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So my dad and I have been pondering a linguistic matter all afternoon so now I’m taking it to the experts.

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HEY TETRO FANDOM QUICK PSA

So first of all, nobody harass Von Babbitt or any prominent staff side members over us losing the monosokas and future terminals. Please don't. Please have better judgement than that. Be good people, please for the love of God I'm begging you don't harass anyone over this.

I'll admit, I'm sad about the decision. The Monosoka plotline and especially the terminal search has made Tetro super special to me. I personally missed the poll that found Monomoko guilty and only found out about the vote an hour after it closed, but even combing through the thread that led up to it, I NEVER pieced together that THIS would be the consequence. Trust me, I believe I can confidently say that no one who voted guilty expected the extent the choice would affect staffside.

I know I'm making a big deal about this, but let me be clear, I've seen people attack certain members of this fandom for LITERALLY NO REASON, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE TERMINALS so I'm asking each and every one of ya'll to have enough respect for both YOURSELVES and OTHERS and be kind.

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A Different Take on Mai Akasaki's Secret Quotes

Hello! It's time for me to hop back on my regularly scheduled bullshit! Enjoy!

Since Chapter 3 is currently in development, I decided it was a good time to rewatch DRDT and refresh myself on the content and mysteries we have so far. Obviously, the mother of all Despair Time mysteries surrounds the one and only Mai Akasaki, the seventeenth student.

What do you actually know about Mai? Well, we have a canon design, we have some vague messages hidden in the code, we have a very vague music video starring both her and Teruko, and... that's about it...

There's a lot of assumptions going around about Mai that a lot of people have taken as canon, not realizing how much is complete speculation. It's inferred, but not confirmed, that she's the unnamed student in Min and Xander's bonus episodes, it's inferred but not confirmed that she was a part of some revolution regarding Hope's Peak, etc...

Point being, we have a lot of clues pointing to Mai being involved in the killing game, or at least being a catalyst of sorts for what went wrong with the class, but until the DRDT Dev reveals their master plan, nothing can be taken as 100% fact.

Take the hidden messages, for example.

When you find Mai Akasaki's bio on the tumblr, her "quote" changes every time you refresh the page. Each "quote" corresponds to one of the cast, and if you dig through the source code, the quotes are actually labeled with which student they belong to.

["Some years ago, she was searching for someone named 'Teruko Tawaki.'",

["run script(teruko)"

(forgive my bad copy/paste skills, but this is what I'm talking about, for those unaware, this format is the same for every student.)

While the quote above is obviously connected to Teruko, even without the clarification, there are definitely several that are a bit more... subjective... This has lead to multiple different interpretations of what these quotes could mean, such as each statement is Mai's personal thoughts on the cast, or some sort of mockery of the cast's worst attributes or fears. My interpretation is somewhat different, and while someone has likely posted something similar to this before, I haven't run across it.

To me, I think the best explanation for the quotes is that they are what the cast most admire about Mai, or remember her for. You'll see what I mean.

First, Teruko. This is one self explanatory. Some years ago, Mai went looking for Teruko Tawaki. We don't know WHY she was looking for Teruko, and I imagine it wasn't an easy task, given how under the radar Teruko likes to stay. So when thinking about it, it was likely a memorable moment for Teruko, especially if their first meeting is indeed the cross walk scene from chapter 1.

"A girl who loves her family" This is Charles's quote. Charles doesn't say anything negative about his family, but his main plot revolves around him forgetting the existence of an older brother who died under unknown circumstances. We know nothing about Mai's family, but from the LGI music video, where her portrait is referred to as "somebody dearly loved" I imagine that she was adored by friends and family alike, and she returned that kindness in turn. Charles (speculation incoming) might have admired that about her, and thus this is why this quote is connected to him. It was the thing he admired most about her.

"She remembers everything that is important to others." This is Rose's quote. Rose has a photographic memory, so it's easy to equate this quote to be about her, but from the actions we see of Rose in game, while she has an amazing memory, she's pretty nonchalant to what goes on around her. Don't get me wrong, she's still a sweet girl, but "remember's everything important to others" yeah... no... but Mai, see "dearly loved" was as compassionate and thoughtful as she's made out to be, it's an easy connection to make that she'd be attentive to her friends, likely being a soundboard and a confidant. Rose, with her financial troubles and insecurity over her artwork, would likely remember a girl who took the time to listen and check up on her quite fondly.

"A girl who sees beauty in everyone." This is Arturo's quote. Arturo does NOT see beauty in everyone, this is one of the first things we learn about him. Dude's standards for beauty are in the stratosphere. This causes him to be dismissed and disregarded by the cast due to his annoying personality and weird behavior, especially towards J. However, one thing that most everyone agrees about when it comes to Mai is that she would have been friends with the entire class, and that'd include Arturo. It's hard being an outcast, even when it's of your own making. Sometimes, having a stubborn person repeatedly take a sledgehammer to your walls, refusing to leave you behind even if you want to be, means more than anything. If this WAS their relationship, then Arturo would naturally recall Mai as someone who saw beauty in even the harshest personalities, don't you think?

"A girl with a floral tattoo on her arm" This is Levi's quote. Okay, this through me through a loop when trying to equate this to my theory. This is always the odd man out of secret quotes, as there's no way to relate it to Levi. The floral tattoo is intrinsically linked to MAI. Even the popular theory that the cast all have hidden tattoos on their arms falls flat seeing as we can see the arms of several students and there's no tattoo to be seen.

Then, it hit me. This is literally the only theory that perfectly explains this quote. Because Levi doesn't experience emotion. He has no love for his classmates. He does care in his own way, but he's apathetic towards the majority of his classmates' plights, only engaging because he should, not because he wants to. So, if asked to name the thing he most remembers about a beloved classmate, of course this is the kind of thing Levi would say. It's something physical that he can see, admire, and associate with the person with it and them alone. This is the quote that cemented this theory as being likely in my eyes.

"A girl with many friends" This is Whit's quote. Not as specific as many of the others, but still, personality wise, Whit tries to get along with everyone, even breaking down Charles's walls in less that three days. Imagine the power of friendship that'd form in Whit "extrovert" Young and Mai "dearly beloved" Akasaki joined forces. IDK it fits.

"She kept calling the number, even though no one picked it up" this is Eden's quote. (Speculation ahead, you know the drill) This is another confusing one. Some people think Eden is the one calling the number, other's think it's Mai. I, personally, think it's Mai.

Eden's secret quote is about kissing a friend and then becoming worried that it'd ruin her friendship. In storytelling, you don't want to introduce too many plotlines that have no barring on the plot, and this is one that I feel, based on vibes, might come back. If Mai was Eden's classmate, it's likely they were friends, and if they, say, kissed, and Eden freaked out because she was afraid of losing Mai if she wasn't interested, and maybe.... avoided answering the phone even though Mai kept calling to tell her it was alright, maybe because she feared Mai was angry at her, then this would be the first thing Eden would think of when Mai is brought up. The friend she was terrified to lose, and unintentionally drove away. But Mai kept calling the number, because she didn't want to lose Eden either. This interpretation is one of the more "fanon" ones that I'll list here though, so feel free to disregard it.

"She kept it a secret, and told no one." This is J's secret, obviously relating to her being Mariabella's daughter. We see in chapter 2 how betraying J feels when her secret is revealed, she values her independence and privacy greatly, for her to willingly share that tidbit about herself, she'd have to trust Mai greatly. It'd mean the world for Mai to listen, and keep her promise that she wouldn't tell. This one feels as straightforward as Teruko's to me.

"A girl who wanted to keep everyone safe" This is Hu's quote. Hu is a character that needs to be needed. We know this from how she treats Nico and others in game. But who's taking care of Hu? We know Mai is a sort of "therapist friend" from context clues, so I can see her genuinely caring for Hu and showing her healthier outlets for her to express herself than smothering those around her. This was likely the healthiest friendship is Hu's life, by my estimation.

"Everyone confided in her" This is Nico's quote. We know Nico's secret is that they’re non-binary, and that they weren’t ready to come out yet. Nobody in game "confides" in Nico, so the best way I can connect the quote to them is that they potentially became comfortable enough around Mai to come out to her, similar to J and her secret, because Mai would keep a secret.

"A girl who had a bright future" This is Ace's quote. Ace is a character who believes he doomed. His only talent is something that causes him great distress, he has an eating disorder due to the strict weight regulations on jockeys. His body is falling apart and his nerves are in shambles, and he takes it out on everyone around him. For Ace, he's got no escape from the live he's living. But here comes Mai, this girl who has it all together, people love her, and she loves them. She's kind to everyone and is an successful ultimate. She's everything Ace isn't, but she still cares for him anyways. Of course when thinking of her, he'd think of all the things she could do with her live, and the good she could bring to the world.

"She doesn't like it when her friends fight." This is Arei's quote. Arei's entire arc in Chapter 2 is about her wrestling with her childhood and the dog eat dog mentality she adopted in order to survive. She's abrasive and mean because to be soft is a death sentence. Then she gets to Hope's Peak and she meets Mai, a girl who, like Eden in game, shatters that ideology with a sledgehammer and shows Arei a different path. She hates seeing her friends fight, and shows Arei why. Remember, the cast have lost time. Arei could have had a similiar arc when she was at Hope's Peak that she did in game, except with Mai as the catalyst instead of Eden.

"An average girl with nothing special about her at all." This is Min's quote. This, at first, feels way more Min-coded than Mai-coded, but I'd disagree. We don't know what talent Mai had, she's literally the ultimate ???. It's possible that her talent wasn't anything extraordinary seeming like Ultimate Rebel or Ultimate Plastic Surgeon. She could have had a talent similar to Min's, for all we know. Her talent likely didn't have anything to do with why people loved her, and that might've been an inspirating to Min, who was drilled to believe her worth was directly related to her talent. So, while speculative, I believe this can still work.

"She couldn't stand to do nothing." This is Xander's quote. Xander fights injustice on the regular, overthrowing corrupt officials and advocating for those who can't advocate for themselves. He values those qualities immensely, and for Mai to feel the same, that would put her on David levels of worship in his eyes.

"A girl who didn't foresee the consequences." This is Veronika's quote. Similar to Min's, this feels like something someone would say about Veronika over Mai, but I don't agree. On Veronika's page, her secret quote is "Once something is broken, it can never be pieced together in quite the same way again. The same goes for people" and she monologues to Teruko about how she likes horror because of fictional consequences, but that she often worries about real world consequences to actions. That doesn't stop her from being, well, Veronika, but consequences is a theme heavily tied to her. We already established that Mai "couldn't stand to do nothing" but, in conjunction with a quote we'll talk about shortly, I can see all the good Mai did becoming void in Veronika's eyes because on one misjudged action that led to a domino effect, one that I speculate landed the gang in a killing game (more on that later)

"She forgives everyone" This is David's quote. Oh David, my guy. Dude did a heel-face turn in chapter 2, losing the trust of the entire group and ruining in career in one fell swoop. Regardless of whether or not you believe that his breakdown was just another persona, or that this is the one true David, it's likely that he either had a similar episode in Hope's Peak or confided in the Secret Keeper TM about his true feelings about the world. David, who sees the worst in everyone, and believes that he won't be excepted if he reveals his true colors, being excepted by Mai and forgiven in the event that he takes things too far would be an world-shifting event for him in the event that this actually happened. It would naturally be the first thing he'd think of when remembering Mai.

"It's all your fault" This is MonoTV's quote. Oh boy. I highly doubt MonoTV was a student (that'd be weird even for Danganronpa) but for them to have a quote linked to Mai, directly blaming her for something, and we already know Mai couldn't stand to do nothing and didn't foresee the consequences of it, it's likely that the killing game was her fault.

The quote itself reminds me of the secret David got in Chapter 2, the one he claims was Xander's but many believe is Teruko's. I mostly believe the Teruko explanation, but I also have a crack theory I plan to make at a later date that is absolutely insane but might lend credence to David telling "the truth" about who's secret it was.

Remember, that secret was "How could I even select what secret to be your motive? Just about everything you've done in your life is worth killing for. This killing game is all your fault."

There's not a ton left I can say about this without delving into pure headcannon territory.

That's all the hidden quotes related to Mai. Sorry I don't have a TLDR or a summation of all this for ya'll to read here. Your just going to have to parse through yourselves. I'm tired of typing.

Let me know if you think this is a good theory or lambast my reasoning in the comments, I don't care, I like debates. I'm just a girl excited for Chapter 3, at the end of the day : )

Thanks for reading!!!

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Small sketch of the saddest girl alive.

I love this game so much please I just want her to be happy can she please be happy? Okay? Is that a promise? Good. Glad we can all agree : )

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A Couple Theories on Wada.exe and 403 Forbidden

As the title suggests, I'm currently on the hunt for answers regarding what was on the passcode-blocked computer Wada and Tsuno found in the computer lab at the beginning of chapter 3.

If you don't recall, I'll briefly recap:

While exploring the newly opened third floor, Wada and Tsuno find a computer lab, which is filled with useless computers. Tsuno wonders if there are games on any of them, so Wada browses through each one briefly, sadly unable to find any.

Until he comes to one computer, which is password protected. They call Monomoko, who is as confused as they are, and we don't hear much about it again until 403 Forbidden, when Wada goes to check on the computer to find whatever was on it was wiped.

After rewatching chapter 3 and scouring staff side, I've yet to find a concrete answer as to what was on that computer, or why it was then removed. Nobody within the staff mentions it, there's no mention of a security breach, nobody leaked anything, as far as I can tell. It's a loose thread that's been eating away at me, and I think I've come up with a few possible solutions.

Theory 1: The computer contains info regarding killing game, and Ken somehow guessed or was given the password, and that's how he knew as much as he did.

I'll be honest, I don't think this is likely. There's no reason that a random computer in the school would hold the secrets of the game, including the next session participants, which, in universe, were not even decided upon yet. Plus, seeing as the computer was wiped, I doubt he could retrieve anything even if he wanted to. Then again, this is Ken. So, who knows.

Theory 2: I'll go ahead and say this isn't it. But it was the first thought I'll quickly walk through why it doesn't work.

The only other password connected to Tetro Pink I could think of is the one that grants access to Reader Samsa. However, Rosset didn't exist at the time Wada.exe and 403 Forbidden were released, so that just... doesn't work.

Theory 3: The computer had Wada.exe on it.

We know that members of staff know how to make basic games from the terminals, so there's every possibility that someone from the psychology department decided to screw with Wada, making a game centering around his childhood trauma, and leaving it for him to find. Maybe the students were supposed to find the password, and when they logged into the computer, they would be met with a game, just like Tsuno wanted.

It's possible Monomoko figured out where this was going and wiped the computer before Wada could be unnecessarily tormented more than he already had been. Maybe this was one of the early signs Monomoko was gaining compassion.

To me this makes the most sense, as why else would the episode introducing the computer happen to share the name of the terminal that links to the game. IDK, maybe I'm making connnections where there are none, maybe the whole thing was a red herring.

If any of ya'll can think of any better solutions please let me know!

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Holy shit I leave for 1 HOUR and THIS IS WHAT I RETURN TO???

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Finished playing The Forest of Drizzling Rain last night, it's the second game to ever make me cry (the first being Hello Charlotte).

This one's going to stick with me for a long time, isn't it? Damn...

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TETRO PINK TERMINAL INVESTIGATION

PREFACE:

This post will remained pinned on my tumblr for the foreseeable future. The goal of this post is to catalogue all links to every known terminal connected to the Tetro Danganronpa Official Tumblr page.

I first got this idea when I realized the DocDoc, while caught up with the staff side twitter threads, is not up to current date with all known terminals. Also, as someone who is electronically illiterate, and can't figure out discord to save her life, I thought it'd be worth it to compile a list for anyone either not on discord or who just want a place where they can find a complete list of hidden content. This is not a replacement for the DocDoc, and credit for the discoveries of all terminals on this list goes 100% to the hard work of the fans who compile those Docs. The entire fandom owes ya'll a ton!

I plan to keep this as updated as I possible, this is just the list of confirmed terminals I found through Tumblr and the DocDoc, any discoveries made in the future will be promptly added, but please comment if you see I've missed a terminal that should be here, this investigation is a fandom-wide effort. So much care has been put into this project and there's still so much we haven't found!

Also, if anybody involved in the creation of the DocDoc is uncomfortable with me compiling some of their research here, I will immediately take this down. They've done so much for the fandom and I appreciate each and every one of ya'll tech-savvy fiends too much to not respect ya'll's wishes!

(Von Babbitt has confirmed that the fandom failed to find every terminal connected to Pink, so keep looking everybody! I still am! )

To find a terminal, go to the Tetro Danganronpa Official Tumblr page and put /insert_terminal_name_here at the end of the URL. Occasionally you'll be redirected to the Neocities page associated with the site, which is used for the more interactable terminals due to Tumblr limitations.

STUDENTSIDE:

INTERNET_IDOL.TXT

ZOOLOGIST.TXT

CHILD_STAR.TXT

CRIME_SCENE_CLEANER.TXT

BOUNTY_HUNTER.TXT

IMPERSONATOR.TXT

STUDENT_COUNCIL_PRESIDENT.TXT

ILLUSTRATOR.TXT

MASK_ARTISAN.TXT

DEMONOLOGIST.TXT

SUPERHERO.TXT

FASHION_DESIGNER.TXT

GYMNIST.TXT

QUIZ_SHOW_CHAMPION.TXT

FIRE_DANCER.TXT

FIGURE_SKATER.TXT

LAST WITNESS TERMINALS:

ISONO_AYA.TXT

HIRANO_YUKINO.TXT

CHIBA_SUZUKO.TXT

HAYASHI_KIYOSHI.TXT

FUKUDA_SEIKO.TXT

YANAGI_IROHA.TXT

RANDOM STUDENTSIDE RELATED TERMINALS:

WADA.EXE

ACRENOMIUM.SAMSA (can only be found in the game files after completing WADA.EXE)

YONEKURA_YUME.TXT

PHOENIX.TXT

STAFFSIDE:

TSUTSUJIO_TAMEMICHI.TXT

DIARY.TXT

KITAMURO_SHINSUKE.TXT

PET.ZIP

FORGALAHAD

CRISPRLOG.TXT

PRIVATEMEMO.TXT

ERRORLOG332.TXT

REPORT0332.TXT

FULLTEAMMEMO.TXT

ZELKOVA.TXT

572416024.TXT

027548941.TXT

234451821.TXT

POKU.TXT

BUGS.TXT (takes you to neocities, inspect source code to find secret text)

EXPERIMENTSAMSA.TXT

CALENORSTOYS.EXE

KEEPFIGHT.TXT

readersamsa.tumblr.com (passcode: 6024)

Tetrodanganronpa.neocities.com/reader

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KONKONKONKONKON

I obtained a drawing tablet and am now unstoppable

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spoilers below cut

This is going to be scatterbrained, though I've tried to put my thoughts together cohesively enough. Sorry in advance.

Rewatching chapter 1 and realizing that the two students who discovered the cold lockers are the first and last ones out respectively honestly shook me to my core. The same way my heart sank when I realized Mai predicted her own death in her interview

"I think she'll go running around upstairs, fall through the floor, and die like an idiot."

Chapter 5 was incredible, and proved just how much care and attention was put into this project. Every decision was made for a reason, one small change, one different survivor or one missed opportunity and chapter 5 can't happen. It's a car crash in slow motion. Everyone's actions, everyone's words, every time someone made the choice to reach out to one another or put someone else down culminated into creating the chapter 5 killer.

We still don't know what Yonekura's end goal is. What purpose the killing game serves, but I do have a idea.

I think Hasegawa Ken was the intended outcome.

I think Yonekura is studying the exact science of how to make a monster.

After finishing Tetro Pink I was left with a pit in my stomach, a sinking sense of dread and horror that I've only experienced interacting with one other piece of media, and that was House of Leaves - and if you've ever actually read that book, you'll know that is high fucking praise.

It's the sense of existential dread felt by Ken, the dawning horror for both him and ourselves as he becomes aware of the medium he's in. Sure, he may not have broken the fourth wall in the most literal sense, but he got a peek through the curtain and caught of glimpse of the grand plan.

And do you know what's all the more terrifying?

He saw something we couldn't.

It's the fact that he knew the names of future participants before the next game even began, despite there being no way for him to ever find that information. It's the fact that he knew his every move was being watched and he used his own universe's medium to trick us, the supposed all-seeing eyes behind the screen, and manipulated us exactly how he manipulated the other students. It's the fact that he's a game show contestant realizing he's in a game show, and deciding that if he's forced to be on camera, then at least he'll give the viewers an experience they'll never forget.

Hasegawa Ken is a character that will go down in Fangan history, no doubt, and his very existence as a self-aware character scares me to the core.

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I don't think Tetro Pink could have ended in any better way. I want to write more right now it's all still sinking in. Bravo Von, bravo cast, bravo everybody involved in the project, you guys have outdone yourselves each and every chapter and I am genuinely terrified to see what comes next

So, with that, happy graduation, everybody

See ya'll next semester

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So, as Tetro draws to a close and everyone is still scrambling to lock in their final guesses before the chapter 5 trial airs, I actually want to hear, in honor of disproven theories past, what everyone's favorite crackpot ideas were throughout the entirety of Tetro Pink for old times sake.

I'll go first:

I believed Okazaki was Yukino is disguise, waiting impatiently for Harada to recognize her and growing continually more annoyed the longer he remained clueless...

My very first tumblr post was literally about how Kamimura died from the elements, which was... a choice in retrospect...

I thought Wada's haircut was foreshadowing him impersonating and killing Yanagi, due to me mistaking one for the other once in chapter 4...

Watari spontaneously combusted from tampered spices... I still think this one would have been epic...

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BIG SIS ACQUIRED

Alternative title: "Don't be Blue in Chapter 3"

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[deep sigh] okay let’s do this.

So, In summary:

Hiroaki is back on drugs/in anaphylactic shock

Yanagi is concussed/sick

Wada has almost starved himself to death

Tamba has completely lost the plot

Ojima got DRUNK

Mai received a freaking mystery mouse-ka-tool and is about to kill tamba out of sheer annoyance

Hasegawa got so high he saw the fourth dimension and became the newest club president of the Doki Doki Literature Club

And the scientists are about to be punted into the fucking shadow realm

…is that it?…are we all good now?…are we done?…Please???

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Pretty sure the moral of Tetro Danganronpa Pink is just don't open doors, ever, under any circumstances.

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STAFFSIDE QUESTION

Okay I've been chipping away at staffside for some time now and am still very, very confused and out of the loop, but... does kan still have Okazaki's body? I know Yonekura shot the other doctor but last I checked she and Okazaki were being kept in the same room, but Yonekura made no mention of her body being there when Kan had his breakdown? The whole "stealing Okazaki's body" thing is such a wild and disturbing detail to me, like... if the kids just opened the cold lockers they'd realize she was missing... but they just don't know because why would they ever need to look?

Because I'm not on twitter and don't read staffside live, have events in staffside ever foreshadowed or were further elaborated on in the main story? Because I don't know which is more disturbing, that Okazaki's missing corpse is going to become a plot point in chapter 5 or that the casual audience will remain blissfully unaware that Kan is desecrating that troubled soul's body even now.

Don't really know why this is the most uncomfortable thing in Tetro for me, but I was very surprised on my first readthrough of the doc to learn about this. Feels like the kind of thing that would be talked about more on here, idk.

I'm just glad Watari never realized Okazaki was gone... The game already broke her spirit, but I think that would have destroyed her.

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Just some Mushrooms

Sketched freely and embroidered over by yours truly, I'm kinda proud of this one.