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aparticularbandit · 5 months

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Okay but also.

I can't remember if I've posted this or not already but.

I don't think Mikan chose Ibuki at random, and I don't think it had anything to do with how gullible the Despair Disease made her.

I think it had everything to do with what Ibuki was doing through that entire chapter prior to getting the disease and what Mikan's goal was.

Nagito states that Mikan's goal wasn't hope but despair - Mikan was trying to cause more despair.

Ibuki, throughout the entire chapter prior to getting the disease, was trying to give everyone hope. She set up the beach fireworks. She set up the dance. She set up her rock show. She was trying, as much as she could, to inspire hope and encourage everyone.

Removing Ibuki as a constant source of attempted hope - especially after she'd been giving so much hope - is the murder that would cause the most despair.

Once she got the disease, once she decided to kill someone to cause despair, Ibuki was the obvious answer.

#musings #bandit liveblogs #bandit liveblogs danganronpa #i think nekomaru and mahiru would have been other choices #although the hope they give is more specific - nekomaru to akane and mahiru to hiyoko #or the despair they would cause would be more specific to those two #like fuyuhiko or peko's deaths would cause despair to the other of them #respectively #killing byakuya - attempting to be their leader - would also have been an option #but all of these people were either already dead or out of the picture #and ibuki was a much greater source of hope for more people and therefore a much greater source of despair when she died #anyway

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