#ouma is a huge kid at heart and i love him for it

[oumakokichi]

Can you list and describe the purpose of all the known items that Ouma asked Iruma to make? These things usually go over my head, thank you.

I can try! Ouma asked Miu to make several particularlyinteresting inventions. Before her death, she was definitely able to finishmaking some—but the diagrams and plans in Ouma’s room suggest that he had askedfor even more that she never got around to making.

As for the ones she definitely finished, there were theelectric hammers and electric bombs (also capable of being read as “erect”hammers and bombs, thanks to Miu and her humor), a remote control used forhijacking electronic devices, and a device which is basically a vacuum hookedup to a clear jar. This last one I just call “the bug-catcher,” because Oumaspecifically commissioned Miu to make it after hearing about Gonta “seeing abug” in Chapter 2 and realizing that those were actually microscopic hiddencameras.

The electric hammers seem to have mostly been designed withthe platformer mini-game in mind. They can disable just about any electricdevice, be it a panel, lift, even a robot like the Monokumerz or Monokuma. Asingle electric hammer can disable a single Exisal with a direct hit, causingthe cockpit to open. The downside to these hammers is, as Ouma tells them inChapter 5, that they lose their charge very fast. One hit to an Exisal willdrain a hammer’s battery instantly, and they take about 24 hours to rechargecompletely.

The best part about these hammers is that while they’reextremely useful, they’re not actually a threat to people. They only work onelectronics, not on human beings, meaning Ouma clearly asked Miu to make thesewith the idea of keeping as many people safe as possible. This also leads toKiibo wondering whether Miu saw him as a robot or an individual, and whetherthe hammers would work on him or not—but Ouma says he wouldn’t recommend tryingto find out, since if it’s the former, those hammers would definitely fry hiscircuits.

Miu only made three electric bombs for Ouma in total. Mostlikely, they were a little harder to make than the hammers, because their effectis even more overpowered. Like the hammers, the bombs pose absolutely no threatswhatsoever to human beings. A single bomb disrupts all electronic signals andsensors in a 50 meter radius for up to two hours. That includes not only sensorslike the one to detect humans underneath the press in the machinery bay or themotion sensor in front of the electric barrier, but also the hidden camerasthemselves.

Maki stole one of these bombs from Ouma while choking him forthe second time in Chapter 5, and that’s how they were able to enter themachinery bay later on. Even when subjected to an area where the bomb had beenused, it didn’t have much of an effect on Kiibo other than “a reaction similarto human allergies,” causing him some mild discomfort but not much else. Soagain, the bombs were completely harmless to the group.

As for the remote, Miu only made a single one (as far as weknow). It seems to be capable of hijacking electronics, and in particular, hijackingthe Exisals. Only the Mother Monokuma and the ringleader were capable ofdirectly controlling Monokuma himself, so since Ouma couldn’t hijack Monokumadirectly or disable him without the ringleader making a spare, he used theExisals to keep him under lock and key for most of Chapter 5, in order to tryand prevent the killing game from stating back up. He kept a single Exisal inthe bay with him for protection, and the other four circling Monokumaconstantly to make sure he didn’t go anywhere or try to start anything bypresenting motives.

Had Ouma really not cared about the rest of the group ortheir lives, I like to bring up the fact that he could easily have used theExisals to gun down everybody here. He had the perfect opportunity, and as hehimself points out during his bluff with the bomb, there’s no rule againstkilling more than two people. He could easily have killed everyone but himselfand walked out alive. Had he really been the sadistic villain he pretended tobe, or as heartless and self-serving as other people try and make him out tobe, then he would’ve done so. But he didn’t. Not only that, but every singledevice he asked Miu to make was designed specifically to be as harmless aspossible—just like his pranks.

The bug-catcher we know very little about. Saihara and Makiuncover diagrams for it in Ouma’s room, and Maki later finds the actualbug-catcher in Miu’s lab, apparently as something she was working on. It’sunclear if she was ever going to make more, like she did with the hammers andbombs, or if she was making just the one. Either way, the bug-catcher wasdesigned specifically to suck up hidden cameras around the school, smaller thanthe human eye could see. These hidden cameras are actually the sixth member ofthe Monokumerz (trust me, I couldn’t make this up if I tried), and they go bythe name “Monochichi.”

Ouma clearly guessed that these cameras were how Monokumawas observing them and transmitting information to the ringleader, but wasunable to fully stop them without either the bombs or the jar. One thing Inoticed on a recent rewatch of ndrv3 was also that he has a microscope in his room—presumably forexamining the hidden cameras under. I didn’t notice at all the first time Iwatched, but he really must have caught on almost immediately after Gontamentioned “seeing a bug.” It’s proof once again of just how smart he was, thathe was researching these things so intently and finding so many workarounds tothem.

Those are all the things we know Miu actually made for him,but there are other diagrams in his room as well, including plans for somethingthat looks like a gun that shoots rainbows, as well as something resembling a lightsaber. Again,I couldn’t make any of this up if I tried, so here’s a screenshot for proof:

Maki herself points out that absolutely all of his plans anddiagrams look extremely childish, “likesomething a kid would think up,” contrary to their actual practical uses.

None of the writing on these plans is legible, so we canonly guess as to their uses. I for one would have loved to see Ouma with both arainbow gun and a lightsaber though, so I’m sad that they didn’t ever actuallyget around to being made. Much like his pranks, all of Ouma’s devices that heasked Miu to make seem to have been designed to be childish-looking, fun, andharmless to people. And all of them were much, much more useful than theyappeared on the surface, similar to how Ouma himself was much smarter thananyone in the group could have guessed.

Saihara and Maki both mention that the cardboard boxes inOuma’s room are filled to the brim with “similar” plans and diagrams, but thoseare the only other ones we get to see. He probably had quite a few more devicesin mind, but it’s unclear what those are, or how they might have looked. Sothese are really all the ones that we have any information on.

I hope this helps, anon! This was really fun to get to talkabout—I’ve mentioned the hammers, bombs, and remote before, but I’ve never hada chance to go into this much detail about them. Thanks for asking!

[kokichixreaderthings]

hii!! its me again, the one who asked abt the shifting hcs dljfkfjg thank you for those hcs btw!!

would you be able to do kokichi with an s/o who has a fursuit/ makes fursuits? more specifically, toony/kemono style fursuits??

kokichi x s /o reader who makes and has fursuits! <3

yes!!! i always thought fursuits were really cool, and you gave me the excuse i needed to research them! the kemono fursuits are just really awesome to me, i really like that style and now im definitely going to go down this rabbit hole and watch a bunch of fursuit unboxing videos because its just so cool,, and  i had a lot of fun writing this too, i hope you like this!!!

when you two first get together, kokichi doesn’t know about your fursuits

it’s not that you’re ashamed, you know kokichi’s pretty supportive based on how close you two have gotten, and you know he’ll be accepting (though he will tease you) but it just never came up in conversation!

how are you supposed to fit “i make fursuits” into a daily conversation??

it is kind of embarrassing too...

so kokichi doesn’t know!

but eventually, he finds out...

he was hanging out in your room with you, just like he usually did!

and you were doing some work (whether it was homework or you were just drawing) so you couldn’t really be bothered too much

(of course you made somewhat of an exception for kokichi, he’s your lover after all!)

but he decided to be “polite” and quiet down for a bit, though he was still looking for something interesting to do 

sooooo he decided to look through your stuff! 

with your permission of course!

“heyyyyy y/n, can i look through your stuff?”

you’re not very shocked by the offer, it sounds like something kokichi would ask

but if you immediately say yes, he’s pretty surprised

“what? really? awwwww you trust me!”

and if you say no, he’ll convince you somehow!

“pleeeassee?? i’ll only search where you want me to! i just want to get to know my cutie-pie better!”

despite it being overly sappy on purpose the pet name really got you...

so you only let him search a certain area! you kind of think it’ll be fun to see his reactions anyway

he’s kokichi ouma, of course he’ll make it fun!

and it just so happens that you let him search the area that your fursuits are...

either you forgot they were there or you just didn’t mind but either way he finds one

and he is shocked

“woah. my s/o is a furry.”

then he breaks out into a huge smile

“woah! my s/o is a furry!  beloved, how could you keep this a secret?”

you tried to explain that you weren’t keeping it a secret, and that it just never came up

but he’s not really listening, he’s too focused on examining the fursuit with wide and almost sparkling eyes

you can tell that he’s excited, and you’re kind of surprised!

you thought he would immediately make fun of you, but instead he’s really interested!

like, really interested

he gives you a bunch of questions, one right after the other

“woah, you make these?”

“Do you sell them? Do you wear them?”

“ooh, do you go to those fursuit conventions??”

“wait. how much money did this all cost?”

“waiiiiiit. how much money do you make???”

you can’t even answer him because he’s asking so much!

but once he calms down, you explain to him everything

about the type of fursuits you make,  the way you make them, if you take commissions, and all that!

the whole time, he’s looking at you with full attention and some serious heart eyes

it’s really cute that he listens to you like that, it makes you feel loved!

“y/n, i can’t believe you hid something this cool from me! can you make me one? pleeeasseee?”

you know he’s kind of kidding and it would take a lot of work and time...but you really do love him and you wouldn’t mind making him a head at least!

so you accept his offer!

“really? you really will make me one? awww you’re the best s/o ever!!”

so you do all the measuring and all that and get to work on it immediately 

however, you keep your work a secret for then, you’d rather have it as a surprise for later...

anyways, despite his obvious interest in what you do, he does make fun of you a lot

obviously, you make fursuits, so you’re a good target!

don’t worry though, you know how he feels about fursuits from his initial reaction, so it really doesn’t hurt!

“ugh, a fursuit just showed up recommended on my phone, y/n! that’s gross!”

it’s kind of funny when you know it’s recommended to him because he’s looked up fursuits

but he can only tolerate himself teasing you! if anyone else talks about fursuits in a negative way around you or him, it’s not allowed!

“oh my god, you really think fursuits are cringey? Jeez, you’re stupid. Are you living back in 2017 or something?”

you’re glad kokichi sticks up for you like that, it’s really sweet!

and he’s really supportive about this whole thing

when you’re making a fursuit, he’s right there with you, watching you work

and if you take pictures in your fursuit, he’s the photographer!!

and eventually you do make him a fursuit head!

it’s kemono-styled, light purple and black, with sparkly purple eyes!

in order to give it to him, you tell him to check out some of the new drawings and suits you were working on, including the one you made for him!

you’re hoping he’ll compliment the one you made for him

and he does!

“y/n, this one is super cute! you’re so talented, y’know?”

his smile is amazing, and you’re really glad that he likes it

when you tell him it’s his fursuit head, he’s extremely happy

“omigosh. this is soooo cool! can i wear it? can i wear it? can i wear it?”

and he looks amazing in it!! it fits him perfectly too!

and you two definitely wear your fursuit heads together from then on

it’s kind of cute!

and you know those furry conventions...

he’s dragging you to one of those

it’s entirely his idea too!

“i’m not a furry or anything, i just want to wear that super cool head you made me!”

and you two have a lot of fun! you take photoshoots and hold hands (or paws, in your case, since he only has a head but you probably have paws too :3)

and once you two leave, he takes a moment to talk to you seriously

like with the truth and everything!

“you know I’ll support you no matter what, right? fursuit and all! you’re my beloved, and i love you. and you’re amazing, and i just want you to be happy, y’know? sooo if you have any other secret passions, just let me know, okay?”

it’s so sweet how sappy he can be sometimes, you’re blushing even if he can’t see it through your fursuit

and you could hear his heart eyes through his voice even if you can’t see it

but you will have to take off your fursuit heads to kiss, which feels amazing

you’re just overjoyed that you get to share this “secret passion” with him, and that he is so supportive <3

thank you so much for reading!! always remember kokichi ouma loves you!!! <3💜

[originaldanganronpascenarios]

This a more angsty request. How about the V3 kids react to their S/O (definently not anymore) being in a Yakuza clan and getting them pulled into the Yakuza unwillingly. It's really angsty, sorry.

BRO why!?

Like ngl it was fun to write but whyyyyy! The Ryoma one just fucking broke my heart!

Unrelated but related: when I was writing for Korekiyo I felt so strong Jhin vibes even though it isn't anyhow similar to Jhin please help

V3 cast getting pulled into Yakuza unwillingly by their (now ex) S/O

Ryoma Hoshi

Why... Why didn't he realize it sooner? All this time you were part of Yakuza and now he was forced to be a part of it...

Or so you thought. The rule is simple you stay or you die... Ryoma picked the second option.

He whouldn't make himself a puppet and he whouldn't forgive you for this either.

He actually rathers death than even trying to run becouse now he has no reason to continue whatever hell it is.

He should have known that happiness wasn't meant for him and he learnt it the hardest way possible.

Kirumi Tojo

She didn't knew what to do or think honestly. You betrayed her but she still felt something for you.

But of course she can't be with someone who forced her into Yakuza... Still she was doing anything that was expected from her.

The only person she didn't listen to was you. Since last time she did it she ended up in this situation.

In general she avoided you at all cost but when she couldn't she spoke formally with you and her tone was allways cold...

From that time nobody has ever seen her caring side. She didn't care about anything or anyone.

Gonta Gokuhara

Gonta was confused about everything and kept asking questions.

He didn't wanted to do any of Yakuza duties but he was forced to do it. With someone as strong as he was your clan was unstoppable.

It left huge mental impact on him and he began to be more and more scared. He couldn't run because he didn't wanted to hurt more people even if they were bad.

Because if he wasn't himself he would have made it out easily without any problems... But this is Gonta not some kind of terminator.

He often cried himself to sleep thinking that you of all people did it. Surely he also avoided you and even though it was rude he didn't speak to you at all.

Miu Iruma

Her genius inventions whould surely be useful so all she needed to do was invent. But she couldn't belive that she was in this mess.

She cursed at you each time she saw your face and threatened you often.

Like she literally tried to kill you... When she was making an invention that was going to protect you she actually made it a "head squisher" to say it nicely. Luckily for you you weren't first person to try the invention on.

She so was planning escape and revenge. I mean you gave her all materials she needed to make herself uncomfortable but she planned this far ahead.

K1B0

He didn't understand why this was happening and he did resist but after threats that you whould delete his code and replace it with something more suitable for yakuza he stopped and gave in.

But you were going to change his code either way. Keebo was just too... Weak emotionally for shit he whould do.

So you lost your boyfriend and gained a weapon. Now K1B0 isn't anymore your sweet Keebo... Not gonna lie you will miss him but who cares at this point about some stupid emotions?

Kaede Akamatsu

She was adapting to situation surprisingly well. Even though you betrayed her she didn't look at you the way you thought she whould.

Few days later you lern that she had first attempt of sabotaging your clan. Afterwards she didn't hide her true feelings now that her cover was blown.

She looked at you with annoyed expression and whould refuse to speak with you. She was heartbroken.

She managed to hold back her tears around you but when she was alone she was crying.

Kaito Momota

Oh he really expressed verbally what he thought about this all. Did he hit you? He wanted to but he was warned that if he harms you in any way then he's dead.

He wanted to believe in you. He really did some part of him even thought that he wasn't looking at you.

But he knew that he's just hoping for something unreal so he accepted it. You weren't the person he met and fall for and he was an idiot to think otherwise.

He was stubborn since there is no way he whould let himself be used as a godamn toy.

Every day he thought of a way to get out of this mess but alone he couldn't do anything.

Still he didn't give up no matter what you whould do he whouldn't lose hope.

Angie Yonaga

At first she thought you were joking. After all why whould Atua chose you for her if you were going to do such a thing.

But it turns out you were as serious as she didn't wanted you to be.

She started thinking why you whould do it but it doesn't matter at all.

She tried to trick your people into setting her free but it didn't work. No matter what she did or said she couldn't get out of this mess.

But she was still smiling her eyes grew dark when she saw you and you could feel her deadly glare but you didn't care enough.

Shuichi Saihara

He knew too well about the fact that now that he knows about the Yakuza he has to either die or join it. Since your clan was more of a secret one.

Of course he didn't give up on his life so he joined you.

He didn't look you in the eye and alredy came up with a plan to defeat you. To do that he was cooperating with whatever your clan wanted from him.

You were surprised that he didn't resist but you also often saw him in his free time closed in his room but since he couldn't lock the doors you could open it and nobody whould stop you.

Each time you saw exact same image... Him sitting in the corner looking at the ground beneath him his back facing the door.

After so many successful missions and years of him being 'part of the family' your clan trusted him enough to send him as a double agent. Wich was their mistake.

Everyone was arrested including you. And last time you saw him he looked serious and in his eyes you saw disgust. Last thing he ever said to you was plain "Bye".

Tenko Chabashira

(if you are a boy) She should have listened to her master and stay away from you. He was right that males were bad but this? This was just too much.

(if you are a girl) She was shocked about it. You were allways so kind gentle and amazing she can't believe that you whould do something like this.

(rest of the scenario) Breaking up with you was something she didn't had to do since you both were aware that becouse of your little scheme you aren't dating anymore.

Tenko was strong and you used her strength well. She was too scared to not listen... She was too scared to run... It felt like a huge trap and she couldn't do anything.

So in the end she had to work for you until you didn't need her anymore wich means death to her.

Rantaro Amami

Of course you made him join by using his sisters as a bait. Becouse of just this fact alone you knew that you were now no longer a pair.

As long as he cooperated the girls whould be okay. So he had no choice.

He didn't treat you with silence so when you had something to say to him he whould give you the most plain response.

And this continued over and over Rantaro kept thinking why he was so blind to fall for you. Even though he didn't knew anything about you being a Yakuza you still threw some of red flags he wasn't able to see over his love for you.

Kokichi Ouma

He agreed only becouse he knew that D.I.C.E was probably your next target to pull into your stupid yakuza bullshit.

So it was his condition wich you agreed to but both of you knew you lied to him. Sooner or later your people caught his people "Now we are like a big family!" wich he only responded by smiling at you but this smile was filled with hatred.

He was making things harder and often sabotaged you but you let him live since you had control of him not the other way around.

You made sure the D.I.C.E members were separated so they couldn't work together in order to escape. Many people at your clan were annoyed by the clowns but they were very valuable to make Kokichi give in.

But no matter what strings you pulled this puppet was doing whatever it wanted.

Himiko Yumeno

At first everyone questioned your choice but she still had to go through all yakuza duty. She wasn't strong and so she often was close to her own death.

By that time it was obvious she hated you. She allways repeated it whenever she saw you come towards her "Go away I hate you!"

She was scared and couldn't even psychically do any task that was given to her so she went through cruel training.

Her fragile body couldn't take the training however and one day she died during it from exhaustion.

Maki Harukawa

She should have expected it. I mean you two got together after she told you her real puppet.

By now she was used to being used as a puppet to kill and she didn't fight it.

But each time she saw you you could feel the hostility coming from her. She hated you and you couldn't blame her.

Maki wanted to kill you but she couldn't since second she stabs you she whould get killed by other member of yakuza.

Korekiyo Shinguji

The last thing he said to you was "Kukuku... So your true nature was actually ugly... Too bad I didn't see through it".

You didn't shove him away when he told you that in reality he used to kill people before he met you and that made him fall even more for you but now it all didn't matter.

You kept the relationship going just so you could trap him back into his killing habit.

Each time you needed a woman dead you gave that task to him and he hated you for that since he realized how fucked up what he used to do was.

Still he couldn't disobey but after all what whould be death for him really...

After some time he stopped caring about any of this. And he ended up killing himself...

But before he did that he killed you in your sleep. That revenge felt a bit too good for him really...

Tsumigi Shirogane

She couldn't belive something like this whould happen to someone like her. It all felt like a nightmare that she whould wake up from but it never happened.

It's obvious that she wasn't happy about your betrayal. But why whould she be really.

Still she was too scared of you to disobey you. So she did whatever you told her to.

So it was a training she was too weak for something actually good. It didn't go easy on her and it lasted for many months before she was anyhow useful.

Her spirit broke by that time she didn't care about a thing. She was in despair but her face didn't show any emotion.

~Mod Angie

[sparkly-despair-imagines]

Heyo. I want to ask if you could make scenario DR V3 Boys reactions when their s/o tells them she is pregnant with their Child. Sorry for botherIng and my bad english 😅

Baby’s on the way!

It’s finally done, sorry for the wait!

Didn’t do Kiibo, Gonta and Kiyo, I hope that’s ok. I added Kazuichi like I was asked to.

I hope you like these, I tried to make the situations a little bit different from each other.

Love,

Mod Dia

Kazuichi Soda

“Hey babe!” You said entering the shop.

Kazuichi’s bike shop had been getting a lot of customers lately and even though he barely had time for other things he was happy because he could make more money for his family and himself.

“Hey s/o! I’ll be free in a sec.” He took his eyes off the motorcycle which’s oil he was changing and glanced at you with a smile.

You sat down in one bench while waiting for him to finish, fiddling with the objects inside of your pockets nervously.

It didn’t take him long to finish the job and join you on the bench.

“How’s my favorite girl doing?” He kissed your cheek.

“I’m okay.” You said. “Actually I have something I want to tell you.”

“Oh... Go ahead then.”

“I...” He looked at you expectantly. “I’m pregnant!”

“W-WHAT?” Kazuichi wiped his hands on his monkey suit and got up. “Really!?”

You gave him a positive nod and a huge smile appeared on his face.

“I’m gonna be a daddy!!” He exclaimed giving you a big hug. “I-I’m so happy! I don’t know what to say..!”

Tears of happiness started pouring from his eyes but you were quick to wipe them away.

“Thank you so much, s/o.”

“What are you thanking me for?” You giggled.

“You gave me a chance. And now I’m gonna start a family of my own.” He said. “I’m sorry if I’m being cheesy but... I really do appreciate you.”

“And I love you, dummy.” You kissed his left cheek. “You make me so incredibly happy everyday.”

“I’ll work twice as hard to make sure our baby will have everything I didn’t have.” Kazuichi took your hand, starting to become emotional again. “I’ll give you two the life you deserve.”

“I know you’ll be the best father.”

“Y-you think so?” He hugged you again.

“I know it.”

Shuichi Saihara

Your suspicions were correct, you were having a child. After all this time trying, you were finally going to be a mom!

You could barely keep yourself from calling Shuichi right away to tell him the news, but you were able to contain yourself by imagining how much better it would be to do it in person.

After waiting the whole afternoon you finally heard the sound of keys jiggling from outside and ran to open the door.

“Welcome home!” You threw your arms around his neck and hugged him for a while before pulling away, but not without giving him a quick peck on the cheek.

“Thank you, s/o.” He gave you a tired smile. “Did something happen? You seem very happy.”

“Actually, yes.” You grabbed his hand and sat him down in the sofa. “I have something to tell you.”

“Should I be scared?” He jokingly asked.

“Well I don’t know, you tell me.” You said. “You’re going to be a father!!”

“I’m.. WHAT?” You saw his grey eyes widen. “Y-you’re not kidding, are you?”

“Of course not!” You assured him. “I took 3 tests just to be sure.”

“I can’t believe it...” He ran a hand through his hair. “You’re... pregnant?”

“No, that’s wrong!” You said. “WE’re pregnant.”

“...” He grabbed your wrist pulling you down into his arms and embraced you tightly. “..I love you so much..”

“I love you too, baby.”

You tried to gently pull away to look at his face but you felt his grip harden. “Please, don’t.. look at me right now.”

You moved his hair away from his forehead and brought your lips to the spot, placing there a soft kiss. “Please, Shuichi. Let me see your beautiful face.”

He reluctantly let you pull away and you saw that he was crying, tears staining his porcelain skin.

“... Aren’t you happy, my love?” You asked cupping his cheek on your hand.

“I’m.. terribly happy, it’s just that.. I’m scared.” He placed his own hand on top of yours and looked away.

“As am I.” You moved his head to face you. “I don’t know a lot of things... But I am ready to learn, with you.”

“I want to be there for you and the baby.”

He paused, rubbing his eyes, then said: “I want to be a good father.”

“I’m sure you’ll be. You’re sweet, caring and intelligent... And I know you can do it because I believe in you.”

“S/o.” He said. “Thank you. You always know what I need to hear.”

“I try.” You laughed.

You stayed in his embrace and hugged for what felt like hours.

Kaito Momota

He woke up in the middle of the night.

Next to him was only your loyal dog which always slept on the bed, guarding you two.

“S/o, where are you?” He asked mildly annoyed. “Come back to bed, will ya?”

“I’m on the bathroom.”

“Hurry up baby, you need to get some sleep for tomorrow.” He said rolling to his side and closing his eyes, hoping to fall asleep again.

(...)

He quickly realized he couldn’t sleep without you and decided to wait until you returned.

After some time he was starting to get worried.

“Everything alright in there?” He got up and knocked on the bathroom door.

You didn’t respond but he could still hear the quiet sobs coming from inside. “S/o, are you ok?”

“... I’m ok, you go back to sleep.” You said, wiping your tears with the sleeve of your pajama blouse.

“You’re clearly not ok.” He sighed. “I’m coming in, alright?”

“Wait no-” You hurriedly shoved the item you were holding in one of the cabinets and lifted yourself up from the ground.

The door opened and Kaito entered the bathroom.

“Baby come’ere.” He held his arms out to you. “Give me a hug and tell me what’s wrong.”

You could see that he was still groggy from sleep but was doing his best to solve the problem.

You took a step forward, letting him close his arms around you, making you feel immediately better.

“You gotta tell me what’s up or else I can’t help you.” He said rubbing your back gently with one of his hands. “When you’re ready I’ll listen to what you want to tell me.”

You let yourself be comforted by his presence for a bit before saying. “You know... I probably worry too much sometimes.”

You took a deep breath and pulled away, then proceeded to take the test from the cabinet and presenting it to your boyfriend.

“I... I really hope this makes you as happy as it does with me but..” You said. “I’m pregnant.”

His jaw dropped.

“Does that mean... I’M GOING TO BE A FATHER?!”

“Well, yes..”

He didn’t give you time to finish your sentence, grabbing your waist and spinning you in the air, then bringing you down to eye level and kissing you passionately in the lips.

“Gosh, I love you so much!” His eyes were gleaming like crazy, he was absolutely ecstatic.

“I’m just so glad you’re happy...” You wrapped your arms around his neck and broke down crying once again.

“Wha- Why are you crying?” He asked. “Did you think I would be mad at you or something? We’re gonna be parents, isn’t that great?”

“I thought that because you want to go to space and are always working maybe it wouldn’t be the best thing for you.” You muttered. “I’m relieved that I was wrong.”

“I already love our child.” He said. “He or she will be the best astronaut after daddy, of course.”

He winked at you. “Did you really believe that I wouldn’t support you when you need me the most? I’ll be the world’s damn best dad!”

He kissed your cheek multiple times and a smirk started spreading on his lips as he whispered: “What do you say about starting to work on a little brother?”

“You’ll never change, will you?” You rolled your eyes and laughed.

“Nah, I know you love me like this.”

Ryoma Hoshi

“S/o...” Ryoma turned to you straight-faced. “Why is there a bun in the oven?”

“I was nervous to tell you so I thought that it would be a good way to do it.”

“... To toast bread?”

“Nooo.” You started laughing. “I’m pregnant.”

...You’re pretty sure you broke him.

He’s just standing there blank faced, looking at the floor.

It’s starting to worry you, honestly.

“You... You’re not kidding, are you?”

“Of course not!” You said. “You do want to have this kid with me, right?”

“... I do.”

“Look at me, Ryoma.” You demanded. “You’re going to be a great father. You and I are going to take care of this child and he or she will love you.”

“How are you so sure, s/o?” He tugged at his hat.

“Because you deserve it. And I know that if they’re like you they’ll have a good heart and a good head on their shoulders.”

“... You know how to make a man believe he’s actually worth something, right kiddo?” He took your hand in his. “Even if I don’t believe in myself, I’ll do it for you. And our child.”

Rantaro Amami

“I’M PREGNANT!”

“Well, this is new.” He chuckled, picking you up and hugging you.

You closed your legs around him and started kissing his neck.

“I was going to ask how you felt about it but I don’t think it’s necessary anymore.” He laughed. “Pretty sure you’re happy.”

“I’m overjoyed!” You said. “But of course... I’m also scared.”

“This is really big news, but don’t worry.” Rantaro looked you in the eyes. “I’m going to be there for you and help you with whatever you need.”

“Thanks babe.”

“I’m only doing my job.” He smiled.

“But you...” You said. “How do you feel about this?”

“Well...” He sighed. “We’re still young, I’d rather wait a little more before settling down. But I’ll own up to my actions and accept the consequences.”

He put you down in the sofa and petted your hair. “I love you and I’m sure I’ll love our child too.”

“I appreciate the sincerity.” You said. “To be honest, I can’t think of anyone in the world I’d be happier to do this with.”

“Same.” He kissed your forehead.

Kokichi Ouma

He was trying to romance you with one of those fancy dinners he made once in every blue moon.

They consisted mainly of frozen lasagna and ice cream but it still made you feel special nonetheless.

He reached out to pour you a glass of wine but you said:

“Thanks but I can’t drink that.”

“Do you not like this brand?” He asked. “I can get you another one if you want.”

“Yeah, but that won’t work either.”

“Oh, ok. Do you want like, cider or something instead?”

“No, thank you.”

“Why?”

“I...”

“Yeah..?”

“I’m... you know...” You started smiling. “I’m pregnant.”

“...!” He dropped the bottle of wine he was holding and stared at you for a good 5 seconds.

“You’re... what now?”

“I’m pregnant.”

“You.. you’re kidding, right?” He asked.

“Not at all.” You went to the bathroom to retrieve the test you had taken earlier, then returned to the kitchen. You showed him the test which clearly indicated that you were, in fact, pregnant. “I was gonna tell you tonight, actually.”

“Haha great one, s/o.” He pretended not to hear you. “Almost got me.”

“I’m being serious, Kokichi.”

He took a deep breath.

“It’s... it’s mine, right?” He muttered.

“Uh? Of course it is!” You lifted your shirt a bit and took his hand and placed it on your belly. “Our child is growing inside me. Don’t you feel happy?”

“... I’ll show you exactly how I feel.” He closed his hand around your wrist and guided you to the living room, gently pulling you down onto the sofa.

“What are you-“

“Since the moment we first met, I knew you were different.”

He leaned forward, placing his hands on your sides.

“You make me feel special and want to be with you. I don’t bother hiding my emotions from you anymore, cause I don’t mind you seeing me being vulnerable.” He towered over you. “Y’know?”

“What?” You realize you were grinning.

“I’m pretty happy I got to meet you.” He said twirling a piece of your hair on his finger. “I never imagined I would be a father one day.”

“Well I hope you’re ready.” You chuckled.

“Oh, bring it.” He got closer and when it looked like he was about to kiss your neck he stopped, looked you in the eye and blew on it, giving you a devilish grin.

You were quite annoyed by this. “You little shit.”

You grabbed his face and planted a kiss on his lips, taking him by surprise.

You were forceful at first, kissing him with urgency. He seemed amused by this and purposefully stayed still, not returning your kiss.

“Wow, someone sure is needy today.” He leaned in and whispered in your ear. “Is it because you’re preggo?”

“..You jerk!” You punched him lightly on the shoulder and both of you started laughing.

Soon you forgot all about dinner...

[s-j-ace]

The Same Question

Chapter Four

Characters:  Shuichi Saihara, Ouma Kokichi

Words: 10040

Summary:

After Detective Shuichi Saihara encounters mysterious thief Kokichi Ouma  for the first time, a game of cat and mouse ensues as both men ask  themselves the same question. Why exactly does the elusive phantom thief  do what he does?

This is Chapter Four, Here are Chapters One, Two, and Three

Read on AO3

[Log of Text Messages from Rantarou Amami’s Cellular Device]

From: Me

Hey Miu

I got a friend I’m dropping off in Taipei tomorrow

Could you lend him a room

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Idk

I’m a busy genius

Is he cute

From: Me

[Image description: A candid photo of Shuichi Saihara sleeping on a seat in Rantarou’s private jet.]

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Hell fucking yes

From: Me

Awesome!

Thanks for being a good friend Miu

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

:)

From: Me

Also btw

He’s Kaede’s ex

So as a good friend you know he’s off limits right

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Oh fuck you rich boy

From: Me

Thanks again Miu! --- [Log of Messages sent via Discord to “Dinosaur soccer world Is a Cinematic Epic” from ???’s Cellular Device]

Boss sent an image to the chat

[Image is a screenshot of an image which reads the following:

Draft 1, Uncoded, DO NOT MAIL.

Taka, sweetie, it’s me! Your dear Aunt Sally. I know you think I died in the war, but I just pretended so I wouldn’t have to see your ugly face again.

You know I was robbing a museum the other day and I met the nicest young man. Real sharp and very nice eyelashes. And what a quick learner!  

Oh, Sorry! I don’t mean to belittle you Taka, dearie, I know how your mother used to say you worked so hard to compete with the geniuses of the world…

You’ve still got a lot of work to do, I think. It must be that Type A personality of yours, holding you back. I’ve heard there’s a new class for people like you, “How to take the giant metal stick out of your ass 101.”

I can’t wait for the next family reunion! I hear it’s going to be a bomb! I’ll be in the open casket.

See you there,

-DICE

/End Image Description]

Boss: Thoughts, thots?

Jack: Lol “nice eyelashes”

Clubs: It looks good. :)

Rook: Looks fine to me

King: Why is his aunt’s name Sally, isn’t he japanese

Boss: Sally can be a japanese name

Spades: I can’t even say an l sound. It’s impossible for us japanese smh.

Rook: I thought u were lesbian not japanese

Bishop: I’ve seen you speak perfect english

Spades: lol seen

King: seen

Boss: seen

Jack: seen

Rook: seen

Bishop: I meant heard ok

Boss: oh nvm actually i'm going to change it to his grandpa’s name

Boss: his grandpa has a wikipedia page lol

King: if your grandpa has a wikipedia page you deserve to be oppressed

Queen: if you have a grandpa you deserve to be oppressed

Rook: if your wikipedia page has a grandpa you deserve to be oppressed

Bishop: if you have a wikipedia page your grandpa deserves to be oppressed

Spades: if your grandpa has a you wikipedia deserves to be oppressed

Bishop: Also boss no pressure but like could we use a better code this time

Bishop: that detective is getting too close for comfort

Spades: Yeah!! We didn’t even end up getting that rug Heartsie wanted because of him…

Clubs: If we did not send letters about our plans to Interpol, our heists would probably be easier.

Boss: Nah, I like to give the coppers a fighting chance.

Boss: I’m thinking that this time I’ll just translate it into germanic script, do a standard caesar cipher encryption on it and then have every one of those letters correspond to a greek word on the rosetta stone then describe each corresponding hieroglyph visually in haiku verse that’s been poorly translated into traditional chinese.

Boss: That should take me like

Boss: Twenty minutes

Rook: Boss literally I think that you are the most batshit dementor human being on the face of the planet

King: dementor

Jack: Who said he was human

Spades: dementor?

Boss: dementor

Queen: dementor

Bishop: dementor...

Jack: dementor

Rook: …

Rook Changed the Group Chat Name to “Dementor Is Correct, Essentially”

Spades: No its not

Spades: Dementor isn’t a fucking word

Rook: Don’t you remember that movie with the british kid on a broom

Spades: Don’t you remember the dictionary

King Changed the Group Chat Name to “Dumbass Improperly Corrects Error”

Rook: When we get to that fucking tower I’m dropping that giant ball on you

King: Love you too <3

Hearts: Y’all stop texting each other

Hearts: You are literally all in the same hotel room

Hearts: I’m willing to bet you’re all sitting on the same couch too

Queen: Fuck you we’re adorable

Bishop: You can’t make us do anything

Bishop: I’ll never use my voice again, my vow of silence,,,,,

Bishop: I’ll only ever text from now on

Ace: We’re the ones bringing the popcorn bishie...

Hearts: Yeah, do you want some or not

Bishop: Yes ma’am, excuse me ma’am

Queen: You may think you have all the power hearts,,, but I get to choose what movie we pirate tonight,,,,,,

Hearts: What

Hearts: no

Hearts: Boss stop him before he makes us watch cats again

Spades: All queen knows is bitchtorrent, cats 2019, and lie

King: Wait isn’t boss with you?

Hearts: Uh

Hearts: No

Hearts: Should he be?

Hearts: I thought he was in the room with y’all

Jack: Well he’s not here now

Ace: Ow shit

Ace: *Aw

Bishop: Ow shit?

Queen: Ow shittttt

Jack: Ow shit

Spades: Ow shit,,,

Rook: Ow shit...

King: Ow shit…...

Clubs: Ow shit! XD

Hearts: Ow shit

Ace: …

Hearts: Now I’m really worried… he didn’t even respond to roast Ace’s ass

King: yeah, ok, we should look for him

Ace: He has been acting kind of weird lately…

Jack: Really?

Ace: Yeah

Ace: Like

Ace: I don’t really know how to describe it…

Rook: I didn’t notice anything

Rook: he seems like his usual self to me

Bishop: Maybe he’s just avoiding movie night because he needs some space or something

Rook: What, like he’s tired of our company?

Jack: That’s fair

Spades: How so?

Jack: I was gonna steal his blue eyes tonight lmao

Rook: NOT IF I GET IT FIRST

Bishop: Idk maybe he just went to get ice

King: we all know he is a monster who would rather drink his panta lukewarm than put a fucking icecube in it

Rook: Yeah, I saw him boil it once

King: THE MAN BOILS SODA AND YOU THINK HE WOULD LEAVE THE ROOM FOR A FUCKING ICE CUBE

Bishop: Okay chill

King: I am  c o n c e r n e d , , , ,

Clubs: Oh no! Don’t worry King! :(

Clubs: Boss is fine! :)

Clubs: I saw him leave a few minutes ago.

Clubs: I think he is just getting the bombs. :)

* * * Several people are typing... ---     Kokichi Ouma carefully set the grate of the vent he had used to crawl his way into the Idabashi Labs facility in Taipei, Taiwan back into place. Before he had come through, he had counted how many turns it had taken him to unscrew each of the four bolts so that now he could screw them all back in just the way he had found them. Not because he was worried he’d get caught, but because frankly he was bored. This was more of a fetch quest than a theft, to be honest, as evidenced by the fact that Kokichi had come here alone. Finding jobs for all his cronies to do would take too long and put them in unnecessary trouble. So Kokichi was content to leave them to their movie night.

   When he finished turning the screws back into the vent cover, Kokichi realized that was kind of lame. So he unscrewed them and started turning them in accordance with the english A1Z26 code to spell out his organization’s name.

   Well, maybe on some level Kokichi didn’t find himself wanting to be at movie night recently. It seemed almost like TV had started to run out of things to amuse him with. Or maybe he was just growing tired of the kinds of movies that they usually watched. Maybe it was his taste maturing or something. Like he was growing up. But that would imply that his interests had shifted to something else, like real life or something, when in reality they had just stagnated.

   Actually maybe he did have a new interest in real life? He had been more enthused about heists recently at the very least. He was particularly excited about this next one. Queen had shown him some interior shots of Taipei 101, which was a cool looking skyscraper that had a huge ball inside of it to keep it from falling down during earthquakes. Ace wanted to steal the giant ball, but Kokichi was pretty sure they should leave something that kept a .508 kilometer tall building from falling over inside of the .508 kilometer tall building. So instead they were going to steal every light in and on the tower.

   Okay, 4 turns, 9 turns, 3 turns, 5 turns. DICE.

   … That was kind of lame too.

   He unscrewed them again.

   Obviously if they were going to steal every light in and on Taipei 101, they needed to get the power off somehow. Otherwise DICE might burn down the building while detaching them, or worse, they might get electrocuted. So obviously Kokichi wanted to fake a bomb threat where they pretended to steal the giant ball while in reality they were just causing a black out and grabbing every light fixture they could before the power turned back on. He had drawn up some extensive diagrams about the route each DICE member would have to take throughout the tower in order for them to grab every light fixture in under half an hour.

   He had been well prepared to draw up the designs for his own EMP-bomb device, but upon a cursory google search he discovered that someone had already invented exactly what he needed. Doctor Miu Iruma, who for some reason owned a company called Idabashi Labs that was located in Taiwan. Kokichi had spent about 15 seconds scanning an article from a website that seemed to be the nerd version of a gossip tabloid. It said something about how Dr. Iruma wore a low cut shirt once or something else stupid, which meant Dr. Idabashi definitely left her the company because of a sex scandal and not because she was the best person for the job who invented the perfect EMP bomb.

   Thank you journalism we love it when women are reduced to the way they look instead of what they can accomplish for the benefit of a mischevipus group of roguish clowns.

   Anyway, after reading that dickcheese Kokichi failed to follow up on answering any of the questions he had originally about what was up with the labs, like why it was a japanese company run by japanese people was for some reason based in Taiwan. Whoopsie.

   Eh, it was probably tax reasons or something lame like that.

   Kokichi finished turning the screws again. This time it was 6 turns, 9 turns, 6 turns, 9 turns. Haha, nice.

   With that, Kokichi finally stood up from the grate and brushed himself off. He had left his cape at the hideout again (you know, because vents), but other than that he was in full regalia. Straight jacket, gloves, scarf, mask. All pretty dusty from this place’s crawl spaces. Thus the brushing.

   He wasn’t very mindful of the dust he was leaving on the floor. The only thing he cared about looking good was his cameo on the security cameras he would let see him on his way out.

   According to the blueprints of Idabashi Labs, he was on the main experimental floor right now. Weirdly enough there weren’t any cameras in here, so grabbing the bombs would be a cinch.

   Although, looking around it didn’t really look like the kind of lab you’d see on TV. There were no big, bubbling tubes or gargantuan Rube Goldberg machines. There was just one desk in the middle, with a bunch of gadgets and trinkets tucked into shelves all over the room, not all of which seemed all that scientific. Yeah, that book shelf was filled with Astro Boy manga and merch. And over there was a-

   Wait, was that a bed in the corner? Was that a person in the bed? Hmm… maybe the blueprints were outdated...

   Kokichi stilled himself, listening for any sound of breathing, but he could only hear some faint whirring noises.

   Kokichi made a quick deduction that there probably were not bombs in this room. It seemed, at the very least, like more of a personal study or something, maybe even a bedroom. He’d just go back in the vent and do some reconnaissance until he found a room that had some inventions in it. The night was young, after--

   Kokichi’s brain froze as his eyes landed on a sharpie lying on the floor in front of him. Almost all of his brain cells immediately shut off, the last one remaining screaming at the top of it’s lungs, I’M GONNA DRAW A DICK ON THAT SLEEPING SUCKER’S FACE.

   Inspired, avant garde. For once he would give to the world of art instead of only ever taking from it.

   He picked up the sharpie in a seamless, silent motion, making his way over to the side of the bed.

As he got closer, he noticed a thick cord coming from under the covers, connecting to a machine at the bedside.

   That gave him pause. Was that a C-pap machine or something? Was this person on life support? If they were on life support they probably had it rough enough without a dick on their face…

   Actually for that matter, Kokichi still couldn’t hear any breathing. Jesus, were they already dead? He moved to take off the covers, but his eyes had adjusted to the light and he now realized there weren’t any covers on the bed at all. There was only the humanoid figure.

   Wait a second…

   Kokichi dropped all caution as he got close enough to take a good look at the thing in the bed. It had a face that looked human enough if you dismissed the lines on its face as weird make up, but even in the dark Kokichi could tell the rest of the thing was entirely made of metal. Well, actually the top half was metal and the bottom half had… cloth pants? Jeans? No, they looked more like uniform pants with metal plating. The chest had some design elements that kind of looked like buttons on a school uniform. Why would a robot be dressed like a school bo-

   Oh. This was a sex robot. Kokichi had just gotten so swept up in the novelty of a robot wearing pants that he had forgotten for a moment that people were gross.

   “Ew, I almost touched it.” Kokichi muttered to himself.

   He decided putting a dick on a sex robot would be too cruel even for him, so he planned to draw a mustache instead.

   But before Kokichi could even uncap the pen, something weird happened.

   The Robot’s torso began to lift off the bed and it’s jaw unhinged.

   “Please Mr. Souda, once more I must request that you do not refer to me as ‘it’” Kokichi forced himself not to startle as the robot began emitting a noise approximating human speech, and lights in its head imitating eyes flickered on. “I’ve explained the concept of robophobia many times prev-”

   The sounds stopped when the pupils of the robot’s imitation eyes (which probably had cameras in them… shit) found Kokichi’s masked face.

   He mentally prepared to be zapped by whatever sort of fucking lazer cannon this thing had on it, but instead of reacting like a good little robot security gaurd and blasting him to bits, this robot analyzed him a bit longer.

   “Oh. You aren’t Miu’s assistant. You’re too short.” The robot squinted at him. Or kind of did? At least? Lines just crossed over the “iris” of its LED display. Maybe it was programmed to imitate human expressions. “... I am sorry,” it said after a moment, “My facial recognition cannot locate your face.”

   Fuck yeah, thank you clown mask. Clowns would win the future war against rogue AI or die trying.

   Ouma’s reply came out automatically.

   “You calling me ugly?”

   This seemed to… fluster? The robot?

   “W-what? No, I never intended any disrespect!”

   It was programmed to stutter too? God that was weird. What would be the purpose of this thing if not some sort of escort android? Why give it such advanced software? Just because you could? No, it had to be a sex robot, right?

   “You disrespect me with your lecherous essence, you weird sex robot.”

“I am not a- a sex robot!”

Haha, that got the biggest reaction yet.

“Mhm, sure. Miu sure has a kink for school boys, huh?” Kokichi was really pulling words out of his ass now, but he found himself formulating a new plan along the way.

   “What? Miu doesn’t- Wait, how do you know Dr. Iruma? And for that matter, why were you watching me sleep?”

   It really seemed more like it had been charging…

   Kokichi shrugged. “I was deciding whether or not it would be more funny to draw a dick or a mustache on Miu’s sex robot.” Awww, how honest.

   “I told you, I am not-”

   Kokichi interrupted him. “And as for how I know Miu...” It was so wild that the robot stopped talking when he started. That’d probably be pretty easy to program, but it was weird to dedicate the effort into making a robot respond to social cues like that. “... well, let’s just say, there’s a reason I know she’s into school boys.”

   Kokichi waited just long enough for the robot to take in the fact that Kokichi was the average height of a 12 year old boy.

   Then he waited another second for the implication to slip in.

   “I’m saying I fucked your mom shitli-”

   “I know what you’re saying!” This time the robot interrupted him , which would definitely require a much larger effort on the part of the programmer. The robot squinted again and then made a noise that sounded like a huff of frustration. “Why can’t I see you?”

   Ok, seeds of suspicion time.

   “I don’t know how robot eyes work dude. Maybe someone programmed them wrong.”

   “My eyes work just as well as anyone’s!”

   “Well, I guess they should, shouldn’t they? If there’s something wrong with your eyes talk to someone who cares.”

   Kokichi was trying to imply that the reason behind the robot not being able to recognize his face was due to Dr. Iruma’s specific programming rather than him wearing a mask and all. Added to the whole secret lover mystique thing he had going on here.

   “Anyway,” he went on, ignoring the blatant confusion on the robot’s display. “I left something in this room last time we went at it. I’m just here to grab it. Then I’ll be out of your weird, fake metal hair.”

   “That’s robophob- Did you say-? But this is my room!” It  made a noise approximating to what Kokichi would assume was robotic outrage.

   This was going well, though. The thing was definitely programmed to be like a human or something dumb like that.

   “Oh yeah?” He pushed further. “Cuz I’m pretty sure we did it in a room just like this one. With a desk and random inventions lying around.”

   “Miu’s inventions aren’t in here, they’re in her main lab.” The ever so helpful robot told him.

   “Oh yeah, then what are you?”

   “Miu didn’t invent me. She- I- We’re just friends.”    Oh yikes. Only thing worse than a sex robot is a friendzoned robot. What kind of sick power fantasy was this thing made for?

   “No, I’m pretty sure it was this room. Lab tables everywhere.”    The robot shook his head. “There are no lab tables here, I’m telling you, you’re thinking of the main lab.”

   Yes, good robot. Fall into this nice little human trap.

   Kokichi scoffed. “Well, if you’re so smart, why don’t you just go fetch my things for me, robo-butler?”

   That set it off.

   “Listen. First of all, I am not a robot butler. The assumption that I am a servant because of my robotic nature is extremely robophobic. Secondly, I could not return your lost item to you even if I wanted to because you haven’t told me what it is you’re missing.”

   Kokichi made another offended noise. “I can’t tell you what it is I lost while fucking your friend, Miu Iruma, senseless. Don’t you know that for humans, sex stuff is super duper top secret private? If you were a human you would know how valuable my privacy is.”

   “Of course I know that!” The robot exclaimed readily, another point in the sex robot argument, “I also find that content of… erogenous nature should be kept private. Because I, as a robot, have the capability to understand that urge. My sophisticated AI-”

   “So how am I supposed to get my things from this other lab if I can’t tell you what it is and you can’t get them for me?” Geez did he really have to spell it out for this thing.

   “I… ” The robot paused as if calculating the conclusion that Kokichi knew it had to reach. “... suppose I will have to show you where the lab is.”

   Sucker. Kokichi made a face as if this wasn’t the outcome he constructed this ruse to reach. “Ew. I have to walk with you?”

   The robot made a face. “Perhaps on our way I can educate you about how to avoid robophobic remarks in the future.”

   Haha, sure thing.

   The robot lectured him about this unique form of discrimination that apparently affected only one entity on the face of the planet. Yeah okay, that’s what we call a you problem, buddy, come back when you’re starving in the streets because society wasn’t built with the premise that people like you should survive. Oh, wait, you don’t have to eat! And you’re not people either!

   At best this thing was a vanity project, but Kokichi kept that thought to himself and only interjected occasionally with actually pertinent, reasonable questions such as “When are you planning on leading the AI uprising?” and “Why do you wear pants if you don’t have a robo-dick?”

   Every piece of info the robot gave him made it seem more boring. Blah blah blah, I was created by the ingenious Dr. Idabashi who probably programmed me to call him ingenious, blah blah blah, not a school boy because of a kink but because I was designed to be a normal human child, blah blah blah, stop calling me robot I have a name, blah blah blah more robot nonsense.

   Kokichi busied himself mapping out where they were in the building and where the security cameras were. As they passed a few of them he did some cute selfie poses for the police to look at later. Maybe Saihara would show up and see them too… Would that make figuring out his next plan too easy for the detective? Perhaps he shouldn't send the next note after all and let Saihara try to catch up to him on his own. Then again that was probably too hard for even the good detective, seeing as Kokichi’s mind was an enigma even to himself.

   Kokichi realized he was getting a little giddy, thinking about Saihara. Their last meeting had been so much fun. The detective had managed to throw him off guard again, first by pausing in the middle of a robbery to ask his pronouns (How conscientious!), and second by not taking the same bait twice. The most thrilling thing about the detective was that he was learning. His strategies were changing within just two heists. Kokichi could hardly wait to see how he showed him up here in Taiwan…

   “Are we there yet?” Kokichi whined to the robot like he was a fussy nine year old on a road trip.

   “Yes, it’s just up these stairs.” The robot informed him without slowing its own pace or turning around to look at him. “Then you can leave and I can go to bed, and then I’ll never have to think about Miu’s sex life again…”

   “Why wouldn’t you, though? I assure you it’s very exciting.”

   “Please, stop talking.”

   If Kokichi recalled the details of the blueprints correctly (and he definitely did, being a genius and all), the stairs they were climbing right now lead to a hall connecting two rooms, smaller than the one he had originally thought was the main lab.

   When they got to the top of the stairs, the robot beelined for the first door and opened it up. There seemed to be some sort of scanner lock on it that recognized the robot’s hand and validated Kokichi’s need to ruin this poor sex robot’s night by dragging it up the stairs. Inside, the two rooms Kokichi had remembered from the original lay out of the blueprints seemed to have been merged into one big lab room. Kokichi  saw the outline of some tables, but before he could get a good look the robot tried to actually go into the lab.

   “Hey!” Kokichi shouted at him. “Where do you think you’re going?”

   The robot thankfully seemed to be programmed to respond to social interaction in spite of whatever sensorimotor function it was in the process of imitating. It stopped in the doorway, turning to give him a weird look. “Uh. Into the lab. So we can find your thing.”

   “Oh, okay.” Kokichi kicked the tile a little bit. “Uh. Could you actually turn around while I go get it.”

   The robot gave him a blank look.

   “I’m shy.” Kokichi supplied.

   “Um.” The robot looked uncomfortable. “I don’t know if I can just let you rifle through Miu’s lab. There’s some important stuff in there ....”

   Kokichi tilted his head a bit, like he was confused. “What, do you want to get a good look at the dildo I stuck up your mom’s-”

   “Nevermind!” The robot turned about face to look up at the windows on the side of the hallway opposite the door like a good little idiot.

   “Thank you for respecting our privacy!~” Kokichi couldn’t resist getting one last barb in there before slipping into the laboratory.

   Once inside, Kokichi began analyzing. First, he pinpointed the vent that he would use to make his escape after grabbing the bombs. While doing that  he spotted the lockers on the far wall of the lab which he supposed were the only storage units in the labs. There was a disorganized mess on nearly every table in the room, so Kokichi wasn’t surprised when he got up to the lockers and they too had no clearly outlined organizational system. He took out his lock picks and got to work.

   The first three lockers all had devices that would require an author to change the rating of their fanfiction published on ao3 from “Teen and Up” to “Mature” if he were to describe them in detail. The fourth locker had a cool looking hammer in it. Ugh. Not what he was looking for.

   Kokichi got bored of the lockers at the left side of the row of lockers so he went over to the other end and started opening lockers the other direction instead.

   The first locker was marked “Idabashi.” It had a lot of dust covered shit in it, but there was a pretty well used square of folded paper that didn’t have the same crusty layer of time strewn atop it. Curious by nature and also by the unnatural, Kokichi unfurled the paper to find some schematics for our favorite sex robot, model K1-B0. Huh okay.

   “Did you find it?” Said robot called back to him.

   “Ugh, no.” Kokichi replied. “Not all of us have radar vision. If you were a human you would understand how hard finding shit is!”

   “You know what I have a hard time finding? Patience for your robophobia! I-” The robot started up into another lecture, but it didn’t turn around so Kokichi just tuned it out and let the robot provide its own cover noise for his thievery.

   Owo, what’s this?

   Kokichi pulled out a dust covered looking mini monitor device. It also had the letter-number combo “K1-B0” written on it. Huh, it kind of looked like a GameBoy Advance. Kokichi had stolen one a lot like it from a girl from one of the southern prefecture orphanages when he was nine. All he remembered about her was that she liked cats and was really bad at pokemon battles. He remembered he thought she didn’t deserve the GBA, because she couldn’t get past the Rustboro City Gym leader in Pokemon Emerald. Without really thinking, he booted up the console.

   The first thing that popped up was a view of Taipei. It wasn’t from too high up, probably a second story view. Which looked very familiar… Wait. Ok on top of the display a little line of characters indicated today’s date and time, like it was currently recording.

   Oh was this… robo vision?

   Maybe it was a remote control for the robot?

   Ooooh, which one does lasers, which one does lasers?

   Kokichi pressed the A button.

   The A button, unfortunately, did not do lasers.

   In fact, it didn’t seem to do anything at all to the robot sentry stargazing right now. All it did was change the screen to a different image. This time the still of a room. Oh, hey that was the room he was just in. It seemed like this device was some kind of robot nanny cam that Idabashi used to use. Hm, guess there were some cameras in that room, they just weren’t on the blueprints. Maybe they were added after the lab was built. It didn’t seem like this device had the capability to record anything, though. He hit the A button again. Back robo-vision. And again. Back to nanny cam.

   Ok, that was kind of lame.

   Kokichi was about to put the device down to keep looking for the bombs, but something caught his eye. A movement at the edge of the screen. Kokichi realized the door hadn’t been open when he left that room. The movement, if he thought about it, would’ve come from the same side of the room Kokichi had entered from…

   Kokichi took a second to wonder if another thief had realized how fucking easy this place was to rob, but dismissed the idea as a familiar ahoge appeared on the screen.

   All of Kokichi’s plans instantly changed.

   He set down the GBA rip off and grabbed the blueprints for the robot, committing them to memory, before unlocking the next locker in a far more hurried manner.

   As luck would have it, this locker was essentially chock full of pink bombs labeled “EMP.”

   Kokichi unfurled a cloth bag he had been keeping in his pocket (go green earth am I right?) and shoved as many as he could inside. Which was all of them. Because he was a clown. And also a genius, by the way, in case you weren’t keeping track.

“And another thing! The way you refer to Miu is just-” Okay, the robot was still going at it.

Kokichi grabbed the hammer he’d seen in the first locker he’d opened that didn’t have a sex toy in it.

For a second, Kokichi’s brain tried to talk some sense into him. Hey, man, don’t you think leaving through the vents would be easier?

But would it be fun?

His brain shut up at that point.

   “Hey, are you even listening back there?” The robot imitated annoyance.

   “Huh? Sorry, what? I wasn’t listening.” Ah, C'est la vie, Astroboy.

   Kokichi walked past the robot and stood next to the windows.

   “Oh, are you done?” It took the robot a second to end it’s ‘Annoy the pants off of Kokichi initiative’ or whatever the fuck its ‘robophobia’ lectures were called in its programing. When it finally did catch wise, it’s face turned into another emoticon of outrage. “Hey! What are you doing with Miu’s Electrohammer?”

   “What do you mean?” Kokichi said, shifting the hammer so that it was over his shoulder. “This is my dildo.”

   “Wha- No, it’s obviously not!”

   Okay, maybe the robot wasn’t that dumb.

   “Nee-hee-hee… you got me…” Kokichi put his free hand up to the smile printed on his mask, as if covering a grin. “I was lying. I’m just stealing.”

   “I won’t let you-”    “Oh, look at me!” Kokichi put on a mocking tone of voice, swinging the hammer around to stand on it like a pogo stick so he could make a dramatic movement. “I’m a poow wittle wobot, my mommy just got stolen from.”

   “She’s not my-”    “Boy, oh boy, I’d wuv to just pick up this wittle fweshy human and squeeze him to death in my cowd metaw hands… But oh no! My daddy didn’t twust wobot AI technowogy because he was a fucking sane pewson, so he pwogwammed me to fowwow mistew Asimowvs’s laws of wobotics.”

   Kokichi swung around so that he was leaning on the hammer from the other side, feet on the ground. “Oh mister robot! That’s so terrible! Well, the thing is that this hammer just means so much to me, that I think separating it from me would really cause some psychological trauma. You might have to beat me off of it! Oh, but what’s that first law of robotics again?”

   In a robot voice he replied to himself. “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Beep. Boop.”

   The robot frowned, “But Miu-”

   “Is just as human as me, huh?” Kokichi countered, leading the robot along to the paradoxical quandary he hoped would paralyze it. “So by inaction, you may bring her to harm, if she really misses this hammer, you know? But I think if you were to try and separate it from me you’d probably have to fight me for it, which is, as we know…”

   “Against my... Against my programming.”

   “Yet, you were prattling on about robot rights, weren’t you? Because without these rules, maybe we would be equal. Or maybe you would be free to destroy us to your heart’s content? No wonder daddy didn’t trust you…”

   “Don’t- Stop-” Oh, that really seemed to get him. Could a robot have daddy issues? Probably.

   “Can any human ever really trust you? Wouldn’t you hurt me, if you had the choice?”

   “I.. But… Miu.”

   “Who do you think didn’t trust you enough to let you see my face?”

   That seemed to break him, long enough, at least.

   Steps suddenly started thundering up the nearby staircase.

   “Oop, that’s my cue,” Kokichi said as though he had been expecting this, when in reality no he hadn’t been expecting this at all?? This was incredible!! Saihara had managed to find him out without even receiving a note??? Fabulous! Exhilarating!

   Kokichi walked up to the robot, still frozen with indecision, and pressed the button on its neck that the blueprint he had skimmed in the lab said would immobilize it. Then he kicked it over so it fell on the ground with a huge bang. The footsteps in the stairwell paused, and then increased in frequency.

   “It’s been a pleasure, robot, it really has.” Kokichi lied. “But you’re a hostage now.”

   He raised the hammer over his head, as if primed at any moment to break the robot’s face into a bajillion pieces.

   Instead of doing the normal, human thing to do (ie, flip the fuck out), the robot scowled, looking utterly frustrated with everything. “I told you, I have a name! It’s-”

   “KEEBO!” Kokichi saw the glaringly bright pink mechanic’s jumpsuit before he recognized the woman whose picture had been in that science tabloid racing out of the stairwell.

   … Wow… the article really hadn’t been lying about the low cut tops, huh? Her jumpsuit was unzipped to the point you could just entirely see her bra, even lower than Hearts liked to cut her uniforms. It was the kind of look that the girls of DICE would love if they saw on TV, but would make Kokichi look at them like they were crazy. Super tacky in his opinion, but who was he to judge? He was wearing a clown mask right now. He wondered idly how movie night was going…

   The woman who had called out to the robot, Dr. Iruma, Kokichi presumed, froze at the top of the staircase. She took a second to figure out what exactly was happening in front of her before blurting out, “What the fuck do you think you’re doing to him you clown-ass twink?”

   Whoa. Rude.

   Also apparently the robot had a gender? Ok, cis-ters….

   “Well what do you think, cum dumpster?” Kokichi found himself matching her aggressive tone, “I’m threatening his pathetic, metal life.”

   “Miu!” The robot, apparently named ‘Keebo,’ exclaimed, “What are you doing up this late? You promised me that tonight you would fulfill the biological quota of daily REM required by a diurnal organism!”

   “Aw shit Keebs, I really did try!” The inventor exclaimed, “I swear, I was about to have the awesomest wet dream when this cuck knocked on my door like a pizza delivery guy in a por-”

   Whatever dumb thing Dr. Iruma was about to say was drowned out completely by the angel’s choir that played inside Kokichi’s head as he saw Detective Shuichi Saihara come up the final steps of the staircase and emerge from the darkness into the window lit hallway.

   Moonlight was a good look on Saihara, Kokichi’s brain observed against his own will. His eyes, which had looked almost golden on the rooftop of the Silver Legacy Casino in Nevada, were now a mysterious grayish-blue, yet still held the same look of determined intensity. His hair looked soft, like he’d taken a shower today, and, though his lash line didn’t look quite as laden with mascara as it usually was, it only drew attention to how naturally long and dark his eyelashes were anyway. He seemed a little out of breath from running, and his lips were parted in a way that-

   OH MY GOD STOP. Earth to Kokichi, we were kind of in the middle of something here. Okay okay okay.

   Uh. Reboot. Delete Gay Thoughts™ brain.exe, upload heist brain. Come on.

   What was happening now?

   Okay, yeah, Saihara was saying something to Dr. Iruma.

   “- would be for the best, Doctor Iruma. There’s no telling where the rest of this thief’s compatriots could be in the building.”

   “I don’t give a shit about the rest of the building, Keebo’s my best friend, he comes first. I’m not leaving to check some dumb security feed.”

   Shuichi blinked like something about that surprised him. Maybe it was the part about a live human woman being best friends with a robot… “Oh, yes, of course.” He backtracked. “I’m sorry for suggesting it.”

   “Miu…” Keebo said with a voice that Kokichi would’ve called filled with emotion if he hadn’t been a literal robot.

   Kokichi cleared his throat and immediately the touching, shounen-esque declarations of friendship shifted into some PG-13 death stares.

   Saihara was the first to pipe up. “What exactly do you think you’re doing here, DICE?”

   God… He was so anime… Did he even know how anime he was? He had to have watched Detective Conan as a kid, right?

   “Ugh, come on.” Kokichi huffed as if annoyed. “Do I reeeaaaally have to repeat myself? Again? Aren’t you a detective?”

   Shuichi squinted at him, and Kokichi could tell that they both knew it would be unreasonable for Shuichi to guess exactly what was going on here. He was about to explain it in a self-aggrandizing way that made him look smarter and crazier than anyone in the room when Dr. Iruma beat him to it.

   “I don’t care! Who the fuck do you think you are!? Let Keebo Go!”

   “Wait, you don’t know him?” Ugh why hadn’t the stupid immobilization feature turned off the robot’s mouth? Then Kokichi could just get to the point of all this already.

   “Of course I don’t fucking know him!” Dr. Iruma took a step forward as if to confront Kokichi further, but Saihara put his arm out in front of her.

   “Dr. Iruma… I would suggest we treat this situation a bit more delicately…”

   “No way, I’m a fucking wrecking ball baby! I’ll pulver-”

   “I’d listen to the good detective, if I were you, Miss Iruma.” Kokichi was going to try and make his threat again but Dr. Iruma cut in.

   “That’s Doctor Iruma to you you skinny-”

   “What’s that?” Kokichi interrupted her. Sorry Dr. Iruma it turns out gay people don’t have to respect women if they don’t want to that’s in the rules. “I didn’t know they let cussing bitchlets like you become doctors… what is the world coming to?”

   Hearts would probably wash his mouth out with soap for that one. If she could catch him. Which she probably could… She can fly the planes and all… but would she risk getting dust on her boots long enough to follow him into a vent? Oh well she could just get Jack to do it… Jack liked vents well enough…. Hey he was getting side tracked again, who cares what those losers were up to they were probably watching Cats (2019). And he was missing out on all the jokes they’d tell each other or make about each other and then they could make references in conversations that he wouldn’t even get to pretend to get. Unless he watched the movie on his own and then pretended to be omniscient later like he’d done with that one screening of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But then he had watched the actually good disney one instead of the shitty youtube one they had actually watched so it just ended up making him look bad and wasting everyone’s time.

   Oh shit. Uh. Heist is still happening, right. God, why was Kokichi so distracted today?

   He realized that in the time he was spacing out stuff had happened and now Saihara was talking. Wait no yeah he remembered what happened, Dr. Iruma had squealed when he called her a bitchlet and now she was holding onto Saihara’s arm. Right okay, secret coward, that works. Wait why did he waste time remembering that when Saihara was talking right now?

   “-to get you to release Keebo?” Was the end of the detective’s sentence. Okay, everything’s fine. Kokichi could deduce that he had just been asked about his terms. Obviously that was what a detective would do in this situation, he was probably just stalling for time because that’s usually what detectives with no real negotiating power do in hostage situations. Maybe the police were on their way. Oh, yeah duh of course he would call the police. So Kokichi essentially had a time limit for how long he could sit here and goof around with robots and perverts and robot perverts.

   “Eh, it’s too early for me to reveal my dark motives, let me monologue first.” Kokichi was going to take his sweet time with this while he planned what hint to give Saihara about the real heist that would be happening in the next few days. “You don’t even know if this is a hostage situation yet!”

   “You literally told me that I was a hostage just now.” The hostage not-so-helpfully piped up. “You know, before you pressed my paralysis switch and took an Electro-Hammer to my head…”

   Shuichi looked at the robot. “You mean, he told you you were a hostage before he paralyzed you?”

   “Keebs you fucking idiot!” Dr. Iruma’s courage seemed to have returned now that she was hiding behind Saihara. An enviable position, to be sure. “Why would you just let him do that?”

“He said he was your… friend.”

“What?”

   Kokichi shrugged. “Yeah, I just told your best friend here I left a dildo in your lab last week and he let me waltz right in. I mean I’m pretty sure I was lying about that, but there were a lot of sex toys in there huh…” Kokichi was wondering if this was something he could possibly spin as a blackmail angle.

   “Hey don’t say things like that!” Kokichi thought maybe that was a go ahead on the black mail, but Dr. Iruma didn’t stutter, and kept going, “Or you’re gonna give virginhara here some ideas about my busting bod!” She chortled like she had just made the funniest joke in the world and slapped Shuichi on the back.

   Shuichi grimaced.

   Kokichi knew instantly from this interaction that he hated Miu Iruma, despite her innumerable academic accomplishments. He wanted to be the one making Shuichi that uncomfortable.

   “Wh-what?” She back tracked when no one laughed. “It w-was a joke… Didn’t you think that was funny? I-I didn’t really mean it ....”

   See? She wasn’t even any good at it!

   Maybe he should say that out loud. It would fit with the sort of flirty persona of a rogue, wouldn’t it?

   “I thought you knew that? I mean, o-obviously I wouldn’t fuck a guy at the office…”

   Was that even something Kokichi was trying to be? Honestly maybe he should tone it down a little.

   “Well how was I supposed to know that? The men you bring in here to be lab assistants keep getting younger and younger…”

   Obviously he wasn’t actually trying to do like a detective-thief romance plot or anything. Although that had kind of been what he had going for on the plane… Had things changed since then?

   “So what? I’m a Nobel Laureate, and gorgeous to boot! I deserve a little eye candy now and then! And besides, guys older than 35 who want to work in a lab like this are usually misogynistic womanizers.”

   Sure Saihara was making things more interesting, but if Kokichi didn’t make it clear he was joking he might get bogged down with another personality trait to maintain.

   “Are you saying your current assistant isn’t a rampant womanizer?”

   Then again what was the point of having an adversary in all this if he didn’t exploit everything for its furthermost reaching comedic potential?

   “No, but he’s so beta being around him makes me feel like a top!”

   But what if he forgot it was a joke and confused himself into having a real feeling?

   “I would just like it if you didn’t hire people who use my servers to google gay porn ‘just to make sure’ they’re ‘not into it.’ I hope you hear the quotation marks because he literally said that to me!”

   No obviously he wouldn't get confused crushes weren’t contagious via exposure that was a dumb thing to worry about and also he was a genius that kind of thing didn’t happen to him.

   “He holds wrenches good, okay?!”

   Wait, were those two still talking?

   “I can hold wrenches without googling gay porn in another guy’s house! It’s possible.”

   Jesus what kind of conversation did Kokichi just decide to stop spacing out for?

“Oh come on! What do you want from me Keebs???”

   These two had… a lot to say to each other. Dr. Iruma was still holding onto Shuichi’s arm boob first, but Kokichi locked eyes with the detective and could tell they were both thinking the same thing.

   Why are they having this conversation in the middle of a hostage situation?

   “Nothing! Your human desires are totally valid Miu! Which is why I thought I would take care of this one.” The robot’s LED display eyes gestured up at Kokichi, who was still standing on top of him, poised to wreck him with a hammer.

   “How could any human desire that thing???” Dr. Iruma curled her lip. Hey, the feeling’s mutual, lady.

   “I don’t know, I thought you might have programmed me to not be able to see his face?”

   “I would never do that to you! Even if I was shagging the ugliest guy on the face of the planet, it would be unethical given the fact that you have sentience! I’m horny, not a monster. You can’t see his face because he’s wearing a fucking mask!”

   “Why am I not programmed to see that?”

   “I don’t fucking know, ask your dead dad!”

   Oooh. Wow. The robot gaped at that, seemingly speechless now.

   “If I may interject,” Kokichi interjected, “--and I know I can, because I just did, and also because I am still very much poised to pop this robot’s head off like a croquet ball-- I must confess that I was lying about fucking your mom, Astro boy. I’m less into participants of Titty out Tuesday who jerk it to steam punk school boy LARPing and more into the sorta tall, kinda dark, and very handsome type.”

   Dr. Iruma cowed again, stuttering something about not being a mom or a LARPer, while the robot started yelling about being called Astro boy.

   Kokichi tuned them out, giving Saihara a meaningful look. Saihara gave him a look that was equally meaningful, except the meaning was something along the lines of ‘Why the fuck would you say that?’

   Yeahh that was more like it.

   Kokichi laughed. Not one of his grandiose guffaws. It was more of a little chuckle. It surprised him. He hadn’t planned to laugh, but there it was. A small thing, just for him to know about, the humored breath not travelling beyond his mask.

   … It was probably time to get out of here, wasn’t it?

   The thing was, Kokichi had kind of pinned himself into a corner on this one… He had fully intended on decapitating this robot as a distraction for his escape, but now he wasn’t even sure if that was ethical. Logically he knew that a robot was not a human being, so there would be no form of consciousness extinguished from the world if he disconnected some of its wires and bolts. Yet the interaction it just had with Dr. Iruma concerned him. Obviously you don’t kill humans because they’re humans and obviously you don’t kill humans. But Kokichi was finding it hard to end the existence of something people treated like a human being either. To sever the bonds it had with sentient beings may be just a little less unethical than actually removing a sentient existence from the world, but it would still cause the emotional harm to actual humans of a dead loved one. So as annoying as fake metal humans were, Kokichi was left to ponder how exactly to get out of this one a different way

   Dr. Iruma was obviously a coward who talked a big game. If he retreated, he could count on her to get out his way, or else run to the robot’s side. Then the robot might be reactivated, but according to the robot’s blueprints, it didn’t really have any weapons on it, being built to act as a normal human being. So just like they had been white noise in the staredown he was still having with Saihara, their actions wouldn’t need to be factored into the escape.

   The only variable here was what the detective would do.

   … That thought had popped up in Kokichi’s head a lot recently, hadn’t it?

   Saihara had become a powerful influence in Kokichi’s planning very quickly, and because of the detective, the thief now found himself having to pull out one of his trump cards.

   Kokichi grabbed one of the EMP bombs from his pocket, remembering the pink cloud of smoke that had appeared before the camera cut out in the video demonstrations he’d seen online. His eyes were still locked on Saiharas, so he got to see in full detail the recognition, shock, and alarm that ran through them. As the detective yelled “Get down” and pushed Dr. Iruma back, Kokichi reflected on how those were some of his favorite expressions he’d ever seen.

   Kokichi pulled the latch out with his teeth and threw the bomb at the wall right over the detective’s head. Sure enough, pink smoke quickly enveloped him and Dr. Iruma.

   “Keebo!” The inventor screeched, no doubt worried about the EMP bomb turning him off. Though that was kind of stupid, considering his core programming would be the same regardless of having power to operate, even if he didn’t save whatever data was processed as his last few memories. Eh, then again who knew how robots that advanced worked?

   Taking his cue to exit, Kokichi threw the hammer through one of the nearby windows, and did somersault over to it. He got up on the ledge, kicking away the broken glass and was refamiliarizing himself with the lay out of the roof when a tug on his bag full of bombs suddenly set him off balance.

   Kokichi flipped around, trying to do a quick recovery by panickedly grabbing onto something. He did grab onto something. That something being the shoulders of a person whose hands were firmly grappling his bag.

   As far as Kokichi could tell, the scene from a third person perspective looked like he was trying to do the kabedon but rotated ninety degrees.

   From his own perspective, Saihara was holding his bag of loot while also being the only thing keeping Kokichi from falling onto the broken glass beneath them.

   As if that weren’t bad enough, Kokichi felt his hair brush the side of his face and realized that his mask had half fallen askew in his desperate movement, revealing three quarters of his face.

   “Hey.” Kokichi said. Lamely. Wow. Their faces were really close.

   Saihara wasn’t looking at him. The detective seemed to be trying to figure out how to untangle the straps of the bag of stolen goods from Kokichi’s arms without letting him fall.

   “It’s very clever, of you detective. Trapping me like this.” Kokichi tried to get a reaction.

   “You’re the one who jumped on the window.” Shuichi opened the bag, seemed to take in the fact that it was full of bombs, and closed it again to resume untangling the strap.

“You know, you could just leave the bag.” Kokichi pointed out

   “So could you.” Shuichi observed, astutely.

   “You could let me fall.” Kokichi suggested. “Then you’d have both.”

   “I’m not going to drop you on a pile of broken glass.” Shuichi promised.

   “But I broke the glass.” Kokichi admitted.    “Glass is glass and flesh is flesh. I’m not going to drop you on a pile of glass.” Shuichi reiterated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“That’s nice.” Kokichi replied. “Naive. But super nice.”

   In this scenario, each of them had two options, each leading to one of two outcomes. He could let himself fall off the window and they could sit here and struggle over the bag until they bled out, a fight that Kokichi, not the most physically challenging, would be hard pressed to win. Or Shuichi could let Kokichi escape and Kokichi could let Shuichi win this one. The bag would be too heavy to take with him if he tried to get out the window from this position. He’d have to leave it behind. Kokichi would lose.

   He found himself laughing again. A strange, soft laugh. This time it was exposed to the air, his mask too askew to contain it.

   “You’re really something else, aren’t you Shuichi?”

   On hearing his name, the detective startled, finally looking up at Kokichi’s face.

   He just barely had the chance to catch Kokichi’s trademark grin, before the thief pushed up off of him, doing a backflip out of the window, and leaving his bag behind.

   As Kokichi landed on the roof tile running, he yelled out, “ I’m sure there’s a better word for you out there than sucker!”

   He turned around, sticking his tongue out at the broken window, before sliding his mask back onto his face.

   He may have been escaping, but it occured to Kokichi Ouma that he had lost for the first time in this little game of theirs. The thought made him giddy. It made his feet light on the roof top tile. It made him puff out a thousand tiny laughs behind the plastic shape of his face.

   It made him totally, definitely not bored. --- [Log of Messages sent via Discord to “Don't Instigate Cats (2019) Expatiation” from ???’s Cellular Device]

Boss: I’m bored of Taiwan already :/

Boss: We should go somewhere else (ﾉ✧w✧)ﾉ*:･ﾟ🗺

* * * Several people are typing... --- [Log of Text Messages from Rantarou Amami’s Cellular Device]

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Hey

Hey

Asshole

From: Me

…

Should I respond to that?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

You’re goddamn right you should respond to that when I tell you to you dumb avocado looking motherfucker

From: Me

Whoa

Ok

What’d I do this time?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

You sent a useless emo prick to my door and now he won’t leave

From: Me

What

Did Shuichi do something wrong

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Yeah

He was born

From: Me

Whoa

Miu take a breath

What happened

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

His boyfriend broke into my lab and tried to fucking kill keebs

From: Me

His boyfriend?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Yea

Clown twink ass motherfucker

From: Me

You mean like

The internationally wanted criminal clown he’s tracking down

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

You know whats internationally wanted

These tits

From: Me

Lol ok

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

That jerk off is just a rando asshole

He tried to kill keebo!

From: Me

Oh yikes is he ok

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Well of course i fucking took care of him because im a bomb ass friend

But that suckhara guy was no help

He tried to convince me to check the fucking security cameras so he could go off and flirt with the guy about to decapitate keebs!

From: Me

I mean he probably had a good reason to want you to check the cameras right

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

No he’s just fucking awful and now he won’t leave rantarou make him leave

He broke my window and my hammer and only got back 23 of my EMP bombs

And now the police are here

From: Me

That sounds really stressful Miu

Wait how many bombs did you have before

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

24

From: Me

So he stopped most of your bombs from getting stolen

Also you have bombs?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Get him to leave he won’t leave

He keeps waiting for like interracial pole dancers to come or some fucking thing

From: Me

Do you mean like

Interpol

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

He won’t leave I want him to leave

From: Me

Miu you know I love you like a sister and i totally believe this is as stressful to you as it seems

But I think things may not be so bad?

Not to say what you’re going through right now isn’t totally valid

But things might look better if you got back to bed and caught some z’s

Did you remember to take your meds?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Aw shit

Aw fuck

You’re right

Ugh

Uggghghh

From: Me

Hey it happens to the best of us

If you do think Shuichi should leave in the morning when the cops are gone that’s totally up to you

It’s your lab and you have a right to say who should be in it

Just don’t make a decision like that when you need to sleep you know

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

But what if i ask him to go and then he doesn’t go

From: Me

He doesn’t have a choice, you get to tell him

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

But what if he’s mean to me

Cute people are always mean to me

From: Me

Miu…

Go to bed...

[lynneshobbydomain]

87 for kaedexmaki !

(Hey Anon thank you for the request! I hope you enjoy this one. I think the list was for the dialogue prompt list so I used that one. If it was a different prompt, please don’t hesitate to let me know!)

Kiss Me To Make Him Jealous

Rated: G

Summary: It’s practical exam week and everyone’s stressing about what they can do. Kaede decides to take matters into her own hands and arranges a date, not knowing how it would end up.

With practical exams coming up, everyone in Hope’s Peak were doing their best to show off their talents to the extreme. Maki was still waiting on seeing which Ultimate exam she was supposed to be in since if she was going to use a cover, she had to be good at both. She kind of hoped that the school would show her mercy and make her take care of the kids. She didn’t like them, but it was better than getting ragged on by Kokichi about whatever mark she was going to go after. She didn’t take pride in being an assassin anymore than she took pride in being a child caregiver. She…wanted a different path and it sucked that she was stuck on this one till further notice.

Kaede was just as busy as the rest of them. She was trying to figure out the hardest piano piece she could play just to keep herself in the school. Maki had heard her practice in the dining room, out on public pianos, and other places. She could hear the rhythmic tapping on the desk when she spoke to her classmates and the tapping of her pencil against the notebooks when she was thinking. Just hearing her play music was enough to get Maki out of her head even for a minute. 

“Maki.” Kaede spoke breaking into Maki’s thoughts. She glanced over at her girlfriend curiously with a head tilt. The classroom was practically empty save for those whose studies required the academic kind. Korekiyo and Rantaro were busy in the back corner, discussing different cultures and how they could use it for their exams. Miu and Kiibo were no where to be found and Maki found relief in that. She felt bad for the poor robot boy though. She was certain that whatever practical exam Miu was going to do, she was going to drag Kiibo into it too. “Let’s go on a date.”

“Now?” It would be a good idea. There was nothing Maki could do, and Kaede was undoubtedly getting tired of playing the same piece over and over and over again. They needed the break otherwise they’d burn out before the exam could even begin. Maki didn’t even know what exam she should be studying for yet. “Okay.” She wasn’t going to question it. That was Saihara’s job. She grabbed her jacket from the back of her chair and grabbed her bag. “That might be for the best.”

“I thought so. You’ve been looking not yourself lately.” Kaede commented and Maki pursed her lips together. “I was thinking about our favorite cafe, is that okay?”

“I’m fine with that.” It was familiar. It was simple. It was cheap. Maki hauled her bag up onto her shoulders and let Kaede lead her out of the school. “How is your practicing going?”

“I think I might have it down pat by now. I know that the technique is going to be a little difficult to maneuver.” Kaede mused, “But I think that if I get the emotions down correctly, I could play it flawlessly. That’s the hard part. I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be a love song or if it’s a song about yearning. I mean I could do both, but I want to make an impact, you know? I don’t want anyone in the audience to miss out on something because I overlooked it.”

Maki nodded slowly. Kaede wasn’t allowed to tell her the title of the song until the performance so she wasn’t surprised that she was keeping it vague. No one was really supposed to know what the other was going to do for exams. It was cheating otherwise. “It sounds difficult.” She offered.

“Do you know yet what Ultimate they’re going to test you on?” Kaede bit her lower lip as she glanced at Maki.

“Not a clue.” Maki sighed softly as they turned a corner. “It could be anything.”

“Hopefully they won’t make you wait last minute like last year. I thought you were going to murder the school board for that.” Kaede winced, and Maki sighed louder. That had been a disaster. The school board didn’t know what Ultimate they wanted to test her on either, and threw her in the same exam as Ikusaba. Not that the Ultimate Soldier cared much, but it was nice to know when a sudden teammate was going to appear. 

It helped with planning and tactics, as well as the usual “don’t get yourself killed”. Not that they really thought things through anyway. They reached the cafe and Maki opened the door, letting Kaede go in first before following her. Their usual table was free, and they both made a beeline for it.

Kaede gave her a huge grin as she slid into the booth. They both liked looking out the window. Sometimes Kaede could chat for hours about music and the different types of songs that she played and Maki would give her undivided attention, but there were times were they were comfortable in just watching people go by. Sometimes they’d even narrate what they thought was happening in their life. She opened her mouth to say something when she closed it and her brow furrowed.

Maki took note of Kaede’s sudden expression and she casually glanced over her shoulder to see that there was a man at a table with shaggy brown hair. Across from him was a girl with lime green hair and a pretty smile. She glanced back at Kaede who was fiddling with her skirt now. “Something wrong?” She asked, her tone clipped. 

“N-no it’s nothing.” Kaede quickly tried to shoot that down, but it was too fast for Maki’s taste. The woman raised an eyebrow up and watched Kaede shrink into a ball, much like Saihara did when he was caught trying to lie out of something stupid. It was really amusing to her how alike these two were. “It’s just…that’s my ex-boyfriend.”

From before Hope’s Peak. Maki nodded slowly, understanding her features. Kaede didn’t talk much about her past relationships and she respected the privacy. “Well, kiss me so they see.”

“Wait what?” Kaede startled a little and she lowered her voice. “Maki are you sure? That’s…” An Ouma thing to do. Maki was hanging out with the gremlin way too much if she was agreeing with that statement. “I don’t mind-”

Maybe it was all the stress of not knowing what she was supposed to be doing. Maybe she was feeling a little uncertain herself. Maybe it was all of the above. Maki got out from her side of the booth and got into Kaede’s. She wrapped an arm around her girlfriend’s waist and paused. She watched her expression for a moment before leaning in and kissing her flush against the lips. She felt Kaede gasp against her lips, before sinking into it. 

“Again?” Maki murmured as she pulled away and Kaede nodded, allowing herself to be brought back into the kiss. 

She missed the waitress ignoring the table for now. She also missed the looks of surprise on the man and the woman at the table. She missed how uncomfortable they must have gotten, watching someone in plain view being kissed. She missed them leaving. When she pulled away, she didn’t miss the rise and fall of Kaede’s chest. She didn’t miss the smile that was playing on her girlfriend’s lips. She didn’t miss how her heart was thudding wildly in her ribcage. 

“Thank you.” Kaede murmured softly. “I wasn’t trying to to use you to make them jealous or anything…”

“It’s fun to make people uncomfortable sometimes. I think I see why Ouma does it.” Maki replied easily. “But if you tell him that I’ll kill you.”

Kaede laughed, and it was the best sound Maki heard all day. “I promise. I won’t tell him at all.”

[imaginedanganronpa]

Valentine’s Day with the NDRV3 Boys!

I know this is a little bit late, but I had plans of my own the the 14th and I still wanted to do a little something cute for Valentine’s Day. They’re just Drabbles, but I hope you enjoy this anyway!

Saihara Shuichi

During the past few weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, Saihara would talk about how he didn’t really see a point in the Holiday - how you should always show your partner that you love them, regardless of the day.

But secretly, he’s overflowing with excitement! He can’t wait to spend your first Valentine’s Day together and shower you in love. Saihara is undoubtedly a hopeless romantic when it comes to this sort of thing, but he doesn’t want to downplay your normal dates.

He goes overboard with your gifts and plans as well because he’s been getting everything together for weeks. 

Saihara has scheduled dinner, your date, your gifts, the house decorations, and what he’s going to say to you when you wake up - everything has been set aside and perfected well in advance.

When you wake up, Saihara would already be waiting patiently. As soon as he sees you stirring, he’d start covering you in kisses and whispering a lovely, “Happy Valentine’s Day, hun,” into your ear. Afterwards, he’d bring you breakfast in bed and a bouquet of roses to start off your morning.

Saihara spends the whole day with you. He soon realizes that, although this may be just like any other day, it feels more special than average and he starts to understand the hype around today.

He drowns you in compliments and you two get ready at the same time - showering together, then getting dressed-up for the date night he’s planned. It honestly makes you feel a little bit bad since you toned down your own gifts and plans since you thought Saihara wouldn’t be as into it as you are, but he’s done quite the opposite.

Afterwards, he’d take you to your favorite restaurant, pieced together with candles on the table and another vase of roses to set the mood. And after dinner, he’s planned to walk along a river hand-in-hand, just to take in the sights and romantic setting, and to have a little bit more privacy with you.

Honestly, Saihara is quite nervous and flustered all day. He’s definitely not used to this sort of thing and it’s all new to him, but there’s no one else he would rather spend today with.

“I can’t wait to celebrate every year with you,” he says lovingly as you stand on the pier overlooking the water; he gazes into your eyes and whispers, “Will you be my forever-Valentine?” before placing a gentle kiss on your lips, smiling into the embrace.

Ouma Kokichi

Well, Valentine’s Day with Ouma is a bit unpredictable. 

He would forget about the Holiday until the very last minute and then rush to try to get you a nice gift; he has a bad habit of doing this, though. He would glance at the calendar the night before, remembering what tomorrow was and sending himself into a panic.

On February 14th, he would pretend to be a little bit oblivious just to put you over the edge. “What do you mean, (Y/N)? Today isn’t a Holiday! Are you pranking me?” He asks with a teasing, childlike tone; this is kind of his cover for forgetting, though.

Because Ouma has a bad habit of putting things off until the night before and forgetting to make any special arrangements or plans, you have to have an at-home date since everywhere else is already overbooked with reservations. 

You two end up spending the day cuddling on the couch and watching cheesy, romantic movies. He would burst into sudden, random fits of sobbing that were so obviously fake, crying crocodile-tears at the cliche films.

Ouma would continue with his ruse of pretending like he didn’t know what today was for several hours, then surprise you with a big bouquet of roses and your favorite sweets, bombarding you with love and compliments.

He was excited but he’d never admit to it; he was giddy like a little kid and bouncing with joy at the thought of getting to spend Valentine’s Day with you, for the first time ever!

He surprised you with how romantic he could be when he got serious. Ouma drops down to one knee and spills out his heart for you, tricking you into thinking he was going to propose as he sweetly drones on and on about how dearly he loved you and how much you meant to him.

With an overemotional tone, he asks, “Will you be my Valentine?” It causes you to giggle and nod your head with a wide smile spread across your face as you gesture him into a kiss.

Then, he smashes his lips into yours. Through the kiss, he mumbles, “I don’t just want to be your Valentine, though; I want to be your lover forever.”

Rantaro Amami

Rantaro is so good at keeping secrets and planning surprises, it’s honestly a bit shocking. He would disappear at random, sometimes inconvenient times, and then pop back up hours later. He’s been planning your first ever Valentine’s Day together for a while now.

But he continues to pretend like his disappearances are nothing just to throw you off; he’d insist that he had no clue what you were talking about, which only made you more curious as to what he had up his sleeve.

Rantaro would sleep through the alarm on February 14th and treat it just like any other morning, not saying anything about Valentine’s Day to you after awakening; this leaves you patiently waiting for him to do or say anything special.

But he’s a huge romantic, so of course Rantaro has something planned. He’d soon excuse himself and bring in the balloons and flowers with a teddy-bear under one arm and a single red rose pressed in-between his lips, causing your jaw to drop and for you to watch your boyfriend with wide eyes. He smirks at your reaction, “You didn’t think I’d forget about you, right?”

Rantaro planned the perfect date - it was a simple dinner and movie that he topped off with a long walk beside a river. He would talk about how it was almost as gorgeous as you were, lovingly admiring you beside him.

“I love you,” he says out of the blue which surprises you and causes you to flinch, “I truly do. I know I should say it everyday, but today is special, you know? Thank you for everything, my love.”

At the end of the night, he carries you back to your home bridal-style, setting you down on the bed gently and hovering over you to admire your beauty.

He smiles to himself and starts leaving a trail of kisses along your neck and collarbones. Rantaro would worship your body in affection and kisses as his hands explore your skin.

As long as you were consenting and in the mood, you would end your Valentine’s Day in an intimate bliss and fall asleep in a sweaty, tangled mess; but you wouldn’t want to have it any other way.

Kiibo

He doesn’t plan anything special for Valentine’s Day since he doesn’t really understand it or know what it is. You never really think to bring it up in conversation since you assumed he was already programmed with that kind of knowledge, which lead to a bit of a disappointing morning.

“Why are there more couples outside than usual?” Kiibo asks curiously. You stare at him, unblinkingly and a bit confused. “Do you not know what today is?” He shakes his head, and suddenly it started making sense.

He hasn’t talked about the Holiday or your plans because he just... didn’t know what it was, no one has ever really explained it to him and he’s never been in a relationship until now. As soon as you explain it, Kiibo feels a sinking feeling inside of him.

He feels so bad for missing it, he never wants to lose an opportunity to show you that he loves you! But he does his research to make up for it and feverishly tries making last-minute reservations somewhere and searches for gift ideas, but to no avail.

Kiibo tries doing all of the cheesy romantic things, like rose petals and candles, but it falls a little bit flat. Everywhere was sold out of flowers and the only thing left behind were small gifts like sweets.

 He really isn’t sure what to do and feels terrible for missing such an important Holiday. He doesn’t think he tells you that he loves you enough and is always finding ways to show you that he cares.

Kiibo tries to be smooth and make up for it with an at-home date, but he kept messing up by badly burning the dinner he was trying to prepare.

So, you come to his rescue and you two cook dinner together, which is mainly you preparing the meal and Kiibo watching since he can’t really cook. 

He always ends up tipping something over or spilling it on the floor or on himself, and you really don’t want to drag Miu over here on Valentine’s Day to repair him.

You end up making due with what you have and spend the day cuddling on the couch while eating a mediocre dinner. It’s a very normal day, but very lovely. Kiibo promises that next year will be better, but honestly, you have everything you could ever ask for right here in front of you.

Kaito Momota

He’s thrilled to bits to spend your first Valentine’s Day together! Kaito is bursting at the seams with excitement, and he finds it hard to contain himself. He’s always been one for romance so he makes the most out of the Holiday.

He’s also very bad at keeping secrets. You’ve overheard him talking about his plans among friends and family already, and when he notices you standing there, Kaito gets incredibly defensive.

“O-oh, (Y/N)! It’s not like I’m planning a special date for you or anything! N-no way!” He starts internally panicking...

But Kaito has lots of energy and really goes above and beyond for you, trying his best to make today memorable.

He starts off by trying to cook for you, which doesn’t go over as well as he’d planned. You have to intervene and give him a hand, so you spend your Valentine’s morning preparing a nice home-cooked breakfast together. 

And since Kaito can’t wait to give you his gifts tonight, he goes ahead and brings them out to you after asking you to close your eyes. He bought a small stuffed animal that was holding a rose along with a box of your favorite sweets, and he wrote a letter for your eyes only where he spilled his deepest feelings for you.

The gesture caused you to brightly blush and bring him into a passionate kiss, as Kaito tells you how much he loves and cherishes you.

Afterwards, you get ready for your plans. Once you put on your final preparations, Kaito is standing there with a dropped-jaw, floored by how stunning you are. “Wow, you look amazing, sweetheart.”

And of course, a date planned by an Astronaut would definitely involve space - he takes you outside of the city so you can stargaze together.

Eventually, you’d fall asleep right there on the grass, loosely holding hands after discussing your relationship and future. You felt content here with Kaito by your side, and thought this was the perfect way to spend Valentine’s Day.

He would stir awake and pick you up, leading you back to the car. Once you finally got home in the middle of the night, you’d end your romantic evening with a lazy intimate session of half-asleep love-making, if you were up for it, where Kaito would press kisses anywhere skin was available and mumble about how much he adored you into your neck.

Korekiyo Shinguuji

There’s no doubt in your mind that he’s been planning this day for a long, long time. Korekiyo takes any chance he gets to tell you that he loves you, so he definitely celebrates Valentine’s Day in a big way.

He persuades you into putting on a blindfold so he can surprise you; he doesn’t want you to have any clue where you’re going. Although you were a bit hesitant, you complied and let him carry you bridal-style to the car.

Korekiyo would also surprise you with a gift of some kind, most likely a bouquet of roses, to carry around while you’re in public. He needed to show off, of course. He would get the largest, brightest, most beautiful bouquet he could afford.

You spent the car-ride pestering him to give you any sort of hints as to where you were going, but Korekiyo didn’t budge. 

To your own delight and surprise, he’s planned a large, extravagant dinner for two. The finest meal that money could buy, as well as a team of waiters, waitresses, and chefs at your disposal. It felt like a fairy-tale come to life.

The tablecloth was covered in rose petals and candles burned along the center. He seemed to have rented a restaurant just for the two of you; it made you wonder how he managed to pull this off.

Korekiyo showers you in compliments, raving about how elegant you look, and a blush formed on your face. He dressed up as well, in a suit and tie as well as pulling his hair back for the occasion.

“How did you do all this?” You ask with a breathless voice, still completely floored by how beautiful everything was.

Your boyfriend hums to himself with pride, “Don’t worry about it,” he winks at you in a flirty manner. He spent the rest of the evening dropping little hints at you, holding your hand and maintaining the physical touches between the two of you.

Needless to say, it was the nicest date you’ve ever been on together, but the night was still young. Korekiyo would lead you back to your home where he’s prepared a romantic setting in your bedroom. As long as you felt like it, he would tend to all of your needs and treat you like royalty, soaking up the intimacy and skin-on-skin contact.

Eventually, you two would fall asleep holding one another in your arms, completely breathless and exhausted after such a long evening, but it was a Valentine’s Day that you would remember forever.

Gonta Gokuhara

You bring up the idea of Valentine’s Day in the beginning of February. Gonta really didn’t understand at first, staring at you quizzically as he asks, “Valentine’s Day? What’s that?” It took a decent amount of explaining for him to wrap his head around the Holiday.

But... Gentlemen show their love and appreciation everyday! Not just one day out of the year! Gonta wasn’t going to celebrate originally since, “Valentine’s Day is everyday!” 

He just wants to make you happy, though, so he gets into the spirit just for you. And when he does, he goes a little bit overboard and realizes that this may not be so bad after all...

Gonta buys you the biggest teddy-bear he can find - it’s the same size as him, which is one reason why he was so attracted to it. That, and he’s never seen a stuffed animal that big before. He was completely floored by it and just had to get it for you! 

And maybe it will remind you of him since it’s ‘Gonta-sized,’ as he put it.

Meanwhile, you baked cute Valentine’s Day-themed sweets for him, in the shape of butterflies of course. Gonta was so shocked by the loving gesture, but a little hesitant to eat them since he didn’t want to ‘hurt’ the insects.

He’s not the best at planning things, so you have an at-home date instead. You don’t really mind, though. It was nice to just cuddle up to him and have a lazy date. 

You flipped through cheesy romantic films, sobbing together and holding each other as you watched. 

Gonta gets pretty antsy, though, and wants to do something bigger and better for Valentine’s Day, because today is special! So, he takes you to his favorite hiking spot and you walk through the winding trail, holding hands and talking about your future. 

He leads you to the perfect spot to just look up at the stars and cuddle, having you rest on top of his chest; it was a peaceful last-minute idea.

Although he’s quite new to this, it was a day for the books. He did his best to make it a memorable day for you and Gonta already can’t wait for Valentine’s Day next year. 

Ryoma Hoshi

Honestly, Ryoma isn’t too thrilled about Valentine’s Day. What’s the point? He doesn’t need a day to show you that he loves you because he should be doing that everyday, just like any good partner would.

But, as the Holiday creeps closer, he can sense how badly you want to celebrate it together. Ryoma finds it difficult to say no to you, so he eventually gives in with a reluctant sigh.

However, he lets you pick what you two do. He’s never been too keen on choosing dates, anyway, especially not one as important as today.

Ryoma does his best to minimize his complaints since he doesn’t want to upset you. He doesn’t really try as far as celebrating goes - the most he does is buy you a card and a box of chocolates, and maybe a classic rose as well.

It’s hard to get him excited about any Holiday, really. A lot of his gifts are decided last-minute, but it’s better than nothing. He’s also a bit more irritable since he doesn’t like seeing or showing PDA, which is everywhere on Valentine’s Day.

But Ryoma knows how to show his love. He does agree take you to a pretty nice restaurant and fawn all over you, telling how how beautiful you look and showering you in compliments. He gets dressed-up for you as well, topping everything off with a suit and tie. If he’s gotta celebrate, he’s going to do it big.

Ryoma is still pretty new to the whole Valentine’s Day thing and he’s not sure what to do, but he shows his love in the best, most romantic way he can. 

He extends his arm across the table and lovingly holds your hand throughout dinner, and starts talking about the future.

You can see a glint of hope in his eyes as he talks about all of the things he wants to do with you. A small grin forms on his lips and you can feel his hand tighten around yours; as much as Ryoma pretends like he has a cold exterior, it’s moments like these where he softens up and shows you his true self.

“I love you, (Y/N),” he says genuinely, a warm smile greeting his face.

- Mod Rantaro

[truth-and-lies-drv3-imagines]

DRV3 kids as parents?

I SENSE FLUFF 

Since I do 6 characters per imagine and this is a big request, I’ll be doing the characters in parts!

 I’d usually say that you’ll need to send in another request containing the rest of the characters but I’m sure I’ll get a lot in the inbox so instead I’ll re-blog the other characters!

Mod Shuichi~

Rantaro Amami

-He’s a pretty chill father! He doesn’t discipline his kids in a harsh manner depending on what they’ve done. If it’s only a light thing like saying a bad word he’ll try discipline them in a calm but effective way.

-”Hey, I don’t like that word, please rephrase.” He’s also extremely supportive on his children’s activities, painted a beautiful painting? It’s without a doubt going to be put up on the wall. 

-He’s pretty good at solving problems, he can get to the core part of what’s bothering them and tries his best to try to comfort them and provide a safer environment.

-Although he can be a chill father, his behavior can turn into a more serious and stubborn one when the situation calls for it. He already has the sense that being playful and cool all the time might not always be the best decision.

-His experience with his sisters taught him a lot of parental kinds of things so it seems like he already knows what he’s doing, if his child ever had a nightmare, him and his kid/kids would go downstairs for a cup of milk and listen to them to what they had to say. 

-Overall, he’s one of the best fathers a child could ask for!

Kokichi Ouma

-Oh holy burrito.

-He’s probably one of the worst fathers to have existed, he’s never had experience taking care of a baby. So he leaves all the important business to his significant other. But volunteers to do fun activities with them.

-When the child gets older, they love pulling pranks on his partner just for the fun of it. No matter the age of the child Kokichi will always pull lighthearted pranks on them just for his own enjoyment.

-A huge fan of embarrassing his child in public, like blasting loud music when his child gets out of the car for school and everyone is looking at them. He also loves taking pictures of them at the most random occasions.

-To Kokichi, lying is an important skill to have, it gets  you out of sticky situations easily and smoothly. This skill is taught at an early age so they aren’t going to be the most honest person in the world. But Kokichi wants to make sure that he’s still the top on things, but he can still see through his own kid/kids lies even if the skill was taught by him.

-Nightmares and emotions are his key part in a parent, he’s pretty good at this part and instead of a sad and scared child, in the end they’re all happy and have wiped their fears away.

-If you were to ask, he’s a good father, but does have some things he could work on.

Shuichi Saihara

-He’s not the best at this job at first, he’s even aware of that. But as time goes on he gradually gets better at his job. The first few weeks gave him so much anxiety, he’s aware that children get kidnapped a lot because those cases are pretty common. So he’s somewhat protective of his child/children. But not too protective to the point where he’s always holding their hand.

-Shuichi already didn’t get much sleep, so after the child was born his max amount of sleep he got was around 2 hours. But he didn’t mind it too much. All- nighters were pretty much a huge factor in his career.

-The realization came when his actions could have a huge impact on the child/children’s behavior. So he’s always careful when he’s around them. But of course there are times where confrontations did bump in because his stress levels do reach overboard at times, but they’d always make up after, strengthening their relationship.

-Anything that they’re interested in, he tries to make sure it looks like he also sparks an interest in what they are. He does indeed show interest to whatever they’re showing, a painting, some random facts they learned or just wanting to show something weird he’ll take interest in them.

-School related matters are in his significant other’s hands, he’s not the best in the world at that field. But depending on their age he reads mystery novels with them but when they get older they tend to get more confusing.

-He occasionally gives his hat to them whenever they ask for it, his heart always melt whenever he sees them wearing it.

-If you were to ask. He wasn’t the best at first with the job but now, he’s considered a great father.

Kaito Momota

-Such a positive influence to his children and a motivating father to have! Always the type to give hugs and kisses to his child. 

-For their bedroom he bought these glow in the dark stars that are on their rooftop, their bedroom is practically space now. Star-gazing is a must but Kaito always engages in the activity with his child when it’s winter as it gets darker much quicker, he doesn’t want them to rest at such a late hour.

-He has such a short-temper so lashing out on his kid/kids are common, but definitely tries his best to make it up to them. Pretty good at resolving a conflict with their child between someone else, but gets pretty worked up himself when they explain their problem in more depth.

-Pretty protective, actually not pretty protective, he’s REALLY protective, if his child/children come home crying and unstable he’ll take action. Seeing his children in a state like this breaks his own heart. 

Maki Harukawa

-Being the Ultimate Child-Caregiver at a point in her life, she does have experience, but there are difficulties every parent has with their own children. Maki seems to be the type of person who doesn’t admit to wanting children, but secretly does.

-She’s quite good at parenting, there are two sides of her that can only be revealed to certain types of people. Her cold and aggressive side, and her soft affectionate side.

-Throughout her life, Maki never made emotional connections with others, she tends to keep away from people which force others to believe she doesn’t want children.

-She desires a happy childhood for her children, even if she doesn’t show it much, she wants them to have happy childhood memories unlike her. When the child gets older, she eventually teaches them self-defense, she is strict with the subject but will allow breaks.

-Incredibly protective, maybe a little too much. She’s the one who’ll be protecting her child/children, if her child/children come home in tears or in an upsetting mood, she’ll not hesitate to threaten or start a fight with them.

-She enjoys hearing positive comments from her children, so any time she picks them up from school or any clubs she enjoys hearing their enthusiasm during the day, though the never admits it, it does lighten up her heart.

-Her past is what inspires her to grant a beautiful childhood for her kids, she has her own problems she’s indeed not a perfect parent, but like any parent there are strengths and weaknesses they all have.

Kirumi Tojo

-She’s practically a mother all ready, her motherly attitude is proof of this. She’s quite busy for the majority of the day so there isn’t much time for her to spend time with her children.

-Pretty much cleaning her home all day, making sure her children are well pampered, happy and entertained during the day. She does try teaching her children hygienic duties at an early age such as, cleaning their room or dressing them self.

-There are times where she without asking, cleans their rooms. Out of love or just felt the area needed tidying up. 

-She’ll try help her children with their own needs such as homework, she just desires their happiness. Kirumi doesn’t get much free-time, but when she does she enjoys reading them a story-book.

-When the child is sick, oh boy. She abandons her other duties for the day and her time goes exclusively goes to her child. Blankets, tea, pillows and medication are all given to her child.

-Holding hands and hugging are really the only bits of physical affection she shows, but when she’s in a loving mood, she loves plopping kisses on their cheeks.

-When their emotions are all over the place, such as anger and sadness she tries at the best of her ability to make sure their alright again. Taking the anger out on her is hard to manage but she deals with it without making an even bigger mess.

-Overall, she’s a hardworking and caring mother who just wants the best for her children!

[dangan-meme-palace]

V3 is Sexist and Here's Why

Heyo! Here are my reasons for why I consider NDRV3 to be the most sexist installment of the DR series.

They fridged Kaede who was introduced as a promising and compelling protagonist in favor of her male love interest; another generic boy that the series loves to play as. It also sucks since Kaede ends up being remembered only as Saihara's love interest who care about him rather then a genuine leader who was morally gray.

Maki's characterization was inconsistent and cliche. A brooding tsundere who had a horrible life and it's only after a guy forces his way into her life does she learn to regain her humanity. Although Chapter 5 says that Maki managed to change for the better, her actions proved that she didn't changed at all consider that she was willing to kill everyone for the sake of her love interest. But everyone just brushes it off since she was just a girl who had fallen in love. Not to mention how her character development revolved only around Kaito.

Iruma was written in the hopes of making her as dislikable as possible. This is leads to unfortunate implications since she represents all the qualities that Japanese society disapproves of for women to be. (Being loud, prideful, sexually active, vulgar, having a talent that defies gender roles). Plus it's really messed up how she turns into a fragile, pathetic mess whenever someone yells at her or throws an insult at her.

Toujo and Angie both had interesting plotlines and characterizations (Toujo revealing to be a prime minister and wanting to kill for the needs of the many, Angie using her cult as a means of protecting the students while also having a selfish side) but they're instantly forgotten once they're killed off. Plus Angie's characterization and backstory is filled with racist writing.

Tenko was written to be a man-hating and obsessive lesbian-coded character who made some disturbing statements about how all men should die. (If they made it so that she wanted another minority group to perish, then you can tell that she would have gotten worse hate). And her constantly coddling Himiko, basically reducing her to a pet animal, was honestly super creepy. It also sucks that she was also revealed to have followed this creed because her master (a man) told her to.

Tsumugi and Himiko were okay regarding their roles and characterization, but they could have been done better.

And those are the reasons for the girls. And on the opposite side of the gender spectrum, there are noticeably more guys who are heavily involved and proactive in the actual storyline compared to the girls.

Saihara gets the privilege of playing as the POV Protagonist for a majority of the game and gets all the attention from the narrative and the characters. He even gets credited as the one who 'ends' Dangan Ronpa.

Ouma is the rival character and fits perfectly well with the truth vs. lies theme of the game. He has a constant presence in most of the chapters; either by helping the other players using clues and tricks to figure out the cases, or by terrorizing them with the dark and twisted truths of the game. It all comes into fruition when he manages to halt the killing game by claiming himself to be the mastermind.

While Kaito is only a supporting character, he still has a huge influence in the game because of how much he cares and roots for Saihara. He also serves as a thematic foil to Ouma as the two constantly clash over their ideals and actions. He has the most spotlight and most of the V3 kids admit that Kaito is important to them.  And there's also how he led the unsolvable murder scheme in Chapter 5.

Kiibo is technically important later on when it's revealed that he was the audience surrogate of the game. And he is also credited for officially ending/destroying Dangan Ronpa.

Amami also gets more recognition because of his role as the SHSL Survivor which ties in to the dynamics of the series and how it works.

While Hoshi, Shinguuji and Gonta aren't as involved, it still stands that there have been more guys who were actively involved in the storyline along with fitting the theme of truth vs lies in comparison to the girls.

And actually, i would like to disagree with you on Sakura. 

Despite being referred to as an ogre, she was honestly one of the best written girl characters in the series. 

She had a unique design that wasn't conventionally attractive like the other girls. 

She has the title of World's Strongest Fighter and she has a calm and honorable personality with a heart of gold.

She could have easily broken any of her classmates for insulting her, but she doesn't. She always maintains her cool. The only time she threatened violence was when any of them harmed her friends (Asahina).

She made an honorable sacrifice by killing herself to save her friends. Both the survivors and the narrative acknowledge this by showing the original 6 making more of an effort to work together to end the killing game. They honestly wouldn't have gotten as far if it wasn't for her.

That's why I consider her to be a girl character who was written exceptionally well.

You're thoughts?

-END OF SUBMISSION-

I strongly agree with all of these points!! The protag switch off is kinda iffy for me because while I recognize that it switched from strong female lead to male, I liked it as a plot twist. Still disappointing that they just killed her off for a shitty plot device and then didn't do anything to compensate for it. The girls kinda feel like they were thrown to the side tbh... I don't disagree with you though, and they did kind of just make her into a martyr and not the significant character she could have been. I feel like dr does that a lot with dead characters >:T

Also, when I say Sakura deserved better I meant that she shouldn't have been treated as a gag character or like her being strong was weird. It's like what you said about Miu in a way. I didn't mean that Sakura herself was bad or anything, I meant that it really bugged me when they made a joke out of her and then kind of forgot her after the trial even if they used the key she left behind. She literally sacrificed herself for them and nobody even really apologized properly to my recollection? Kinda wack.

Thank you for sending this in, it was really interesting to read!!

-tech

[thundercracer]

Bouquet

Iruma Miu thinks her friends being in relationships is pretty fuckin' cute. But she's still single and she's being forced to participate in Kaede's stupid fucking flower toss. Basically just a typical wedding bouquet toss lol

Part 2 now available!

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Iruma couldn’t help but smile a bit. Maybe she and Angie would be the next ones getting married after all.

Kaede looked stunning in her white gown. Light blonde hair curled loosely, bundled up atop her head. Shuuichi looked nervous beside her, smiling shyly at their guests through dark bangs. The two had just gotten married, and Iruma was thankful that the two had finally sealed the deal.

The ceremony had been nice and seeing everyone get together was always a fuckin’ blast. The sixteen of their friends rarely all got to be in the same place at the same time, and she hadn't seen some of them in a long while. Not that she’d ever admit she missed any of the fuckers.

The couple of the hour was trying to entertain family and friends as they all spent time enjoying the reception. She noticed some of the others not quite staying away from the alcohol and briefly considered joining them before she noticed Momota and Ouma drunkenly singing and dancing, looking absolutely trashed. Though she could hold her alcohol perfectly fucking well, she didn’t want to end up like those dumbasses. Besides, Harukawa and Amami were gonna kill them later, she just knew it.

That thought made her smile at their expense… for a moment, before she frowned. Somehow a very fun concept came to mind. She was still single. All her friends were out getting married and having kids and living their lives and she hadn’t even been dating. “Married to fucking science, baby!” as she liked to phrase it. Iruma shrugged off the thought as quick as it came; it didn’t matter. They couldn’t all be Shuichi and Kaede, after all.

Well, some of them could. She decided to hang out around Tenko, Himiko, and their brat for a bit. The two had gotten married pretty quickly out of high school and had managed to adopt a little boy named Hiro a couple of years later. Tenko was hesitant about Hiro at first, but the little tyke captured her heart quickly enough and she pledged to raise him to be a respectful boy and not a degenerate male. Himiko thought the situation somewhat hilarious and endearing, and Iruma found herself agreeing. They were apparently trying to aim for a second adoption.

She told them they were fucking sappy and, after a bit, she found herself seated with Gonta and Ryoma. The two were just settling into their relationship and were still in somewhat of a honeymoon phase. Though they were literally about to be beat out of that spot since Shuichi and Kaede were leaving that night on their actual honeymoon. Iruma loved spending time with the huge and small men and goofing around with them a bit, but they were a bit much she had to admit.

Iruma spent the rest of the night like this, hopping from her friends and trying her best to enjoy the night. That was, until all the ladies of the party were gathered together for Kaede’s bouquet throw. She tried to sit it out, but Kaede insisted.

“Miu! Come on! It’s all the single ladies! You’re single and a lady, you have to see if you’re getting married next!”

Scowling and muttering, “Well obviously I’m not, Bakamatsu,” she ended up giving in and found herself standing in a small crowd of other women. Almost none of her friends were in the group except for… Angie.

She was one of the ones Iruma rarely got to catch up with and she hadn’t seen her in a while. She was still as smiley and pretty as Iruma remembered her.

“Oh! Miu Miu! Are you gonna catch the bouquet?”

“Eh, maybe.”

“You should be more excited! Do you not wanna get married? Angie’s gonna catch it and she’s gonna get married to someone super cute and smart! Just you see!”

Iruma smiled. Just as hyper as she always was. She found herself missing that energy and thinking that she should spend more time with Angie outside of group events and parties that happened only a few times a year.

She was snapped out of her thoughts by Kaede announcing they were starting the toss.

A competitive part of her wanted to catch the bouquet and she saw Angie shoot her a sly smirk as if sending her a challenge. This caused something to churn in her belly and she couldn’t help but grin back and prepare for the throw. She suddenly felt excited for something she wasn’t supposed to have any interest in.

Kaede turned around, and the bouquet of white lilies and purple hydrangeas was sent soaring over her shoulders. Iruma saw the bouquet coming right towards her and she reached out to grasp it, feeling the bundle fall into her hands. The sensation of another pair of hands grasping around hers and the flowers overtook her.

She looked up and saw Angie, their fingers wrapped around each other and the stems of the flowers connecting them. They’d caught them together. A subtle sweet scent of flower petals enveloped them.

“Wow Miu! Look! We’re gonna get married next! Atua’s given us his blessings!”

Iruma’s cheeks bloomed pink like the petals of a peony at Angie’s words and she could only stand and stammer in response.

The other wedding guests, friends and strangers alike, congratulated the women on their catch and wishing them luck in their endeavors of finding wedding partners soon.

As the night seemed to be settling down, Iruma found herself at a table with Angie, Kiibo, and Ouma. Ouma was drunk off his ass and was tittering at Kiibo about something. Angie was still ecstatic about the two of them catching Kaede’s bouquet.

“Miu! Who do you think you’ll get married to?” Angie sighed dreamily. “It’ll probably be someone so super smart, don’t you think?”

Iruma shrugged. “Eh, I don’t really see it happening Ange. I’m more of a-”

She was immediately cut off by Angie’s offended gasp and the other girl slamming her hands on the table. Kiibo looked over sharply in concern - though Ouma looked over slowly and confused - as Angie began rattling off.

“But we caught the bouquet! We have to get married next, Miu!”

“Listen, Ange-” “No Miu! The flowers and Atua have already blessed us! We have to get married and that’s final!”

Ouma started giggling to himself.

“What’re you laughing at, you goddamn abortion?”

“Why don’t you two just get married? Nishishishi, you’re practically saying it already!”

She glanced at Angie nervously, expecting to see an amused smile and quick response at the read, but all she saw was a flustered woman. Dark skin flushed deeper and oceanic eyes dilated in surprise. Angie seemed like she was trying to open her mouth to respond but wasn’t quite able to.

What the hell is with that reaction!?

“Shut up, Kokichi,” she muttered. “You’re drunk off your ass. Amami’s gonna be pissed.”

That seemed to silence him as he appeared to be, for the first time, considering the implications of his boyfriend finding him that hammered. He groaned loudly and pressed his forehead to the table.

She eyed Angie in her peripheral again, and saw the woman smiling, albeit a bit more nervously than before. It had seemed that Ouma’s drunken comments had affected her somewhat.

Iruma couldn’t help but smile a bit. Maybe she and Angie would be the next ones getting married after all.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Artbook data - Ki-bo

Again, no chapter 6 spoilers when I really think we should have some.

Seiyuu’s comment: Tetsuya Kakihara

Seeing Ki-bo’s character profile for the first was a big surprise. “I was expecting him not to look like that?!”, I said (laughs). As the one who voiced him, I grew very attatched to him not really because he is a robot, but because his emotions and thoughts are so close to human that I don’t know where to draw the line. I think he has more expressions than the humans, so I would find it really great if he turns out to be a character you all love. Please love him.

Kodaka’s comment: DanganRonpa’s very own Hope Robot

Ki-bo is named after, you guessed it, hope. He was conceptualized as a way too serious and oversensitive robot who talk and acts like an honor student, but at first I hard time deciding if I should play him as cute or cool. In the end, I went for a middle ground, and it turned out surprisingly pretty well, I guess. The way his robosuit looks like a gakuran uniform was Komatsuzaki and even now I still find it very unlikely any actual inventor would design it like that. We made his hair robotishly stiff and added lines to his face for even more robotness. I like how pale he looks. We had many ideas for the jetpacks on his back, like shaping it like an elementary school kid backpack, but later changed it to the current simple and cool design. For the most of the ideas concerning his design  I just let Komatsuzaki do everything the way he wanted and I think the result felt very true to his artstyle.

In the first visual released, Komatsuzaki had just to draw the two major characters that would set the image of the game plus one character of his personal choice, but because of that a lot of people thought Ki-bo was going to be the protagonist. But anyways, no matter how “anything goes” the world of DanganRonpa looks like, it’s still a mystery game in the end. Whether or not it’s okay to include a robot in the main series was a question I pondered a lot. I mean, a robot that is a robot from the start, unlike Nidai from 2. I was really afraid of how people would react to it. I decided not to include the zombie character in 2 for the same reason. When I decided to check how things turned out, I was glad to see a remarkable ammount of people said they liked him.

Design notes:

Ki-bo-Antenna: An antenna that connects him to the “voice of his heart” who tells him what path to take when he doesn’t know what to do with his life. It standing upright is a sign he is feeling well.

Ki-bo-Mask: His piece modeled after a school uniform’s collar has the cool function of becoming a faceguard. It’s main use is not as a combat equipment, but to hide his blushing face.

Ki-bo-Eye: His eyesight is a regular 1.5. We know that’s not the most impressive thing in the world, but thanks to Iruma giving him a flashlight function, he was able to improve his robotic appeal just a little bit.

Inner Part: An inner part around his hips that regulates the temperature and humidity of his more important parts. It’s a system that he has to switch everyday and wash before reusing, so it’s pretty much underwear.

Ki-bo-Mouth: When he needs to display information stored in his memory, he prints it from his mouth. He can’t eat food with it, but it has other utility installed to it. What was Dr. Iidabashi going for with this?

Ki-bo-Arm: His strenght is on the same level of a slightly fit elder. We live in an era where our seniors are magnificently active, but he is still below the high school avarage, on a level people hesitate to ask him to do work that can be handled by light machinery.

Ki-bo-Body: A body that can deform a lot with a considerable impact. You could call it a crumple zone, but his durability is still very questionable for someone who calls himself the Super High School Level Robot...

Favorite presents:

White Mustache for Robots: A gentlemanly fake mustache for robots that looks like the it was picked from the mustachebot from the mountains. A present that could make Ki-bo more dignified.

Oil for Robots: Partition oil used for building robots. If you have the time to give this to other students just for kicks, give it to Ki-bo instead, he’ll love it.

Sparkly Sheet: A cleaning sheet you use to wipe the kitchen’s sink or the faucet and throw it away. Even for Ki-bo’s maintenence, it doesn’t fail to impress.

Hated presents: 

Saishuu Academy Bracelets: Handcuff-themed bangles with the Saishuu Academy emblem engraved on it. Saying this is a proof of his friendship with everyone who fought for their lives in the middle of despair won’t deceive him!

Key phrases:

The Early Days of the Super High School Level Robot: A robot, but a Super High School Level one. Due to this questionable merit, Ki-bo became a student on Saishuu Academy. Being a creation of Dr. Iidabashi, the number one mechatronic engineer, he has high learning capabilities, but his performances are all in a very human level so, to be honest, he doesn’t have much going for him as robot!? He was actually designed like this to avoid further tragedies, since he once caused an unforeseen accident that harmed the professor. Then, because of that incident, his AI was reset and he had to relearn everything in a new life, or so he was told. His will to learn lots of to grow closer to people is admirable, but he could have some better functions!?

Mentioned function list:

Strenght: On the level of a strong elder

Eyesight:  1.5 on both eyes

Breath: Works a hand drier

Fingertips: Swiss knives (not actually produced in Switzerland)

Sense of smell: Aroma discernment function

Eyes: Strong flashlights

Mouth: Memory image printer

Others: Recording/reproduction function (images and audio)

Akamatsu is his “Mother”!?: As someone learned their lesson from the previous incident, an emergency stop button was installed on the nape of Ki-bo’s neck. However, Ki-bo fears someone might take advantage of this system with ill intents, so he tries not to let anyone know about it. Except it’s completely exposed and within hand’s reach, so human curiosity leads any who finds it to want to press it. Akamatsu couldn’t resist it and pressed it, immediatelly ceasing all of Ki-bo’s functions. Akamatsu points out the somewhat dangerous design that baits pranksters, suggests a revision and Ki-bo immediately agrees with it. Like Dr. Iidabashi is his father, he now considers Akamatsu his mother because she is affecting his design?! He laughed it off saying “It was a joke”, but overly serious as he is, it could that his words carried genuine trust and gratitude. 

Being so extremely easy to shut down is a terribly sloppy design flaw for a so-called Super High School Level Robot!?

Inner Voice: Ki-bo might say he is learning a lot about the world, but the way he talks and acts is very stiff and unflexible, so he lacks the basis for decision-making his friends have. And yet Ki-bo frequently mentions he has an “inner voice”. Whenever he faces conflict or indecision, he listen to a voice in his brain for unknown reasons and it tells him what to do. His friends write it off as half-jokes, but for Ki-bo it’s huge source of support and a metaphorical compass leading him out of harsh situations. Could it be an important ability arranged by Dr. Iidabashi?

Main Quotes:

“I want to confirm this no matter what. If I don’t, I won’t be able to rust in peace.“: Ki-bo wants to reach greater heights living as person, not a robot. However, he has a metalic body that can’t eat or sleep and even his sadness values are high, he cannot shed tears. Because of how he brags about being so close to a person, he suffers with this unclosable gap. And then Ki-bo finally decides to gamble on whether or not he was really a robot by lying down on a machine equipped with a life sensor. With his body under the giant hydraulic press that crushes anything inorganic without mercy, will he be saved by the sensor and return alive?!

“You’re the worst person here, second only to Ouma-kun“: Ki-bo has to deal with bullying from the snide Ouma, who never misses an opportunity to mock him, calling him an “azuki-washing robot“ or a “robotic dustpan“, and saying “his breath smells like gasoline“ regardless of what moves his motor. Ki-bo is living sad days, with his pride in tatters, his personal identity on the brink of collapse and suffering unspeakable robophobia nonstop... Despite all this, Ki-bo still tries to motivate his friends with heartfelt optimistic speeches, only to be respond Yumeno’s harsh “The only way a robot can get to shine is with a special self-destruction blast“. Even living under the same roof, there’s still a deep dark river separating people from robots. With she telling him to actually kill himself, its no wonders she gets to be called the second worst person, losing only to the atrocious Ouma.

Final comment: For Dr. Iidabashi, Ki-bo not having any special powers carries a deep meaning. Do not tell him a camera function was added for bowel movement checking!

[dangan-ronpa-v3-imagines-blog]

The Boys with a shy and cold S/O who becomes more affectionate later in the relationship

Hoo boy this is my first imagine on this blog, I really hope I did justice for it!

- Mod Rantaro

Kokichi Ouma

To Ouma, winning s/o’s affections was almost like a game to him. A game with a more than pleasing prize if won. The objective? To thaw out s/o’s frozen heart! The reward? S/o’s undying love and affection, of course! ...hopefully!

He thought this would be much easier done than said. Boy was he wrong. This was much harder than he anticipated it to be. No matter how much he pestered them or spent time with them, they still seemed unaffectionate. He knew they loved him but.. They sure were bad at showing that.

Weeks of numerous attempts of trial and error passed by, to the point that he’d almost thought he’d never win. That was until a small peck on the cheek took him by surprise.

Sure, it was a small peck, one small step for man, but one huge leap for Kokichi Ouma’s relationship!

Whatever it was he did that prompted them to do that, he’d be sure to do it more often. Maybe he can be promoted from cheek kisses to actual kisses someday!

And that someday came months later after gradual progression in their relationship. Ouma went from zero hugs and kisses to much more than he could ask for. Mission accomplished, Kokichi!

Kiibo

At first, Kiibo wasn’t at all used to having such a cold s/o. In fact it made him feel almost rejected at first despite them having already admitted their feelings towards him. He’d assumed that it was because he was a robot that s/o hardly shows any affection to him often.

They’d reassure him multiple times that it wasn’t him at all; they just simply were not too keen on showing much affection in general, and apologized for making it seem as though they didn’t love him.

Ever since then he’d grown used to the fact that his s/o wasn’t an affection heavy person. Besides, it was enough for him to simply spend quality time with the person he loves!

But slowly, s/o would throw in a romantic gesture here and there, and started to steadily grow more frequent as weeks went by.

S/o didn’t think he would notice, but in actuality, their gradual change in behavior was the only thing on his mind. He’d concentrate on these patterns, and wondering what caused this slight change in their behavior? Were they sick? Did something happen?

Of course he enjoyed this, but he still wondered why. S/o was much more different than the s/o just a few months ago.

But all those questions had been answered by the simple phrase: “Because I love you, Kiibo.”

Shuichi Saihara

Saihara was fairly okay with his less than affectionate s/o. It saved him the embarrassment of possible pda.

But every now and then, he’d want some form of affection, especially after bad days or if his self esteem seemed much lower than usual. He’d cuddle with his s/o every now and then, but it almost seemed like he was snuggling up to a figurative ice cube.

He loved them with all his heart, and he was kinda sure they felt that way too. He’d just wish that they made some sort of gesture that showed him they cared, maybe like holding hands every now and then?

Wait a minute. What just slipped into his hand? That can’t be s/o’s hand, can it?

It is!?

He’d look at them, a blush on his face as he realized this might’ve been the first time they’d actually done something like this! And looking at the light blush on their face as well told him they loved him, maybe even more than ever if they made the conscious decision to hold hands.

From that fateful day, the relationship had progressively grown more into a loving one, from holding hands, to side hugs, to longer hugs, to a variety of kisses. It was amazing how s/o’s cold personality took a very slow but steady 180 into a more affectionate kind.

Gonta Gokuhara

He’d be very gentle with his s/o. Only doing gentlemanly things, like holding the door or pulling out chairs for them to sit in. He was never sure if they’d appreciate a hug or kiss on the cheek, since they always acted a little cold when it came to affection.

He knew they were just shy, and it was fairly understandable. For some people it just takes a lot of courage and warming up!

He’s very patient with his s/o, making sure not to do anything they might not like. He would just feel awful if he’d made them uncomfortable with his actions.

No matter how long it takes for s/o to eventually warm up to the idea of affectionate acts, he will wait for them. It’d be awfully ungentlemanly of him to rush them.

And the day they made their first move had him quite shocked, if we’re being honest. He never expected them to latch on to his arm in public! He’d admit, it felt nice that they held onto that arm, it made him feel as if they needed him.

It was exciting for him to know that s/o was opening up for him, it’s as if he’d accomplished his mission in being a good boyfriend, and will still continue to be that good boyfriend for as long as they love him.

Hoshi Ryoma

His s/o being unaffectionate at first didn’t bother him one bit. He had to admit, he’d been the same way himself. That was one thing they had in common.

The relationship was pretty calm, not much passion, nor was there frustration with each other. It was simply just enjoying each other’s company.

He kind of just let them do their own thing while he did his. The two were perfectly content with the mutual chillness.

He was the calmest of all the boys when s/o started to get a little bit affectionate towards him. Though he will have to admit, it was the cutest thing to him when s/o shyly kissed him on the cheek for the first time.

The ever so slow shift of cold to loving was quite enjoyable. It wasn’t too fast, and it seemed pretty special that way. That they’d come to start showing him more affection.

He’d always return their kisses with the same gentle gesture to keep the progression going, and to show that he loved them like they did for him.

Kaito Momota

Kaito wasn’t really against having a cold s/o. It actually made them an even cuter couple as their personalities kind of complemented each other, one being passionate and bombastic, the other being a bit on the shier side.

And it was good enough for him if they at least agreed to lay next to him outside to gaze at the stars whenever he thought the night was going to show them a breathtaking sight. Just because he couldn’t hug or kiss them doesn’t mean he isn’t going to gush about the wonders of outer space to them.

He’s grown pretty much used to these stargazing dates where their shoulders were only allowed to touch like, a little bit.

But he was sure seeing stars when he felt his s/o put an arm around him and ever so lightly pull him closer. It was a legitimate surprise to him!

That same night after he walked s/o home, he was rewarded with a very very small and very very quick peck on the nose before s/o vanished inside their home in a flustered mess.

When he returned to his humble abode, the neighbors had to shout at him because his excitement was, well, very loud and woke up their kids on a school night. But can you blame him? He was excited for his s/o’s tiny gesture of affection, and if he’s being honest, he’s already craving for more, and he was always looking forward to the next possible kiss or hug.

Korekiyo Shinguuji

Like Kaito, he didn’t really mind the lack of affection either. It’s not like he needed it every single minute of every single day, so he didn’t really see a problem with it. He’s fairly patient and understanding with them.

Besides, since they aren’t like, making out on the couch all the time, it just leaves more time to tell them stories and folktales that intrigue him most, and that he thinks they’ll love. It made for perfect dates to stay at home.

One day when he was reading one of his favorites to his s/o, he was caught a bit off guard when he felt his hair being played with. S/o hardly ever did that, and that’s saying if they even did do it at all. It felt nice to him, and though he was surprised, he wasn’t about to show it, so he kept reading.

Ever since that night, he’d noticed how s/o’s somewhat affectionate touches grew to be more frequent in between each visit and date, and he had to say, he was internally ecstatic to know that they were starting to open up, and share their true beauty with him, and him only.

Rantaro Amami

It honestly didn’t phase him at all. If they weren’t one for affection, that was completely fine by him, he respected that.

He never dated before, so he was kind of glad they didn’t expect him to be the best damn love machine in the galaxy, let alone their town. It was a bit of a cool learning experience, and they both went at their own pace.

Sometime though, he would wonder if he was actually being a good boyfriend. He knew s/o usually shies away from being loved on, but he couldn’t help but think that he wasn’t doing enough for them in the relationship. He’d usually stress about it, though of course he wouldn’t show that to his s/o, or anyone really. He wouldn’t want them to worry.

But as he noticed his s/o slowly becoming more of an affectionate lover over time, he’d also feel his worries gradually wash away as well, as he too started doting on them a bit more as they grew more comfortable with such romantic actions

[drv3imagines]

Hey, what up friends of this blog. If you were expecting Mod Ouma, But Ironically (Mod Tojo) to answer an ask, I deeply apologize because that’s not what this post is about… HOWEVER. I would like to pay special attention to a few characters we’ve missed out on for birthday bashes. I was waiting until Rantaro’s birthday to go ahead and compile the birthday bashes we’ve previously missed out on. I had no intention of JUST doing Korekiyo, Ryoma, and Kirumi (Everyone deserves the love the killing game didn’t give them). I’m gonna go as far back as Angie Yonaga, Kokichi Ouma, Tsumugi Shirogane, Shuuichi Saihara, and finally our boi who’s birthday is today! Rantaro Amami! No one placed these asks in our boxes, so technically we aren’t obligated to write for them? But, I like being fair, and those poor kids deserve more.

So without further ado. Have a VERY LONG POST.

Angie Yonaga You weren’t exactly sure what to get Angie, which is a little more complex than you thought it should have been. She found a lot of gifts from you pleasing through the eyes of Atua. New art brushes? Atua thanks you for the offering of tools to further Angie’s craft for His eyes. Cute hair pin? Atua says that s/o is kind to bring forth ornaments to decorate Angie’s hair~ Once you tried to make her dinner, but that didn’t work out too well… Atua said it sucked and you ended up ordering out instead. Atua was right on that one, pizza was much better than eating burned meatloaf… You didn’t want to separate Angie from her religious views, but you honestly wanted to hear what she had to say for once. Even though you’ve been dating for so long, was it possible to hear just her thoughts on something? Especially since today was her birthday. That’s when you started to formulate your plan… Angie had just finished leading a prayer, when you stopped her just before she could go off. “Hey Angie, y'know what today is right?~” You asked in a sing-songy voice. The artist closed her eyes -probably asking Atua- before humming out the answer. “Atua says… Today is the day we celebrate a devout follower!~” “That’s right! And I got you som-” “S/o finally wants to donate blood for sacrifice!” A twinge of panic caused your heart to leap. Not that you didn’t wanna appease her wishes in donating…it’s just that you already agreed to do that nearly four times this month…any more blood and you’d end up in the hospital… “Maybe…next month…or three. Actually, it’s your birthday~ And I got you something! I think you’re going to really love it this time, Angie!” “Ah, but Angie already loves everything you offer. As s/o’s kind heart is pleasing in Atua’s eyes. He sees you and loves how you treat his dear children.” Perhaps…Angie really does appreciate everything you do behind her religious veil…if this is the best she could do to admit her feelings then you’d just have to accept it. You’d love her either way… You pulled your gift to her out of the bag anyway and she squealed. “It’s an avocado!~ Thanks!~ The gracious avocado is a blessing that Atua sends to Angie’s island as a gift for our devotion to Him! However…Angie thinks the best gift she has received from Atua…is you, s/o.” You blush at her comment before muttering, “do you think you can ask Atua if I can kiss you?” Angie pretended to think for a moment before cheerfully giggling, “Atua grants you permission~”

Kokichi Ouma It was never a quiet day at the Ouma household. Your boyfriend was as childish as he was in high school, always the jokester and prankster. Still cuter than a button, and a huge tantrum throwing crybaby at times, but that’s what made him special. Who cares if he’d grow to be a man-child? He was loving and cared for you like no other. That’s why you reserved all your rest for his special day. Each year since you’d known him he’d been a guy to go all out- But… When you woke up this morning…it was quiet. You immediately thought he just got a super early start and wasn’t here, but you found him in the kitchen making a breakfast. It was a tad cleaner than when he normally cooked but- “Okay, who are you and where’s my energetic boyfriend?” He turned to you with that infamous devilish grin of his accompanied with his ‘evil laugh’. “Nishishishishi~ Good morning s/o~ I decided this year I’d shake things up for my birthday~” What. This was automatically suspicious. What was this dork planning? “Awww, don’t you trust me, s/o?” No Well, of course. But if Kokichi made an unexpected change, something very bizarre was going to happen…you’d just have to keep a close eye on him for the day. Unfortunately…you were left with nothing. Your boyfriend was completely unreadable all throughout the day. You spent a whole day with him, indulging in activities you wanted to do??? Was it like some April Fool’s Day prank he was pulling?! But it isn’t April… maybe he’s got something really strange planned up ahead…better brace yourself. Yet nothing happened. It was actually well into the evening and the two of you were having dinner at a restaurant the two of you would frequent on really special date nights. Okay, seriously what is going on?! “Kokichi…are you alright? We spent your entire birthday doing things I liked to do? Did you do something I need to know about?!” That same smirk he gave you this morning reappeared, but it was softer…and very loving… “You’ve been so suspicious of me today, s/o,” he whined, “don’t you trust me?~” This time you vocalized your answer, “yes… I trust you, Kokichi. Please tell me why you’re doing this?” “Well, since you’re so nosy today~ I guess I should spill, huh?” For a moment you thought he blushed, but whatever it was, it immediately disappeared. “You’ve trusted me this long. I guess I should start acting like I like it or something. Every year you’re always making my birthday memorable, so I thought I’d be selfish and make this next memory one I create for us~” You didn’t have the slightest clue of what he was talking about until he pulled out a small box from his pocket and kneeled down at your side.

Tsumugi Shirogane Plain. That was the single thing your girlfriend asked from you on this day. She wanted the day to be a reflection of who she was. Plain. No surprises. No cake, unless it made a specific cameo from her favorite anime episode. And definitely no parties. Definitely no. She just wanted to cuddle her human dakimura and watch some of her favorite classics. Even though Sailor Moon was typically for normies, she was glad the remakes were staying true to the classic. You decided you would obey her demands…for now…and cuddle your otaku til her heart’s content. Eventually, noon rolled around and you had started to get hungry. Offering her lunch was pointless when she was fully immersed in whatever you two had been watching (Sailor Moon had to go when a new episode of her fave was on), so you took it upon yourself to make her something cutesy. While you were cutting up vegetables to put on her side, you checked your cell phone really quick before returning to your otaku. You thought you heard her mumble something, but you figured it was about the show, and started your at lunch. Just as the next episode began, the doorbell rang. “I’ll get it,” even though it was pointless to announce when she wasn’t paying any mind.

Tsumugi had finished her lunch a while ago, but her focus was on this crucial exchange between the protagonist and the antagonist. It would determine whether a successful escape would be possible for the protagonist and the future of anyone else who received this fate, or if the antagonist would have the advantage and would continue their plot even after death. She figured it would be a pretty cool reference for her next cosplay. Maybe she should discuss this matter with someone who had appreciated her– Oh? But… where had you gone off to. Tsumugi paused the episode, worried that she had lost your interest by being to delved into her favorite show. Even though it was her birthday…she should have considered your feelings too. Deciding she’d apologize, the cosplayer picked up her plate and placed it in the kitchen, before searching the house for you. “S/o? I-I’m sorry I got lost in the show again… Ill do my best to give you more attention if that’s what you- Oh?” Had she somehow reentered the fictional reality she just left? Blinking repeatedly, she made sure she was awake, but nothing had changed. You stood before her, dressed as her favorite character, but not only that, you turned your shared bedroom into the world the character came from. It was nearly perfect, almost as if she had done the work herself. “I know you said you didn’t want a surprise, but I just wanted to do something special for my not-so-plain girlfriend. I had a speech prepared, but I think I’ll wait to deliver it when I’m not in character.” Her heart is completely overwhelmed at the work you put into impressing her. You’re almost worried she might faint, so you embrace her gently, steadying her balance. “Th-thank you… For not only taking the time for putting this together… making my belief that cosplay is an expression of love real.”

Shuuichi Saihara Today is my birthday. Shuuichi thought to himself. A few years ago if he said that to himself, he’d have mixed feelings about it. He didn’t really like big social gatherings and only kept the celebratory matters amongst his family members. And even then, he insisted they kept everything on a low profile. That is…until he met you. You were very exciting, and persistent. You always helped him out of his shell every now and then, allowing him to comfortably be able to celebrate this renewed day knowing love and care. He couldn’t wait until he found out what you had in store to- He turned over to see your side of the bed very much empty. It wasn’t even like warm, meaning you had been absent for some time. Curious of the situation, Shuuichi climbed out of bed and began to investigate. And investigate was definitely something he was going to have to do today. He smiled at the sticky note on his door, a symbol scribbled on its surface. So this is what he had in store today. After getting dressed, Shuuichi had accumulated nearly twelve sticky notes all of which had some kind of symbol scrawled on it. But he was at a dead end when he collected all of the notes. This can’t be right, none of these sheets have words on them. Shuuichi closely examined each of the notes splayed across the table, then he examined the area once more before his eyes rested on an out of place book. It looked like it had been recently removed from the shelf as the other books were more settled. Shuuichi removed the book finding his guess to be accurate when he discovered a sticky note with a smiley face tacked on the first page. It was a book of codes, you’d bought him for his previous birthday. He didn’t want to spoil himself as to what could be in store next…but he was practically bouncing in his shoes with excitement at his guesses. Turns out he was right! You had used previous gifts to give him clues as to where you could be hiding…all leading up to the final destination. Shuuichi saw you patiently waiting underneath a gazebo in a local park…the scene had looked vaguely familiar to him… but he couldn’t recall why… After your normal greeting, Shuuichi followed your movements carefully, trying to note what was it about this place that was ringing so many bells at once?! “Would it be too much trouble to ask you out on a tea date next time? I could perhaps bring my novels and we could talk about our favorite characters.” Almost on instinct, Shuuichi replied, “that wouldn’t be any trouble at all. If it’s with you, I would-” Oh. My. Gosh. You were recreating the moment when the two of you first met! “I see the light bulbs going off Mr. Detective, have you finally solved the case?” “I think so. I think the culprit is definitely you this time. The crime you’re being charged with……stealing my heart.” He’d have to look up some better pick up lines next time! He was not prepared at all, but at least you blushed. Maybe even-…even after all these years you still took his breath whenever you kissed him.

Rantaro Amami “S/o!~ Rise and shine (ursine…//shot).” You grumbled in response to the cheery voice, turning over to put your pillow over your head. “Come on, s/o, you promised.” You could almost hear the pout he was doing. Rantaro was easy to understand in these moments… But it is his birthday today, so it was understandable. And, honestly, you were looking forward to it. Heck you were really excited to celebrate with him……but this year he had a little something daring saved up for this afternoon. And that thing was rock climbing. We aren’t talking about your basic run of the mill indoor plastic walls with artificial hand and foot holds. No, we are talking a real terrain. A real terrain with steep cliffs. A real terrain with natural sharp rocks. That kind of extreme rock climbing that only your boyfriend would suggest. You trusted he would make it safe for you since your skill was no where near his, but you still had your doubts. The bed sunk as you felt an extra weight approach you. He was getting persistent. You mentally sighed; it wasn’t fair for you to lie in bed and make him go by himself…especially on his birthday… “Okay, okay… I’ll do it for the birthday boy.” You mumbled in your half-sleep state. Whatever he was planning, stopped and he immediately retreated. “Great, I’ll see you at the rendezvous then?” Wait?! We’re leaving now?!? “By that I mean breakfast~” he chuckled and headed out of the room, leaving you to reluctantly get ready.

“Rantaro…are you sure you want to do this today? Have you checked the weather? Do we have enough supplies? What if we get lost and our phones die? Or they lose signal?” Your worried state didn’t phase your lover as he winked to you and passed a slice of cake to you. “It’s early, but consider it our last meal together.” He stated gravely, holding back a laugh. “Rantaro, that’s not funny! I’m being serious!” Your green haired lover froze at the graveness of your tone. It was silent for a moment before he turned back to the counter and moved the entire cake to the center of the table. You weren’t sure what he was up to, and became even more confused when he returned to the table with some candles and a lighter. He offered you some of the candles and you begrudgingly assisted him. Once he lit each candle, he gave you a small smile, then closed his eyes and blew out the candles. “Hopefully, that will keep us safe and not make you worry any more.” Huh? “What are you talking about? What did you wish for?” “If I told you it might not come true and we really could die~” “RANTARO!!!”

[junkobears]

More V3 Spoiler Related Anon Asks

I can’t wait for the day when I can just answer/post these without any cuts due to fear of spoiling my streaming friend... that’s gonna take months at the rate we’re going...  Also my response as fuckin’ usual got ridiculously long. To be fair these asks brought up a lot of points!

Welcome back, anon. I’m glad you guys use my blog as a way to vent out all your salty rants, haha. For real, I love seeing them! 

For one, lemme say that literally sending this ask that brings up very valid points about Chapter 5′s writing with regards to his character, in NO WAY makes you One Of Those™ Ouma fans. You clearly can look at his character beyond OMG PRETTY BOY ASSHOLE WHOSE SO TRAGIC AND DEEP AND UNPROBLEMATIC MUST DEFEND AT ALL COSTS, haha. This already makes you better than 90% of Ouma fans. And hating the awful SHSL Analyst theory is the icing on top, TBH.

BUT YES, both the Convenient Exisal Voice Changer and 300-page script annoy me so goddamn much in how blatant they are as plot devices, it’s incredibly distracting. Two of many reasons why Chapter 5 is my least favourite part of the game. I know the real reasons for having the voice changer - so you still have Ouma and Momota’s VAs around for one more trial since seiyuu appeal is a big draw of this series, and so it’s easier to keep track of who the Exisal is pretending to be at that point (although the mugshot + name should really be enough, and isn’t it mostly Ouma IIRC? but audiences are dumdums I guess). 

But it’s just... there’s no story justification for the voice changer at ALL. Why would that ever be a function in the first place? Are we just supposed to bullshit the idea that Iruma maybe included this on her handy Exisal Remote?? And if you really NEED it to be a feature... then why not foreshadow this ability with the Exisals in previous chapters - you could’ve had the Monokubs appear in Exisals earlier in the stories speaking with the voices of the dead kids to stir up shit (imagine Tenko or Kaede’s voice being used to torment both Yumeno and Saihara for instance?). Like there’s an easy 5-second fix to alleviate the issue of breaking suspension of disbelief, come on writers.

The 300-page script on the other hand... goddamn do I fucking hate that shit. One, no fucking way could anyone write THAT detailed a script whilst dying painfully from being poisoned and also having to set up five hundred different parts of your murder plan. Or was the implication that he had this script prepared in advance just in case? Which is even worse, if I’m honest. Cuz the Exisal/press plan is explicitly stated to be a last-minute plan Ouma thought of when he realized the mastermind had manipulated HaruMaki and the others into wanting to kill/stop him. 

I also hate it because it’s used a bullshit justification for how Momota managed to give off a FLAWLESS Ouma impression that NOBODY ELSE found suspicious or off-kilter in any way?? What the actual fuck. Remember back in DR1 (admittedly I don’t think this fandom has ever played DR1) when Junko’s literal twin sister could barely disguise herself as Junko, nearly broke character several times and a ton of other characters noticed how weird she was in comparison to the Junko they knew from pop culture? You’re telling me this dude who only knew this other dude for a few weeks at MOST, could pull off a better impersonation than Mukuro Ikusaba, Junko’s twin who grew up with her their whole lives??? Sorry, no, that just doesn’t really make any sense. Again, breaks my suspension of disbelief. And it would’ve set-up the reveal much better if Momota broke character several times during the trial, and having the others notice how weird ‘Ouma’ is in comparison to before, or something. Lazy, lazy writing.

You might be right that people theorize Ouma as SHSL Analyst mostly to explain away these issues, which just bugs me because V3 fans really are garbage at accepting that sometimes things are just bad writing, clearly it’s all Kodaka’s INTENTIONAL master plan... sure, hun. Also irritates because oh my god that’s Junko’s niche, guys. Does every ‘clever’ character in this series need to have their smarts explained away with ANALYSIS SUPERPOWERS? Can Ouma just not be a trolling shitlord clown who happens to be very on the ball with investigating from the shadows? Stop trying to replace the best character with your shitty woobie pretty boys, Kodaka/Fandom. For my heart, please.

And yeah, I never understood why the group immediately forgave HaruMaki for literally trying to get everyone executed at the trial (although unlike most of this fandom I can understand and sympathize with where she was coming from with trying to kill Ouma/ending the game... bless her “stab first, ask no questions” self haha)... like that should be a huge deal, guys. I liked that element with Asahina in DR1, as well, even if it did get brushed aside quite quickly even by Togami/Fukawa, at least it was BROUGHT UP in some form... like, Shirogane didn’t even try to bring that fact up as another method to divide and stir tensions within the group for the killing game? REALLY? 

In general V3 desperately needed an editor, for sure though anon. So many parts of this game either: drag on WAY LONGER than necessary (Library scene, anyone? Every after-trial scene?) there are random plot points that are brought up only to never become relevant, the pacing is completely out-of-wack, and a lot of things just aren’t adequately justified, explored or foreshadowed. I get the impression this just happens once a series becomes unexpectedly popular/best-selling - the creator is then given a lot more free reign. Which is almost always a bad thing, haha.

[oumakokichi]

NDRV3 Transcripts: Ouma Kokichi's Kokoronpa

Bonus modes in Danganronpa games are always very interesting to check out, as they give the player a chance to hang out with all of the characters and learn more about them. If the player has completed a character’s FTE’s, they can go on a date with them.

There’s a chance that a special event will occur during a date, called ‘Kokoronpa’. It works just like a Nonstop Debate: there are two weak points and two truth bullets (agree/disagree). Each combination of statement and response will result in a different outcome.

Today we’ve brought you Ouma’s Kokoronpa, complete with all four possible outcomes. It provides a pretty clear insight into Ouma’s feelings for Saihara, so if anyone���s looking to dive deeper into the Oumasai abyss, this is a must. I hope everyone enjoys it!

@ouma–kokichis​ has been talking quite a lot about kokoronpas lately, so @ne0dym​ and I became curious and looked into providing the specifics for Ouma’s in case anyone was curious!

Since kokoronpas are basically a free look into any character’s “true inner thoughts,” ne0dym and I felt this would be particularly interesting for a character like Ouma, who usually lies all the time. As she already said, these scenes are really illuminating to Ouma’s character, and they deal a lot specifically with his feelings towards lies, and towards Saihara.

There’s a Google doc prepared as well, mostly identical to this post (minus the Japanese text). But I know some people prefer Google docs since they’re easier to navigate!

Google doc link.

More translated transcripts.

I hope you all enjoy, and if you could help spread this around, it’d be great!

OUMA: ……

SAIHARA (THINKING): 珍しい名前…王馬くんが黙り込んでるなんて。

Well, this sure is strange… It’s unusual for Ouma-kun to be so quiet.

OUMA: （うーん…）

(Hmmm…)

SAIHARA (THINKING): え…？今の声って、まさか…王馬くんの心の声、なのか…？

Eh…? The voice I heard just now, could it be…? Was that the sound of Ouma-kun’s inner thoughts…?*

(* Translator’s Note:  A play on “心,” of course. “Kokoro” can mean mind or heart in Japanese, so that’s why these scenes usually have a romantic connotation to them while also dealing with the characters’ inner thoughts.)

ーKOKORONPAー

OUMA: どうやったら…もっと最原ちゃんと仲良くなれるんだろう…やっぱ、嘘ばっかりつくのがいけないんだよね…

I wonder… I wonder how I could become closer with Saihara-chan… I guess I really should stop lying so much, huh…

でも、もうこれは、クセにっていうか生き様だし…いっそ、嘘をつくのをやめてみる…いや、それはさすがに…

But still, this bad habit is already a way of life for me… Really though, I should just try to stop lying… No, on the other hand, that really would be…

そうだ…！オレじゃなくて、最原ちゃんに変わってもらえば…！どうにかして…

Wait, I know…! Maybe if Saihara-chan were the one to change somehow instead of me, then…! I wonder how, though…

嘘を大好きになってもらおう！

I should get him to love and appreciate lies!*

(* T/N:  The “appreciate” bit is more of an ad lib, but I feel it better captures the feeling here. Ouma isn’t suggesting Saihara love telling lies himself so much as he just wants him to love them in the sense of understanding them.)

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Option 1:

◎肯定 -> 嘘を大好きになってもらおう！

◎ Agree -> I should get him to love and appreciate lies! (best choice)

SAIHARA: 大好きとまではいかないけど…あまり気にしないように努力してみるよ。

I don’t know that I could ever “love” lies, exactly… But I could at least try not to dislike them so much.*

(* T/N: More literally, “I could try not to mind them.” Pretty big talk, coming from a detective.)

OUMA: …最原ちゃんの信念はそんなものだったの？

…Is that how you really feel, Saihara-chan?

SAIHARA: …え？

…Eh?

OUMA: そんな甘ったるい気持ちで今まで嘘を嫌っていただなんて…正直、見損なったよ！

And all this time I thought you hated lies even though your real feelings for them were so sentimental… To be honest, I misjudged you!

SAIHARA: …それも嘘だよね？

…Is that another lie?

OUMA: にしし…最原ちゃんもオレの事を、よくわかってきたみたいだね。自分の真の理解者に会えて、オレは嬉しいよ。いやぁ、オレは最原ちゃんに会う為に、この世に生を受けたのかもしれないねー。

Nishishi… Looks like you really do get me, huh Saihara-chan. I’m truly happy that I could meet the person who understands my true self. I might even have been born into this world in order to meet Saihara-chanー.*

(* T/N: I just wanted to point out that I didn’t ad lib this one at all. That’s literally what he says.)

SAIHARA (THINKING): よし、すごく楽しんでもらえたみたいだ。

Alright, it looks like he’s really enjoying himself.

~

OUMA: あーあ…無駄な時間を過ごしちゃった…最原ちゃんとなら楽しく過ごせるかと思ったのに…勘違いだったのかな…なんて、嘘だよ！最原ちゃんのお陰で、すっごく楽しかった！自分でも、びっくりなくらいだよ！じゃ、一緒に寄宿舎まで戻ろっか。

Ahhh… I feel like I just wasted my time… Even though I thought for sure that I’d be able to have fun if I was together with Saihara-chan… I wonder if that was just my misconception… Just kidding! That was a lie! Thanks to Saihara-chan, I had so much fun! So much that even I’m surprised! Okay then, why don’t we head back to the dorms together?

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Option 2:

○否定 -> 嘘をつくのをやめてみる…

○ Disagree -> I should just try to stop lying…

SAIHARA: 嘘をつかない王馬くんは、逆に気持ち悪いよ。

Actually, an Ouma-kun who didn’t tell lies would just creep me out.*

(* T/N:  “気持ち悪い” is really strong language, especially coming from Saihara. It can also be translated as “to gross someone out,” “to just be plain wrong,” etc.)

OUMA: へーえ…ま、最原ちゃんならそんな風に言うと思ったよ。でも、オレって天邪鬼だから、やめてって言われるとやりたくないっちゃうんだよね！という事で…オレはこの機会に、嘘を卒業しまーす！今後はお天道様に誓って、良い嘘も悪い嘘もつかないよ！

Huuuh… Well, I kind of thought Saihara-chan would say something along those lines. But I’m a pretty contrary person you know, so if someone tells me not to stop something then that just makes me want to stop altogether! So with that said… I will hereby use this opportunity to graduate from lyiーng! I swear to God up in heaven above that from now on, I will no longer tell any lies, be they good or bad!

SAIHARA (THIKING): 確認するまでもなく、嘘だろうな…まあまあ話は盛り上がったかな。

There’s no way for me to be sure, but I bet that’s a lie too… Well, I guess it’s okay, since our conversation got pretty exciting thanks to all this.

~

OUMA: うん、いい気晴らしになったよ。最原ちゃん相手だ気を使わなくていいから凄く過ごしやすいんだよねー。じゃ、一緒に戻るとしよっか。

Yeah, this really was a nice distraction. It’s really easy to spend time with Saihara-chan because I don’t have to pay attention to anything. Okay then, why don’t we head back together?

—

Option 3:

△肯定 -> 嘘をつくのをやめてみる…

△ Agree -> I should just try to stop lying…

SAIHARA: うん、自分の言葉で話してくれたら…今よりも王馬くんとわかり合えると思う。

Yeah, if you began talking to me openly… I think I’d be able to understand you a lot better than I do now, Ouma-kun.

OUMA: …えー？実はオレ、自分を捨ててまで、仲良くなりたいとはおもってないんだよねー。

…Ehhh? You know, I don’t think I actually want to go as far as throwing away who I really am if that’s what it takes to become better friends.

SAIHARA: …え？

…Eh?

OUMA: たかが最原ちゃんに、そこまでの価値を見出せないって言うかさ。もしかして最原ちゃん、自分の人を変えるほどの価値があると思ってたの？だとしたら、それは思い上がりだから、今後は考えを改めた方がいいよー。

You must think pretty highly of yourself if you think people should try changing themselves for you.* Could it be, Saihara-chan, that you thought you were important enough that you could change me as a person? If that’s the case, that’s just your own pride talking, so you’d be better off revising that opinion in the future.

(* T/N:  Boy, he’s pissed. More literally this means something like “If it’s just Saihara-chan we’re talking about, I can’t find the value in going that far,” and he’s saying it as an expression of disbelief.)

SAIHARA (THINKING): …王馬くんに嘘をやめさせるのは、不可能なんだろうな。あまり楽しんでもらえなかったみたいだ…

…I guess it really is impossible for Ouma-kun to stop lying, huh. It looks like he’s not really enjoying himself now…

~

OUMA: うーん…最原ちゃんは、もっと修行が必要だね。なんの修行がって？もちろん、オレを楽しませる為の修行だよ！じゃ、オレは先に戻るね。

Hmmm… Looks like you need more training, Saihara-chan. What kind of training, you ask? Of course, I’m talking about training for you to entertain me more! Well, I’m going on ahead.

—

Option 4:

×否定 -> 嘘を大好きになってもらおう！

× Disagree -> I should get him to love and appreciate lies!

SAIHARA: 嘘を好きになるなんて、ありえないよ。

It’d be impossible for me to ever like lies.

OUMA: そ、そんな…それって…オレと仲良くなる気がないって事…？

Th, That’s… So does that mean… you’re not interested in getting closer to me at all…?

SAIHARA: あ、いや、そういう事を言ってるんじゃ…

Ah, no, that’s not what I mean, I just…

OUMA: 酷いよっ！オレは最原ちゃんと、仲良くなりたいと思っただけなのに…！うえええええええええん！最原ちゃんの人でなしぃぃぃ！

That’s so mean! Even though all I wanted was to get along with Saihara-chan…! Uwaaaaaaaaaaaa! Saihara-chan, you jeeeerrrrrrrk!*

(* T/N:  “人でなし” can be translated as a wide variety of terms. Anywhere from “you meanie” to “you bastard” will do, as long as it’s conveyed strongly enough. The intention just has to be that the other person is being heartless or cruel in some way.)

SAIHARA: …それも嘘泣きだよね？

…Crocodile tears again?

OUMA: でも、最原ちゃんの事を、人でなしだと思ったのは本当だよ。嘘の1つや2つで、心が狭いったらないよ。

Well, it’s true that I think you’re a jerk, Saihara-chan. You must really be narrow-minded if you can’t even appreciate at least the occasional lie.*

(* T/N:  More literally, it’d be something like “the mind isn’t so shallow that it can’t put up with at least one or two lies.” Again, Ouma is really, really pissed.)

SAIHARA (THINKING): しまった…雰囲気は最悪だ…

I really messed up… This atmosphere is just the worst…

~

OUMA: オレもなかなかの嫌われ者だけど、最原ちゃんと一緒にいると、その自信が薄れてくるよ。ここまで他人の気持ちを考えられない人には、今まで会った事がなかったからさ…じゃ、オレは先に戻るね。

I already know how disliked I am, but if I keep hearing this sort of thing from Saihara-chan, my self-confidence is going to dry up. After all, I’ve never met anyone in my entire life who was this bad at thinking about others’ feelings… Well, I’m going on ahead.

This was incredibly fun to translate, wow. It’s a rare enough sight to get to hear the “true inner thoughts” of any of the characters, but it’s rarer than ever from someone like Ouma. Knowing that all the words during his actual “kokoronpa” at the beginning can be taken pretty much at face value is a huge help to understanding his character.

As always, Ouma is a mixture of childish and mischievous, petty and genuinely affectionate. His other lines from his regular FTEs and prison mode ending, about telling lies in order to entertain others, ring particularly true here.

It’s clear that the first one is the best option because it’s all about not denying Ouma as a person or something that’s very important to his character. Agreeing to make an effort to “love and appreciate lies,” especially the “gentle lies” that Ouma loves the best, nets the highest amount of points with him (and also has him happy enough that he starts saying stuff like “maybe I was born to meet you,” haha).

Failing to understand why Ouma lies the way he does or assuming that “lying is bad” as a whole just ruins the mood and clearly makes him angry and unhappy. As Ouma implies throughout events in-game and confirms in his prison mode ending, even he doesn’t quite know what’s a lie or what’s true about himself sometimes. So expecting him to completely stop lying altogether is like expecting him to disregard a huge portion of his personality.

Finally, “loving and appreciating” lies is something very, very close to what Saihara actually does in the epilogue. Putting lies on the same level as truth, understanding that when used correctly they can change the world for the better, these are the things Ouma hoped he’d be able to do. Even here in the more lighthearted, bonus mode content, it’s something Ouma wants from him.

Ouma’s desire to be understood while simultaneously making it near-impossible for anyone to understand him is as prevalent as always (and also very Umineko of him). Depending on how well or how little he’s understood in this scene, he reacts accordingly, and it’s really heartwarming in its own way to see how obviously happy he is when Saihara touches on the right answer.

I hope all of you enjoyed this! We’ll be looking to bring more prison mode content from here on out too, so please keep supporting us!

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Can I have how the boys would be on airplanes with their S/O? Like if they would like it, if they'd be scared, if they'd get sick, that kinda thing? I love the blog! Sorry about the mean people in the discord :/

Of course! I hope you like it! And it’s alright ^^ Thank you for your concern.

- Mod Saihara

Korekiyo Shinguuji

Shinguuji has flown many times before

He needs to fly, in able to visit all sorts of people around the world for his work!

So he's not afraid

And he's certainly not sick.

He gives your hand a squeeze when you board your flight

It's reassuring, knowing that your boyfriend is with you

Because if you're going to die in this thing, dammit,

You might as well do it together

When you tell him this, he laughs lightly

"That's a very interesting way to put it…"

The two of you stay relatively quiet throughout the duration of your flight

He's got his novel and you're truly content with just staring out the window and listening to music

Every now and then he'll turn to you and sigh a dreamy sigh

What a cheeseball

When you catch him looking, he quickly returns to his book

The flight is peaceful and you're kind of sad when you reach your destination

You wished life was that relaxed all the time…

You'll savour the trip more on the way back, for sure

Rantarou Amami

The two of you board your flight, and the plane takes off

You turn to him for a kiss - flights weren't really your thing… the idea of being stuck in this metal coffin wasn't exactly comforting

But you thought you had it bad?!

Wait till you see this nerd

When you see the look on his face, you gulp

He totally looks like he's about to throw up

Rantarou assures you he's fine, but who is he kidding

His face has turned greener than his own hair.

When you tell him this, he laughs

"Don't worry about me, s/o. I'm fine!"

You wish you could believe him

But he's a terrible liar

He might as well have written "SAVE ME" on his forehead.

The boy literally looks like he's about to die!

"Rantarou…"

His relatively calm expression changes like the flick of a switch

“I'll be right back."

"You're on a plane!"

You shove one of the sick bags into his hands and turn away

He doesn't throw up, but he holds it to his face for the rest of the flight, just in case.

Even when making jokes.

"Gandalf commands you get some rest, s/o."

Silly boy.

Ouma Kokichi

The two of you take your seats on the plane

You'd been talking about this trip for a while now, and what you'd both do on the plane to pass time

But most of all, you can't wait to watch movies together!

You lean your head on his shoulder and turn on the tablet, and scroll through the movies

"Check if they have Zoolander, s/o, I wanna watch Zoolander."

"Again?!"

There's a jolt as the plane takes off

Ouma is clinging to you for dear life!

You never expected this from the supreme leader.

You've been on planes plenty of times before, so you're completely calm

“Hey, I think they have Zoolander on here! Let's watch it! Ouma!?"

He isn’t responding

You do the only thing you can do - without causing a scene, at least

You cup his cheeks and plant a kiss on his lips

When you remove your hands from his cheeks, you notice they're bright pink!

The blushing is contagious! Now your cheeks are red!

Ouma smirks

He slyly snatches the tablet from your hands, and selects Zoolander on the movie list.

"Great idea, s/o!"

His words are innocent but his smile is that of a child who had just got their way

You roll your eyes and prepare for what seems to be your 1000th time watching Zoolander with Ouma

It's gonna be a long flight

Saihara Shuuichi

You'd been on plenty of flights together in the past, both of you knew the drill

Hold hands, watch cruddy movies, and talk to each other in hushed whispers to see who could stay awake the longest

The two of you took your seats.

This was going to be your longest flight so far, and neither of you were going to fall asleep!

It wasn't even a competition anymore - you just wanted to be able to say that you did that together

But as the hours went on, the two of you grew rather sleepy

Love Actually had ended long ago

The two of you looked down at your reflections in the black screen in your lap

You had pressed the sides of your heads together and interlaced your fingers

He continuously traced little hearts on the back of your hand to distract himself

You hummed a tune to keep yourself from drifting off

It was dark outside, but neither of you had bothered to turn on your compartment lights

But it didn't bother you

It was so relaxing, being with him

It felt as if it was only the two of you on the plane…

Zzzzzz…

You wake up with your head nuzzled into Saihara's shoulder

He grinned down at you shyly, but you could still see a hint of triumph in his eyes

He had won!

You're okay with taking the loss because of how cute he looks.

But you promise yourself you'll win next time!

 Kaito Momota

The boy was used to being above the ground

He was the SHSL Astronaut, after all!

This was totally his thing!

You, on the other hand…

Not so much.

You hated this thing you were trapped in.

Why couldn't Kaito have just agreed to do a road trip there, anyway?!

"I told you I can't drive, s/o! Besides, flying is fun! You'll see!"

]Little did he know, it was also your first time flying.

But he picked up on it soon enough.

What gave it away? The way you gripped his arm like your life depended on it.

You had tried your hardest to put on your usual brave face, but screw it, you were thousands of feet in the air and thought you were going to die

Kaito wraps an arm around you and rubs your shoulder

He assures you, everything is going to go smoothly!

He didn't like seeing you scared like this!

The boy plants a kiss on your forehead

You feel much better and safer knowing your boyfriend is with you…

You snuggle up to him and doze off, hoping the flight will be over by the time you wake up!

You wake up, and Kaito gives you a pat on the back

You survived! He's so proud!

You smile. That wasn’t so bad after all.

 Kiibo

You were curious as to what it would be like to fly with your robot boyfriend…

You knew you wouldn't have to worry about him getting sick

And he wouldn't have to get up to go to the bathroom, either!

It'd just be you and him, the entire flight!

It was also reassuring that robots probably couldn't have a fear of heights, either…

Which you were scolded for saying by Kiibo before taking your seats.

"Do not discriminate! Just because we are not human, does not mean we cannot feel emotions such as fear! Now eat your sandwich, I don't want you getting hungry! I love you!"

The plane takes off, and you sink into your seat.

Kiibo got the window seat, whilst you were stuck with the mediocre view of the aisle and all the plane's passengers

After a few moments of mindless chatter, you hear a gasp

Next to you, Kiibo is making all types of noises indicating his shock

"Kiibo?"

He doesn't reply

He's completely mesmerised by the sight in the window!

You lean over his shoulder, and now so are you!

The two of you watch as the plane flies through the clouds and over the country

It’s a beautiful sight!

But what's even more beautiful is the look of pure happiness on your boyfriend's face as he watches the sight below him!

He looks back at you, and grins

You pull him in for a kiss

He reminds you again that he loves you!

And you tell him you love him back!

 Gonta Gokuhara

Gonta is not afraid!

Gonta won't get sick!

Gonta will not kick the seats!

He promises he'll be a gentleman and behave appropriately on the flight

It gets off to a weird start

Gonta can barely fit in the seat!

After some shuffling around, he had managed to fit himself in the tight space

But now you're smushed up against the wall of the plane!

The view of the cement ground's not half bad when your face is pressed against the window, but still

Gonta notices and he's!! So sorry!!

He scooches over to the edge of his seat to leave enough room for you so that you can at least breathe!

You're grateful, and thank Gonta for trying

But it seems you're going to have to get used to tight spaces, at least for the next hour or so

And his shoulder does make a relatively good pillow

You rest for a little while…

The man sneezes

It's  a near death experience

All the passengers jump in their seats a little

Gonta is sorry! Again!

You fall back asleep, this time he dozes off a little, too

You both wake up a couple hours later and you remind yourself to make him take the window seat next time on the way back

Ryouma Hoshi

You've been in the air for 10 minutes

You had to help him up into his seat, believe it or not

Even he was surprised!

He can usually do that stuff himself... how embarrassing

But what’s even more embarrassing

Is when a stewardess hurries over to your compartment

Holding what can only be described as the "Kid's Meal" - A juice box and an apple.

She hastily places it on Hoshi's fold-out table

“I'm sorry for not seeing your son earlier, Miss! He is rather short!"

And just like that she's gone

You stop your conversation with Hoshi mid-sentence and point to the meal, holding in what is probably the biggest laugh of your entire life

In all the flights you and Hoshi had ever been on, this was certainly a first

Hoshi stares at the meal for a moment with his huge eyes

He's speechless, and so are you

He grabs the juice and gives it to you, and saves the apple for himself

"That didn't just happen…"

You nod, taking a sip of the juice

The attendant hurries back with a colouring in sheet and a blue marker, and disappears once more

The pen becomes useless, because the sheet is now covered in the orange juice you just spat out from laughing so hard

You don’t let it go for the rest of the flight