#udg imagines

[theminecraftgay]

A god and her servant

[review-anon]

(Haiji gets sprayed in his face by a skank, then he lands on a porcupine, then he jumps onto a cactus and toilet sprays his whole body again)

Are you JOKING me? I just got the giant rat off me!

Seriously age is just a number! How do you think immortals feel?

[ask-the-new-warriors-of-hope]

they’re… not the most canonically accurate kids in town.

[mod-kyoko]

How about a request for one of the best protagonists, Komaru naegi, with an S/O who loves to fluster her by giving her affection and compliments

komaru naegi with an affectionate s/o

info: hc format, established relationship, non-despair au

a/n: dude i am freaking out thank you komaru is my favorite ever

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komaru flusters so damn easily!!

you're always trying out new things to see how she reacts

flustered komaru was alarming to you at first

in the beginning of the relationship, before you understood her, anything slightly flirty you did would have her red and fidgety

she gets so red in fact, that you thought she was sick

and with the way that she stutters and fidgets with her fingers made you think at first that she was uncomfortable

but you soon came to understand your sweet girlfriend, and it became a game, with the winning prize her funny reactions

komaru's favorite thing you do is when you grab her and dip her like if you were dancing, and kiss her right there

it makes her feel like she's in a romance novel

but really, verbal affection is super important to her

she's addicted to pet names and phrases like "sweet girl," "my love," and "darling"

the real reason komaru is so easily flustered at all this affection is because she thinks she doesn't deserve it

she never expected someone to desire such an average, boring girl

she was always in her brother's shadow, and though she loved him so much, deep down there was jealousy

so whenever you share affection with her, she always makes sure to let you know how much she appreciates it

she returns the "favors" with services

her love language is quality time but she likes to give acts of service to people

meaning she'll cook you a meal, clean your place, wake you up with breakfast, etc

but poor komaru, can't even do anything like that without being flustered either

any time she gifts you something, or does something nice for you, she averts her eyes, a blushing mess

she really needs to chill out a bit

[gladosluver]

im scared of haiji towa mostly not for the obvious reasons but because on the most recent udg playthrough he just SLID towards me.

no steps taken. no feet lifted. just a clean, smooth, horrifying slide.

we talked to him after he told us he was gonna take us to the mystery location 🤑🤑🤑🤑 and he just. slid towards me. it was so fucking scary i was in disbelief.

i legitimately went through the five stages of grief.

i didnt believe it, i asked the chat if they saw that too. i got angry, thinking my computer was acting up and not loading the animations properly. i bargained, begging that the recording software had caught that, then fell into a depression when i found out it didnt.

and finally, acceptance. he really did slide. that was that. he slid. he just slid.

ps. to everyone who rewrites him keep that up love yall 💜 i feel like he has a lotta potential. just please. please dont make him slide again

[aeymii]

Thank you again for the kind words and compliments. If you don't mind me asking, what's your favorite chapter from what you've read?

I can't choose there's so many good chapters!! But if I had to pick a few favorites it would have to be Izuru siding with Junko, and the other Nagito and Sato chapters because I love those two alot!! :))

And the new killing game one where we met the whole cast (v3 + 2) I really like how you wrote Tsumugi and gave her more personality, oh and how you wrote her interactions with Chiaki 💕💕

[vv-ispy]

genuinely love Fukawa's growth since the first game, not only is she trying to mellow out and control Syo, but she's also picked up a sense for when things aren't right and the recognition of hardship as a necessary part of life

[loverboywambles]

What I imagine happens every time we switch to fighting with Genocide Jack in UDG

[waveglox]

how it feels on the inside

(i wanted to draw something including the background from this sequence of udg and something DID headcanon-themed for korekiyo so this is like... what i imagine would be their inner appearances? an inner world ig)

[borkthemork]

I think the thing about Kirigiri that fucks me up in an immense way is how much of her memory has been erased in retrospect, and how extensive the memory erasure was. Out of any of the DR1 cast, Kirigiri's whole sense of self was suppressed and erased. Everyone else had retained their childhoods and the moment they walked into the school, but she basically came to the school with no recollection of her past training under her grandfather, her childhood, her parents, who she was as an Ultimate, and why she was there.

When Junko removed her memory, she removed any notion of her being a detective and her relations to Jin Kirigiri off the map, and a great deal of her life was connected to her detective work in the Kirigiri family line.

We know that her grandfather had trained her from a young age to be the best in her field, and that means so much of her tween life was put into detective work. In the Kirigiri novels, she's said to have been registered into the Detective Library at AGE 13. Even before then, even when she didn't remember the existence of her father much until she's confronted with his identity in the novels, her childhood memories probably still had remnants of his presence in there that needed to be wiped.

Now, with that in mind, a great deal of her background is gone. I wouldn't be surprised that being so integrated into detective work has caused so much of her memory to leave her disoriented on how she even found herself in an abandoned school to begin with. However, there are some areas that seem to be intact when she's given a moment to process them or when acted upon subconsciously.

When you talk to her in her FTEs, there are portions of her memories remaining — like the idea she went abroad, that her father existed, that perhaps one of her guardians was part of some secretive or governmental position — but even information like her once attending an all-girls school and being with her grandfather doesn't come up.

In addition, she isn't sure if she ever went abroad, or had a father, etcetera, since all of this information is in question marks.

The most heartbreaking part of this is that she doesn't even know who her mom is or if she even had a mom, and in the game, it is revealed that she died when Kirigiri was very young.

Another thing is that her subconscious actions and thoughts affects the way she talks about specific events and scenarios. Such as how she is calm in her deduction process, knows a variety of crime methods, can do thorough autopsies, and potentially has read detective fiction judging from when she asked Naegi about Ellery Queen.

For the more intense examples on this, we can look towards her family and loved ones, and how her subconscious behaves towards them. We know about her strong reactions to the mention of the Headmaster, but there's another one that might've flew under the radar for some.

After Sayaka leaves the Rec Room and you're given an opportunity to interact with the others after they watched their videos, this is Kirigiri's reaction.

In UDG, we find that her captive loved one is her grandfather, and if we follow the idea that every person was sent a video of their loved ones before they disappear from the screen, then Kirigiri — without any supposed knowledge of her grandfather — reacted viscerally to the sight of him when he appeared.

Regardless if her grandfather was intended to be the captive or if it was written post-DR1, her having this pained response is already similar to how she reacted to the mention of her dad even without knowledge of him, and sends warning bells that something is deeply deeply missing.

In the final FTE with her, we also get a glimpse of her getting strong feelings towards her hands' burn scars. We don't know how much Kirigiri has learned at that point relating to those specific parts of her memories, but if we go by the idea that she doesn't — since Samidare's death is closely linked in detective work — I would imagine her garnering a lot of subconscious thoughts and feelings of loss.

She doesn't know what they are. All she knows is this strong sense of mourning and pain while analyzing her hands, and that's terrifying.

Imagine how weird it is to be a stranger of your own mind and body. Your past is a swirl of feelings and hunches and headaches. You are able to hone in on the skills of detective work on instinct, that you can handle dead bodies calmly even when you're anxious on the inside, but you got no clue why, how, and when this occurred. Specific things are triggering memories, pained emotions, and your body harbors scars that you have no clue where they came from.

If Naegi and the others were able to recall why they came to this school in the first place (due to their talents or being picked by lottery), how much does Kirigiri even remember when she fainted? Did she only remember glimpses of her going to a school and then fainting? Did she think she fainted even farther back in her recollection of the timeline? How much did she know was solid memory, and what wasn't?

In addition, if Naegi harbors a strong sense of disconnect towards the interview tapes, and how his past self accepted staying in Hope's Peak out of defeat compared to who he is during post-amnesia, then that also means Kirigiri has to collect her memories as if she was witnessing another version of herself too.

She'd been ripped of every part of her identity while having to pick up the pieces of a past life that isn't hers anymore, and she's afraid of what she has lost.

And that makes the question she asks to Monokuma after Trial 3 very chilling.

[review-anon]

Makoto has the least amount of coconut kills, he looses.

I was keeping count because as an AI I could see what everyone was killing.

And yeah sorry Makoto but you got the least amount of deaths so you get the chicken costume.

Why does this costume have to itch so much?

Got to say, that's a good look on you Makoto. You really are like a dorky older brother.

Yes...It really does bring out your character.

Gah! This is embrassing enough without your commentary!

[the-100-days-of-junkan]

Day 58

Hey remember when randomly a couple days ago in the event I mentioned that one of these days makes me irrationally angry??? Yeah this is the one. 

So context for this one is that in the danganronpa section of a server I’m in someone asked a question around the lines of-

“Who is your favorite character for a Mastermind AU?”

Nowadays if you asked me, I’m very fond of the Mastermind AU I drew for Toko and Komaru during Tokomaru Week this year, and it’d probably be my answer nowadays.

However if you asked Jem from several months ago, who was brainrotted to absolute hell over these two to the point that she could barely form an opinion on other characters (don’t worry I fixed that issue in my brain, kinda), you know damn well her instant response was Mikan.

At first it was kind of a non-serious filler answer because I didn’t have anyone else who piqued my interest for that at the time. Arguably at first I wasn’t even interested in Mastermind Mikan initially. And then my brain saw I was apathetic to it and was like “Hold my drink” before it spiraled into an AU, which I of course would then use for Day 58 at the time. 

I drew up a character design and some basic details in a total rush, and then drew a really basic but cute enough image of the two alongside various headcanons for this version of the relationship. I actually intended to draw a bonus image of the two on their own just because I felt like I was kinda scamming ya’ll if I didn’t. However I have like, none of the time for that on my hands right now, I’m JUST starting to learn Web Design at the time of writing this. If people like this enough I might try and actually draw some proper art of this AU again though.

As for why this day makes me angry, uhhhh yeah no it’s completely irrational. I have no justification in the slightest I just know that every time i scroll past this  one while looking through the folder of Junkan art for the project I just get annoyed.

I’m actually really happy with the Mastermind Mikan design, might be a biiiit overdesigned? But let’s be real if we’ve learned anything over the course of whatever the hell you’d call this project, it’d be that I am nothing if not a woman of pure excess, especially within the small realm of this ship. 

Okay so hi this is Jem from like, slightly in the future. And when I say slightly I mean like 20 minutes ahead of the previous paragraph. 

So I drew a Monokuma for this AU. Something I didn’t do for my Mastermind Tokomaru AU. I kind of had the idea for a Mikan version of Monokuma in my head for a decent amount of time, partially because I also want to do some art of Mikan and Junko in Shiro/Kurokuma cosplays later (yeah sorry spoilers there is no shiro or kurokuma representation in this project. But worry not, UDG does have representation, muuuuuch later). That made me think about how Shirokuma does kind of have similarities to Mikan (i think, it’s been awhile), which made me realize that monokuma but purple sounded neat. So there’s this now.

I imagine that Junko would still be voicing this version from behind the scenes. Partially because unless it’s literally an Ultimate Voice Actor Mikan AU there’s no way she can do that for a whole killing game. The other reason is I just kind of imagine that Mikan would take a similar role to Tsumugi, being both a member of the killing game and the mastermind, rather than what Junko did where she faked her death and orchestrated from behind the scenes without suspicions. Also yes this would mean that Junko is behind the scenes as normal, just that this time she’s solely focused on managing Monokuma. The Control Room is directly connected to Mikan’s room for easy, non-suspicious access to all the mechanisms. And also so the two of them can cuddle at night, obviously. 

Oh yeah with this Monokuma Redesign I would probably also change Mikan’s hair pin to reflect the same color scheme, even if I do like the way it looks with normal Monokuma colors. I would also probably make a “normal” Mikan design for this version. Just tone back certain parts of it to give the illusion that she isn’t the mastermind. Y’know, for the game that will totally exist based off this au, definitely. 

Honestly I think rambling about it has made me soften up on this one a bit, for now at least. So for real I might try and draw more of this AU regardless of whether people want it or not. That said y’know, if you DO want more of it feel free to say so cause that will in fact give me some mild motivation lol.

Oh I guess last thing. When I first showed the initial Reference image of this Mikan to friends one of them pointed out that I accidentally made her plan into, what is essentially the American Healthcare System. I swear to god that wasn’t intentional but it did make me laugh. 

As always, Reblogs, Comments, and Little Notes in the Tags are appreciated!~ They always make my day!~

[genoskissors]

I know the fandom has generally accepted Tofu to refer to the ship between Toko and Byakuya, but it’s such a cute nickname for Toko herself.

While romanized to Tofu and Toko, both are spelt with “U”s in Japanese, Toufu (とうふ) and Touko (とうこ). Also, the “fu” in Tofu uses the same kanji as the one in Fukawa (腐).

In UDG Komaru refers to Toko as Fukawa-san and there’s the one scene where she calls her “Touko-chan”. In English, since she already calls her Toko, Komaru uses “Toki” instead. Imagine how cute it would be if she called her Tofu…

And Syo could be Shoyu.

[hopefull-mindset]

A Small, Old Thought I’ve Had

One of my favorite scenes in this game. Finally got around to it again.

What a conversation to have under the portrait of the founder (Izuru Kamukura) himself. “Wanted to become hope?” And “Were you really willing to sacrifice your body and soul?” Is so on the nose.

Did he really know about it? This scene is so ambiguous due to foreshadowing, and what he says later on before the trial where he references the twist of DR0 is not helping with figuring out how much he knew.

You might as well just say he knew.

I really doubt Komaeda would like the idea of the Kamukura project in practice, or at least have mixed feelings about it. It also seems like something Komaeda would like to be apart of if he ever has the chance, even if it isn’t anything that praise worthy. Komaeda is a bit of a hypocrite in this regard.

Saying Komaeda would have positive feelings about the Kamukura project is a mixed bag to indulge in. There’s something different about his potential feelings about the project and Kamukura himself in my mind. The Idea Vs Practice Dilemma, if you will.

It’s part of the problem of Komaeda ideology regarding the talented, as Hajime remarks on when he learns about Izuru Kamukura during Chapter 6. What Komaeda truly wants cannot be from the talented and he cannot recognize that. Komaeda’s belief that the talented are innately the good of the world is… definitely a belief.

Komaeda would not have very good things to say about the person who accepts the project, but I also think he would not shame them out of the malice for what they’re trying to do as anyone would love the opportunity being given. Komaeda acts the way he does about the reserve course students because they’re just normal people who bought their way into the realm of superhuman in his eyes.

Now imagine what he would say about the idea of becoming talented through this operation. It’s almost blasphemous to his ideals, and crosses the borders of the talentless and talented, when the whole point of these talented students being put on this pedal stool is that they're untouchable beings.

It would push his standards, but I don't think he would have a problem with it entirely with more thought and convincing since his actions in chapter 5 and his ideas around Komaru in UDG do have that “worthless people can become hope” notion around it.

So would be hate it or not? Well, Kamukura himself as a result would not gain his ire if he does not know where he came from. If he did know, I just think he'd be disappointed or confused on how to treat him internally. He'd maybe still treat him like he would typically, but it might eat at him on the inside and grow into something negative against something so artificial.

This also depends on when and where in the timeline. Do you mean in an isolated setting like Dr S, Post-Game, or Pre-Game?

I should save my thoughts for my actual Komaeda Megatext, but I'm a thinker and need to speak sometimes about whats on my mind.

[nite-puff]

you’ve asked US.. but what are your thoughts on each of the captives??

OOOOOOHHH. yippeeee. i’ve spent so much time talking about certain captives to my friends in private. might as well talk about them here too!!

let’s get the ones that show up out of the way:

komaru: girly!!!!!! love you teenage girl protagonists that act like teenage girls. gotta be one of my favorite genders. i do have to refresh myself on udg to really get a better grasp on her nuances and growth throughout the game. but from what i do understand. she’s so nice. top three protag!!

yuta: wish we got more time with him fr!!!!! i do wish they kinda tried to make him more different from aoi. because they’re both kinda just hyper sports kids (at first glance. ofc aoi becomes more than that. maybe yuta would too if he stuck around more). it’d be nice to see what separates them. can’t believe he’s the only character death in udg. like wtf (taichi doesn’t count). he was still a nice presence when we had him. fly high, king.

taichi: fun fact. i actually don’t have many opinions on taichi. i know there are people who very much do. but idk. he didn’t really stand out to me. and that’s a me thing. not saying he’s a bad character or anything. i do think he’s funny when juxtaposed with hiroko and takaaki. loving husband and father who’s still happily married and the two most divorced individuals on earth.

hiroko: HIROKO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HER! I COULD TALK ABOUT HER FOR HOURS. i came to the realization recently that she’s probably my favorite female character in all of dr. she’s in my top 5 favorite dr characters for sure. she’s who mondo wishes he was. she’s so kind and loving but also cool and badass. there’s so much about her that i want to know. which sucks because the writers don’t really want to develop her beyond “hiro’s hot mom” other than the fact that she’s an ex-biker turned nurse. which is. really cool!! i love her and want to know more please!!!! ultra despair hagakure 2: hiroko edition please!!!!! rando headcanon: she has a tattoo sleeve from her biker days. there’s a prevailing fish motif in it, to go with her jacket design.

okay. now the other guys.

takaaki: i mean. cmon, it’s takaaki. of course i have thoughts on him. i tried to abstain from voting in the poll, but then accidentally voted (i’ll say who when i get to them). but if i voted on purpose, i would’ve voted for him. he’s just…. man. a friend translated his beta design sheet recently and found out that they went into his design with the intention of making him look like the saddest old man ever. and yeah. they succeeded. i feel like a lot of people want takaaki in a game because it feels like what we already know about him implies a lot of nuance and character growth. he’s the only captive we know of that has a weapon on him (other than protag komaru). and he seems very serious, but is capable of having the same sense of justice and emotional highs as kiyotaka?? and they even point out how unlucky the guy was/is in the main game. like there’s a lot already going on there. what’s it like to be the son of a disgraced businessman/prime minister?? how does it feel to be the father of an aspiring prime minister (who fucking DIED. at the hands of someone trying to make money off his death)?? man…

takemichi: my rotten soldier. my sweet cheese. my good time boy. imagine your one job being to protect your best friend and lead your gang in his absence, but you indirectly fail at both of those and lose everything in one fell swoop. yeah, it wasn’t takemichi’s fault. but imagine if he still internalized the fuck out of that. if you can’t tell by the fact that he’s literally my pfp. i also have a lot of thoughts about takemichi. it’s almost like mondo and kiyotaka are the two characters that ive been hyperfixated on for the past 4-5 years. i feel like they were setting up the “cute but deadly” trope with him, what with them hyper focusing on his short stature and boyish looks but also his positions as head of the elite guard and mondo’s bodyguard. and i like that trope when it comes to him. he’s mondo’s cool best friend, and they both know that. i also can’t help but imagine his dynamics with other characters. his dynamic with takaaki is a given. mondo and kiyotaka were a standout duo. so it’s only natural that people like to think about what the dynamic between their respective closest persons would be like as well, especially with the whole “cop and delinquent” thing. i also love to imagine what his dynamic with hiroko was gonna be like. it’s clear that she’s automatically endeared to him. like she automatically gives him a nickname, something she doesn’t do to any other captive save for protag komaru. (i love “michi” as his fanon nickname, but “ruru” will always have my heart). also they’re both past and present delinquents. they’d obviously bond over that. just let me see them have one conversation please!!

kanon: uuuhhhhhhhhhhhh… i know that she’s the victim of an author who just wanted to write a fetish novel. and she could’ve been a way better character had someone else handled her. but man. i can’t get passed how she was written in udh. it also kind of breaks how we’re supposed to view the respective student-captive relationship. like every student thinks fondly of their respective “closest person.” and then there’s leon. who’s made very uncomfortable by his. sucks for him ig. by that logic, i can’t get behind the idea that her portrayal in udh was what was always intended to be her character. like that can’t possibly be the case right?? like they must’ve had another idea before handing her off to a writer who wanted to write a fetish novel. then again, udg’s writing in general tends to get weird. so who knows atp. also who knows if udh even happened. it feels like they retconned it in the dr3 anime by having hiro there and never mentioning the events of the light novel.

ayaka: she’s the one i accidentally voted for. and i mean. i wasn’t that hung up on it. cuz ayaka’s neat. people brought up some really good arguments for why she would’ve been included in the main game, very notably bringing up how she could’ve paralleled kotoko when it comes to how it’s like to be a young girl in the entertainment business. also obligatory “komaru was a fan of her girl group, so that interaction would’ve been fun to see.” there’s definitely something you can say about her being the least popular out of her girl group, but also being the only one left alive after everything. like imagine that being the one time you stood out among your peers?? it’s also fun to imagine what her friendship with sayaka looked like. there must’ve been something unique to their dynamic if she was the one chosen as a captive and not the three other girls. wonder what it was… only negative thing i have to say is that i wish they gave her a different name. just don’t have it be one letter away from “sayaka” please.

grand bois chéri: cat :3. that’s it really. nothing much going on there. there was no way he would’ve effected the plot if he was kept in, yet he was scrapped anyway. so there can’t possibly be much there.

aloysius: as we move down the list, i start to have less to say about these characters. yeah, i don’t have much on aloysius. i do think his potential dynamic with byakuya is interesting, considering the two have a better relationship than byakuya has with his family (which, i know why that is, but it’s still fun to think about). there’s something to be said about him being close to the elites of the world, but still only as a servant to them. like there could’ve been something cool there. does byakuya still only think of him as a servant, despite him apparently being the closest person to the heir?? much to think about. (side note: i just figured out how to pronounce his name not to long ago. it’s aloysius as in. o’hare.) (also obligatory “alfred reference”)

fujiko: i think she’s very silly!!!! she has a really cute design, and for that reason alone, i wish we could’ve seen more of her. i think her interactions with komaru could’ve been really nice because, again, komaru is a fan of her work. and i feel like the whole writing debate hifumi and toko had in thh would’ve been rehashed for a conversation between fujiko and toko. i can’t trust that the dr writers would’ve done something worthwhile with her, and i think that’s what’s really holding me back from discovering her full potential, writing-wise. tho i know there are fujiko fans who have really good arguments for what she could have going for her. and for that reason, i think she would’ve been neat to see. also the design. the design is really cute.

fuhito: another character i don’t have many thoughts on. i haven’t read the kirigiri novels, but i know they get into some lore on him. i don’t know how big his presence is in them but still, maybe that’s why im less privy to wanting to see more of him. still when it comes to thh grandpas, there’s definitely worse.

kenshiro: i feel like he’d definitely give off a more hiroko vibe if he was in the game. like a calmer presence to offset all the chaos. would also love to find out how he’s managed to survive during all that. it’d get turned into a lesson about hope and persevering despite it all. i feel like he and takemichi would get along. i can see them having a very danganronpa-like conversation where they promise to spar after everything goes back to normal and kenshiro gets better. death flags are raised. i always pictured him as stoic but very kind, very much like sakura. idk where im going with this. he’s not my personal pick for “character i want to know more of” but i wouldn’t be against finding out new information. he’s just neat.

kameko: bug. idk. once again, not much more to say.

and those are my thoughts. i’m, of course, biased to the characters who are close to the characters i have a hyperfixation on. but i think they all have potential to be cool characters (save for like. the animals). some didn’t live up to that potential, while others didn’t get that chance in the first place. but it’s cool that fans are interested anyways. tbh i really love the fans that are really into the captives. they’re insanely creative when it comes to crafting their ideas about these characters that the writers have most likely completely forgot. but it’s fun to imagine things anyway. anyways, someone go bother kodaka and ask about what the hell is up with these guys.

(this is also an invitation for people to talk to me about the captives more. please. my inbox is open.)

[aparticularbandit]

I've got like. One scene left in this chapter of OAEI. And then I think the next chapter is the bath chapter (which sounds more crude than it is; there's a communal bath set up in the school; it's not like that).

And then I think the next chapter is the memories chapter that is the chapter like.

Y'all. Y'all.