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It once belonged to a late, great novelist. They say the writer’s soul is sealed within the pen, and any user can only write one sentence: ‘I have become something not human’.
I did not like Fukawa in the first Danganronpa game, but force her to protect a cute girl and eventually develop feelings, and I guess I forgive her!
Some Dreamwidth posts where she comes up:
Available only at the posh Maiden Road, which is geared toward female fanfic fans. Please, PLEASE take me with you next time you go!
Here is a list of my doujinshi! I would like to post little summaries or reviews in the future (but I will not post scans).
A gigantic donut that doubles as a flotation device. And naturally, you can snack on it while floating out to sea. It comes in a variety of styles.
In the first Danganronpa game, Ogami and Asahina were two of my faves. The following is a post I made about then back when I first played the game!
Most of the characters in Danganronpa are understandably standoffish – the premise of the game is that they have all been kidnapped and are being compelled to kill one another.
There is a lot of distrust and fear, but Sakura and Hina can't be bothered with that shit. They are FRIENDS and don’t you doubt it. Sakura is the Ultimate Martial Artist and Hina is the Ultimate Swimming Pro – they bond straight off over their exercise regimes and love of protein shakes. They keep believing in one another, even in the face of the most startling revelations.
The strength of their friendship would endear them to me on its own – but also, here is a picture of Sakura, don't tell me you don’t love her already:
Funnily enough, I am also predisposed to like Hina on account of her body type, although it is very different from Sakura’s. Hina is slim and busty, and I automatically feel protective of slim, busty characters (provided that it’s not just a function of the art style ...).
Hina gets a fair amount of flack for being busty – notably from Toko, a character whom I find it extremely difficult to like. It seems as if Hina finds it easy to brush off the harassment – until a scene where Makoto and Hina are going swimming, and Hina gets embarrassed, because she only has a T-shirt to swim in. And she says something along the lines of, I don’t know why it matters, I’m sure it never used to. Which I found heartbreaking.
Hina has a warm, bubbly personality, but she’s also one of the most sensitive characters in the game. Which I can’t talk about without getting into massive spoiler territory – but this also relates to why I like Sakura so much, and the friendship between the two of them.
So: part way through the game, we find out that Sakura is spying on the other students, reporting back to the villain Monokuma on what they’re up to.
The player-character Makoto finds this out when he sees Sakura telling Monokuma she’s not going to play his games any longer – she’s going to fight him. He’s been blackmailing her, threatening her family, but that’s no longer enough to make her betray the others.
Makoto keeps this to himself, trusting that Sakura will do the right thing. The other students find out about it when Monokuma tells them. If Sakura won’t serve his purposes by spying on the others – well, he can dob her in to the others, and they’ll be too worried about her to unite against him.
Note that when Sakura’s secret comes out, Hina determinedly sticks by her, speaking out in her defense. Hina believes in Sakura’s goodness, that Sakura is on their side.
And Hina takes it very hard when Sakura is the next student to end up dead.
Sakura is the only one of the characters I really latched on to who dies. And her death is, I think, the most important one in the game. It’s the turning point where the students move from simple survival to fighting back.
Before Sakura’s death, as a result of the ill-feeling toward her, Hina gets hurt. Sakura can’t stand to think that other people might get hurt because of her. She’s aware that, because of her, the other students are turning on one another. And she knows that there’s a way to get access to evidence that might help them get the better of Monokuma – but that Monokuma would kill her when he found out.
So Sakura kills herself first. If she’s going to die, she wants it to be on her terms. And she wants her death to accomplish something.
Her death is presented as a locked-room mystery, so it was fairly obvious straight off, that Sakura must have killed herself. Of course, there’s a lot of misdirection that goes on, other characters who do legitimately think they’re responsible for Sakura’s death (her attempts at reconciliation didn’t go too well).
And then there’s Hina. Hina who knows that Sakura’s death is a suicide. Hina who thinks that it was an act of despair, on Sakura’s part.
This is when you realise that Hina’s good cheer is more of a front than it seems. Because in the trial that follows, Hina tries to take the blame for Sakura’s death. Which isn’t a harmless defence of Sakura’s honour – if Hina had been successful, the whole class would have been killed. And that’s what Hina wants. She wants the students she sees as responsible for Sakura’s death to be punished for it. She wants to punish herself for not being able to defend Sakura.
THIS GAME.
Truth, thankfully, prevails. No-one is executed. But the mood after the trial is more somber than it’s ever been. That’s until Monokuma reveals that he’s played a trick on them. Hina had found a suicide note – but it was a false one, that Monokuma had swapped out. The suicide note that Hina found is not the one that Sakura left for her. And when the students find out what Sakura actually wrote, they have a way to fight back against Monokuma, and a new determination to do so.
None of the students kill one another after Sakura’s death.
I love Sakura for her sense of honour; her determination to atone; her self-sacrifice. For being the strongest person in the world! I love Hina for her energy and optimism, and for her darkness. For being more sensitive than she lets on. For her love of donuts. And I love their friendship – how quickly and intensely they come to matter to one another.
Danganronpa has some really excellent character development in general, but oh, am I ever a sucker for girl friends.
The original post on Dreamwidth: Danganronpa: Sakura + Hina, friends for life.
Wear it on your right hand, you’re looking for love. On your left, you’ve found it. On both... well, that’s just asking for catastrophe.
New Danganronpa V3 is the game where I am most inclined to polyshipping, somehow!
After the After-Party is the only poly fic I have posted (it’s Akamatsu/Saihara/Oma). I also have part of a follow-up somewhere that was Akamatsu/Saihara/Oma/Amami, and I basically will happily ship any combination of those four.
Headphones that provide a 2.5-dimensional sound quality. Every audiophile who used these said the same thing: ‘These are hella psychopop.’
Who doesn’t love a cute girl into screamo?? If we ignore Komaeda and Hinata, Ibuki is my favourite character in SDR2. Possibly because I am a serious introvert, and she is the kind of extrovert it seems like it would be fun to be dragged into antics by. Maybe it would just be exhausting! But I find her a charming character, and it is sad when she dies and you can’t hang out any more :(
I feel kind of guilty for never writing fic about Ibuki. She does have a significant role in Komaru on Jabberwock Island, though.
You bite into this toy like a dog. When you do, you end up making a funny face. That’s why it's called a gag ball.
Yeah, I did write a fic where Hinata was gagged once: Silence is its Own Reward. Obviously, it is porn.
Nagito’s boxer shorts. Even when the laundry got soaking wet from a sudden rainstorm, this pair of lucky underwear was the only thing that stayed dry.
I’m sure you want a list of all my Komaeda smut!
(If you are wondering whether I have serious KomaHina vs HinaKoma opinions, the answer is yes.)
A card game with Japanese characters relating to killing games. Some cards are, ‘A metal bat to kill demons,’ ‘Blackened are soaked in blood,’ and ‘Certain evidence over arguments.’
Back when I was an impressionable teenager, my terrible friends introduced me to Battle Royale, thus changing the course of my life forever. Fun fact: the first thing I did when I turned eighteen was not go out drinking, but go out and buy a copy of Battle Royale on DVD.
Anyway, here is a list of death game media I have read/watched/played. Some of my inclusions may seem dubious, but it’s my list. Links go to my Dreamwidth tags or specific posts. Soz that for things that cross mediums or have adaptations I don’t tag them separately.
I respect Fujiwara Tatsuya for being in more than one of these.
Also Avengers Arena, which doesn’t even deserve a ranking.
Based on the first season of Squid Game, Alice in Borderland was on top, but unfortunately I became obsessed with In-ho/Gi-hun in the second season of Squid Game.
Alien Stage
Danganronpa. It stands alone.
I mean, I guess I could rank the games individually. But I think most people can tell SDR2 is my favourite anyway.
A DVD that contains footage of people reacting to various pieces of art
I like vidding, but I have only made one vid including Danganronpa. It's this one!
About my melancholic disposition.
Music: Girl Anachronism, by the Dresden Dolls
Download: Girl Anachronism (mp4, 82.1 MB)
Also on: AO3 | Dreamwidth
I also have always wanted to make an Ultra Despair Girls vid to Bad News off the Mawaru Penguindrum soundtrack. I’ll probably never manage it though.
Toko’s favorite panties. Actually, they’re probably Genocide Jack’s favorite. They have reinforced elastic and loops to hold her deadly scissors.
Once upon a time, it would have suprised me to have written any smut involved Fukawa. She cannot judge me for having a dirty mind, however.
A school ring emblazoned with the Hope's Peak Academy school crest. It stands as proof of friendship between those who spent their youth together.
When I played a sorting game with all the Danganronpa characters, this was my top ten:
If you’re wondering who was at the very bottom of the list after sorting, it was Towa Haiji. For obvious reasons.
The most obvious number one in the history of number ones. He is also my number one most-written character according to my AO3 stats. Even doujinshi retailers know Komaeda is my favourite.
Here is a Dreamwidth post about Komaeda. The screenshots in this post are also pertinent.
I will not separate them even in ranking lists. Even though Hinata might rather be separated!
I don’t actually agree with the decision to list Hinata and Kamukura as separate characters in the sorter. Would I be as fond as Hinata, if he hadn’t turned out to be the culprit all along? It’s pretty fucked up to offer yourself up to medical experimentation and I can’t really separate Hinata from that decision, you know?
I am a little surprised that Akamatsu ended up this high. I feel okay about it though. Like sure, Akamatsu is my girl. You should have stayed the protagonist, bb. She’s also fun to write in fanfic, which probably increases my affection toward her.
I liked Ultra Despair Girls, okay!
Kirigiri has that air of mystique, plus obviously sometimes she is obviously enjoying teasing Naegi and I appreciate that. She could step on him and he would like it. And she looks good in a suit.
Maybe you think it’s funny that two characters who died in the first chapter of NDVR3 have ended up in the top ten list. I wish I could justify this one better, but I’m pretty sure it's just that Amami has a good character design. Also it’s cute that he painted Akamatsu’s nails.
Maybe I’m just basic? My secret headcanon about Oma is that he is actually the Ultimate LARPer.
As I say elsewhere on this ridiculous page, who doesn’t love a cute girl who’s into screamo? And I feel like Mioda could really bring the other characters together ... even if she might be dragging them into it. She is like an ideal side character to me.
(Although I wonder if this list would be different if I’d played the first game more recently. Like maybe Asahina and Ogami would have beat Mioda?)
As noted, I don’t think Kamukura should have been listed separately. But I do enjoy the conceit that being ultimately talented will make you ultimately bored, and also not want to cut your hair ever.
(I am weak for cute art of Kamukura with his hair falling in his face.)
I feel like surely I should have been able to choose between these two, but apparently I didn’t so I am keeping it. Naegi was my first protagonist; he is a sweetie, and gets points for subbiness.
Fukawa ... I feel like the main reason I like Fukawa is because Komaru would be sad if I didn’t. I like the two of them as a pair so much that it elevates both characters.