#this is a sonia centric view of the ship simply because i went on a tangent and it got too long i cant go back

[danggirlronpa]

Tenko/Sonia headcanon batches. This is a crack pairing, you have my permission to go completely wild.

Alright preface this with Sonia and Tenko's Actual Canonical Interaction In Danganronpa Summer Camp, which I think is a pretty fantastic sum of how their relationship would work in general:

So, with this in mind:

The Sonia/Tenko dynamic is interesting because it's not too far off from the Sonia-Kazuichi dynamic (every game gets One character who has a crush and is. A Little Weird About It)

I would say the MAIN difference between these two is that Kazuichi acts like a servant Sonia can step on Towards Sonia. Whereas Tenko will let ANY GIRL step on her. NO QUESTIONS. ALL QUEENS. So where Kazuichi's affection comes with this really uncomfortable pressure from his projection of The Teen Het Beach Movie Tropes, Tenko's affection is just, like. How She Is. Sonia's not getting any special treatment.

And I think that'd be really interesting to Sonia!! Sonia strongly desires to be treated fairly, like the people around her, but as a Noble, it only ever occurs to her to lower herself to Commoner Status TM, not that the people around her should be raised up to gain the benefits she has lived with her whole life. She means well, but she's very sheltered, and her good intentions don't manifest in a socially meaningful way.

Ultimately, I think Sonia falls prey to the well-meaning but dubious "I want to be like other girls because I am inherently Not Like Other Girls." There's some internalized misogyny, and there's also a huge note of incidental self-centeredness - all, again, with good intentions! And I think seeing the way Tenko treats women and the potential inner battle of "I wanted to be treated like other girls but not like THIS" and having to undress what has led her to feel so put out by other people getting treated well could be a really valuable step to help Sonia grow as a person and as a leader.

And Tenko gets to talk to a cute girl!! WIN/WIN