benefit.

the Tragedy of realizing david lives by arei’s sentiment and echoes her behavior. they’re both willing to be hated for what they see as the greater good of those they deem Good.

david deemed xander as his Good.

arei deemed eden as her Good.

and they were ready to change everything they had grown to be for them — to do anything. to feel Worthy of them.

and yet, we’re once again faced with the Tragedy of those influences having been separated before either could begin to truly trust the existence of unconditional love and opportunity to be kind.

but like I’m normal about it.

[bluuscreen]

outfit swaps ! that you can probably tell were drawn like a week apart. my art is nothing if not inconsistent lol

[emotional-mess-in-distress]

It don't bite 😊