#peko pekoyama despair arc

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Despair arc kuzusouda doodles #2! (#1)

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I was super happy with how this turned out but I couldn’t decide on a good caption but knew the longer I waited the more likely it was I’d forget to post it all together lol so anyway here it is!

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⋆⭒˚｡⋆ Danganronpa 3 Mini Clear File (ft. Peko Pekoyama, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu) ⋆｡˚⭒⋆

[ Retouched photos + scans ]

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Junko tricked them!

Fine, I'll join you! After all this school was just going to throw us all away.

Exactly, it never gave a damn about any of us! Yeah I'm joining too!

Honestly same, the school made Hatomi's death as a afterthought so yeah, count me in too!

Same here, the school treated me sister's death and she was nothing but a pawn so I'm in, you Peko?

Whatever he says, I'm on board too...

I guess I'll join, besides that school always pissed me off majorly so squishing it should be sooo easy!

I-I'll join too, I was treated horribly by this school! They never care about me so who cares!

As a Team Manager, will all work together and make sure that school knows team spirit!

If the school view us as afterthoughts then I too shall join...

Kyeheheee, after all the school had quite the ego and high egos are the most easiest to break!

Yeah honestly I'm board too, after the shit I've seen I think it's time we knock this school down a peg.

I too will join your cause, Junko!

The injustices and harm it has done; I can't take it anymore! I want to destroy it as well!

Exactly so count me in too, will show them what they get for messing with us!

...

Ibuki... you know what this school has done to you and many others, right? I'm sure you want to destroy this school...

Many of us saw how this school is towards us; they don't give a single damn and I'm sure Shoji would understand, right?

...Shoji.

Fine, I'm in too! This school has done nothing but hurt me and never let me express myself so I'll join you.

So yep, time to make sure this school burns to the ground!

Good, happy for you to join the fold, welcome aboard Class 77-B! Will make sure that school regrets what's it done to us!

'And well... that's how we call became Ultimate Despair... We all were angry and upset, we were tired and wanted to make this school pay for what it did to all of us and who it hurt, that was why we join Junko Enoshima and became Ultimate Despair...'

[thenewfuture]

Hey guys? Be on alert ok? We worry the Foundation may have figured out where you guys are and have sent people to you.

What? Is the trail over or something-

Ibuki: HEY GUYS!!!

Oh my goooooddddd!

Would you please! STOP! YELLING!

You're yelling too...

Guys, guys guys guys and gals! Gaaaaalls! Guuuuys! Non-binariies!~

*Soon enough, everyone came around...*

What's the commotion for, Ibuki?

Did....something happen?

They're back! They're back! On the shore! They're coming back!

Huh? Really?

That's great news then! I know they could do it! Gahahaha!

Yeah! C'mon, let's go greet them! Last one there's a rusty bagpipe! Hahahahaha!~

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*On the first island beach...*

See, Kan-Kan? You wouldn't have to wait long anyway.

I know, I know....

Hmhmhm~ Now let's beat this beach-

!!!

Hey guuuuuyyyssss! Over here! GUUUUYYYYSSSSS! WELCOME BACK-

GET DOWN!

Uweh?! *Hiroko grabs Ibuki and ducks to the ground, covering her their heads*

All of you! Get back and behind those trees! And whatever you do, stay low!

H-Huh!? Why?! What's happening!?

M-Miss Hiroko....

Okay, okay... They're not shooting YET, but they do have a sniper on board... Fuck.

I don't understand... Wh-Why would they have a sniper at shoot at us...?

See that emblem on the bow of the ship? That's the Future Foundation's Ultimate Elite Task Force's insignia.

And they're under the direct orders of the chairman and vice chairman. Meaning, Vice Chairman Munakata sent them here to kill us!

WH-WHAT?! B-But....But why?!

Cuz he's a rotten, stuck-up, self-righteous, cheating prick! I bet he ordered those guys to come here even before the trial started!

Woooow! I just love Future Foundation and they're non-corrupt and unjust ways!

So....What do we do now?

....Okay kids, new plan. Stay low and head for the second island!

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Some transparents from the DR3 Despair Arc anime + DR3 anthology manga. I had to fix the exposure and saturation in some of the anime ones, because the lighting is pretty moody in the later episodes.

Credit isn't required if you use these, but is appreciated, along with reblogs, likes, etc.  ^^ It means a lot and motivates me to keep making posts like this!

[midnightdemonhunter]

The kids aren’t alright!!! They really aren’t!!

[special-encounters]

Hey everyone how is everyone doing today?

(This is all the muses, btw)

I'm doing good.

Could be worse...

Depends who's asking.

I am doing well

Depends on who's asking..

Really well, thank you

Very good!

Bored.

I'm just hanging out

I could be napping.

I'm Good

I'm trying out some new drugs!

I'm actually doing well.

Amazeballs!

Feeling a bit sidelined, honestly.

Sitting on my ass, waiting for someone to call on me.

(And that's Everyone!)

[goshdangronpa]

So, I intend to take a break on "I DISAGREE: An Ibuki Mioda SDR2 Protag Swap AU" after all. I've got a few fanfics that've been simmering on the back burner way too long, and I'll return to this project for Chapter 2 once I finish a few of them. Thanks so much to everyone who's read, liked, reblogged, and even reached out to me about any of these posts!

While I'm here, though ... I might as well, wrap up Chapter 1 with a few stray notes. It's nothing huge, I think - just the kind of stuff I thought about but couldn't find space for as the posts unexpectedly became more story-heavy. Before I move "I DISAGREE" to the backburner, please enjoy this grab bag of tidbits.

Bonus Track: A Few Last Notes on Chapter 1

Where to start. Where to start ...

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, Team Player

One major appeal to me in writing this AU is shaking up character arcs and dynamics. When I decided that Peko Pekoyama would come down with Despair Disease, I knew I'd have to do something different with Fuyuhiko. His love for Peko (romantic or filial or whatever you want to say) would not let him sit around in a cottage while her health is at serious risk. That's why just one day after stating that he had it in him to kill one of his classmates, he finds himself volunteering to nurse some of them!

Well, his focus in the makeshift hospital quarters of the Hotel Mirai is definitely on a specific patient. Fuyuhiko starts SDR2 as a selfish loner. Even this shake-up didn't seem like enough to make him open up with the rest. Ibuki dragging him into hanging out with her and the others that first night would help. However, it's having Hajime Hinata on his tail that truly turns him into part of the gang. We know how tight the boys get in SDR2, their bond developing over the course of three weeks. With them being in such close quarters from dawn to dusk, and especially with Fuyuhiko already so vulnerable while Peko's out of commission, I imagined it would develop faster.

To be clear, Fuyuhiko doesn't pull a full 180 by the end of Chapter 1! Though I wrote that he and Peko attend Ibuki's cottage party, I think he wouldn't stay for long. He trusts Peko with his life, he's pretty fond of Hajime, and Ibuki and Byakuya are on his good side. The rest remain strangers to him. While he's more open about knowing those strangers now, the stakes of their situation are never far from his mind. Expect him to grapple with questions of trust down the line.

Peko Pekoyama and Despair Disease

Nagito's side effects from Despair Disease, you already know from the game. (The repeat is partly to prevent him from igniting the killing game like in SDR2, and partly for reasons I'll explain in good time.) Chiaki and Kazuichi's side effects, you already saw in great detail with their relevance to the murder and trial. What I didn't describe in much detail are Peko's side effects. All I really said was:

"... She’s too laidback and apathetic to care about anything." (The AU Narrative's Chaotic First Three Mornings)

"Peko’s operating on sheer inertia, refusing to exert herself for anything that doesn’t interest her." (The Killing Game's First Victim)

Two sentences!

So the idea here was that Peko is a deadly serious person who prioritizes duty above all else, including her own well-being and life. I'm not just talking about the whole "I'm a tool, not a person" stuff from her trial. Even when she does fun things like slice up coconuts for new friends, there's still a severity in her manner. She immediately peaces out of a party to sit in an office by herself as a line of defense. No wonder animals fear her - she walks through life with an unflinching tension in her entire being.

That's why I imagined that the opposite of herself would be someone who doesn't do anything, even move from her spot, unless she feels like it. Lazy Peko - a chilling thought! Not exactly Depressed Peko, perhaps, though she wouldn't smile more than usual because that act in itself requires flexing muscles. Apathetic Peko, who takes nothing seriously and abandons all her discipline and duties ... including caring for Fuyuhiko. Which is why he must watch over her.

One more thing: ever notice that Peko is pretty easily embarrassed? She can't keep a poker face when Teruteru nails her choice of undergarment, and she nearly loses her cool when she confesses to bathroom incapacitation during the blackout in Chapter 1. You can just imagine her face crinkling behind that Shining Justice mask (though her performance is so committed!). It's the tragic fate of many a person who takes themself very seriously. Picture a scene where Peko settles into a decidedly unladylike position in her hospital room, with Ibuki exclaiming that Teruteru was dead-on.

Teruteru Hanamura's Still Around

It's funny: when I first decided to write fanfics about SDR2, I really thought I'd never so much as mention Teruteru. He's creepy, he's a pervert, he has no redeeming qualities ... yet I discovered that even he has a place in the Jabberwock Island ecosystem. Three of my four currently published fanfics include him, and one even sees him in a starring antagonist role. What can I say? In all three instances, he fit the bill.

By virtue of my "different killers, different victims" promise, Teruteru couldn't die in Chapter 1 of my AU. Killing off a fan favorite like Chiaki while keeping him around seemed unthinkable, which made it all the more fun to do. But if he's staying for the time being, he'll earn his keep. I just have to give him something interesting to do ... but splitting the party with Chapter 1's motive also means we barely get to know him in that time! What's a writer to do?

I suppose that when I start Chapter 2, I'll have to catch up Ibuki, and us by extension, on what happened in the cottages while she was at the hotel. Rest assured, though, that I have ideas for Teruteru. In his brief time onscreen in SDR2, we do get glimpses of depth to him beyond remarking on girls' panties. I'll try to bring out those depths. I'll also definitely tone down the creepiness, though I should say that making him a total eunuch just wouldn't be true to his character.

Well, that's just about all I can think of for this bonus bit. If there's anything you want to know more about, you can send me an ask, leave a comment, write it as a tag in a reblog, tie a letter to a carrier pigeon, whatever. I'll see if I have an answer for you! Be warned, though, that the answer might just be, "Wait until the next chapter." Until next time, take care and thank you again.

PREV: Ending Chapter 1 with a Sleepover

NEXT: Coming eventually!

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Fav characters from Trigger Happy Havoc and Goodbye Despair?

Ooooh that’s a toughie. My top five changes for those games quite often. It’s hard to pick. 

I guess if I had to select a few, these are my faves as of this ask. (Also included my faves from V3 too). 

This is in no particular order. These are just my Top 5s. I’ll also sum up my reasons in one sentence. 

Trigger Happy Havoc:

Sakura Ogami: I hope to be as good a friend as her someday. 

Aoi Asahina: She’s just so sweet, and one of the more underrated characters in the game in terms of looking at their nuance. 

Kiyotaka Ishimaru: I wish my boy got a bit more development before he met le bonk. 

Mondo Owada: I love his integrity regarding promises and how far he’s willing to go to keep them. 

Chihiro Fujisaki: I too want to become stronger in similar ways and Chihiro voices my thoughts on that pretty damn well. 

Goodbye Despair:

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu: One of the best character arcs in the entire series and it made me go from wanting him dead to wanting nothing but happiness for him. 

Peko Pekoyama: I’m a sucker for literation and Bodyguard/Charge dynamics. 

Chiaki Nanami: She’s so cute and I want her backpack!

Ibuki Mioda: I feel like she and I would get along at concerts featuring weird instruments. 

Gundham Tanaka: I want the confidence and fortitude this man has to wear a scarf 24/7. 

V3 Killing Harmony: 

Kaede Akamatsu: One of the most interesting protagonists in the entire series and while I wish she stuck around longer, she was fantastic for as long as we had her. 

Ryoma Hoshi: My blorbo, my love, my sweet cat loving king, I wish you had more time with us. 

Shuichi Saihara: Probably my second favorite protagonist in the series and I adore him and his growth. 

Gonta Gokuhara: MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD YOU DESERVE THE WORLD. 

Maki Harukawa: Such a fun, fantastic, and interesting character and honestly I think her story is one of the best in the entire series, right up there with Fuyuhiko. 

And I guess if anyone’s curious, I adore Komaru and Toko in UDG too, and Nagisa is my favorite of the Warriors of Hope. But they don’t quite make the top 15 for me at the moment. 

And these are my current most faves of the Danganronpa franchise. 

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Y’all know that one photo of Bonnie and Clyde? Yeah that but these two evil doofuses

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danganronpa + @screenshotsofdespair

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☾Sphere's Danganronpa Masterlist☽

"𝘐𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴. 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦." -𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘬𝘶𝘮𝘢 "𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯. 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦." -𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘺𝘭𝘦

☀︎ - 𝘚𝘮𝘶𝘵 ☁︎ - 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 ⛅︎ - 𝘍𝘭𝘶𝘧𝘧

🔮The Animation

☽ Makoto Naegi ☽ Aoi Asahina ☽ Byakuya Togami ☽ Celestia Ludenberg ☽ Chihiro Fujisaki ☽ Junko Enoshima ☽ Kiyotaka Ishimaru ☽ Kyoko Kirigiri ☽ Leon Kuwata ☽ Mondo Owada ☽ Mukuro Ikusaba ☽ Sakura Ogami ☽ Sayaka Maizono ☽ Toko Fukawa ☽ Yasuhiro Hagakure ☀︎☁︎ 𝘈 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤'𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘵

🔮Future Arc

☽ Kyosuke Munakata ☽ Chisa Yukizome ☽ Sonosuke Izayoi ☽ Monaca Towa ☽ Komaru Naegi

🔮Despair Arc

☽ Hajime Hinata ☽ Chiaki Nanami ☽ Nagito Komaeda ☽ Akane Owari ☽ Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu ☽ Gundham Tanaka ☽ Hiyoko Saionji ☽ Ibuki Mioda ☽ Mahiru Koizumi ☽ Mikan Tsumiki ☽ Peko Pekoyama ☽ Sonia Nevermind ☽ Jin Kirigiri ☽ Sato ☽ Izuru Kamukura

[danganronpa-21]

Rating: General Audiences (I… think?)

General Warnings: N/A

Relationships: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu/Peko Pekoyama (mentioned), Sonia Nevermind/Gundham Tanaka (implied), Phoenix Nevermind & Natsumi Kuzuryuu

Additional Tags: Character Study (if you can say that when it’s your own OC?), Post-Danganronpa 3 Hope Arc, Jabberwock Island, Future Foundation

Word Count: 1,347 words

Summary: A character study on my Danganronpa fan child, Natsumi Kuzuryuu, and how she grew into a student worthy of the newly built Hope’s Peak Academy. 

Read it on AO3.

From a young age, Natsumi Kuzuryuu knew that there was no world for her out there. 

It seemed like a cruel thing, for her parents to have told her that when she was no more than a child, but she never could find it within herself to blame them for it. She certainly wasn’t the first child to have a difficult conversation with her parents, talking over the finer points of people hating you for things you cannot control. The two of them were just trying to do whatever they could to keep their daughter safe, especially at a time where they were still being monitored so closely.

 The Future Foundation agents that remained on Jabberwock were proof enough of her parents’ claims. The memories of their disdain surfaced any time she so much as thought about the places they had made their base, even in the years after they had left her family to repent in peace. She could recall the wrinkled noses, the pitying eyes, the disapproving shaking of the head, the tension that consumed their bodies the moment they made eye contact with her or Phoenix. They were the very proof she needed to substantiate the claims of her loved ones. They were the first people to hate her for being her parents’ child, and they most definitely would not be the last.

 “I can’t believe they even allowed those people to reproduce,” she recalled hearing one of them mutter once, glaring at her and Phoenix as they plucked seashells from the island’s sandy beach, “The Ultimate Despairs have no business around children.”

 “I worry sometime they’re just going to slaughter those poor things,” another agent had sighed. “Naegi-san says they’re trying to repent and reform, but who’s to say that they won’t go back to their savage ways? He always was too merciful.They can’t be trusted.”

 “The kids would be much more suited to being on the mainland. Just give them new identities, new families… Don’t make them live with the monsters they call Mom and Dad.”

 Blood had rushed to Natsumi’s face at the comments. One of the seashells she held in her hand had actually cracked from the tightness of her fist, doing everything she could to keep her rage within her little body. If there was one thing that she had learned from experience, it was that letting her anger get the best of her in front of these agents always led to problems. Her father insisted that she remain calm as possible in their presence, lest they take her reactions for malice.

 They may have spoken of pity for her and her companion, but that could change at the first sign of hostility.

 Despairful parents bred despairful children, or so their narrative went. Never mind that her mother and father hadn’t been full of despair for years.

 If the situation bothered Phoenix, he never said much about it. In their youth he cried many tears over their words, but as he grew older, he didn’t voice much more. The only sentiment he ever expressed was love for their family, and insistence that he believed that Natsumi would be a good person. He never wondered aloud whether he would belong in the hope-hungry world of the mainland, or whether he would ever be able to live a life apart from the crimes of his parents. He just wanted peace.

 To some degree, Natsumi could understand that. A life well lived was all that anyone wanted for themselves and for their loved ones, really. What need did they truly have to care for what others thought of them? They were wrong about the kind of people their parents were. And they were wrong about the kind of people that she and Phoenix would turn out to be. That was enough for him. At least, she always thought it was.

 But part of her, a small part of her, always knew that Phoenix longed for more for them. The same hunger that settled into her own bones thrived within his. Though different, their minds were far too intertwined for the situation to bring anything but that. He understood why she was the way that she was, just as she understood the very same things about him.

 So when he saw her on the beach, staff ablaze, he watched with a careful eye. He corrected her form when she needed it, shouted his praise when she pulled off a challenging trick. He stood by for each moment that he felt he was needed, and not a moment longer.

 Twirl, spin, catch. Twirl, spin, catch.

 The repetitive motion drove their future forward every day she practiced. If Phoenix was the one who could make the world fall in love with him just from his spirit, then she would be the one who would dazzle the world with her talent.

 Twirl, spin, catch. Twirl, spin, catch.

 “You don’t need to prove anything to anyone, Natsumi, you know that, right?”

 Her father had been insistent, far too insistent, that this was the case. For all the crimes that others wanted her to answer for on his behalf, Natsumi’s father never asked that she try. As far as she was concerned, she was her own person before she was his daughter. She resented the fact that the world out there wouldn’t actually work that way.

 “I know,” she had said in reply, lying through her teeth, “You tell me all the time.”

 Twirl, spin, catch. Twirl, spin, catch.

 Sometimes she felt she was the only one that saw the world out there with an honest pair of eyes. Half the time it was as if the others just wanted to be blind. What use was there in pretending that the world would look at them fairly? Why should she act like people would forgive her for her crime of being born just like that? Nobody would forget that she was Fuyuhiko and Peko Kuzuryuu’s daughter. Even if they did, she wouldn’t. Even if everything had gone as the Future Foundation agents wanted, she would never forget. In her heart she would always know herself as a child of despair, and there was nothing anyone could do to make her change that.

 She wasn’t ashamed of being her mother and father’s daughter.

 But the world out there was. It wanted to teach her shame. It wanted her to know that she was stained by the brown blood that once ran red upon their fingers.

 Twirl, spin, catch. Twirl, spin, catch.

 They could say whatever they wanted. They could pretend she was whatever they wanted. It didn’t matter. The fact of the matter was that a lot of the people, out in the world out there, they would never trust her. She would always be someone who should despair at the fact of her being alive.

 But even with that cynicism, that harshness that tainted the nature of other human beings, Natsumi found herself back on the beach, staff in hand, moving her body like her life depended on it. By now she had grown to master many different types of fire dancing, but the staff was her favourite – her staff was the one that dazzled all eyes that saw it. She could still remember being a younger girl and performing, first for her family and then for the agents, and showing them that there was more to life than the simple prejudices they bore. On those days, even those who thought to loathe her would look at her with new light in their eyes.

 That staff was her anchor. It was what would get her through everything. Though the world would look upon her with shame, she would bathe herself in warmth and light. She would twirl and spin and sing and dance, whipping the fire all around her body, igniting their perceptions with new flame. Perhaps most of the world out there would never come to love Natsumi Kuzuryuu…

 But the fire that burned within her burned too brightly to be extinguished by a few angry eyes.