#the teacher they Loved and they Hated and they wanted purehearted and untouched forever

[funishment-time]

thinking about how the AI trope is used in Danganronpa 2. thinking about how Usami and Chiaki were made for One Reason and had to find a way to work around that. thinking about how Chiaki breaks her programming as much as possible while still navigating within its Limitations. thinking about how Usami called Chiaki a Miracle because of it. thinking about how the only times Chiaki really gets annoyed with Usami is when Usami can't break out of her pre-determined routine too, because...

i'm also thinking about how AI Junko is just a bad facsimile of the real thing: can only do another killing game, half-heartedly, with only a single facet of her personality. "it's all so Hopeless." a boring routine by a boring subroutine. AI Junko, defeated by Usami returning to the Neo World Program with the ability to actually Protect these kids. these kids whose entire beings had been shattered so thoroughly by a girl's death that they filled in the gaps of a virtual world with her love. these kids and these AIs