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(Maybe this was an au where the three married to eachother. Dating would be fine but im desperate for content of my otp rn)

Can you see Hajime and Nagito being...possesive of Makoto? Of course not in level of straight up locking him in the room, but you can sense a glare when you talk with Makoto

Absolutely.

Even in a full-on No Tragedy AU, in which their relationship would be overall in line with my Komahinaegi School AU posts, I can definitely see those two making people really earn Makoto's time.

People call Makoto's home phone and Nagito always answers. He very rarely hands the phone directly to Makoto, when people ask for him; he just says, "Oh, I'm so sorry, but he's busy right now. Can I take a message?" He does deliver their message to Makoto, but he phrases things less persuasively (or urgently) than the person themself would.

(Just an example, not to be taken as canon: If Mondo is calling like, "Hey, tell Makoto to get over here now! My crew is riding in formation, and we're down a man! Ride starts in ten; tell him to haul a55!", Nagito would first of all say some passive aggressive thing to Mondo himself, like, "I'm always impressed by how rigorously your class challenges Makoto. Only ten minutes of advance notice for an outing after 9pm on a week night is incredible," and then after he's finished humbling Mondo a bit, he'd deliver the message to Makoto like, "Owada was just saying he's going out riding with some friends. He said there's room for you, if you want to come, but it sounded like they're going to be doing some pretty intense formations. You might want to decline." At which point it's up to Hajime to make sure Makoto declines.)

Nagito considers it important to serve as the middle man, so people can't convince Makoto to do things he doesn't want to do.

(And if, as an added bonus, he cuts down how much time Makoto spends with other people, then that's just a perk of having access to the lines of communication.)

One exception is, he doesn't do this with Komaru or Makoto's parents. He'll hand the phone to Makoto, when they call. He'll often tease Komaru a bit first, but she still gets to actually talk to Makoto directly. Most of the time.

When people take the initiative to visit the house, the first line of interference is still Nagito, but he's not as difficult about it in person as he is on the phone. Partially because he feels more respect for people who are willing to go out of their way instead of just expecting Makoto to come and go at their convenience, and partially because he knows Hajime will be the real obstacle for them now.

(Also, a part of him likes having house guests. He'll definitely get less pleased about it if they actually convince Makoto to leave with them, but failing that, it's fun to bring people tea while they have to deal with Hajime's scrutiny.)

A person asks to come in and see Makoto, and Nagito might do a bit of ribbing first, depending on who it is or how they're acting, but he'll typically let them in.

Makoto is generally glad to see them, though the extent of that is also dependent on who they are and how they're acting.

Hajime will almost always comment on how they didn't call before coming over.

If they're just here to chat with Makoto and nothing more, then Nagito and Hajime will linger in the corner of the room, very clearly watching and listening and making quiet commentary amongst themselves while Makoto and the other person chat. Nagito will do his "Can I get you some tea?" stuff for as long as the novelty of being a host interests him (Not long.), and once they both feel that's enough time, Nagito will lure Makoto away and Hajime will ask the person to leave.

If the person is not just there to talk with Makoto, like if they're asking for a favor or asking Makoto to go somewhere with them, that's when Secretary Hajime jumps in.

"A world tour? Isn't that kind of a lot to ask? Those things last for months."

Sayaka smiles and says, "You can both come along, too, if you want. It starts in three weeks, so that's plenty of time to prepare." (She's one of the best at making sure Hajime has very little of substance to complain about. She probably called ahead before coming over.)

While Hajime is talking, Nagito is digging up the receipts. "Oh dear," he sighs, glancing over Sayaka's tour website. "You'll be in Denmark, at the end of May? That's a shame. He'd miss Komaru's birthday..."

Makoto thanks Sayaka for the offer and says he just needs to talk it over with Hajime and Nagito, then he steers the conversation back to small talk for as long as those two can tolerate it.

(Sayaka is also one of the few people who seems wholly impervious to Nagito and Hajime's judgmental whispers from the corner.)

(Bit of Makoto dialogue that I typed out that is no longer relevant to this post but I'm including it anyway: "Guys, Sayaka did say you could come along. We could always go for the first week or so, and then if we're tired by Novoselic, we can stop with Sonia for a day or two, then fly home. Wasn't Sonia telling you how proud she is of Air Nevermind's Japan flights?")

When they go out in public, Nagito is the type to always be holding hands with Makoto, or wrapping his arms around him. Always making sure they're understood to be an item. Hajime isn't as exhibitionistic, but he has quite a glare for people who don't take a hint.

Them standing in line for fast food is just, Nagito with one arm slung around Makoto's shoulders, with Makoto's back against his chest, and Nagito's other hand holding Hajime's.

If someone interacts with Makoto, Nagito holds him closer, maybe nuzzles his head, and Hajime stares them down until they leave.

"You guys are so protective," Makoto laughs, sometimes.

"You're worth it," Nagito purrs back. "I'd swallow you whole, if it would mean no one else ever got to take you away."

"That's a hundred yen for the vore jar," Hajime sighs.

"Also worth it."

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"If you had to kill me," Nagito said with a smile, "how would you do it?"

(Kamukomaegi version of this Naegamigiri post.)

When Makoto looked at him for an extra second, Nagito was quick to add:

"I mean it in a cute way, not in a suicidal ideation way."

"Am I allowed to say I just wouldn't kill you?"

"You can," Nagito sighed, beginning to pout, "but it wouldn't be as romantic."

Makoto thought it over again. "...Help me connect the dot on this one."

"Which part?"

"The 'romantic' part. Is it like...a way of showing how well I know you?"

"Exactly!" Nagito said, seeming relieved. (Really, even he hadn't been able to quite point to why it was that he found the idea romantic, but as usual, Makoto figured it out pretty quickly, once he put his mind to it.)

"I see. So, if I...talk about murdering you, but I do it in a way that shows I know you really well, and care about your likes and dislikes, then it's really more like a trust exercise than a despair thing. Like your roleplays with Izuru."

Nagito was at this point resting his cheek on his fist and gazing at Makoto with adoration. But when Makoto paused for confirmation, he came back to himself and replied, "I think that's a good way of looking at it, yes. You're amazing...So, how would you kill me?"

"...Jeez. Well I guess, you shouldn't be alone, and it should be something that makes you feel proud of yourself, like if you were saving someone else..."

"So, are you going to point a gun at an innocent bystander just so I can jump in the way?" Nagito teased.

"Of course not!"

"Are you sure? It could be very romantic."

"Are you kidding?" Makoto laughed incredulously. "With our luck? I'd hit a water tower or something. Anyway, I don't think guns are a good fit for you."

"Really?" Nagito looked riveted, as if Makoto had just done an incredible soul read. "Why?"

"I don't know. It just doesn't seem right. Honestly, anything that involves bleeding a lot seems wrong."

"So you're suggesting poison?"

"Definitely not. I think...maybe asphyxiation?"

"Are you going to smother me with a pillow?" Nagito asked, with the same knowing fondness one might use to ask a partner if they were planning a surprise party.

"No, but...I mean, for the roleplay scenario, maybe? I think you might find it weirdly comforting, to know that I'm still there, and...I mean, in the case of...smothering you...Well, you'd feel me, you know?" (Plus, it was a cause of death that Nagito most likely couldn't replicate on his own, meaning there was no risk of it being used in the case of a despair relapse.)

"Why not just choke me to death? That way, I could still see you."

(Could he do that to himself?) "I, uh...I mean, choking you would be pretty hard, right?"

"Not if I don't fight back."

"Nagito."

"And then you'd get to see the light leave my eyes!"

"I, uh...I think we're officially in the yellow zone for me."

"Okay," Nagito said brightly. Dropping an apologetic kiss on Makoto's forehead. "Thanks for playing along. I promise, I'm still fine."

Izuru walked in with a basket of laundry. And almost before Nagito opened his mouth to ask, Izuru answered, "Also strangulation."

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an OC of mine who doesn't have a name, but a vague vibe and half a concept of a backstory.

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the apple trend that I've been seeing recently but with my little bugs whom I love very much.

Makoto might've been standing on a chair for this one(or Nagito hunched over a lot, lol)

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I desperately NEED more of the nagito chaperone au, LIKE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTERWARDS? WHEN MAKOTO LEAVES AND BECOMES ULTIMATE HOPE, AND IN YOUR REPLIES YOU SAID SOME ULTIMATE DESPAIRS LIKE KAZUICHI MIGHT JUST SWITCH SIDES AND IZURU!

Please please please! Expand on that!

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Anonymous asked:

Wait, does sdr2 still happening in Nagito Chaperone AU. And how much changing since Junko is still alive?

(previous post: Chaperone Nagito in the THH 6th trial)

Oh boy, I like to imagine the THH survivors, plus Junko and Nagito, emerge from Hope's Peak to find a huge battle taking place between the Remnants and the Future Foundation. (Whether this is immediate or there's some amount of just traversing a desolate landscape first doesn't really matter.)

In the chaos, the Future Foundation comes away with Junko, Byakuya, and Hiro; the Remnants come away with Makoto, Toko, and Hina; Kyoko goes missing, not rounded up by either group; and Nagito goes with Makoto and the Remnants.

(Toko got caught by the Remnants because she was stopping them from getting Byakuya.)

This gives Byakuya and Hiro a chance to be their best selves, because the Future Foundation is going to be all about publicly punishing Junko, and Byakuya and Hiro have to be the ones insisting they don't do it.

Now, first of all, I don't think Makoto would meet the rest of the 77th class right away; I imagine the ones who captured him were underlings, operating under Fuyuhiko's orders.

The underlings are acting a bit like kids who just caught a butterfly. They're despair, but Makoto is still basically a movie star for them, at this point, PLUS he just gave that speech about caring about even the Ultimate Despair, PLUS even if neither thing was true, they're glad they get to please their boss by bringing him such valuable prisoners.

The fact that they didn't manage to get Junko (and worse, let Junko fall into enemy hands) does give them reason to worry that Fuyuhiko might still punish them for their failure, but they're channeling that anxiety as giddiness, directed the prisoners' way.

"And here I thought he ran such a tight ship," Nagito comments, watching Fuyuhiko's foot soldiers basically fawn over Makoto. (They're poking him, and telling him to repeat their favorite lines from the killing game, and stuff.) Despite being Ultimate Despair, Nagito is tied up with zip-ties along with the killing game survivors.

Before they can be brought to Fuyuhiko, their armored truck is attacked by a tank, and Kazuichi saves them.

Because yes, Kazuichi has defected. Makoto offered mercy to Junko and Nagito on television and Kazuichi cracked hard.

Despair has him living in the feeling of trying to earn approval he knows he'll never have. Despair is the indulgence of the side of himself that desperately needs someone to be close to, but also the denial of the root needs based in that self. Despair Kazuichi lives in devotion to just the feeling of desperation to be acknowledged, and while it's all very despairful when the ones he feels that way toward are Sonia or Junko, it can be anyone.

He's not disciplined about it. Akane's devotion to hunger requires constant physical self-denial, but his just requires him to do what he's always done, just on a different scale. Meaning, Kazuichi's despair-through-desperation does not require him to stop himself from seeking fulfillment from someone who offers it. And Makoto has offered it.

So, Kazuichi takes the prisoners back to his workshop, maybe killing some of their captors in the process, until Makoto gets him to stop.

Kazuichi is immediately turning his most try-hard energy Makoto's way, while maybe getting bullied by Toko, Hina, and Nagito. (In their different ways. It's not really "bullying"; that's just how I talk, lol.) He's an affectionate captor.

The other Remnants will find out that he's the one who has the prisoners, and they'll argue about it. (I'm just doing an overview for now, because this post is long.)

Kazuichi is still on the despair side, nominally, but he's very suggestible to Makoto specifically. The plot of UDG might get fully dismantled into a Kazuichi vs. Monaca fully-remote tech battle thing, because Makoto finds out his sister is being held hostage and he has to get her back. (Funny alternative: Kazuichi does all the work to free Komaru from Monaca, only to find out Komaru wasn't there anyway, because Kamukura already got her as a gift for Makoto. So Kazuichi just freed all these other prisoners, at no benefit to himself.)

Izuru Kamukura finds Kyoko, because he knows where Makoto is and he's probably dropped by Kazuichi's place a few times to see how things are progressing there, and Kyoko is an asset for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being, he knows Makoto wants to find her.

The way all of this eventually turns out is, everyone does end up in Future Foundation custody.

Eventually, the THH survivors will still have to smuggle the Remnants (and Junko) away from the Future Foundation, and the Neo World Program will still happen. I'm thinking they do just Junko alone, first, so she maybe gets rehabilitated as proof of concept before they do the Remnants. (She still likes despair, but she has other outlets for it now and is capable of maintaining positive relationships.)

Whether Izuru still plugs in the Junko AI to cause the plot of SDR2 to happen depends on a few things, but he won't do it for the same reason, if he does.

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It's important that you know that when people reblog my posts with tags, I exclaim "I AM LOVED!" in the most adorable way, cute as can be, but then also when people don't reblog my posts, I say "I am hated in America," in a very deadpan and incidentally unattractive way.

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the apple trend that I've been seeing recently but with my little bugs whom I love very much.

Makoto might've been standing on a chair for this one(or Nagito hunched over a lot, lol)

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Misa!!!11!!1! This is her version from the musical btw, I personally like the idea of her being a singer instead of an actress.

I went a little bit less "emo" and more "grunge-y" with her outfit, if that's the right word.

Also, an unshaded version:

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"I think I like the story better if I'm not Hajime," Izuru says late one night.

They're in bed. Makoto's bed. Makoto's dorm. His head is on Makoto's chest, and Makoto's hand is slightly tangled in his hair. "Hm?" Makoto hums.

"I think I feel better about the story if I'm not Hajime. It feels nicer if Hajime is the idiot who left you and I'm the one who came to replace him. The better one."

Makoto is silent for a while before he quietly says, "I think...not wanting to be Hajime makes you more like him than ever." He sounds as if his throat has tightened. "It was kind of his biggest problem."

"Maybe. But if I were Hajime, then you shouldn't be holding me. He doesn't deserve your affection, after he abandoned you."

"Please stop saying that."

Izuru smells salt and quickly sits up, brushing away the tears on Makoto's cheeks. But he can't help adding, "How could I want to be someone who hurt you this badly?"

"It's not your fault. What Hope's Peak did to you wasn't okay. It wasn't right. You didn't know it would be...the way it was. And no one was there for you when it happened."

Caressing Makoto's face with his palm, Izuru sighs, "It doesn't feel like anger at myself, when I say that you forgive him too easily."

"Well, I guess that part is good; I don't want you to be angry with yourself. Especially not over something that was done to you."

"It was done to him to make me. And I'm glad. I'm better than him."

"Can I ask you not to insult my boyfriend, please?" Makoto says firmly.

Izuru subsides, cuddling into his chest again. "I've been insensitive."

"No. You've just been...honest. About how you feel."

"And how do you feel?"

"That doesn't matter."

Izuru turns his head. "Repeat that."

"I just mean...We're talking about your identity. I'm not trying to ask you to be Hajime for my sake if you don't want to be."

"I'm asking how you feel."

Makoto is stroking his hair again, soothing him, as he sits on his answer for longer than he needs to. Finally, he whispers, "The story feels better if Hajime came back for me. But if loving you means loving a new person who isn't Hajime, I can do that. I do love you, I mean."

"As much as you loved him?"

"That's not...I don't see things like that. My heart doesn't measure things that way."

Izuru nearly argues that that can't be true, for if Makoto is dating him and not Togami, then he must have some manner by which his heart measures how much it feels for someone relative to someone else. But he doesn't say it. Makoto isn't lying to him, so one of them must be missing something. Either way, pursuing the matter now might hurt him again.

"I love you," Makoto continues, "and I love Hajime. And I love you for your differences as much as your similarities."

"Is that comfortable for you? Loving us both?"

"Love isn't always comfortable."

The truism, the non-specificity of it, suggests an unwillingness to engage the question on a personal level. "Do you think you will ever be ready to grieve him?"

"I don't think he's dead. He became you- a different person who I also love."

"Sunk cost fallacy."

"What does that mean?"

He contemplates not answering but finds that he has a perverse need for this point to be understood. "It means you wouldn't love me if you hadn't loved him. You feel you have to love me because you loved him."

"Why are you torturing yourself about this?"

"Because Hinata didn't deserve you when he had you and deserved you less when he left you." It feels better to use his surname, to eschew familiarity. "How could he leave you?"

The hand continues stroking his hair. "Hajime didn't do anything wrong. He was exploited by the school. And you never asked for any of this. I'm not mad at either of you, and I don't want you to be either."

Izuru relaxes, slowly. "Then the school is the one that made you cry." He considers that. It might be romantic to find some way to punish the ones who killed Hinata, for Makoto's sake. Though Izuru is still glad that Hinata is gone and he is here, maybe Makoto would feel a sense of closure if something befell the ones who caused it. Maybe...

Makoto's voice pulls him back from deep internal deliberations of the most romantic way to visit revenge on the murderers of the ex-boyfriend of one's boyfriend.

"We'll figure things out together, okay? I'm glad you spoke up about not wanting to be called Hajime. And even if Hajime...didn't come back for me..." (The tightness in his throat again.) "...you brought me whatever parts of him still exist."

The suggestion that he has provided something valuable causes Izuru to purr. Though the hair-stroking plays a role in that, too. "I don't always not want you to call me Hajime," he finds himself saying. "Sometimes I like it."

There is a slight change in Makoto's heart rate. "O-Okay. Then, just let me know when your preferences change."

He's gotten Makoto's hopes up, again. Which seems like a correct or at least fitting thing for an Ultimate Hope to do- as he told himself frequently, back when he was using Hinata's name to keep Makoto close -but he hopes it doesn't lead to more sadness.

Izuru isn't the same person as the talentless who Makoto used to love. But sometimes he feels enough like a product of him, an updated software to the buggy original program, that the name feels right for him. And sometimes the name remains wrong but the act of obfuscating this feels like a more apt, more satisfying solution to the problem of Hinata- a way to be everything to Makoto, everything he needs. And sometimes there's a degree of schadenfreude- an answer to his resentment of the one who made Makoto unhappy and still hoards some fraction of his love -to wearing his name around like a trophy. A spoil. The pelt of a slain creature.

But Makoto probably wouldn't think him capable of the third feeling. The second one might cross his mind, but first one, the one where he is Hajime just a little, will be the interpretation he most wants to default to.

Izuru listens to the way Makoto's breathing slows as he falls asleep, the hand in his hair gradually stilling. Hinata didn't sleep with Makoto like this. Didn't get to appreciate the soft sound of Makoto's breathing, the gentle thrum of his heartbeat under his face. According to Makoto, Hinata slept over very rarely, and Hinata was too awkward to cuddle.

This space where he rests his head, where he feels Makoto's heart as acutely as the touch of a hand, is his space. Only his.

"I love you," he whispers. And because Makoto is asleep, he allows himself to add, "More than he did."

Because he would never leave.

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Was going to ask someone if “he was a trafficker” as in does he watch the Life Series then stopped myself cuz no you can’t just ask someone if they’re a TRAFFICKER

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okay so it's not ideal to be making this post on mobile but i haven't been able to use my laptop for a few days and i'm not sure when i'll next be able to, so i'm sorry for any formatting issues.

TLDR; good news and bad news. bad news: the money situation has been steadily getting worse, and days ago things suddenly took a steep spike downwards. good news: i'm not homeless again yet, and change IS on the horizon. (more on that below.) bad news again: we don't have enough money to make it to that point of change on our own. so i'm mortified to be doing this, but i need to ask for help.

longer version: my boyfriend has been helping support me and his little brother for some time now; i have a queue that's overly long mostly due to sickness and bad luck regarding my fight for citizenship, and their dad, who was in charge of my bf's brother, vanished some months ago without a trace. (yes, that's a big part of the issue. no, we don't know what happened. yes, we've done everything we can.) i am working on the queue, but i've been struggling to catch up, and his brother is trying to find a job but is struggling to find one willing to accomodate his disabilities. the longer it's taken, the tighter money has gotten. so we're now at a critical point where we can't really afford to not ask, just on the off chance someone can donate anything to help. ($1 USD is about $20 MXN, so even tiny donations always go a really long way for us. like, i got one donation the other day, and because of that one single donation, i could get groceries.)

as for the change: in the wake of realizing i had some skill with 3D, i also realized i might be able to pursue that as a secondary source of income — something i've long needed, since my eggs were all in one basket (stupid, i know, but back then i didn't have many options) — but there are some final things i need to learn before i can offer that service. (mostly just the unity side of things). my boyfriend is trying to expand his egg-to-basket ratio similarly. if we're successful we should see a lot more financial stability, but right now, as neither of us have yet seen the fruits of our efforts, asking for help again is all i can do to lessen the load.

there's not much else i can say — not all the details of what happened are mine to share. things are still fresh and we all feel like shit. and i know i don't have any right to ask for this when i've already recieved so much goodwill, but it's far from just me in the shit right now, so as mortifying as the situation is, i can't afford not to try.

if you can donate even a little, it would help so, so much. you can do that here:

(if not, sharing helps a lot, genuinely.)

i'll try to update again when things are looking less dire. i'm sorry if fanart and asks slow down in the meantime; TAU is a big source of comfort for me so i'll do my best not to disappear completely, but it's looking like none of us are going to have a lot of free time for a while, so idk how "around" i'll be.

thank you so much for your help.

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Conditional Absolution

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Canon art taken before the beginning nightwatch. Atrophy and horror first meeting each other 😀 yayy 😝

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🎵~You are the only thing that's right about this broken world~🎵

Determined not to be self-deprecating, so check out the best and coolest thing anyone's ever done.

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I finished reading the new chapter of "The Verge of Connection" (a wonderful Deltarune fanfiction by @theamityelf ) and immediately went to get my stylus to start drawing. And since my favorite scene was the one where Goner was examining their new Dark world look, I decided to draw just that.

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Ngl, I LOVE the idea that Kyoko announced the Ultimate Hope thing (meaning, announced that Makoto should be called the Ultimate Hope) with ulterior motives.

I'm not saying she didn't believe it, but (like I kind of said in Panel) saying her belief out loud is a significant choice, especially for someone like Kyoko and especially because she now knew they were on TV everywhere. It was 100% an option for her to passively observe in her own mind that he could be called the Ultimate Hope and not say it out loud, the way she does with most information.

Don't get me wrong, I'm into the idea that she said it just as an expression of admiration or pride for him (and I'm sure she's not the only reason people think that way about him; more on that later), but also I find it pretty compelling to think that she called him the Ultimate Hope there because she knew:

When they leave the school, they will all be under the watchful eyes of the world. Depending on how much of what Junko said is true, it's possible they'll all be under unprecedented scrutiny and have unprecedented influence.

She herself has demonstrated enough excellence in the killing game that it's possible the world will want to make her the figurehead they emphasize. Not really for hope reasons; she's just very competent, and the fact that Junko erased her memories more than the others can serve as an indicator that she's the greatest threat of all. She's the one who keeps bringing up hope and despair and the broader fight; Makoto is just being a person who cares about his friends.

She is not a person who can be her most effective in that kind of role. She prefers to creep around the background sometimes, to show up late because she's been doing her own snooping somewhere, and she doesn't like answering people's questions that much. She prefers to provide information on her own terms.

Makoto is a kind person who will take the heat for his friends. If she asked for his input before giving him the title, and if she gave him all her thoughts on what that could mean for him in the worst case, she's sure he would volunteer to be the one of them with the greatest burden. (She didn't ask, though, lol. There was no private opportunity to do so.)

Makoto listens. If she's being super self-serving, she might specify, he listens to her. (It definitely benefits her to foist the spotlight onto someone else while also having a huge amount of influence over the person in the spotlight. She pretty much did the same thing with him during parts of the killing game.) But it's also important that he listens overall. Even if she didn't already believe Ultimate Hope is an accurate and fair title for him, if any one of the survivors had to be That, it's good that it's him.

All of that to say, I like the idea that she was approaching the decision like, "I believe you're talented in hope and I believe I directly benefit from saying so right now." (The timing of it, directly on the heels of a dramatic victory, also reads as strategic on her part.)

Alternately, there's something to be said for the idea that she knew history might downplay a non-Ultimate's role in things and she wanted to make sure he got his flowers. Make him impossible to ignore.

If that was her motive, it's interesting that she deliberately does this by using the kind of language the world cares about: Ultimate Hope. She could have framed it as, "It took the common decency of a normal person to beat despair," but that would challenge the audience in a way she chose not to do. Path of least resistance; turns out he did have a talent after all, and it's hope. It's parallel. He's as hope as Junko is despair.

I'm sure there were people out there who noticed and felt strongly about Makoto's leadership role and his gung ho attitude before that point, but Kyoko saying the words "Ultimate Hope" as a conclusion to the trial definitely centralized things in a neat, tidy way that the world would appreciate.

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they say ch 3 is gonna be a real