#the way of eden

[misamxsa]

i want them to have a joesara yttd moment. eva haunt the narrative girl i believe in you

[chell-min]

the first christmas party of many, hopefully

[rosebunnys]

happy P:EG CH1 release everyone!! here's a redraw of the first fanart for it I did to celebrate the occasion

[huang-er-jiejie]

i. i just realised something about the kiss.

the way when aziraphale puts both of his hands on crowley's back, you can see them kinda shift so aziraphale isn't leaning. he held onto crowley for stability, and leaned in. pushed closer to him. he leaned forward. anyone ever says he didn't want the kiss im going to hunt you down because HE HELD CLOSE!!! HE KISSED BACK!!!!

EDIT: also im like WELL aware he kissed back i was even when i first watched it like its not a big revelation, its just that SOME people☠️ on TIKTOK☠️ KEEP SAYING HE WAS DISGUSTED BY THE KISS???? like i swear some people are watching a different show entirely

[susie-dreemurr]

[evesedenramblings]

Despite what Damon Maitsu wants to think, he has been incredibly trusting and kind throughout the Killing Game thus far. His actions contradict a lot of his own inner thoughts. Even though he is often rude he’s also rather kind, and that’s important to recognize since he wants to believe he’s so de-attached from everyone.

I think the first thing that comes to mind is the first trial’s Pathos route, where Damon decides to defend Diana based on his gut feeling despite all the clear evidence- or, trusting Diana’s character to be true over his own deductions. The second thing is when he realizes his trust of Eva is built on nothing. What both of these things have in common is how mad Damon is about it. Damon doesn’t want to defend Diana, he gets incredibly mad at himself when he realizes he’s sympathetic to her crying and wants to trust in her. The same goes for Eva, but his trust is lost instead. Damon gets angry when he realizes the only reason he trusted Eva was because he fell into the “Us vs Them” mentality, and he automatically grouped Eva in with himself, but Eva didn’t do the same thing. At the core of the issue, Damon is mad because without even realizing it, he is a hypocrite. He claims the students shouldn’t be able to so easily trust each other, then went and easily trusted just the same- and chose the worst person to acknowledge he trusted.

I say Damon acknowledges he trusted Eva because I think Damon trusts the other students more than he realizes. He is easily able to engage in Free Time Events with every student, except Grace. The fact there’s no Grace FTE’s, or to be Meta an exception to “hang out with your favourites!” rule, makes it feel in-character that Damon trusts the other students enough with his safety, but not Grace. Also, a lot of what happens in those FTE’s like Jean picking up Damon by his ankles has to mean they’re at least some sort of comfort with each other. The other students do seem comfortable with Damon, even the youngest student Toshiko knows she can call Damon a cutesy name like Mochi- he’s unhappy about it but ultimately does nothing. Ingrid asks him to help with the laundry and he agrees- grumbles about it later to himself but doesn’t actually protest to Ingrid’s face, and does his share. There’s also the fact that Damon doesn’t protest the roommate rule, and then how immediately comfortable he gets with said roommate. He even prefers to sleep in Kai’s room at a certain point, as sleeping alone in his own room makes him too anxious as opposed to sleeping along with someone else. For someone who claims to be untrusting, Damon spends a lot of time with other people one-on-one and in group settings, and being kind to them as well.

The only time I can think Damon doesn’t cooperate with the group is when Eva shows him the Tozu Equation and he says they should keep it secret. However, even then, Damon means *he and Eva* should keep it secret. He still means to work with Eva, as their own private team. He doesn’t go work on it on his own at any point, and asks her about it later if she had made any progress. When she says no, Damon assures her that he hadn’t expected her to with all the ongoing issues. He believes her at face value and doesn’t go to check on it, and was kind to her about the issue.

Still, there is an obvious elephant in the room: Damon is still an outsider. He’s not part of the group, there’s no equal exchange of first. The obvious solution, and one Damon comments on himself multiple times, is that he’s cooperating with them only to gain their trust, *not* because he trusts them. However, I think Damon is lying to himself, or is just unaware of how much trust he puts into his actions. For a comparison, I want us to look at Eva. Eva only spends time individually with Damon, who she “trusts”. Other than that, the only time we see her with others is to gather information or purposefully be seen while plotting her murder. We don’t have much insight on her rooming situation but Diana’s comments imply Eva was often absent from their room. Eva tends to lurk in the boiler room alone, specifically because nobody wants to go down there. She has no interest in her classmates and doesn’t trust any of them, and only takes interest in them when she needs them. Now this could just be a difference of strategy (Eva wanting to gain trust when the time was right, and Damon wanting to gain trust in advance) but frankly, it didn’t work. Damon spent more time cooperating with the class, and yet in the trial they hesitate to believe him over Eva based on his character. The only reason they choose to believe him is because they take a moment to reassess everything Damon has been saying, and draw a logical conclusion. Damon has still gained no real trust from their group, so what was the point of everything he’s done if it amounted to nothing?

Damon, whose situation is extremely close to Eva’s, is willing to share his living space with another person, to the point he shares the bed with them (his idea btw), not even swapping the bed every night. Eva feels more safe alone with her own mind and intelligence, but Damon has always reached out to other people for security. After Tozu threatened him, Damon went to Kai despite his belief Kai might kill him. When Wolfgang turned the group against him, Damon automatically latched onto the one other outcast, Eva without even realizing it. He’d already latched onto her from the moment they awoke in the boiler room together.

I definitely missed some stuff, like how Damon was the only one willing to grab Kai’s ring in the FTE- just say no if you don’t want to do it Damon. It’s going to be important to remember how kind he is in these earlier chapters since that kindness and trust he employed has now been thrown back in his own face and spit on (thanks Eva), so I’m not sure we’re ever going to see Damon be this unintentionally kind again.

[pearlv1ne]

!! spoilers

Its the sheer fucking brutality of Wolfgang's crime scene man.

My sister recently pointed out to me how in the og Danganronpa series, almost all of the deaths felt very... peaceful.

Sayaka, Rantaro, Kiyotaka, Tenko, Byakuya, Angie... They all just sort of lay down on the ground with their eyes closed, and it almost lookes like they're just asleep (if u ignore the blood spilled everywhere lmao). Chichro, Hiyoko, Ryoma and Ibuki, even though their bodies are displayed in a very grusome way, all seem relatively calm - again, almost like they're just taking a nap. The only corpses that actually LOOK like corpses are Nagito's and Miu's (and probably some others which I didn't remember rn, but my point still stands - a realistic death is a rare sight in the og Danganronpa).

But then we have Wolfgang.

Every detail of his death feels so awfully real. He's laying in this uncomfortable, almost compromising position, and his face is frozen in an expression of horror. His eyes are rolled back, his mouth is open with drool coming out of it. His hair is a mess, and his expensive suit is untact and destroyed from the water - its such a contrast from Wolfgang's usual, composed self. The creators didn't try to romantisize or sugarcoat it, they made his death UGLY.

I already said that I appreciate p:eg for it's realism, and this detail only adds to that. It also makes me a little scared for upcoming deaths lmao

[alienantichrist]

Y'all ever think about how Spock just decides to have a jam session with the space hippies in "The Way to Eden"

the way he is just politely waiting with his vulcan lute in hand is precious to me

tbh it's just generally iconic how he is the one that communicates with them and they seem to actually hear him out, like he just seeks to understand them and it's just great

[accirax]

Happy Halloween, everybody! 🖤

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[ch33z33]

My face is so swollen, is this how people who get punched feel like?

[spockeveryday]

[miss-mossball]

Thank you for being part of my journey, once more

[weast-of-eden]

god i can’t remember which book i read it in but i remember reading a philosophy book that said something along the line of “deduction and diagnosis are essentially one in the same; this is why dr watson is the perfect companion for sherlock holmes” and i nearly wept. scientifically proven soulmates for real

[chell-min]

what if we were just two little guys trying to not starve together 🥺

i think ulysses would make a pretty good wickerbottom reskin mod! not sure about wenona though, she doesn't really fit any of the survivors... also note that i have NO concept of game balance when i write these kits. i want to give ulysses some sort of ruins/archives exploration or prototyping bonus, but i'm not too sure how to go about that!

[sam-sessington-the-third]

weekly contribution to the pjeg fandom hi guys

[vulcanette]

close-up of vessel singing tmbte in brussels

🎥: edenkive