#this is pregame… pregame sillies

[daily-isat]

day 18! happy valentines day!

[cccotard]

dancin anzus 🎶🎶🎶

[sappy-detective]

pregame saiouma but they’re just regular danganronpa fans (aka weird). they do a bunch of things actual danganronpa fans do. they started dating because… kindating was a thing and it’s so incredibly cring but kinda cute bc they love each other so much and are like 15.

ouma: shuichi can you stop kicking people from our discord role play server?

shuichi: but i had a good reason! they said naegiri is better then celesgiri!

ouma: ..probably because it is.

shuichi: ..

ouma: ..

[ultbot]

sometimes the most heartwarming group of people are two weird little freaks and the third who thinks he's better than that but really isn't.

XTRA!

[thelyingjoke]

what are your thoughts on pregame kokichi?

this took a long time to answer sorry!!! i start getting Busy around this time (school my nemesis.......) but this ask is interesting enough that i can use my remaining free time to answer it! thank you!!!!!!

now a thing like this is something i personally can have a bit of trouble with—that is, making up a personality for a character that doesn't have one. when i have something to go off of in canon i can run with it all day and come up with so many things...but i need that little prompt to start with, and if there's nothing, i can't really think of anything. so for a Longgggggg while i've kept my hands mostly Away from the pregame characters, since most of them have so little about them i just couldn't think of anything that would satisfy me. but more recently, maybe like. a few months after i rewatched v3 last year, i started to think about them a little more...and now i think i can answer this question kind of!!!

pregame kokichi is a hard one considering he's one of the many that has like. 1-2 lines that don't say much at all about his character. like the most he has is this

and really Nothing Else of note. but after thinking on it it says A Lot.

already you get from it a guy who is Helpful and looks out for others, even in a situation where it might be dangerous! both caring and also maybe does not have a good sense of self-preservation...but not like, nervous or cowering at all. so, that's a start!!! though there's also a bit i wanna get into in order to elaborate more on what else i think about him (i anticipate this will get Long so. i will put the cut here)

yeah anyway the thing that made me Really start thinking about the pregame characters was the full realization of kaede and shuichi being like...basically the same, just kaede being a little more snappy. and i mean, i knew this the whole time, but i never put too much thought into it because like—yeah they're still the same guys that makes sense. (and i was in major denial about the ending at first haha)

but actually thinking about it it kinda intrigued me. of course they'd be like that. sure they were given different memories, but there's only so much that that can really change about a person, you know? like...there's the assumption i'd have had that they directly tweaked the personality alongside the memories, but honestly i don't think they did. i mean, of course, the memories do influence the personalities—some more than others—but that's as much as i'd imagine they'd have done in terms of personality-changing. they didn't do it directly.

it's like nature vs nurture, kind of. your memories make up a large portion of who you are and how you act, but they're not everything. there are certain things that are just inherent to certain people. two different people given the exact same memories would likely act similar, but ultimately there would be differences, because they're two separate, unique people, with their own quirks and preferences.

and for how the characters were made, i do believe that their backstories and intended personalities were based on their original personalities (whether you believe tsumugi was lying about the audition videos, and i do lean towards her lying, i don't quite think she was lying about getting a flash of inspiration from shuichi's nervousness, that part makes sense to me). kaede is just pregame kaede without the cynicism—because she's given a happier life prior to everything. i think parts of them leak in throughout the game that were not necessarily intended by tsumugi...just because those traits are part of Who They Are, and the memories can't change that. these might be obvious thoughts to have but i felt like talking about them haha

it's hard to say what those traits might be, since we see so little of them, and we don't know what exactly tsumugi would have intended, but you could perhaps guess...maybe kaede's temper? and well. i was going to have a ramble about my ch1 murder theories but i was having trouble wording it and realized that was Really off topic so i will move on

ANYWAY the reason i think this all has to do with kokichi: his pregame personality likely inspired some of ingame personality, so my thoughts on what parts...i think perhaps his Playfulness. i mean, a guy with a hairstyle like That has gotta be down for all kinds of fun and games. so i guess i see him as a playful little guy who wants to help others and maybe doesn't have the best survival instincts/views of self-importance...........

(sorrySorry i just recently read a 5 year old dr/woy crossover fic with kokichi and i haven't been normal since. it was so ridiculous too bad the author orphaned it they were kinda cooking...kokichi and wander are similar you're so right...wish i could talk to them about it SORRY I'LL GET BACK ON TOPIC!!!!!)

in all Seriousness though. i think that that small line has such a big influence on how he acts ingame. of course he's not nearly as willing to throw himself into danger for the others' sake...but i think that Care, that Desire to Help them still lingers, just under whatever backstory gave him those trust issues so he's not as Open about it. and the self-sacrificial nature i Mean...chapter 5. and it's how he kind of 'breaks character'. if you get me? i'm not sure if i'm explaining right...doesn't help i have to do it in increments between Other Things haha

i don't really know if i have an overall point to this but Yeah that's how i see pregame kokichi. i don't have much other thoughts though :( Do you want me to check on what's happening is all i really have to work with...i've seen people talk about him being a student council president and i like that thought. but nothing too concrete, pregame kokichi enjoyers tell me what you think about him i would love to hear what you have because i. do not have much! everyday crying at the lack of information so many things have

[pussypopstiel]

Something about this camera angle is so insane im seeing something so private i feel like im imposing on an intimate moment in such a voyeuristic manner

[finsterkiibo]

ALRIGHT THE WAIT IS OVER, FINSTERKIIBO IDABASHI DESIGN DROP!

these doodles below are a bit older, tweaked them a tiny bit to fit his more recent design but it’s still apparent they are old LMAO

I have comics with him too that show more of how I see his personality and dialogue but they are all traditional and formatted better for instagram <\3 maybe I’ll figure out how to get em on here someday who knows!

ANYYWHOOO my favorite guy in the whole world!! kiibo has the best dad ever I refuse anything else

[kretynkaa]

i loveeeee shins and midoris relationship its so complex i could write a whole essay about how deep and weird it was.....

also the poem was made by me (im not the best at poetry and im not a native english speaker so pls go easy on me ;-;)

[squiggles-house]

Pregame hc miu has sleepovers at kokichi’s house

Shirt reads : I’m at your girls crib using her laptop to argue politics on Facebook

[turbo-tsundere]

I’m usually not one to make such kind of a post but... well, well, well! This detective from Rain Code sure does remind me of someone... and it’s beyond amusing XD

[kokichaai]

forever abusing this power of big eyez

[psychesmoon]

my good christian plan to drink responsibly is being thwarted by evil forces called my friends

[sappy-detective]

yah that saiouma au is cute.

but it would be cuter if it was pregame saiouma

[pyrov1sion]

someone called me 'little scout' in team vc the other day and i cant stop thinking abt it it was adorable

[bamgamronpa]

i miss kiibouma

[finsterkiibo]

hi tumblr!! I thought, wow! my last few posts have been mostly serious cute fluffy stuff….. let’s pull out the jerma pg shuichis

the REAL sillies

SO FOR CONTEXT. I consider myself to be THE number one fanon pregame shuichi hater extraordinaire I WANT HIM GONE I WANT HIM DIED

and so ofc I headcanon my own stuff abt him to separate all my pregame headcanons n comics and such from THAT. and so one day I realized my headcanons for him and his personality almost scarily line up with jerma in a lot of ways and so now. I have this running gag and it’s my favorite fuckignf thing ever