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i almost got run over by a car because i was absent minded with headphones on i am the dumbest person alive

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No but its something better

Pls be Wendy.

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💜🧡💛💚💙

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🧡💛💚💙💜

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I want a stuffed animal

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soft magic dragon🌈☁️ 6x4" colored pencil & wax pastel

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LGBTQ+ folk what was your gender/sexuality pipeline?

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im sorry women im sorry feminists but i wish everyday to be a man and hang out with other men as a cis man idk if its because my family is half women and im tired of it and idk why i still want to have nonbinary swag but. I want to be perceived as a man for once.

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kzhei dopo una partita a scopa

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my friend wanted me to draw Ren in a daikon costume LMAOOOO

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I am curious about the Kokichi is evil Chiaki connection

!!!! Thank u sm for asking!

[This post will be containing spoilers for dr2 and v3]

To understand what I mean I first have to make a premise: as we all know v3 is shit ton full of references to the rest of dr, in the story but just as much in the character designs. And I strongly believe that understanding those references is key to enjoying the game more (at least for a sucker for analysis such as myself). Many v3's characters are a mix of previous ones we've come to know and love and considering dr's reputation since the second game for quoting itself...I find it hard to believe it's a coincidence or "reading too much into it". (Or at least that's what I like to tell myself lol)

Kokichi is the epitome of this. I can count so many characters he's a frankenstein of under some aspects (I'm up to 9 as of now) and saying he's Nagito is not wrong but it's also...not right?And he is not only Chiaki either, but I do think his role is similar.

I'll start with the character design, as I mentioned earlier, leaving the sprites as references (i took these from the wiki):

Chiaki has white (neutral), pink and green as her color palette, which is basically Monomi's palette + green.

Kokichi has black, white and purple as his instead, which is basically Monokuma's palette + purple. This is hardly random as during the game he gets close to monokuma, he plots with him and later on "becomes the mastermind", being literally in cahoots with him. Chiaki in dr2 has a similar relationship with Monomi being the teacher and spy duo. You could argue with Nagito and monokuma's relationship to open doors or similar (sdr2-chpt.1), but I hardly find it the same. Rather, Kokichi talking to Monokuma in the game room (v3-4) is more similar to Chiaki and Monomi alone monitoring the party (2-1) (as it is a collaboration rather than manipulation). Also fun fact but green's negative color tends to be purple but idk if that level of detail is purely coincidental or completely intentional.

There's the "game" motif too they have in common. I'm 90% convinced his bandana checkered pattern references the arcade rooms in UDG.

When I said "evil Chiaki" it was an easy way to summarize "Chiaki and Kokichi both have the same goals but operate in completely opposite ways". Chiaki's role is to make everyone get along because she loves all of her classmates. Sounds familiar? It's just that Kokichi has some...unhortodox methods to say the least- while Chiaki continuously supports her classmates through kind words and actions.

Also worth of note is their roles in their respective chpt.5. At the "start" of v3-5 Kokichi reveals willingly that he "is the mastermind" to avoid any more death, cornering Tsumugi and then Shuichi has to prove that's not true. At the end of 2-5, Chiaki willingly reveals she's the spy to avoid more deaths, cornered by Nagito's plan and Hajime has to prove it is true. And during the trial too. Chiaki is the blackened by mistake, Kokichi willingly becomes the victim. (Mirroring each other/being the opposite in both the intentions and role in the formula - mirroring dr tropes is another thing v3 does a lot of, but it'd be too long to go into rn).

While it is not a perfect fit because Kokichi, again, is inspired and so influenced by many other characters, I do believe it makes his role so much more complicated.

It's kind of a general analysis as I only have played v3 once and I still have to fully understand what the fuck was Kokichi doing in v3-4, but I do plan on coming back to the game after replaying the other two first.

I hope it was as fun to read as I had fun writing it <3

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Shuichi, Himiko, Keebo, and Maki represent our fave characters in general. They’ve been made aware of their existence as characters and are horrified by the way they are being written.

Tsumugi represents companies that continue to milk franchises dry because the public keeps consuming the content. They don’t care about the significance of the story, they care about what sells. So, they keep coming up with all these ridiculous storylines to keep the show going, even though it’s at the expense of the characters we love.

The DRV3 in-game fanbase is the other main villain since they’ve lost appreciation of the story. All they want is more blood and lewdness, they don’t care about the characters and their journey. The thing is, the loss in appreciation happened because the company (aka Tsumugi aka Team Danganronpa) keeps churning out content for people to consume.

So it becomes a vicious cycle of the company not understanding the significance of the story they’re telling, which makes the audience care less and less about what they’re consuming. Tsumugi LITERALLY takes the form of previous Danganronpa characters just so the audience can go, “OMG, it’s my fave character from the other game!” There’s no other reason why Makoto and Kyoko show up, they’re just there for us to cheer as cameo characters.

And how do the villains justify their treatment of the heroes? They tell them that it’s all fiction, so it doesn’t matter what they do to them. Who cares if we kill off all your favorite characters, it’s just fiction bro. You’re just there for people’s entertainment, so do what the audience wants. Say the line everyone likes, or make their favorite ship canon. It doesn’t matter how much we torture you (read: “butcher your story” / “assassinate your character”), we can do whatever we want to you since it’s all fiction anyways.

And how do our heroes fight back? They tell Tsumugi and the audience that their lives matter and that fiction can change the world. That we need to remember that the media we consume has meaning and that we shouldn’t treat it like disposable material. It doesn’t matter if they’re fictional, they matter to someone out there.

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Perhaps I’ve been too harsh on V3. People were so up in arms about the game supposedly dissing the fanbase when the ending was warning us about the dangers of companies destroying their own IPs by not letting them rest, as well as toxic fanbases losing appreciation of the series they’re a fan of. And they did it by having the characters themselves speak about how their lives are being ruined by the people writing/influencing their stories.

This is straight up something Black Mirror would make. In fact, they kinda did with Bandersnatch.

Okay, it’s official. V3 is my favorite Danganronpa. It’s got a lot of flaws, but I give it props for the vision.

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what if we made her acutely aware

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characters that unintentionally resemble livia

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Non so se pullare ineffa perché non ho yae e kokomi

erano pg che amo che ho dovuto skippare più volte credendo che non mi servissero e invece ecco il lunar charged

più che altro caso mai columbina sarà bis con quella reazione e altre reazioni lunar e allora la prendo nel culo se skippo ineffa e tutti gli altri ma voglio solo columbinaaaa..... non me ne frega una sega di nod krai...

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Cmq ho preso stamattina il nendo di ouma e ovviamente tutta la famiglia voleva vederlo e sono rimasti perplessi in particolare mia sorella ha fatto una faccia schifata