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The future foundation basically just gave Makoto a free unwanted subscription to trauma, amnesia and depression.
junko exposing the existence of izuru kamukura is so fire like she really did that props to her for exposing human experimentation
all jokes aside people dont understand that junko didnt even do much to cause the tragedy other that move a few key pieces into place
and thats what makes her such a terrifying villain
the system within the danganronpa universe (and arguably our own) places talent above all else— above humanity. personhood itself lies in abilities you either have or you dont
in many ways all junko did was shine a light. it demonstrates how people gain power by profiting off of instability. its actually really easy to see how junko couldve become a hero to so many, to the cast of sdr2, to the warriors of hope, to mukuro
danganronpa isnt about “brainwashing video haahhahaha” its about… SOCIETY… and how institutions profit off of a population thats in the dark, how that lack of transparency can be exploited by someone
it sets a horrifying atmosphere and i think that was the actual intent behind her character when they were writing thh sdr2 and dr 0
Oh my god, you know what I just realised?
Makoto putting the Remnants of Despair inside the Neo World Program—as idealistic as his intentions were—indirectly makes him a Mastermind.
Isn't the world of Danganronpa basically what happens when The Gifted Kids are put up on a pedestal of pressure and praise whereas those who aren't hyper-productive or don't have an exact goal in life get put down constantly and are set aside as "average" or "slackers"?
Just saying cus the way they treat people who don't exhibit any special type of "talent" is almost oppressive. Makoto and Komaru were in frigging high school and apparently they've been disregarded by society just because they haven't done anything super duper talented.
I feel like maybe their world was headed towards dystopia even before Junko did anything.
One of my favorite things about Ultra Despair Girls is listening to the kid characters talk.
Like Jataro and Kotoko especially just ramble on and on about weird shit because their attention spans are still at this young age. Even Monaca just automatically gets bored with something if it fails to properly catch her attention. Nagisa doesn’t typically display this trait out of all of them because of his childhood and how he was pretty much raised by abusive parents to be an overachieving perfectionist to even get any scrap of worth or acceptance from them.
So many kid characters in anime are boring or there to be all cutesy. I really love that the Warriors of Hope are just… really gross and absent-minded. It’s not that they aren’t clever or anything, but their imaginations are at the age of just being on overdrive and so they go on tangents or lose interest and think of something better, cutting off their current thought processes…
Like Kotoko just has to tell everyone what her favorite food is and also what her least favorite food is and what she thinks about giraffes or eggs… and that’s just funny and cool of her. Hell, I love it even when the kiddy stuff covers up darker things like Masaru’s design of this standard shounen-esque kiddo with the little bandaids and scratches look is really hiding an outwardly and physically abused child.
It’s just really neat is all.
This audio from Star vs the Forces of evil worked way too well in reference to how the Neo World Program works! It could have fit any character but I always associate Star with Sonia so I decided to use her!
Fun fact, within a day of posting this on tiktok it became my second highest viewed video ever and highest viewed animation I’ve done which is wild! (It’s currently at 163.0k views!!)
Post Game AU where ppl wake up to consequences
Misc Notes
The survivors wake up with all their memories. They wake up on Jabberwock island. Same building structures but it's clearly been abandoned. The only building not in a state of disrepair is the lab they were hosted in.
Sonia immediately has a mental breakdown and sequesters herself in her room.
Akane is too frail to move but mentally she's doing as well as you can hope. Kazuichi cries for couple of days but throws himself into making the island suitable for living.
Fuyuhiko and Hajime compartmentalizes the fastest and leads the group.
After months, Hajime is able to wake up the first person: Gundham. He then wakes them up in term of who's been dead the shortest time in the NWP. Nagito and Peko's mind been shattered from the physical/mental trauma so Hajime leaves them for last.
Sonia avoids Gundham because he wakes up without memories from the tragedy. He reminds her of good days she doesn't deserve anymore.
Kazuichi help Sonia a lot. It's ironic because this is technically what he wanted but now he's hates it. He convinces Sonia not to avoid Gundham.
Started out as just "what if Mikan remembering the game means Mikan remembers what she remembered in the game aka she's still Like That when she wakes up?" and then developed into "what if Mikan is offended that everyone denounced Junko....and doesn't think they deserve to have any remnants of her...." thassit just a little idea blurb
I don't want anyone to think I hate Mikan tho she's fun
not sure how much it counts as controversial, but the bit at the end of DR3 where the Remnants take the blame for the killing game has always rubbed me the wrong way. Not just because of personal beliefs about information, but also because in that very same anime, we see Junko blackmailing people and HPA trying to cover up their mistakes. If anyone finds out the truth about the kg, they’re screwed. Felt like it went against the theme a bit.
Yeah actually I would say this is the opposite of controversial simply because I don't think I've ever met or seen a danganronpa fan who thinks dr3 was incredible. I don't hate dr3 nearly as much as I've seen other hate it, but I have a very strong love-hate relationship with it. Especially for Future.
But I can totally understand having beef with that particular ending. (In fact I have issues with most of the Hope arc) All three of the main games, even the pessimistic one, have a theme of facing the truth no matter how awful. So it is a bit strange for danganronpa to hide the truth when the core theme has always been to expose it. I can understand the world not being ready but...it felt unnecessary. Because The Future Foundation needs to be completely rebuilt anyway. All but three leaders of the FF are dead, and one of them just kinda walked away to do who knows what. The FF is also incredibly corrupt and terribly built. There IS no need to save it by taking the blame because it's already dead by the end of the anime.
i find the dehumanization of makoto to be so fascinating especially when compared to the dehumanization of junko
bc they both get reduced to the ideal they represent (hope and despair) only that for junko it happens after her death, which is what happens to martyrs. she becomes this symbol of despair for which people like monaca and the remnants strive for, specifically after she dies. her death is what cements her as this symbol
but for makoto, it happens whilst he's alive. he has to deal with the weight of being a symbol of hope, the weight of a world that desperately needs healing from the tragedy. he has to do that! he isn't given junko's luxury of being dead. he's alive and has to deal with the pain it inflicts on his deteriorating mental state
I just had the most fire AU idea 🔥🔥🔥
Imagine this: Makoto came out of the Killing Game of the 78th Class a lot more messed up than he did in canon, and so instead of putting the 77th class into the Neo World Program to rehabilitate them, he intentionally puts them into a virtual killing game bc he resents them for helping Junko end the world (even tho they were brainwashed or wtv but Makoto don’t care) He wants them to experience the kind of despair that he and the other survivors had to during their killing game.
Anyways Mastermind Makoto AU mfs come get ur daily rations 🗣️🗣️🗣️
The thing is that Hope and Despair are two sides of the same coin.
But in regards to Makoto he's not doing this for some thrill, but because he's hurt.
He's broken.
He knows the Remnants are wanted dead but he's decided no that's to kind.
So I'm going to intentionally steal from the government, get put on the wanted list myself just so I can cause them pain.
He's got nothing left to lose and even any enjoyment he gets from this will not change what happened to him.
But he doesn't care.
Makoto is dangling hope infront of them and making them think their safe only to take it away.
And give it back in droves.
Only to take it away when they need it the most.
Hope is a motivator.
It's what people need to survive.
So not only could Makoto be worse than Junko.
He has the capability to be so much worse.
Hajime: terrified Why... Why are you doing this to us?
Makoto: empty look in his eye knowing everything they've done Why not?
Munakata: You know nothing, you're just a naive child who thinks the world can be saved by positivity.
Well that might work in your game, but not in the real world.
Makoto: chained on the ground Your pathetic.
Munakata: What did you say?!
Makoto: You laughs, glares at him you know nothing. You think that I don't know, that words aren't enough to change people?
You think that I don't know that positivity can't fix everything?
Munakata: Than why do you drone on and on about it? If you truly believe your words are hollow, than why pretend to be such a fool?
Makoto: God your stupid. What I said was that I know words aren't enough. But they're a start, their a step and a necessary one.
If anyone's the hypocrite, it's you, Mr rehabilitating murderers is wrong but I'm gonna kill people that don't agree with me.
Munakata: You little-
Makoto: No? You go on and on about how dangerous it would be if despair disguised itself under a flag of hope.
And yet here you stand like your own Remnant of despair.
Munakata: How dare you! Kicks him, hard
Makoto: laughs And you say I'm the child. How did you get such a high up job?
I mean you talk tough but you're just a washed up graduate who's clings onto his high school glory days.
Munakata: seething How dare you!
Makoto: Oh I dare. I think you got the job to work at the overseas Hope's Peak, because you're so desperate to reignite that spark because you've found nothing else fulfilling in your life.
And than the world fell but you got lucky, because finally everything was yours. You could be the big bad hero you always wanted to be.
Munakata: You call this a victory?
Makoto: For you? Other than being vice chairman and Chisa, sounds like your dream.
Munakata: Don't you dare speak her name!
Makoto: Yeah, my bad I'm sorry. You know, I was willing to hear you out for her.
I've lost people, know how hard greif is especially in a place like this. And she wanted me to hear you out, and I thought sure okay.
Munakata: That sounds like her.
Makoto: But man, I've looked into the eyes of those infected with despair.
And I've still found shreds of humanity in their souls, you are as soulless as it gets. And I watched Junko kill her own sister without a second thought.
Munakata: scoffs
Makoto: Junko twisted the Remnants from the people they were. The kind, good loving people they were.
But no one did that to you, you are your truest self. There was nothing to regain because nothing was lost.
Munakata: Is that your long poetic way of calling me a monster? How original.
Makoto: No you're worse. Hell at least Junko knew she was being awful. You say the most awful things and pretend it's just.
Munakata: The truth is always hard to digest. You should know that better than anyone. But you insist on hiding behind your hollow words.
Makoto: They aren't hollow. Sure I talk, a lot. But I make my words mean things, I fill what could have been hollow because I believe in the power they hold.
Munakata: You do have a lot of influence in your words. But that doesn't change that they won't fix things.
Makoto: I know it's not going to fix everything! But if they can get people to act, if they can change someone's opinion. That makes them mean something.
What you're proposing would destroy what's on the surface but change won't happen if you won't touch the root of the issue.
Munakata: And what of it? It will only spread. I do what has to be done. I use my words and I put them into action.
Makoto: The difference is I'm proposing people care about each other and you're trying to justify mass murder.
That's the difference between you and me, you take the easy route.
Munakata: Easy?! You dare call this easy?!
Makoto: Violence is easy, you can hurt anyone without raising a hand. You know what's hard? Healing.
Going day in and day out in a hopeless world trying to convince people life's worth living.
You watched the game... How many times did I try to bring people together? How many times did I try to talk to someone who would later be a murderer?
A tear falls down his cheek.
I will carry their deaths for the rest of my life. I will be kind in a world that hates that because someone has to.
I gave my weakness to everyone not because I don't know the danger but because I do.
Because I know if one person, just one comes forward it can persuade others to do so too.
Munakata: Scoffs What you've done is make yourself a bigger target.
Makoto: Gets up, got free ages ago and stands tall It's easy to kill the people who wronged you. What's hard is knowing all they've done, and forgiving them anyway.
I smile and it hurts more than anything and yet I do it because it makes people feel at ease. And if that's make me weak? Than so be it.
Munakata: So what, you'll forgive me for all of this?
Makoto: Yeah, because even now I think there's still hope in you.
Munakata: That kind of optimism will get you killed one day.
Makoto: It's gotten me this far. Sad smile And apart from my friends, it's all I've got anyway walks away, pauses And for what it's worth, I'm sorry for your loss. Walks away
The final chapter of "Chiaki survived her execution but is pissed at class 77B plus Hajime for leading the world to believe they were still remnants" is here, featuring Imposter, Ryota, Komaeda, and Hajime. At this point Chiaki's crying. She doesn't have anything special to say to Imposter, but she chews out Ryota for trying to brainwash the world and creating the device for Junko to use to corrupt her classmates, and questions if he really is as good as an animator or just uses brainwashing to make people think his animation is good. She tears down Komaeda's ideology, noting that no matter how much hope there is she will always feel the despair of being tortured to near death and her former friends turning on the world through their own volition. Finally, she can't even see Hajime as nothing but a vessel for Izuru anymore, saying "the man I loved is dead" and chewing him out for doing nothing as she laid there and nearly died and for putting the other students into a killing game for his own amusement.
oof this one is so much more harsh than the others
Ultimate Imposter:
He’d wanted to try to make her proud in the game…
Though he understood where he went wrong.
He wanted to make it up to her however he could.
Nagito Komaeda:
Nagito wasn’t sure if his mindset would change, but he understood where Chiaki was coming from.
Nothing he could do would erase what she went through.
The world could heal eventually, but she likely wouldn’t.
Hajime Hinata:
…He wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to repair his relationship with Chiaki.
Especially not after the decision to take the blame for so much.
He never should’ve entered the Kamukura Project. That wouldn’t prevented so much.
Ryota Mitarai:
He was shocked by her words, and had to imagine that she didn’t mean them.
…Though he understood where her anger was coming from.
He wished he’d never met Junko and never helped her the way he did.
The first and last class of the new Hope's Peak Academy, most of which being outstanding youths that worked in the future foundation and fueled by their hatred of despair, used their talents to do everything they could to find out where the remnants of despair fled off to after their message against the world and how the remnants came to be. They got more then they bargained for, discovering the truth of how Hope's Peak, and talent in general, lead to the tragedy.
They broadcasted this information to the world, and the world ultimately decided that Hope's Peak needed to be shut down and the remnants must pay, despite everything. The class, in response, left to Jabberwock island. They were lead by the Ultimate Lucky Student and soon-to-be new Ultimate Hope, someone who was unlucky enough to meet all the remnants yet lucky enough to survive their torture. Someone driven mad by what they experienced and had trouble befriending their classmates due to every relationship they had during the tragedy ending in disaster. Someone whose body was so mutilated when they washed up on the gates of Hope's Peak academy that they now look more machine than human.
As great science is built on the shoulders of giants, and due to all the knowledge the class they found out through research and Future Foundation awareness, class 77-B couldn't stand a chance. They found a way to eradicate Komaeda's luck and Kamakura's existence. They massacred Class 77B: They were melted alive. Frozen and shattered. Maimed and trapped in a burning building. Hacked into bits. Suffocated from toxic gas as they cried for the ones they lost. The Hell Queen of Novoselic was the last person to be killed by the torturous devices she made. The Ultimate Filmmaker's broadcasting of such events let the whole world watch and cheer not in despair, but in hope over such evils being hushed away.
As for the survivors of Class 78, they ultimately survived unscathed, but not without some difficulties. For once they were on the wrong side of Hope and Despair, as they tried to halt their students discovering the truth and broadcasting it to the world. They ended up having to make a tough choice: either accept the academy they rebuilt being shut down as their upperclassmates were executed, or go down with them as traitors.
What's your thoughts on Makoto rebuilding hope's peak? Do you think it's a good idea, or is it the perfect set up for another tragedy? The tragedy was put into motion since Junko knew that they had all the Ultimates there. She just had to do some.... hardcore manipulation and such.
Oh I have THOUGHTS about this alright, I’ve even talked about it before. I think it’s a very stupid decision to rebuild hopes peak but ENTIRELY in character. Junko is such a fascinating character to me because just as much as she’s an important figure in starting the tragedy, she’s also it’s scapegoat. Without the literal human experimentation on children hopes peak was doing she would have been so much less successful, potentially unable to even do the tragedy. The parade doesn’t exist without the abuse of the reserve course, the ultimate tragic event truly started with the reserve course RIOTING over the fact their money was used to fuel human experimentation on THEMSELVES. You don’t need Junko for that, Junko pushed the riot to an extreme yea, but she wouldn’t have a riot without Izuru. Junko threw a match on a pile of rags soaked in oil, but she didn’t make the pile, and if she didn’t start that blaze, someone else would have.
However if everyone points at Junko they don’t need to think about how she only succeeded because hopes peak enabled her, how hopes peak set up a society of cruel hard castes, and suffering that let someone like Junko thrive. It’s easy to blame a single human person for everything when in reality, the fall of the talent system was inevitable. Which makes it easy to repeat history if you are someone directly traumatized by Junko. Makoto is also a Hopes Peak Fanboy, he idolizes the academy because society tells him that the academy and talent system is good and just and perfect, it tells him that the institute is hope and all its war crimes is just a Few Bad Eggs. He’s simply recreating the caste system that he was raised to admire, buying into the propaganda that his childhood and future foundation pushes. Plus he’s inherently privileged by being an ultimate, he knows basically nothing about the plight of those actually crushed under hope peak’s boot. Which from the reserve course and comments from Toko in UDG about Komaru’s lack of talent, and attitudes like Komaeda’s, the plight of the untalented is a very real one.
It’s easy for him to be optimistic and think “well if one Bad person ruined the system that was always inherently Good then a Good person can put it back” but he’s wrong, you can’t fix hopes peak, you can’t fix the talent system, the desperation for talent broke the warriors of hope, it broke the reserves, and it broke the world. I think he means so so well I think he genuinely believes this will work, but in reality its doomed, eventually it’ll fall again. It’s the perfect example of how Makoto Naegi believes so hard he can change the world, but unlike with the remnants, this change will not be a good one. Plus he’s like what, 21? And trying to run a school? Good fucking luck sir you’ll need it.
Tldr; it’s really in character for him to do it because of the fact he was raised around it, thinks it’s to be a force of hope like he was taught his entire life, and is himself the privileged cast a talent system supports. I doubt someone like Hajime, someone burned by the system, would support it so easily. It’s a bad idea that’s only going to hurt people because Makoto accepts Junko as a scapegoat and fails to truly grasp the atrocities hopes peak did before Junko, thus dooming them to be repeated in the future, maybe not by him, but in the future, when another headmaster goes “hey what if we made a new ultimate hope” or “what if we push a young child’s talent to the limit” and starts this whole damn thing over again. It’s so very Makoto Naegi, and it will be his biggest mistake.
Thank you! Yeah, it's been bothering me for a while now that people in this fandom became so attached to the idea that the Remnants were all voluntary mass-murderers acting of their own free will. To start with, it basically means that Makoto and co. are complete assholes for trying to redeem such people through amnesia. To do that to terrorists who acted entirely of their own free will instead of putting them on trial would be an insult to all of their victims (both living and dead). Yet the writers were clearly wanting the players to sympathize with Makoto's cause, and don't treat what he's doing as reprehensible. And the very existence of the Neo-World Program implies that it's made with the intent to deprogram brainwashing. Then there's the fact that "someone preyed on my insecurities and made me depressed, so now I'm gonna blow up the world"...is just not a believable fucking heel turn at all. Human beings just don't work like that. I'm not saying that you couldn't tell a story where a moral person like say Mahiru Koizumi gradually becomes a complete monster. But it would take a hundred extra steps and need way more time. Class 77-B are all flawed people, but Jesus wept they're not THAT flawed. And something I forgot to bring up in the previous ask is another big logistical issue for Junko. They're not even in the same class. The SDR2 cast a year above her. Thus meaning the amount of time she could spend with them is even more limited. If anything it would have actually made more sense for her to pick Class 78 as her Remnants, since she at least has more time to work with them. One of the explanation I've heard is she did an evil variant of the FTEs during school lunch breaks or in the afternoon. Like...how even the fuck do you corrupt someone to that level over the course of a few private conversations? And to have it work perfectly with zero subjects acting conspicuously too early, or going on a bender, or just committing suicide? That is not a cunning manipulator you're writing. That is one of the worst examples of a Villain Sue I've ever seen, as you've just given her the most nonsensical winniest win that's ever been won.
LITERALLY. LIKEA CTUALLY. junko is a flat piece of cardboard to me
I wanna let this out. Have you ever thought that the sdr2 characters just gave up their dreams after the shit they did when they were brainwashed (despite not remembering it)
Kazuichi gave up his love for machines and fixing them after hearing the horrible shit he did
*inserts ending theme of digital circus*
OOOO THIS IS AN INTERESTING THOUGHT!!! A concept worth to think about! But there are some where doing the things as their talent came off as a coping mechanism, just imagine how just simply doing the things they aspire or what comes off as stress-relieving to them became a trigger. Its a very deep in thought what-ifs, but I do believe this is the case logically enough in post-NWP. Though there are few that could and couldn't give up on their talents merely because...
Someone like Teruteru, Kazuichi, Akane, Tanaka, Nekomaru, Ibuki, and Mahiru are all purely because the talent they have are simply much of a hobby, something they find love, comfort, and inspirational, or motivation to move forward.
Ones like Sonia, Fuyuhiko, Hiyoko, and Nagito are all born or was already given a chance to the talent itself, where their fate has been placed down since the beggining (does not end well).
And people like Mikan, The impostor, or Peko were ones being put in bad situation thus grew a talent they view in a way that was a bit unhealthy (this could apply to Nagito as well)
Every people has a different thoughts on this ofc, I'd love to write out mine but I simply just doesn't have enough time to write out all of them. Ty for sharing your thoughts!!
(PLEASE KEEP IN NOTE): That this is just my general idea of him, kinda scared to share this cause qjdnnejf I know everyone has different opinions on Makoto so I'm just posting this in my own prespective of him. (It's a little messy cause I am unstable and disorganized when I write this so beware ooo)
Here's the art I made for this
So like, I believe Makoto has issues I think we all established that, and the moment when komaru mentioned of how he changes a lot in UDG (but still hold some same aspects of traits and habits that just makes him.... him) after managed to contact him the first time. It strucks me so bad that it gaves me a migrane /vpos
Like, Makoto earned his new title of the ultimate Hope (with the capital H and everything) just by defeating Junko the ultimate despair? By that point he was seen by the world as the savior and as the first and only hope they have thought lost for YEARS
Makoto's ability to move everyone by just words to which he probably didn't even realised the power he held over it. He's just incredibly passionate and its because his whole body speaks GENUINE emotions, his stubborn willpower and determination undeterred by despair and everything Junko herself has set up for.
It is something not everyone has the luxury to have. His optimism. But that's the thing.
Makoto was the ultimate Hope, only because he was just optimistic in nature. It was the flock of the moment during the last trial, his contagious optimism is what everyone, his friends, the world, preceives as Hope. The enlighting feeling of inspiration by just words of support and motivations for the first time since years after the tragedy started.
But again. Thats the thing. The "Hope" they admire, they clung onto, they worshipped, and they DIE for, was his mere optimistic nature. Just like he said himself "Optimism is all I'm best at".
Its cause well, it's true. (Kinda)
All he was ever good at in his view was just being that. When I rewatched future arc I sense how unBEARABLY useless he is without that title and usual positive nature, and his words don't reach the leaders of future foundation from attempting to kill one another (aside from certain ones, and at the very end ofc, but even then it was too late to prevent the deaths). His words doesnt even managed to reach Ryota from preventing him in using the Hope brainwash video.
It just further shows how.... normal he is
Despite the title, it just shows that he is nothing but a normal guy. He's not some god everyone preceives him to be, he's just some dude that was placed in a wrong time and place.
It's like all the good he is being- well, normal. Like typical "good kid". Somehow it kinda hurts to think about it, like you're obligated to see all positive in lives for it as everyone depends on you for such.
And now the whole world was in the palm of his hands.
I feel like he's scared, despite his strong stand and brave, determined face, he is a normal, ordinary guy that scared to lose what he was ever good and seen by everyone as. Being optimistic and hopeful.
Its like he's not allowed to even be sad for a moment to cry his hearts out. Because the world depends on him, his friends depends on him, he rely on them too much, he cant lose hope cause if he does, the world will fall apart AGAIN, and people will die AGAIN (just like his classmates, just like the people who died for him) he doesnt think he can handle that the second time.
Since that one thing Makoto despises the most is violence. Death to be exact.
He was probably exhausted but he cant yet, he has to keep moving forward, for the world's sake, his friends' sake, his only remaining family; his sister's sake, and for the sake of those who had died so he can carry out their hope that was left behind.
Theres also this quote that remind me of him:
"I'm scared that the moment I look like I'm suffering. Noone will believe me anymore"
Because like. He really cant do things as much without his friends. All he has was his hope; his positivity, determination, and optimistic nature. So he stood tall, facing despair, putting up a strong look just so people of the world, and his friends know, that they all can trust him. To have faith in him.
Because being optimistic is all he's best at.
That hope he has held dearly was destroying him internally. Scary thing is it? Despair isnt what was breaking him. It was the very thing that he was good at. And the very thing everyone thought of when they see him.
Just like junko when you think about it. She- ultimate despair, destroyed herself by the very thing she is (basically executed herself in the last trial) and now makoto was doing the same thing.
"The world's hope", "the strongest who never falters at the face of despair", "the savior", "their guiding light"
How much longer should he keep that up? Before everyone realised that he's nothing but just an ordinary, plain, boring guy?
How much longer should he fall before allowing himself to hit the ground?
A sprout who never truly managed to grow old, it's choose to shelter other by it's leaves, holding still, unmoving.
Yet its roots slowly rotten by parasites and disease, trying to keep the earth together. They can't die now, they're the protector, the hope of it all. <-(quote by one of my friend Ele, which I think is neat in itself, considering Naegi's name means sappling or seedling in general ajdhwjdj)
He may have survived the first killing game that birth his title as the Ultimate Hope,
He may have survived the second killing game in the Neo world program that shows us how devastated it must be for Makoto that Nagito would go that far for the sake of hope, how Makoto's words and hope does not reach the remaining survivor,
He may survived the third killing game in the Future Foundation where it must be devastating that he's unable to understand the victims fully from preventing them to try and kill eachother off ("don't try pretending you understand them, you don't understand them at all" kinda feel), where he watched as Kyoko died for his hope, not telling him THAT she will die, letting him live because not only that he was the closest friend she ever has, but knowing her; she thinks that the world still need the ultimate hope, and because of that, she was ready to accept her fate for it, because she was assured that Makoto is strong enough to move forward even when it's hard, because she has faith in him. Because she believes that Makoto will never give up Hope.
Eventhough he had survive countless scenarios where he could die anytime of those. I feel like eventhough he had survived multiple times.. he had died, multiple times as well, to become who he is now (multiple rebirth symbolism). To the point where he is unrecognizable in his own eyes, the feeling of the old him far out of reach, who is he now?
Things are so simple to him back then, why does things don't make sense to him about himself now?
He may never feel lonely outside, because he believes that his friends will always have his back, he believes that there will always be someone that could give him a hand.
But here, in his own mind, in his own exhaustion, in his own struggle, in his own confusion, he is completely all alone. This one is his alone to go through, his friends has too much on their plate already to handle this, he relied on them too much already.. (in a way, perhaps, he try to rely on others less).
Theres soooo many I wanna say about him but this is the general idea of my view on him, or er, version ig? His accidental savior complex that is.
And don't make me start of his self-sacrificial tendency. /lh
you know what i really would’ve liked to see in dr3?
the remnants facing life-altering consequences for their actions. even though they were brainwashed, they still committed atrocities yet faced no real backlash that affects their life.
sonia being stripped of her rank as princess while her country bans her from her former kingdom. she tries to reason with them initially because she’s so stunned and resorts to her commanding princess self, but no one acknowledges her. they threaten her and almost arrest her, but she escapes. she no longer has a home or a family.
gundam being mistrusted by animals. he tries communing with them, but they refuse them. they lash out, biting him and rejecting him. they remember how he used them for evil.
saionji and ibuki being blacklisted in dancing/musical performances. former fans who felt the agony of their “concerts” recognize them and charge at them, trying to turn them in for their crimes. they no longer can dance or sing without retribution.
koizumi’s pictures being seen as despairing propaganda. her former work means nothing. all that matters to the world are her evil photos. no one will accept her work even when she tries to photograph “hopeful” things.
hanamura’s family has been blacklisted in the food/catering industry. if his siblings are alive, they want nothing to do with hanamura. it’s implied he may have killed his dear mother, so his brother and sister despise hanamura even though they left the family. like sonia, hanamura no longer has a family.
kuzuryuu and pekoyama have no clan left. the kuzuryuus could be dead or they decided to give the leadership to someone else if they came to their senses. they deny help to kuzuryuu and pekoyama, blaming them for their family’s decline. they only have each other.
that’s what i REALLY wanted to see. of course, hope arc is about “hope” and is seem as a “perfect happy ending,” which, considering the “gray” endings for sdr2 and drae, seems pathetic in comparison. these are people who, despite being brainwashed, committed terrible crimes. they shouldn’t be left off the hook so easily even if they endured their own private killing game. they say they will shoulder the burden of despair, but they go off hand-in-hand without consequences for their crimes. they pretend to be remnants, but they don’t face any backlash for what they did to thousands of millions of people.
Beach episode sir’ Horikoshi I’m begging you
Bakudeku vs togachako
Top 5 Warriors of Hope
From my least to most favourite, here they are!
5. Monaca Towa
As the main antagonist of the game, I’m obviously bound to dislike her. But there wasn’t really anything redeeming about her. She was manipulative and calculating, and had tantrums whenever things didn’t go her way. I didn’t warm to her at all, unlike the others.That said, in DR3 Future Arc, she was totally different and I did start liking her there. But I’m basing this on Ultra Despair Girls, so bottom of the list she goes.
4. Nagisa Shingetsu
Unlike Monaca, I don’t actively dislike Nagisa. He’s just really forgettable. Despite surviving the longest of all the Warriors (except Monaca), I can’t remember anything much about him.
3. Jataro Kemuri
Poor Jataro, always getting put down by the others. I have a soft spot for him, but it’s not much more than that. In the game I found him rather irritating a lot of the time, and I’m not sure it was intended.
2. Kotoko Utsugi
She’s generally the upbeat, funny one in the group, and I liked that. She also seems to be the most focused on what they are doing, constantly reminding the others about the game they are playing. She was good.
1. Masaru Daimon
I saw something the other day where someone had said Masaru was their least favourite DR character. And I just can’t agree with that. He’s the most personable of the Warriors, and I didn’t mind having him around. I think a little bit of that was where he was the first of the Warriors you fought, and that meant he was the one that made you think “whoa hold on, these kids aren’t the monsters I initially thought”. The scene where he stops and beats his arm for trembling..that was pretty uncomfortable (in a game where everything was uncomfortable) and my heart really went out to him.
-Alice
Favs from each game
Wanted to draw the RPG look for them from Jataros artworks and decided to add Servant too for fun
(they are still in love)
These people also pop up in the second arc with the batch of the pt.2 characters (not including Himiko)
Character Info:
-K.S. [agender (he/they/it/void) | bisexual | 5’7” | 25]
-Yumiko [trigender (she/fae/they) | demisexual | 4’11” | 26]
I’m definitely gonna make a stance on this, I’m on the side of Skullgirls fans who are angry about the censorship going on in the game.
If people were mad about the boobs and panty shots, maybe they shouldn’t be playing the boobs-and-panty-shots game. Just a thought.
Recently I bought game pass for pc and finally got to play Psychonauts 2. I’m still very far from the ending, but I’m really liking the game so far. The only bummer is that I feel like every character is either dismissive or completely rude towards the protagonist, which makes me not like very much any of the new characters. So I thought, “Raz surely deserved a better group of friends… What if I draw other psychic characters in Psychonauts style?” It was challenging trying to emulate the game style, I don’t know if I nailed it, but it was a great learning experience.
Yoooo can I get uhhhh unnecessary crossover? Been listening to the Adventure Time soundtrack in the height on my My Hero Academia craze.
Anyways Finn’s quirk means that he is Deeply Irresponsible About Personal Safety. He’s still an excellent fighter and has a wonderful hero heart and boy does he go through arms. PB is his support technician largely because she likes him enough to squeeze it in between her other projects. Marceline has a wicked strong quirk but mainly is interested in her band and her girlfriend. Jake struggles with the desire to be a hero and the desire to do petty crimes.
I got a whole au cookin but like that’s just who I am folks 💪🏻
huhuhu that nerd is wearing his jacket like some kinda her-OH
* MUFFLED HERO A PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND*
YGO/MHA crossover AU, I’ve been wanting to do this crossover for a while and just random doodled around so far but there,take this for now :’’’ and yeah there’s still the switching souls thing here,why? I hope to write it down properly someday =w=