#sdr2 x reade

[naegamisupremacy]

nagito tries to make friends with the thh cast but then fails miserably

[kuzuhina1brainrot]

I’ll probably forget to post early tomorrow so doing it now instead.

happy Valentine’s Day!!! ❤️ I love you all.

if you’re one of the people who feel lonely on this day, I’ll feel lonely with you, lmao.

I may post another Kuzuhina valentines thing as a little doodle if I can

OH YEAH ALSO HEART THINGY AND WHATEVER BY STAINEDGE ORGINALLY, MAINLY ON YT AND INSTA. (Check her out if you like horror, fnaf, or something, I’m begging shushwhhahagagfdfdfdfdf)

Stainedge rules bro 💥💥💥

[teletogami]

long time no see! it’s me! kat!

nostalgia chapter 67 is up. sorry for the long wait. here’s the moodboard:

[deadaccount1253]

souda asking mioda to record him jumping from the roof into the pool. komaeda walks by as he jumps and he lands on the concrete and has to go to the hospital.

[craetor]

What’s your favorite minor barely there character?

Wow i've never gotten an automatized curious cat pity ask on tumblr!

Gosh that's hard. I usually focus on characters that are Very present. I guess Beyond Birthday is a good answer? I do love a good weirdo that aloofly hangs out in the background and only becomes interesting when you watch them a while. i.e. Nagito Komaeda, who doesn't intentionally draw attention to himself & is radiating constant 'damn i can't silently serve cunty troll drip in the corner rn...these are my idols & they're upset i'm not used to this (speaking buddy-buddy) at all but i will try because the awereness that i'm very well the smartest person in the room is upsetting and looming' when he does. He's so precious. And even though he's very much present in the story, if player doesn't absolve his freetime events & starts purposefully caring about his feelings in all the situations, they'll be left with a picture of some chaotic guy who feels like he has deep thoughts that one although can't even begin to comprehend. I love myself a complex character that's not spoonfeeding me personal info

[daisy-mae]

update

hi guys finally finished reading the thh manga and it's giving me more inspo, i do have the first comic draft done but also i feel a little rushed lol, so i might restart what i have posted so far (3 panels lmao) and take a bit more inspo from the mangas i think? idk. New semester started and i feel really burnt out already lol, so things will probably be slow to post

[frickingnerd]

nagito dating the ultimate empath

pairing: nagito komaeda x gn!reader

tags: wholesome fluff, established romantic relationship, takes place during sdr2, empathetic!reader, comfort for nagito

dating someone who's able to read his emotions so well is quite comfortable!

as the ultimate empath, realizing how people feel and what they truly mean comes so easily to you and it helps a ton during your relationship with nagito!

nagito wouldn't think of himself as the most complicated person, but what he says and what he means don't always align

but having you around, who always seems to understand him, even when he starts rambling about hope and despair, is quite the relief!

while everyone views nagito as a threat, you're the one that manages to change people's opinions on him!

you're able to empathize with him, even when he seems lost in some twisted idea of hope

and you're the one who helps him back on the right path again…

[foryoupeko]

Tenko knowing Mikan for three days and already proclaiming her love for her is the most tenko think I can think of

[Regarding me making DRV3 class into Future Foundation members in my SDR2 post-canon AU]

I really like Tenko x Mikan. And I feel like we as a fandom don't talk about how emotionally intelligent Tenko is and that she can read people by flipping them like a pancake. I think Tenko could coddle Mikan and give her the kisses she deserve.

If I made a non-despair AU I would probably make them get together. They're not gonna get together in my post-canon AU bc I wanna focus more on the SDR2 cast and not muddle it too much.

[obsession-obsession]

Two Viruses

Yandere Hajime Hinata x Reader, platonic but can be read as romantic

I wrote this from 2 - 4 AM and I've only looked it over once, so I apologize if this is shit. I'll probably edit it later but I wanted to put it out now

SDR2 SPOILERS! I still haven't watched DR3 so I'm sorry for any inconsistencies lol

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This killing game is torture.

Every day, fearing for their lives, discovering the corpses of friends, accusing others for a crime with the cruelest kind of death penalty. After Chiaki, Hajime could barely keep it together.

But at least you were still here.

You were his friend since middle school, the younger sibling of a Hope's Peak Academy alumni who was now a teacher at the school. Hajime had approached you for that very reason, pestering you about your sister. He can't believe how lucky he was that you put up with him. But perhaps that was because you had barely anyone to talk to. Anyone well-intentioned, at least.

It wasn't long before he turned his attention to you. Did you have some kind of talent as well? Did you spend a lot of time working on it? What else did you enjoy doing? Overtime, he saw you as less of a Hope's Peak insider and more of a friend. A very, very dear friend. He cared about you almost as much as he cared about the school. Which is why he was so happy you made it to the end of the killing game with him. If something had happened to you, he'd have been devastated.

Now all that was left was to confront Monokuma.

.·:*¨༺ ༻¨*:·.

"Upupu... You really are quite perceptive aren't you Hajime? And here I thought I was doing such a good job emulating Makoto..."

"Enough! Just tell us what your goal is!"

They were all tired after everything they'd just learned. The Neo-World Program, the Remnants of Despair, all of it. But they still had to figure a way out. The Repeat button wouldn't do them any good, and the Graduate button seemed like a trap. They couldn't really force Monokuma to tell them what he had planned, but they couldn't just idly stand around.

"This is quite troublesome... You youngsters are so resilient. But I'm not done yet!" Monokuma barred his claws, seemingly fired up. "I still have one more way to make you fall into despair before our grand finale!"

Given everything they'd already heard, whatever Monokuma said next would be undoubtedly upsetting. But Hajime knew he could brave it. He was so close! So close to getting you to safety. And as long as you're by his side-!

"Hajime! If you're so eager to dig out the truth, then riddle me this!" Monokuma pointed his paw towards him accusingly. "Someone here knew from the beginning that that Makoto was fake. Why do you think they haven't said anything?"

"What are you-"

"Don't you realize that what you love the most has been replaced?!"

Immediately after Monokuma finished saying those words, Hajime's head snapped towards you. You... You were fine. But why weren't you saying anything? No no, this was just Monokuma trying to trick him. You were the same. You were the same...

"You aren't the same..."

Hajime suddenly winced as he was hit with a pounding headache. He felt like he was forgetting something important. A moment he shared with you... How could he have forgotten even a single word that came from your mouth?

"You aren't the same... You aren't Hajime, are you? ...Yes, that was who you used to be. My closest friend. He was always there for me... It may be a bit selfish of me, but... Izuru, is it alright if I still call you my friend?"

When... When had you said that to him? He turned to you once more. Usually seeing your face was enough to calm him down but...

"...Why do you look so guilty?"

"Hajime, please, don't let him get to you..." You deflected the question. "You're so close to escaping...!"

"But you aren't, are you?" Monokuma cackled. "As soon as Hajime's out, he'll never see you again!"

"Hey..." Hajime didn't look away from you. Why weren't you denying anything? "He's lying, right? I'll see you as soon as I get out, right?"

You remained silent for a torturous amount of time. But when you finally spoke, he found himself wishing you had said nothing at all.

"I'm so sorry..."

Hajime wasn't sure how he was supposed to react now. More than anything, he wanted you to make it out of this game alive. Even if everyone else died, it would be fine if you were okay. But now...

"Hahaha! You look like you've seen a ghost!" Monokuma's shrill voice cut through the fog in his brain. "I guess that's not far from the truth. You see, the person in front of you doesn't exist outside of this world. They died a long time ago!"

"That... That can't be true..." Hajime choked out. "I... I refuse to-!"

...

It... can't be true...

The words circled through his mind over and over again. Denying what was right in front of him went against his entire purpose. He's always right, always informed. But this...

For once, he wished he was bored.

He initially planned to spend the evening as he had for the past week or so: watching you through your window. Maybe today would be one of the days you noticed and let him in. But when he checked your location on his phone, it said you were still at school. You probably just were caught up with something, but he was impatient, so he went to look for you.

The tracker brought him to your lifeless body.

...Why...

"WHY?!"

No one seemed surprised by his outburst. The others were frozen with shock, and you were just trying your best not to cry.

"Why? Why???" Monokuma mockingly repeated. "I'll tell you why! They messed up the academy's magnum opus! If they were left alive, all of Hope's Peak's accomplishments would have been for nothing! Not to mention how dangerous it was. World-ending stuff, I tell ya!"

"Hajime, please..." You tried to sound calm, but your voice was shaking and you were clearly holding back tears. "I'm sorry for deceiving you, but you can't let Monokuma win! Please...!"

You had tried reaching a hand out to Hajime, and he took it without looking up to face you.

"Yeah... Yeah." Hajime mumbled under his breath. "You're here now... I can still take your hand. Everything... is how I planned."

"...Hajime?"

He just wiped a tear from your face, laughing slightly. You were just as anxious as ever. He'd missed this... Junko probably wouldn't like that he was using her plan for something other than despair, but it's not like he really cared. He had brought her virus into the Neo-World Program. It's only fair he implanted one of his own.

Now you see. This is what we wanted, after all.

"I'm okay... Everything's going to be alright." Hajime released your hand, smiling. He stood back in front of is podium. "I can finally be happy again."

"Wait, don't-!"

Hajime Hinata chose Repeat.

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[accirax]

Revisiting My Original DRDT Death Predictions

If you haven't been following what's going on over at @av-multifangan, Venus and I have been posting one of our fangans, Danganronpa: One Shot. Hooray! But, more relevantly to this post, we also posted the rules to a game that we've been playing for a long time-- a game through which you can score your performance at guessing how a fangan's kill order will go after viewing only its prologue.

Said old game was also invoked when we began watching DRDT, so I thought it would be a fun trip down memory lane to see what my genuine initial predictions for the entire killing game were after viewing just a little over an hour of Despair Time content.

While all of us non-cast-and-crew members obviously don't know the entire kill order at this point, I can rest assured that these predictions, well... ain't it. But, that's part of the point! To prove that even the creators of this predictions game can be terrible at it, and that there's no shame in making a guess and then changing your mind!

... Oh boy.

SPOILERS for DRDT through the end of Chapter 2, and IMPLIED SPOILERS for SDR2 and v3!

Well, no use in dilly-dallying. Here's my predictions sheet:

(god damn why is the quality so bad--)

If you haven't read the rules of our game, I'll quickly summarize them here. You have to predict the killing game using the most standard formula: one Chapter 1 victim and killer, one Chapter 2 victim and killer, double kill in Chapter 3 with one killer, one Chapter 4 victim and killer, one Chapter 5 victim and killer, and four survivors with a "surviving" (until Chapter 6) mastermind. These roles are listed out in rainbow order (Chapter 1 death = red, Chapter 6 = purple), and victims are marked with an X while killers are circled. The survivors are circled in purple, with a cyan star on the suspected mastermind.

At the end of the game, you gain points based on how far off you were, such that a low score is good. It's +2 points for getting the role wrong (victim vs killer/mastermind vs survivor), with an additional +1 point per chapter for how far you are off from the characters' last.

Although the quality is low, hopefully you can figure out what I predicted using those instructions-- or the image ID, if it's still too tricky. And, of course, I'm going to go through all of my choices below, starting with

XANDER in the role of CHAPTER 1 VICTIM

"Accirax," you may ask. "Why are you acting so doomed about your predictions when you literally got 1/4 of the confirmed deaths correct?" Unfortunately, my friend, I was already spoiled about Xander's death before I started watching DRDT. I'm very grateful that I had no idea about the circumstances of Xander's death (AKA, him stabbing Teruko) going in. But, I think I'd seen some thumbnail somewhere of Xander's BDA and knew he was a goner.

Hence, this was a free 0 pointer for me. I'm not that cool.

ARTURO in the role of CHAPTER 1 KILLER

Now, why I thought Arturo of all people would be the one to kill Xander is beyond me. I think my rationale was that, at the time, Arturo was giving me early death vibes, and this was the only spot I could put him in?*

This is one of the predictions that I know is wrong, because the Chapter 1 killer spot has already elapsed. The best I could do now points-wise is if Arturo is the Chapter 3 killer (I'd get +2 points for being two chapters off), which is definitely still feasible! Still, I wonder now if Arturo's vibe is too obvious for being a killer, and if he would ever be willing to put ~Julia Rosales'~ life in jeopardy by attempting to escape. J certainly isn't doing herself any favors with that Felicity reveal, at least.

ROSE in the role of CHAPTER 2 VICTIM

*This is where things get... a little complicated. As I already said, I had been spoiled to the fact that Xander was the Chapter 1 victim. However... I also thought I had been spoiled to the "fact" that Rose was the Chapter 2 victim?

I really don't know how this happened. I have a distinct memory of seeing a Tumblr post containing something that sort of looked like what I imagine an Ultimate Art Forger Lab could look like(?) talking about how the characters needed to investigate to figure out who killed the Ultimate it belonged to. I thought I remembered seeing Rose's face, but this was before I had ever watched any DRDT content. So, it's possible I had the wrong fangan, or accidentally stumbled into someone's AU.

It was pretty funny looking back on my Chapter 2 viewing experience, though. When Teruko got Rose's secret, I was like, "oh, it totally makes sense that DRDTdev would give Teruko Rose's secret as a natural way to hear about Rose's backstory before she dies. Clever." And then we got to the day of the motive reveal, and Rose is there, and David says that Arei of all people is missing, and my jaw dropped. "Spoilers," indeed.

It sucked for me at the time of making this sheet, though, because Rose was, like, the only woman I got survivor vibes from (other than Teruko). But, I thought I couldn't mark her as such! Of course, Rose could be a Chapter 3 victim for all I know, meaning that being "forced" to put her in this spot could actually be good for my predictions. However, scoring 0 points on Rose is fully off the table now, which is a bummer.

DAVID in the role of CHAPTER 2 KILLER

"Why couldn't you have put Arturo as Chapter 2 killer--" I also thought I had been spoiled that David was the Chapter 2 killer. If I didn't make Arturo the first killer, the earliest I could have put him would be Chapter 3 victim, which is hardly early at all. And yes, I thought I'd been spoiled on three out of "four" of the canonical deaths when I originally watched the series. That's just my life (/lh).

At least this one is obvious to figure out why I thought it was the case. I started watching DRDT in May of 2023, about a month and a half after 2-11 dropped. Hence, I knew DRDT was on hiatus, but I was under the impression that it was a hiatus after Chapter 2 had finished. I'd also seen 2-11's thumbnail, recognized it as David, and (along with having spoilers about David's "true personality") concluded that David must be the Chapter 2 killer.

Live footage of me watching 2-11 for the first time:

"Ah, there he goes... Man, we're gonna have to wrap this murder up quick, huh? I guess that's why he's admitting to it... Haha, 'Teruko, we fucked up'... WAIT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S A HIATUS ON AN UNSOLVED MURDER?!"

I decided quickly afterwards that I no longer believed that David would be the Chapter 2 killer.

Finally, we're done with roles that already happened/that I had "spoilers" for! You'd think that would automatically make them better (because most of them, at least, have not been disproven), but there are still plenty of things that contradict what I believe will happen now, at least.

LEVI and HU in the role of CHAPTER 3 VICTIMS

Relatively, though, this one isn't that bad. Don't get me wrong, these two aren't my leading candidates for Chapter 3 victims, but I'm not actively opposed to this happening.

The idea of Levi nearly evading dying at the end of Chapter 2 only to actually become a victim in Chapter 3 is a little puzzling, but still narratively on the table, imo. So much happens in a DRDT Chapter's worth of daily life that Levi could definitely still serve enough of a narrative purpose to justify his continued survival/eventual victimhood in that Chapter. Especially if that purpose had something to do with the fact that he was injured-- for instance, if it's important for an Arturo arc of learning that he actually enjoys taking care of others, or if the killer has to exploit Levi's injuries in order to have the strength necessary to take him out.

Meanwhile, I've long held the opinion that Hu will be a big character in the Chapter 3 Daily Life by virtue of not having done a whole lot in the Chapter 1 or 2 Daily Lives-- she definitely has content, but the majority of the important stuff occurs in the Chapter 2 Trial. Currently, I'm of the opinion that that spike of content wouldn't result in a same-Chapter death, but following in the footsteps of Xander and Arei, it definitely could. Same with Levi if he's a Chapter 3 focus, honestly.

J in the role of CHAPTER 3 KILLER

I really still want to believe that J will be a killer. Why? It's because, in my opinion, Ultimate Effects Artist is a talent that is totally optimized for being a blackened, whether it actually happens or not. You know why the idea of J and Arei swapping places was so popular? Because Ultimate Effects Artist is the kind of talent you give someone if you want to pull a trick like that off!

However, all of that "murder is despicable" talk is really cramping my style. Why would J ever become a blackened after opposing the idea of murder so openly?

(It'd be pretty funny if it was all an act so that people would use that as an argument to her credit down the road.)

It's possible she could have a crisis of faith/breaking point that would change her mind, but I doubt that would occur as quickly as Chapter 3. Or result in her killing two people. Sigh.

AREI in the role of CHAPTER 4 VICTIM and EDEN in the role of CHAPTER 4 KILLER

OKAY HEAR ME OUT BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME OF CALLING EDEN EVIL--

Chapter 4 is, oftentimes, the sacrifice chapter, right? It's a killer that makes everybody cry, because they'd never normally do something like this, but ultimately decided to kill in order to spare their friends and take the bullet themselves. I'm, like, 99% sure that's what I was imagining for Eden. Whatever the motive may be, Eden would be the small and scrawny sacrifice killer in sort of a reversal of the buff curse...

... taking out the mean bully girl that everybody hated as the victim, if she had to choose someone.

I'M SORRY I'M SORRY STOP HITTING ME WITH ROCKS-- (/j)

But yeah, I definitely remember predicting that part of the surprise of the case was that the small nerdy girl was able to take out the Ultimate athlete mean girl. I don't know how I managed to deduce that Eden and Arei would have an important relationship with one another after the prologue (in which they don't really talk at all, to my memory), yet managed to get it so horribly wrong. Predicting that Eden would kill Arei was just in my DNA, I guess, even if I originally envisioned it for a different chapter.

In the light of Ace being declared the Chapter 2 killer, this one is just embarrassingly wrong. Evidently, Eden would never stoop as low as to kill Arei. The good news for me, I suppose, is that Arei will only net me +2 points, as the role was correct (V=V) while the chapter was 2 off (4->2).

As for Eden being the Chapter 4 killer, that's not one of my top spots for her. If I had to pick, I'd probably guess either Chapter 3 victim (especially if paired with Charles Ch3 Victim, this could really knock the wind out of Teruko's sails if needed), Chapter 5 victim (allows her a long period in the story that isn't a survivor nor a killer), or just a survivor (and/or mastermind). If she were to be a killer, then maybe I'd predict Chapter 4 along the sacrifice angle? Not with Arei, though.

MIN in the role of CHAPTER 5 VICTIM

+6 points (5->1) (V->K) on Min is... not the greatest score. In fact, it's only one fewer than the general max possible character score of 7, reserved for Chapter 1 deaths mistaken as Survivors and vice versa.

I think my original prediction for Min was that she would not necessarily be Teruko's support character emotionally, but that she would be a useful aide when it came to solving the mysteries of the Class Trial. Then in Chapter 5, to force Teruko/the other innocent students to solve the high-stakes Trial on their own, she would have to disappear.

Looking back on it, I really enjoy how Teruko is far and away the best at solving the Class Trials in DRDT-- she would have already earned the title through her connections to, like, literally every character and theme in the story, but making her the principal mystery solver really hammers the idea that she should be the protagonist home. Having Min be on Team Spotless for even one Trial might have diminished that effect, so it makes sense that she became the first blackened. Girl was too powerful to live, smh.

WHIT in the role of CHAPTER 5 KILLER

Personally, I've always gotten the vibe that Whit is one of DRDTdev's Special Little Guys. Perhaps it was the way that he showed up in three character introductions-- Charles', Hu's, and his own-- that made me think he had Favorite Character Privileges. As such, even when (get ready for a truth bomb) I didn't really like Whit after watching the Prologue for the first time, I always thought he had late game energy.

(I don't know how much it really comes across from my blog, but I'm actually fairly critical of new series when I pick them up for the first time, unless I've heard many positive recommendations from friends/online personalities I admire. Other than the spoilers, I hadn't heard too much about DRDT before I started watching it, so, unaware of DRDTdev's writing skills, I was worried that Whit would essentially be a poor man's Kokichi. As someone who really likes Kokichi, that biased me against Whit. Then, of course, I actually watched the series and Whit won me over very quickly. And the rest is history :) )

I’m not really sure why I went killer over victim, other than the possible “I’m making Min the victim and therefore Whit has to be the killer.” Maybe it was that Kokichi-ness that made me think that he'd be the man behind the slaughter? ... Even if Kokichi wasn't actually the blackened in that case? It might've also been an effect of wanting him to be just that much closer to surviving, to fully break the hearts of everyone who was rooting for this Special Little Guy to survive.

Like, uh... me. Um. Well, I do genuinely currently think Whit will survive right now, so... I'm willing to take a +3 if that's true!

TERUKO in the role of MASTERMIND

Yeah, I predicted that Teruko would be the mastermind because I'm a basic bitch (/aff). Uh, I'm not being affectionate towards myself, to be clear. I'm only being affectionate to those who still hold the (fairly, I think) popular opinion that Teruko will be the mastermind of DRDT. She's a popular choice because there's a lot going for her! I still ranked her as third most likely back in my mastermind analysis!

Everyone who plays Venus' and my game is forced into the same default formula (to make comparative scoring easier), and that formula locks in the protagonist as a Chapter 6-er, because of how frequently that is the case. Even so, I feel fairly confident now that Teruko will survive until Chapter 6 anyways. The more times she says "I'm the Ultimate Lucky Student and I can't die" and then doesn't die, the weirder it would be if she suddenly did drop dead in, like, Chapter 4.

As for whether she actually is the mastermind... dude, I have no idea. Back at the time I wrote that post, I named J and Rose as my most likely candidates, but now J has gone on a whole anti-murder bend and I'm growing increasingly worried that Rose is going to be the Chapter 3 killer (probably unfounded, but still). That would leave Teruko as the most likely option, but Teruko's behavior at the end of Chapter 2 felt anti-mastermind coded to me, too, even if she forgot about it...!

We are not reviewing my mastermind theories here and now. Next!

CHARLES in the role of SURVIVOR

If you're a giant fucking nerd (/j), you might have noticed that I said I made my DRDT predictions after viewing "just a little bit over an hour of Despair Time content." However, the Prologue is under an hour. What gives?

Well, I... broke the rules of our game, actually. You're supposed to make your predictions sheet after viewing the Prologue only, but I went straight from watching the Prologue into Chapter 1 on the same day, and I forgot to make my sheet until watching Chapter 1 Episode 1. Sue me.

At any rate, I'm sure you can figure out how watching 1-1 would make me think that Charles would survive. Obviously, I knew that other characters beyond Charles would get focus in later episodes, but that still doesn't change the fact that DRDTdev chose to highlight Charles and Teruko's relationship as the first thing we saw in the first chapter of their story. Even without that extra content, though, he's also very reminiscent of Danganronpa's "Jerk" archetype, which survived in every canon DR game.

All that said... obviously, I don't think he's going to survive anymore.

I've been saying that Charles is a Chapter 3 victim-- at least since that analysis I just linked, even-- and I will probably continue to say it until proven false by the story itself. He is simply arcing too fast, and Whit needs to be confronted with that grief he prefers to ignore, no matter what his eventual placement is. We got one real Trial with Charles to prove what a smarty-pants he is, but now that he's pulled that "out of your element" card, he's off to break down into two or more simpler substances. AKA, decompose.

If he's not a Chapter 3 victim, though, Survivor is at least back on the table.

ACE in the role of SURVIVOR

Here we have it! Proof positive that I (falsely) believed that Ace would be a survivor all on my own, without taking into account anyone else's opinions! My incorrectness is mine and mine alone!!! (/j)

So, yeah. Funny coward man go brrrr and character arc into survival, except then he didn't. I have to imagine that's the basic premise behind why so many people believed that Ace would survive. I don't really have much to say about this choice beyond that.

I don't like that I'm already tanking another +6 points (S->K) (6->2) from Ace, though. Save me Xander-zero-point spoilers, you're my only hope.

VERONIKA in the role of SURVIVOR

Whaaaaaaaat was I cooking here?

I guess I kind of remember. I think I was imagining Veronika along the lines of a poor man's Sonia (like I said, critical) due to her more apologetic attitude towards rambling and presenting others with horror concepts in the Prologue. With my prediction that Whit would die in Chapter 5, I guess I might've also been thinking that Veronika could then fill in that "comic relief" void in his absence? I also had Ace there, though. Moot point; every DRDT character has the capacity to be hilarious.

There are a lot of places I could see Veronika landing in this killing game, but survivor really isn't one of them. I could see Veronika as a Chapter 3 victim or killer for The Vibes, Chapter 5 victim or killer if she takes on more of a main antagonist role, or Mastermind also for The Vibes. But survivor is just... odd. At least from this point in the story, what business does the "fangirling over acevi dying" girl have taking up one of those coveted survivor slots? Surely either someone would think to kill her or she would decide to kill before four more chapters elapse!

That being said, locking in Veronika as a late game character isn't terrible in my eyes. Being "barred" from making Rose a survivor, I remember that Veronika was the girl who I initially got the second most late game energy from. Those Chapter 5 or Mastermind scenarios won't score terribly here if they come to pass.

NICO in the role of SURVIVOR

I want to mention here that, despite my other spoilers, I did not know that Nico was nonbinary going into Despair Time. Therefore, I didn't make Nico a survivor under the premise of "I'll have two girls, two boys, and one enby survive!" I don't really remember why I did make Nico a survivor, though.

My best guess is that I put them there for cast composition purposes. From the Prologue, all of Charles, Ace, and Veronika are pretty over-the-top in their own ways: Charles is overly condescending, Ace is really loud, and Veronika is an exaggerated fangirl. Adding in a quieter character like Nico would have been a nice way balance to the others... or at least, so I thought with only the Prologue to go off of. Now I know that Ace and Nico surviving together was incredibly unlikely to be the case.

Speaking of Ace, now that he's dead (and therefore can't be a survivor), my opinions of whether Nico could survive have definitely gone up. However, I still don't think that Nico surviving is particularly likely.

There's definitely potential for redemptive survivors in DRDT with the "fighting your fate" theme they seem to be setting up. But, I think that's more likely to play out with someone who might have committed murder before the killing game (like Levi) or someone who did terrible things, but never went so far as to physically attempt another student's murder (like David), than someone who actually attacked someone else and nearly succeeded. For media in general, I think it's much easier for audiences to forgive something that happened off-screen and/or to characters that barely exist than something that we saw visible evidence of on a character who many people adore. Nico's attempted murder just seems like a big hurdle to overcome on their path to survival, dude.

That being said, I've written before that for both in-universe and meta reasons, I don't think we'll ever see Nico as a blackened, which already eliminates, like, half of my options moving forward. Logically, that would conclude that if I don't think that Nico will become a victim, then they're likely to survive. I do (currently) think that Nico will probably be a victim sometime in the future, even if I'm not certain in which chapter. For the sake of my score on Nico specifically, I guess I'm rooting for Chapter 5. I already know that they wouldn't be robbing Min of a perfect zero, at least.

And that's my tally so far, a total of 14 points out of a possible... well, I actually don't know what the highest possible score is, both because math is hard and because I don't know what bonus rules, if any, will come into play in DRDT's future. It's 14 points across 4 characters, which comes out to an average of 3.5 points per character.

Comparatively, most of our game sheets have come out somewhere in the high-30 to mid-40 points range (predicting is hard). Across 16 characters, means that it's usually an average of, like, 3 points per character. So, I'm doing worse than usual, but not by a whole lot...!

But, how well I do isn't what matters. The important thing is that I had fun while making it, and got to think about what patterns and possibilities can arise when you look at the basic facts of a character's simplified personality and talent in time with their role in the story!

So if you want to have fun making a predictions sheet like this of your own, you should totally go read Danganronpa: One Shot's Prologue (before Chapter 1 starts airing on Friday) over at @av-multifangan and fill out that game's prediction sheet. That would mean that this shameful shameless attempt at cross-promotion would have succeeded at one of its desired effects! Or, if that's not your cup of tea, you could also fill out a predictions sheet for DRDT moving forward, and just acknowledge that Xander, Min, Arei, and Ace were placed after the fact. Who knows, maybe I'll make a sheet like that too, so we can compare.

Thanks for walking down memory lane with me, and I hope to be back with more DRDT content soon!

[noxiatoxia]

SDR2 Debugging Menu: Ongoing Mystery

On July 24th, 2017, a post was made to Reddit with the following screenshot:

The post title read, "This menu appeared in SDR2 when I pressed random buttons?"

Commenters were quick to point out this looked like a Debug menu, and asked OP how they had managed to open it.

Op had this to say:

"I was using a PS4 controller. I pressed Triangle,X, and both L1 and R1 at the same or close times in general, but I don't know the exact combo"

It has been 8 years since this post. To my knowledge, nobody since has talked about this, nor has found a way to replicate what u/Nargieo managed to pull off.

Let's talk about it.

Firstly, you may ask, is it a hoax?

Obviously, the chance is never 0, and I'll take the L if it is fake. But I personally believe it to be real.

The OP's account is suspended now, but using the Wayback machine, they seemed to be a fairly standard user who was a fan of multiple games and anime, Danganronpa just happening to be one of those things.

Furthermore, the font seen in the screenshot matches the debug_menu.ttf font file found inside the files of SDR2.

The words on the menu themselves also match how certain aspect are referred to in files only. For example, in the games files, Island Mode is called "SV" or "Survival Mode", matching the "Surv_Char" and such we see on that menu.

According to a friend of mine that knows more about game dev than I do, it is apparently common to use the controller of a "bigger" console (a PS4 opposed to a PSVita in this case) to play test games. A Debug menu being coded in specifically for this controller but not the Vita controller would be normal, they said.

Obviously, the chance of it being faked is possible. But considering all the errors and things left inside the Dangan games by mistake as it is, this seems apt. I believe it is real.

Why has no one talked about this in 8 years?

That's a good question. I don't know. But I feel it should be looked into more than it is now. Having access to the Debugging menu could give us more insight into the game than simply rifling through the files could. It is also just a cool thing to have.

By the way, considering how SDR2 is built, finding the debug menu for it likely means whatever button input will also work to open the debug menu for DR1.

What we know:

This took place on the PC version of SDR2. Based on the date being 2017, it is likely the newest Steam build which came out in Sept. 2, 2016. Build ID is 1312489.

Since the mouse icon is still used in the textbox to prompt the user to advance text, they had Keyboard and Mouse enabled for control hints. Not Gamepad, despite using a PS4 controller.

Speaking of, the user recalls pressing L1, R1, X, and △ in some order. This should be taken with a grain of salt, as they may be misremembering or have pressed something else without knowing. Just keep an open mind that other buttons may have been used.

Since we see a character (Kazuichi) speaking, we can assume it is unlikely (but not impossible) that the Options or □ button were pressed, as both these buttons open a new screen (the "Help" screen and Student Handbook respectively).

As the User said, they achieved this by pressing "random buttons" and were shocked to find this. Meaning something very important: This screen is something one could find on accident. That's important as it rules out any long codes that would be near impossible to input on accident, or use of the PS4 touch pad in the case of writing something specific.

The question is now: how do we replicate this?

That's the million dollar question. I, personally, have spent 3 hours so far in the middle of trials pressing random buttons and any combination of L1, R1, X, and △ that I can think of. I haven't had any luck so far.

I can't do this by myself, obviously. So I implore everyone who is interested (and has access to both SDR2 on Steam and a PS4 controller) to try this themselves. If you have any insight on Game Development, please add your thoughts.

However, accessing the debug menu without knowing how you did it is pointless. So here is what I suggest:

Open SDR2. Make sure it is not full screen. Have it off to the side.

Use the website Gamepad Viewer to visualize your PS4 controller.

Screen record as you play. I suggest OBS if you don't have a screen recorder, but anything works.

If you don't get the debug menu and you feel like you're done playing, just delete the video file. If you do get it, you can stop recording and look back at the footage to see what exact combo of buttons you pressed.

It may look something like this, set up wise:

If nothing else, I hope this post gains traction so knowledge of this re-enters the Danganronpa community. It would be a shame to leave this to fade into obscurity.

[vulgrados-best]

// Required reading for hit blog @vulgrados-best (in no particular order)

- The Bible

- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis

- A book of Greek Mythology

- All of Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

- Revolutionary Girl Utena + Adolescence of Utena

- The Palace Perspective (an analysis of Revolutionary Girl Utena)

- Arcs 1-5 of Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter

- Hadestown (Musical by Anaïs Mitchell)

- Love of the Wolf by Hélène Cixous (trans. Keith Cohen)

- This post about werewolves

- Undertale (created by Toby Fox)

- Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

- Puella Magi Madoka Magica (dir. Akiyuki Shinbo & Yukihiro Miyamoto)

- A Single Moment by Umbriex & ShadowWolfSky

- clearandsweet's Madoka Magica analysis series

- Amphibia (dir. Matt Braly) [can be supplemented with my 21 hour explanation of the entire plot that was split over the course of 3 days. The downside is this is available only in a now defunct pokemon irl server]

- The Good Place

- All of RWBY

- ThusKindlySheScatters' The Killing Kind RWBY AMV

- The Minecraft End Poem

- Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Crimson Flower Route

- The Bible again but this time just the parts about Jesus

- Flicka (movie adaptation, dir. Michael Mayer)

- Frozen 2 [Frozen 1 is not required]

- Homestuck + Hiveswap Friendsim + Pesterquest

- Doki Doki Literature Club

- All of Fairy Tail (including 100 Year Quest)

- Persona 5 + Persona 5 Tactica

- Plato's Allegory of the Cave

- Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls (while not required SDR2 is also helpful).

- Mistborn: Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

- The story of King Lindworm as explained by @/villafordefeatedvillains

- The Magnus Archives but specifically through a GertrudeAgnes lens

- Wolf Children (dir. Mamoru Hosoda)

- Wolfwalkers (dir. Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart)

- Your Name (dir. Makoto Shinkai)

- Stories told to me by various family members [impossible to find]

- Every episode of the Pokemon anime released in the West until X & Y

- Love Live Sunshine!! Season 1

- Sword Art Online Abridged by SWE Abridged

- Brittle Bones Nicky by the Rare Americans

- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

[lilypadding]

— stay 'til the morning

ᡣ𐭩 pairing: nanami chiaki x komaeda nagito

summary: after they spend the afternoon together, komaeda helps a very sleepy nanami back to her cottage.

# tags: set in sdr2, tooth rotting fluff, self-indulgent entirely, just need them to be friends (cries and sobs)

(~1.5k words) | this can technically act as a prequel moment to the fifth trial | divider

Nanami’s eyes are heavy when she opens them. All she can register is a numbing pain in her back, and something tightly pressed against her cheek. The sound of quaint shifts in water and a soft breeze rustling the nearby palm trees almost makes her drift off again.

“Oh, have you woken up?” 

Komaeda’s voice. Nanami fights to blink a few times. 

He laughs in his lower register. Nanami’s mouth draws open, yawning and squeezing her eyes shut. She stretches her arms and realizes she’s not laying down. It feels like she’s sitting at a table. Her knee jerks up, almost involuntarily, and a prickling static surges to her thighs. Falling asleep at a public bench attached to a patio table does no wonders for your limbs. When Nanami raises her head and ignores the pain in her shoulders, her eyes land on the pool they’re beside. The table’s built-in umbrella flaps with a new gust of wind. 

Something is draped over her shoulders, but she can’t find the energy to question the light pressure. 

“C’mon,” Komaeda puts his hand on her shoulder. It’s extremely warm— the sensation nearly burns through her sweater. “We’ve gotta get you to your cottage.”

“Where…” Nanami’s voice dies before she can finish her line. 

“You’re outside the diner,” Komaeda supplies, still tugging at her shoulder, “We spent some time here this afternoon, and you drifted to sleep. It’s nearly nighttime.”

Nanami folds her arms over the table. She closes her eyes, unconvinced at the notion of moving anywhere. Exhaustion is etching into her, threatening to knock her out again despite the cold that’s biting her legs and feet. 

“It was a pleasure that you’d want to play your game while I read. Even sitting in silence, you’re willing to accompany me.”

Her perception starts to grow darker. And fuzzier.

“Nanami-san,” Komaeda teases her name in a sing-song voice, “We wouldn’t want you getting in trouble. Let’s go.”

“Nooo,” She draws out, a wave of drowsiness smacking down at her. 

“I’ll steal your games if you don’t.”

Nanami’s eyes shoot open. She groans, making a show of how much she dreads the idea of standing up. Komaeda laughs as she slowly gets herself to sit up. When he stands from the table, she grabs his arm, and there is something strange in feeling his bare skin. But her tired mind can’t decipher what’s wrong with it. 

“There you go,” Komaeda mumbles once Nanami is properly standing upright. She pushes off the dizzy feeling that’s edging her to tumble as she begins taking the first few steps. Komaeda stays just behind her, guiding her with a hand on her elbow, placed so lightly she almost doesn’t feel it. 

She squints at the view of all the cottages as the moon casts an uneasy light over the docks. The water beneath the docks recedes and laps quietly. There is nothing to listen to save for the low clicking of his footsteps against the hardwood. Nanami wallows in the comforting sound of waves, crickets calling, and rustling bushes. Cold shivers run up her body as she walks, and she tugs what’s been draped over her shoulders tighter around herself, retaining the ounce of heat. 

“We’re almost there,” Komaeda reassures from behind her. Nanami wants to nod, but the motion fails after she nearly trips over herself. Komaeda grips her arm properly in a rush. 

“I’m sorry,” Nanami mumbles, squinting into the light of the other cottages. 

“What?” Komaeda laughs lightly, “You’re not at fault for that.”

Nanami sways, and Komaeda stops her from taking another step. 

“Okay, we’re here,” Komaeda says cheerily, “Do you keep it locked?”

“No,” Nanami replies, following it up with a yawn. Komaeda presses her arm, signaling for her to continue. She obliges. 

The door clicks open, and a creak sounds out when it swings inside. 

Both of them enter, and Nanami beelines for the bed, her feet shuffling against the wooden floors. She flops into the mattress, tugging what’s draped over her tighter against herself as if it were her blanket. From her place in bed, she casts her feet over the mattress and kicks her shoes off. 

She groans as she curls further into herself, drawing the makeshift blanket even closer to her. 

“Aha, wait,” Komaeda inches closer to her but stays out of reach, “Don’t you want to switch into nighttime clothes before drifting to bed again?”

Nanami shakes her head against her pillow, then verbalizes a short “No” which sounds more like a weak groan if anything. 

“Are you sure? That can’t be comfortable.”

“Komaeda… kun…” Nanami’s eyes are closed. Her hand peeks out from beneath what’s covering her, exposing cold air to prick her skin. “Stay…”

Silence falls over the room.

“Huh…?”

Nanami is too tired to process her own thoughts. Her mind is running on wants.

“Stay here,” Nanami says, sleep already weighing her words into something close to incoherency, “Until… fall asleep…”

“N-Nanami-san?”

“Come here,” Nanami pats her bed. She scoots back slowly, her eyes still closed, still wrapped up in the mystery blanket. 

Komaeda doesn’t move for a while. 

“Ugh…” Nanami whines, “Please? Just… need your company… ���till sleep.”

There’s no shift heard from the floor. For another long moment, he doesn’t move.

Until the floorboards begin creaking again, making way for his footsteps who are slowly approaching the bed. 

“I don’t want to impose…” He starts off with, standing before it. “I think I should get going, Nanami—”

Nanami’s eyes part open, enough for her to latch an aim at his wrist and lock onto it with her hand. 

“Sit,” Nanami drawls, her mouth being half muffled by her pillow. 

Komaeda lets out a nervous laugh. Nanami’s eyes drift to close all over again. She tugs at his arm, and she can feel him leaning forward slightly at the gesture. She bites back a smile before she tugs as hard as she can.

Komaeda yelps, and the mattress beneath her takes a dip. His hands have landed on either side of Nanami’s head, and his arms are locked so as to prop himself up before having to otherwise crash into her.  

Nanami snorts, and she can’t fight off her amused smile as she begins to laugh. 

“Hey!” Komaeda says through a weakened grin, and Nanami opens her eyes wider. His startled expression hovering over her makes her giggle harder.

Komaeda’s grin grows as he watches her drift into hysterics. He begins laughing, finding her amusement to be contagious. 

“You-” Nanami tries to fight off her own laughter to get the words out, “You yelped like a dog—!”

The phrase makes her giggle that much harder. Komaeda huffs with an embarrassed smile. Watching her laugh is enough for him to join her. 

“You caught me off guard,” He says. His hair is falling over his face more than ever. 

“That was the point,” Nanami grins at him. He returns the smile, his face flushed red at the previous embarrassment. Nanami continues to laugh at the thought of the sound he’d made while he pivots himself out of hovering over her and instead settles into sitting at the edge of the bed, still facing her. 

“Ah, I woke you up, didn’t I?” Komaeda’s voice gives off a hint of disappointment. 

“Hm, it’s okay,” Nanami shifts so she’s lying on her side again, “It's more time we get to spend together before I fall asleep again.”

Komaeda’s eyes widen. Nanami’s smile grows. She hasn’t seen him smile like this in a while. Komaeda has a tendency to smile constantly, but his expression is never as genuine as it is right now. 

“R-Right,” He looks away from her, picking at the hem of his shirt, “I guess you’re right.”

His eyes skim over Nanami’s figure, brows turning in slightly. 

“You should get under the covers, Nanami-san. I doubt my jacket is enough to keep you warm.” 

Nanami grips the edges of it. Her eyes trail down, and the material practically wrapped around her. Ah. So this was her makeshift blanket. Komaeda must have put it over her after she fell asleep at their table. 

If she even casually shrugs it off, he’d mentally turn this into an excuse of being ‘proof’ that he’s beneath his classmates. She can already picture him saying, ‘Of course you wouldn’t want my unfortunate possessions on your skin.’ 

“No,” Nanami says. “It's warm. I like it.”

Komaeda looks like he's been struck by something. Again. 

“Ah. Your day clothes and my jacket as pajamas. You're a curious sleeper.”

“You're judging me before bed?”

“I'm deplorable, truly. That's all the more reason to kick me out, isn't it?”

Nanami pouts and reaches out, gripping his wrist with a tight hold, set on not letting go. 

“You're going to stay here. And you will not leave. Tell me a bedtime story.”

“A bedtime—?”

“Just talk.”

[ilytoybonniesstuff]

🎸 RULES 4 REQUESTS 🎸

Welcome to TBSTUFF, a FNAF centered (featuring other fandoms) headcanon blog 🐰

🎸 MY RULES 🎸

🎸 4 Characters MAX when requesting

🎸 Reader will be gender neutral/use they/them pronouns unless specified otherwise (they can be any gender/use any pronouns!!!)

WHAT I WILL WRITE

🎸 Dark Topics (exceptions in what I won’t write)

🎸 MLM, WLW, and gender neutral relationships for reader x character

🎸 you may request a character not currently on the masterlist, but it’s not guaranteed I will write for them

🎸 Fandoms:

🎸 FNAF (all games + movie)

🎸 Haikyuu

🎸 Death Note

🎸 Squid Game (both seasons)

🎸 AOUAD

🎸 Creepypasta

🎸 Marble Hornets

🎸 Mouthwashing (I’m very picky with what I’ll write about Jimmy but he isn’t off the table..)

🎸 Saw Franchise

🎸 Danganronpa (THH, SDR2, V3 + DR3)

🎸 Genshin Impact

WHAT I WON’T WRITE

🎸 18+ topics

🎸 Dark topic exceptions:

🎸 incest

🎸 noncon/any form of SA

🎸 pedophilia

🎸 abuse (it’s fine if reader was abused in their past, but I won’t write out them actively being abused- same goes for canon characters)

🎸 child!reader (platonic child character x reader is fine, but I won’t write the reader themselves being a child- it’s just a pet peeve of mine, sorry)

🎸 Fandoms:

Danganronpa UDG (I despise this game sorry)

South Park (Mentioned because I will engage in a conversation about it, I just don’t wanna write about 10 years olds even if aged up.)

Warrior Cats (I WILL write about Warrior Cats, I’m just iffy about requests because I haven’t finished the series and don’t want spoilers… but if your request takes place either during or before PoT, I’ll consider it)

🎸 MASTERLIST 🎸

��� FAIR WARNING: it’s a GOOGLE DOC!!

🎸 You can see which fandoms and characters I will write for in here

INTRO:

🎸 You can call me TB, I use he/him pronouns.

🎸 My favorite characters are Toy Bonnie 🐰, Rockstar Bonnie 🎸, Nagito 🍀, & Ashfur 🔥 (don’t be fooled though, my favorite animals are foxes 🦊)

🩵💙🤍🩶

🎸 THANKS 4 READING 🎸

[giggly-squiggily]

☁Puffs☁ (Sentence Starters) Are Open!

Heyo! I'm feeling a little bold, a little brash (I belong in the trash) And decided for the weekend to open up sentence starters! Since they're small little dabbles (300 words max, give or take) I'm gonna call them Puffs! What do we think of the name? (work in progress I know)

Rules:

Send me a sentence starter and a pairing and I'll write a short dabble for it!

Reader insert is allowed!

The event will go from Today (Saturday, Nov. 11) to Monday (Nov. 13) 8pm EST. I'll let you know when the event is closed.

I have new fandoms! Please read my pinned post for restrictions and limitations and all that! (Fandoms below the cut!)

SFW, I will write both tickles and non tickles!

I think that's it? I'll update y'all if anything changes! Have at it everyone! :D

~Fandoms~

Black Clover

- Blue Lock (Anime)

-Big Windup

- Bungo Stray Dogs (Up to Season 3)

- Buddy Daddies

-Code Realize

-Collar x Malice

-Chainsaw Man (Anime + Around Chapter 72 I think?)

-Danganronpa THH, SDR2 , V3

-Dr. Stone

-Demon Slayer

-Fire Force

-Free! Iwatobi Swim Club

-Fruits Basket

-Given

-Haikyuu!!

-Heartstopper

-Hell’s Paradise

-Hunter x Hunter (Up To Greed Island Arc)

-Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure: Battle Tendencies (Part 2) Stardust Crusaders (Part 3), Diamond Is Unbreakable (Part 4), Golden Wind (Part 5)

-Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime + Movie Only!)

Komi Can’t Communicate

-Mob Psycho 100

-Moriarty The Patriot

-My Hero Academia

-Pokemon (Limited Requests: Legend Arceus, Gens 1-7, 9, ScarVio DLC included) **No longer taking requests for Sword and Shield**

-SK8 the infinity

-Spy x Family

-Toliet Bound Hanako-Kun

-Tokyo Revengers

-Rain Code (Up to chapter 4)

-Vinland Saga (Mainly Season 2)

-Yu Yu Hakusho (Veeeery limited)

[goshdangronpa]

Hey, I finally got to tumblr! :D I think I'm pretty out of touch with DR fandom, so I'm jumping at my chance to talk to a fellow partner in crime. What did you like about Irumatsu in the first place? I'm so deep into my headcanons at this point, I'd like to know how others perceive them. I love how you're writing their dynamic!

Omg heeeey :) thank you so much for your kind words about "Kaede's Rhapsody"! I'm exploring that very question through this story - if not, I would've skipped all these thousands of words and cut to the smut! I hope you enjoy that exploration in upcoming chapters ...

... and I can still answer your question here!

What drew me to them isn't deep at all. I enjoyed Kaede as a protagonist (I really needed to warm up to Shuichi lol). Then Miu Iruma swiftly became my fave char in V3, with her outrageous dialogue, huge personality, and shockingly fragile arrogance.

That's only enough to make me consider a ship. In fact, from introductions alone, I first fancied Kaede with Maki and accepted Miu x Kiibo as a given. But I've discovered that "Normal Protag and Somewhat Antagonistic Weirdo" describes nearly all my favorite ships. Both saiouma and oumota from V3, komahina in SDR2, especially tokomaru and syomaru from UDG. It's the friction that gives it spice: shipping two perfectly nice characters (such as, idk, saimatsu) isn't quite as fun as shipping two characters who bicker and clash between (or during!) wholesome cuddling (such as, idk, irumatsu!).

There's a real opposites attract thing going on, too. Kaede is clearly a prep (not derogatory) who dresses conservatively; Miu struts around in BDSM gear and features other punk elements. Kaede strives to be nice but won't suffer fools; Miu talks a lot of smack but backs down from any pushback. Kaede is selfless to the point of self-sacrifice; Miu dies after putting her own life before everyone else's.

Besides how sharply they contrast, I also like how much they have in common. Kaede and Miu are capable of empathy, but equally capable of taking elaborate measures for what they consider the greater good. They both die as a result of trying to murder someone else. They can be deeply stubborn. And heck, they're 5'8" blondes who press lots of keys.

What really makes the ship for me is how they complement each other. Miu's a bully, but Kaede consistently argues back without hesitation, challenging the self-proclaimed genius. She's no passive victim, which is so important to making this dynamic feel balanced. Even more important is that she’s not a brute about it, either. When Kaede’s done parrying insults, she takes a genuine interest in Miu and tries to react the girl beneath the gorgeous girl genius. Kaede seems to be the only character who takes pains to treat her like a person, rather than just some misanthropic weirdo.

I think during or after the fourth trial, it's said that Kiibo and Gonta are the only ones who considered her a friend. I think about that a lot, and I'm sure Kaede would've shed a tear for her. Moreover, she would've protected her before that point. And I think that one pleasant relationship could've brought out the protective side in Miu as well. These two would drive each other crazy, but they'd be there for reach other. If they don't rip each other apart first, they'd be crazy in love and crazy good together. Not to mention, fun to read about ... and write about!