#take Junko away from the plot and yeah I really enjoyed sdr2

[whattheskyknows]

Okay I just finished chapter 6 of sdr2 and to my surprise, I ended up disliking it. At first I was absolutely ecstatic that they were in a simulation because I like that trope. However, what made me dislike this chapter is Junko. I really don't like her and when Makoto started listing out what she and all the remnants of despair had done, it honestly made me feel queasy. I like the idea of Makoto helping the group but something about the despair story line makes me uncomfortable.

I think this is why I've always preferred drv3 and it's ending, I like the strong emphasis that everything is fictional and Danganronpa is just a game. Yes, I'm aware that every Danganronpa game is fictional but Junko as a villain and the whole tragedy plotline really doesn't do it for me. I really like drv3's plotline of the first two danganronpa games being actual games/game shows in the drv3 universe.

I mean story wise, sdr2's ending makes sense. I just really don't like the hope vs despair plot. I'm more of a fiction vs reality sort of person.

[more-than-a-princess]

@cantillat asked: 4 do you prefer to plot a ship, or would you rather “wing it”?

15 what’s your OTP when it comes to your muse?

16 what’s your NOTP when it comes to your muse?

17 what’s your BROTP when it comes to your muse?

20 is there a ship you wanted to play, but couldn’t yet?

Shipping Questions for the Mun - Accepting!

4 do you prefer to plot a ship, or would you rather “wing it”?

My preferred method of writing a romantic ship is having muses interact (whether meeting for the first time or already knowing one another) and just see what happens. But I do tell my writing partner if I'm feeling like a romantic ship could happen, or if it's something I'd be interested in writing, after writing our muses in thread for a little while. From there, I then like plotting how a ship could unfold, even if it's just us throwing out theoretical situations when how it actually happens in thread is something very different in the end.

So...both, I guess? I like winging it when writing with someone for the first time but not really looking to write a ship, but plotting it out when there's good muse chemistry and I get along well with the mun.

I'm not a person who enjoys the 'do you want to ship? Tell me straight up/right away!' meme, because it tends to get me into insta-ship situations that I don't enjoy writing.

15 what’s your OTP when it comes to your muse?

I guess for this I'll stick to canon Danganronpa muses, and so it's got to be Sonia/Gundham aka. Sondam. I'm unapologetically a Sondam fan, though I have a lot of ideas on how Sonia and Gundham's relationship could play out, both in the context of Sonia in other ships and if I'm writing with someone who writes Gundham and wants to write a romantic ship (this is pretty rare these days! So I tend to make him an important part of her life, often in the past tense).

16 what’s your NOTP when it comes to your muse?

A few! And again, I'll keep it to canon Danganronpa characters:

Sonia/Chiaki. I don't ship it romantically and likely never will. Please don't ask me to write it.

Sonia/Junko. Barring Sonia's time as a Remnant of Despair (which was more about sex and control anyway), I just don't see these two ever having anything resembling a romantic relationship.

Sonia/Kazuichi...with a caveat. Going off what the canon gives us, absolutely not. Really, the only way I could see them happening would be a post-SDR2 verse or a non-despair verse with a lot of character development. What would be the most likely would be the two of them meeting in the future, well after high school after not speaking for years and putting some time and distance between who they were as teenagers.

But in general: I just don't see Sonia staying long-term with muses that are particularly needy, lacking self-confidence, idolizing her, or depending on her for the entirety of their happiness. Kazuichi pretty much embodies this, but any muse with similar tendencies? Yeah, Sonia can't handle that in a romantic relationship. She might think she wants someone to look after and take care of, especially as a teenager, but it's not healthy for her and she ends up realizing that as an adult.

Sonia/anyone from Class 79/v3...as high school students. This is purely because in a Non-Despair school scenario, she'd see them as sweet underclassmen and too young for her to try to start a relationship with. When they start Hope's Peak High School, Sonia would be in her final year at Hope's Peak and attending university right after. So there wouldn't be much time for a relationship to begin with, and she'd see them as people who are at a very different stage in their lives than she is.

As adults go? I'd have to think about it. Though I could never see her with someone like Kokichi, Miu, Tenko, or Himiko.

17 what’s your BROTP when it comes to your muse?

Sonia and Chiaki Sonia and Chiaki Sonia and Chiaki!

This is where Sonia and Chiaki's dynamic lives, rent-free, in my head. Whenever I want to incorporate Sonia's close friendships in a thread, especially in her high school years, I think of her friendship with Chiaki.

I also like to believe Sonia and Sayaka would be good friends as well: two girls with similar life experiences.

Other important BROTPs for Sonia include but aren't limited to @dcviated's Eira, @ahogedetective's Shuichi, @unladielike, and @cantillat's Hilda. And Sonia seems to be the bad influence on all of them!

Sonia needs a BROTP where she's the good influence, for once. Not that Sonia's a malicious person, she just likes to push the rules to fit her own curiosity and interests.

In short: BROTPs are love. Please give me more of them.

20 is there a ship you wanted to play, but couldn’t yet?

There's a few ways to take this, but again I'll reference Danganronpa muses I'd be interesting writing a romantic ship with if I found a mun interested and we had good muse chemistry:

Sonia/Byakuya - Because this would definitely be a 'hate it at first but accept for superficial reasons' that could grow into 'oh no I've caught feels for precisely what I thought I didn't like.' And I'm here for it. Though to be honest, this is a lot of what Sonia is dealing with during threads with @causalitylinked's Ryuto, so I'm a little less into this ship now I guess? But if I had the opportunity to write it with a mun with a compatible writing style who was easy to talk to and plot with? Yeah, I'd take it.

Sonia/Akane - Haven't had the opportunity to write this yet.

Sonia/Peko - This either.

Sonia/Celestia - My f/f canon DR ships for Sonia are suffering because they aren't popular/rarepairs.

Other ships that interest me that I haven't had a chance to write yet: Sonia/Raul and Sonia/Allan from Cupid Parasite. In short: one is basically the male version of Sonia. The other is, without spoilers, someone she would be fascinated by.

Neither of these would be smooth-sailing ships but they'd be hilarious and heartbreaking, possibly in equal amounts.

Otherwise, there's more dynamics that I want to write as a romantic ship that are less contingent on a specific muse:

Rekindling a past relationship and/or meeting former high school classmates as an adult - Whether they have a past relationship or not, but the sort of 'oh, this is familiar but very strange and different' situation of Sonia thinking she knows someone and could not have anticipated how much they'd changed.

Soulmates - Heavily plotted with someone else, especially with how the soulmates aspect would play out, but something with Soulmates. Yes, I still have SJM-esque mating bonds on the brain.

Arranged marriage - A super slow-burn where Sonia and the other muse believe they're very incompatible and hate the whole idea of an arranged marriage, but slowly begin to fall for each other and have to reconcile their principles with the fact that what they have may, indeed, be real and worth pursuing.