Hajime And The Reserves

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What's your opinion on Junko in P4+D2? I feel like she's the hardest to write since I want to get it across that she's a villain, but I want it to still be Junko despite the change in what she's planning.

I think you wrote her almost perfectly!! She really was in character the whole time, though to be completely honest I feel like she could've used a tad more evilness?? I think she should've been a little more in personality, like maybe a few more mood swings and slightly lacked more heartlessness- But other than that I really did enjoy how you wrote her alot, her dialogue was so interesting here!! Your comic is underated and deserves way more appreciation!! 🩷🩷

I imagined this little backstory for her where her first encounter with an alternate doppelganger was meeting a Liquid Snake-esque version of Nagito. One who as a child was the beta model for the Kamukura project in his verse, being enhanced with a prototype of the treatment that would eventually create Izuru. An Izuru v.0.5 you could say. Only he ends up rebelling, not content to just be a footnote for someone else. And he actually succeeds in killing his verse's version of Izuru after they're created (might not even have been a Hajime). Before then going on to form a little mercenary band of fellow science experiments across the multiverse.

He develops something of a fondness for his "little sister". Accepting her request to train and mold her. Admiring her determination in spite of her illnesses. Not every Nagito variant will end up with the dementia + lymphoma combo, but it's quite common for many of them to have at least some kind of disease. Hers perhaps might be something connected to her heart? Or her bones? Whatever the case though, there is a secondary reason related to that why she joins him. She wants access to the same physical enhancements the rest of his group have to neutralize or at least weaken her illness. The technology that created Kamukura having been democratized and more widespread across the multiverse.

He indulges this request. On the condition that she complete one last test, and take out the two individuals she'd been training to kill back in her home verse. Honestly he finds the whole vendetta a little childish, being like "Oh, those guys", remembering a long forgotten episode of his life where he killed his verse's Despair Sisters. Which was just another job for him. But he plays along. And ramps up the difficulty by warning the sisters in advance. Naturally of course Nagiko is pissed after having completed the job, as she lies on an infirmary bed. With her "brother" channeling Death in Terry Pratchett's 'The Hogfather'.

"You warned them I was coming."

"Well obviously. It was a test. It was meant to be educational."

"I lost my fucking right leg! I had to blow it off with a shotgun after they caught it in a trap!"

"And that was an important lesson."

In the end though she still gets rewarded for her accomplishment with the same enhancements to her body as the other members of the group. Not gaining all the talents + combat knowledge of a Kamukura, but now having their inhuman strength, speed, and stamina. As well as alleviating her illnesses somewhat. But it all ends on a rather bittersweet note. With Nagiko slowly realizing that despite her affection for her mentor "big brother", this is not a healthy sibling relationship at all. It occurs to her that she's starting to mirror Mukuro somewhat. And the assassination mission she went on ended up alienating her from her verse's Chiaki and the others. Eventually she decides to call it quits, and flees the group to strike out on her own.

Oooo backstories!! LIQUID SNAKE?!?! I'M SORRY I CAN'T TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY WITHOUT CRACKING UPAHAHAHHAHA JUST THE MENTAL IMAGE- the snake stole Tsumugi's cosplay wig or some sheet, OH NEVERMIND THIS GOT DARK REAL QUICK- part of the Kamukura project?!?! Ohh he a rebell!!!! Good for him!! Go snake guy- AHHHH THEY SIBLINGS I LOVE SIBLING BONDSS!!

Yep I can't argue with that, he seems really ill I can imagine the other variants having some sort of illness even if it's not the same one, maybe a branch or something completely different.. oh a heart or bone illness?!?! NAGIKO NUU- OHHH THAT MAKES SENSEEE!! SHE DESERVES THE WORLD OKAY!!

Oh no she have to kill in turn- actually this is the apocalypse of course people gonna die, WHAT?! HE TELLS THEM IN ADVANCE 💀💀 No offense to him but Nagiko get them both!! Him and the Despair sisters honestly!! Yeah no wonder she's mad!! CONFRONT HIM GIRL!! Oh NO HER RIGHT LEGG!! AHHHH the parallels though!!!! Maybe she'd get a robotic leg or something ehe

YASS SHE GOT AN UPGRADE!! LESSGOO SHE got them strength!! She got them stamina!! Atleast it somewhat helps her illness even if it's not a complete cure- oh no.. THAT'S SO SADDDD AGHHH, And now she calls it quits and is on her own WHY YOU GOTTA HURT ME LIKE THAT ANON?!?! actually she does meet up with the other two Nagitos so all is well am I right<33 💝💝

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That new art piece reminded me. I think the fandom sleeps on potentially interesting relationships that could be explored between Nagito and Natsumi or Nagito and Sato. Like I've seen a couple of interesting fics where he feels more drawn to the former than other Reserve Course students. Seeing her as a potential "diamond-in-the-rough" that he believes might be Ultimate quality, and thinking she should replace him. And also because he feels Class 77 would be all the more stronger for a Kuzuryuu sibling team. Meanwhile with Sato, their mindsets are eerily similar to each other. I've seen one interesting AU where they have a kind of sibling dynamic after getting roped into a talent-worshipping cult.

EXACTLY!! like we could've gotten some interesting dynamics, ooooh that fic sounds amazing though!!<33 I could definitely imagine him thinking they have potential talent and like "Wait this reserve actually seems talented??" :0 or something hehe, YASS THEY ARE THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS- SATO AND NAGITO HAVE SIMILAR MINDSETS, I kept thinking of the parallels during my watch, SIBLING DYNAMIC THATS SO COOL LIKE WE WERE ROBBED OF THEIR INTERACTIONS, Talent worshipping cult OMG

Yeah, thought it'd be funny if in keeping with the theme of Nagito's fem doppelganger being his opposite in a lot of ways, mentally and physically, she has a bionic right leg instead of his bionic left arm.

Ahahhaah it is!! He lost an arm, she lost a leg, what an amazing friendship PFFT, I really like the three of them and their interactions by the way, this AU is honestly just pure gold!! :)

It's his lucky day 🍀🍀

Over a decade late to danganronpa but played it yesterday and had to draw them!!<3

Would you watch this in theaters?

( Edit : I fixed the whitewashed version, I'm genuinely sorry if my previous post offended anyone, it wasn't my intention at all, I didn't know she wasn't white before )