#dr3 Chiaki

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I always get so confused when people say that the reason Izuru cries when Chiaki dies in Danganronpa 3 is because "deep down inside, his inner Hajime remembered chiaki" because that's never been implied. He doesn't cry because he remembered her deep down, he cries because he CAN'T remember her no matter how hard he tries.

Izuru isn't some emotionless husk, he does feel things and it actually makes him sad being the way he is.

So seeing someone reach out to him so desperately genuinely made him sad because because this person who was seemingly once so important to him was just an afterthought now. She's supposed to be important to him, so why can't he remember? Did he really forget something that mattered so deeply to him in a world where everything that brings him happiness is fleeting? It's so easy to portray Izuru as calm and calculated person who's always bored and feels nothing but that's just not who he is and he's more than that. Izuru is a person who's so smart that nothing interests him anymore because he knows everything, and that's depressing to him.

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Fantasy Hajime angst (him looking up at Junko after she kills Chiaki in front of him) and then of course a silly doodle of how lonley this sad little teenager gets after his girlfriend gets turned into Mashed potatoes

[anonzentimes]

Yeah, that ask about Chiaki doesn't quite make sense to me either. People downplay her role a lot. Yes, she's technically a support character, but what matters about that is that the characters crumble when she's taken away. She brought them all together, and her death pulled them apart. Sure, she could have been utilized more, and her individual relationships could have been explored, but I think the dr3 anime did okay with her. She's underdone and exists more as a plotpoint than a character, but that's her whole purpose. At the end of the day, she's a support character, and if people don't like that, they can go and make an au or something instead of bashing the canon material.

That's just my view of it at least, I'm no Chiaki expert.

THATS SO WELL SAID, like, I don't even have anything I can add to that I fully agree with this word for word! Thank you so much for saying this!!!

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My girl 🖤

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drs era drawings. back when every sprite reveal sent waves through the community and komaeda was shirtless on nintendo dot com. can you taste the ice cream mom

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Hajime and the Reserves

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don’t do this to me 😭😭

[hajihiko]

look on the bright side!

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after rainfall

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fifteen days (slop)

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little chiaki animation from a few months ago :D

[penguwastaken]

Danganronpa 2 Never Said Chiaki Never Existed

In Danganronpa 2, AI Chiaki shows surprise when seeing her profile in the book that Nagito got. A lot of people use this as proof that chiaki never existed, but that's really never said at all.

I figured it was pretty obvious, but the reason she is surprised is because she never knew there was a real Chiaki.

In chapter 5, both Monomi and Chiaki herself aren't aware of how Chiaki got her personality, so they just assume it might have come from the people that made them.

Of course, Danganronpa 3 later gives us an actual answer and says she was created by the memories of Class 77, directly building off of this mystery in the second game.

Point is, Chiaki doesn't know where her personality came from, who she's based on, or even that there was a real Chiaki at all.

"Erm but Pengu, they say that Chiaki's profile is fake"

That is never actually stated in game, all that is told to us is that Monokuma slipped in false information.

However, Monokuma DOES confirm that everything in the book is reused from information provided by the former headmaster (Jin Kirigiri obviously), which causes Nagito to question if the traitor is a former Hope's Peak student.

Once again, Chiaki's presence in Danganronpa 3 seems to be here to tie up these loose ends and mysteries.

So then what false information did Monokuma include then? Simple, he left Chiaki's profile in. He didn't fake a profile, he just included the profile of someone who wasn't actually in the killing game.

He even admits to ignoring the traitor, which is kind of a weird thing to say if you went out of your way to fake something for their sake.

AI chiaki is NOT the same as IRL Chiaki

They have different lives, memories, personalities, etc. All they share is the same persona, but ultimately AI Chiaki is just an ai that takes the appearance of Chiaki.

AI Chiaki is her own person, an AI created by Chihiro designed to create a chaperone like student based on the needs and experiences of those involved with the Neo World Program, and it just so happened to result in taking the form of Chiaki because of that. However, it is still not Chiaki. So leaving Chiaki's profile in and implying Chiaki is a part of the killing game is inherently false information.

At most, Danganronpa 2 leaves whether there was a real Chiaki or not in the open, however it never confirms or denies the existence of one. Nothing in the game outright says that a Chiaki never existed, only that the one we see is an AI of vague origin.

And if that isn't enough to convince you, during the scene with Chiaki's memory and Hajime, Kodaka says that he felt like Chiaki there felt more real which inspired him to make Chiaki a real person.

"Actually, now that I think about it, when I started making DR3, I got stuck on something from DR2. After Nanami dies in Chapter 5, she comes back in Chapter 6 through a glitch, and when I was writing Nanami for that, I had the idea that she was 'a little bit off'. She’s not like the Nanami we’ve seen so far, I thought; she was never that tender. I had that gnawing at my brain when I was making DR3, and I thought, 'Maybe that really was a different Nanami,' and that’s how I came up with the Nanami in Zetsubou-hen." -Kazutaka Kodaka in an interview

Of course this does not mean Kodaka intended that Chiaki in this specific was meant to be the real Chiaki when making Danganronpa 2. However it DOES show that Kodaka never ruled out the posibility of a real chiaki, because if he did he wouldn't have even come to that conclusion.

If you want my opinion, this seems like another scenario of people who don't like Danganronpa 3 having their personal interpretation of the story proven wrong and instead of admitting that they were wrong about something they just call it a retcon. The same thing happened with brainwashing, it happened with Mukuro, and I'm certain that's what happened here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I’m gonna be doing some Ask doodles for the Ivory Mirage AU! This is mainly to get myself motivated again because I have like,, no energy. So ask away! Please note that certain questions might not be answered for a while. My sister just finished the investigation part of Chapter 4 in sdr2, and she already figured out the killer was Gundam by herself, but beyond that, she knows nothing! So any questions relating to spoilers after that point will have to be put on standby— but they’ll definitely be answered later! Story from that point on just so happen to be especially relevant to the AU, so if you’re willing to wait, some juicy content is definitely coming your way!

For now, sit tight, and enjoy some Hinanami! Both Hinanami and Komahina are canon to the Ivory Mirage AU, just at different points in time, so this is still relevant.

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hold...

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old bits of a comic i never finished and a lineup i also never finished…