This Audio From Star Vs The Forces Of Evil Worked Way Too Well In Reference To How The Neo World Program

okay but also.

i hate the neo world program. i hate the idea of it so much. i hate that their way to save people is to just cut out two-three years of memories, download them into a video game, and then save over those memories once they're better people.

and maybe this is because i come at this from having n2n as one of my favorite musicals where part of let's fix the mentally ill person is by electroshock therapy that WHOOPS caused them to lose their memories and then her husband's like you know what let's not tell her about the thing that we think caused the mental illness and then everything will be good! and great! and wonderful!

and i hate it.

because makoto + co. are making the same assumption nagito does, which is that now that they're remnants they are beyond saving in their current form so we're just going to regress them and cut all of that out of them and give them a reboot so they become the people we want them to be.

and, like, yes, we learn that the remnants agreed to this so they could try to bring junko back in them, which. you know. (is actually really funny when you think about nagito like if we bring junko back, maybe i get to kill her this time and then he's one of the dead people she would be coming back in, like, sorry, nagito, you'd literally become the person you hate the most.)

but makoto + co. didn't know that. they just forced them into these machines and wiped their memories without their consent and just. went from there. and the game suggests this is a good thing. because that's therapy! and dealing with trauma! to forcibly remove years of memory from your life!

it just makes me so uncomfortable. so uncomfortable.

and makoto's oh, i added a fail safe because i knew something would probably go wrong doesn't make it any better because that doesn't address the core issue. i just. i don't understand how people didn't tell them that this was wrong - or that they didn't realize that this was wrong - especially after having their own memories torn from them. (memories that! they had help! recovering! by the way!)

you know what i really would’ve liked to see in dr3?

the remnants facing life-altering consequences for their actions. even though they were brainwashed, they still committed atrocities yet faced no real backlash that affects their life.

sonia being stripped of her rank as princess while her country bans her from her former kingdom. she tries to reason with them initially because she’s so stunned and resorts to her commanding princess self, but no one acknowledges her. they threaten her and almost arrest her, but she escapes. she no longer has a home or a family.

gundam being mistrusted by animals. he tries communing with them, but they refuse them. they lash out, biting him and rejecting him. they remember how he used them for evil.

saionji and ibuki being blacklisted in dancing/musical performances. former fans who felt the agony of their “concerts” recognize them and charge at them, trying to turn them in for their crimes. they no longer can dance or sing without retribution.

koizumi’s pictures being seen as despairing propaganda. her former work means nothing. all that matters to the world are her evil photos. no one will accept her work even when she tries to photograph “hopeful” things.

hanamura’s family has been blacklisted in the food/catering industry. if his siblings are alive, they want nothing to do with hanamura. it’s implied he may have killed his dear mother, so his brother and sister despise hanamura even though they left the family. like sonia, hanamura no longer has a family.

kuzuryuu and pekoyama have no clan left. the kuzuryuus could be dead or they decided to give the leadership to someone else if they came to their senses. they deny help to kuzuryuu and pekoyama, blaming them for their family’s decline. they only have each other.

that’s what i REALLY wanted to see. of course, hope arc is about “hope” and is seem as a “perfect happy ending,” which, considering the “gray” endings for sdr2 and drae, seems pathetic in comparison. these are people who, despite being brainwashed, committed terrible crimes. they shouldn’t be left off the hook so easily even if they endured their own private killing game. they say they will shoulder the burden of despair, but they go off hand-in-hand without consequences for their crimes. they pretend to be remnants, but they don’t face any backlash for what they did to thousands of millions of people.

Oh my god, you know what I just realised?

Makoto putting the Remnants of Despair inside the Neo World Program—as idealistic as his intentions were—indirectly makes him a Mastermind.

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Phantom Thieves of Hope - A Danganronpa X Persona 5 Story. - Chapter 1: I am Thou, Thou art I.

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CHAPTER 1: I am Thou, Thou art I.

On the way to his first day back to school at Hope's Peak Academy as a second year, Makoto Naegi, the Ultimate Lucky Student, finds a strange app on his phone, that transports him and his classmate to another world...

Bada ba ba, bada ba!~ Ba ba ba, badum badum baaa!~

*Ibuki gets up from her pod, and starts singing to herself and also moves slowly as if she was dancing with her with her eyes closed…*

*Fuyuhiko and Hajime are both dumbfounded and nudge each other and make air noises to convey who should go check on her first…it’s decided that it’s Hajime who goes…*

I-Ibuki….?

Ba-di-di-da, da da da dum, dum duuum!~ Dum dum!~

*Ibuki motions as if she opens a door then continues walking a few feet…*

Ibuki…

La la laaa, la la la laaaa!~

*Then she stops and motions again as if reaching for something…then she grabs Hajime’s tie…*

Ibuki!

Huh-wha?

AAAAAAAHHHH!

AAAAAAAHHH!

AAAAAAHHH!

AAAAAAHHHH!

Wait, why are you screaming?!

You scared Ibuki!

Wait a sec, even more than that…

Peeping Hajime! Pevert! What are you doing in my room?! And-

Wait….what happened to my room….?

Hmmmm….Lot more of a sci-fi aesthic going on here…

But I dig it! I can totally dig all the way to America with this getup!

Ibuki, wait a second-

Also sweet contact Hajime. Going for a two-tone style?

Not bad, not bad at all! I’d like to see mow many contacts I can put on, then I’ll be able to see the full rainbow!

Uh, Ibuki, hold on-

Eh, Fuyuhiko and Nagito are in my new room too? Is this a panty raid? I didn’t expect this from….

………….

……… *She looks at Nagito’s arm…*

Sweet Eldwin Elric cosplay. Where’d you get it?

Oh wait, I get it now! There’s a costume party going on right now and you came here to get Ibuki! Why didn’t you say so?

I’ve decided I’m going to a combination of Frankenstein’s Wife, Frankenstine’s Monster, and Frankenstine himself!

Bwahahahaha! With all these Franken’s combined I’ll be the ultimate super monster that terrorises the village!

Ibuki wait! Just, stop for a minute please!

Eh? Wha-wha-what?

………Ibuki?

What’s the last thing you remember?

Hmmmmm….

Well I woke up, trying a find a jam for my new song, then I saw you and we had a quick screaming fit, then I yelled and I looked at my new room and-

Before that, obviously!

Well I went to my cottage, took a nice long bath, tried to come up with a new song, then I took a mean nasty shit, then I bathed again, ran around my room to release all the energy I had and-

The night you went to bed, what happened?!

Psssshhhh….uuuummmmm….

Oh yeeeeaaaahhhh! Akane tried to fight Monokuma but Nekomaru jumped in front of Monokuma’s MegaBlaster and he got took away!

Poor Akane…we should do something nice for her….

Wait. Only that far back?

You don’t remember…the next few days or so, or what?!

Silly Fuyuhiko, the day just started! These are the next few days!

! …………

I…..Ibuki…..

Do you remember Hope’s Peak Academy?

Now Hajime’s the silly one! Monokuma and Monomi took our memories, remember-

Humor me!

Uh, alright…Let’s see…..

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh……

Nope, nothing.

Ibuki, try. Try very very hard.

Try to remember anything, anything at all, about Hope’s Peak Academy, your time there, what happened afterwards. Something, anything!

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm-

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnn-

Nope!

………….

Oh no…..

my toxic trait is that I think it would’ve been better character development if Naruto realised he didn’t actually want to be Hokage (functionally a deskjob except in times of crisis) and left with Sasuke on his redemption roadtrip, after which they both became vigilantes protecting the underdogs of the world from the corrupt power structures enabled by the very existence of militaristic mercenary societies like Konoha who can hire out super-strong child soldiers to protect the rich, in this essay I will

In all honesty, i love hiyoko the same reason why i love Kokichi and is because they're total assholes.

Seeing that post you made just now actually reminded me of something. This post-SDR2 RP blog storyline. Which claimed to be about the whole cast healing, and would be even-handed to everyone. Yet the writer's biases against Nagito constantly crept in, as there were noticeable double standards in the way he was treated compared to the rest of the cast.

Like I realized something upon looking at it again. It's Nagito, and Nagito alone who has to actually face his victims from when he was an Ultimate Despair. He's the one who gets ragged in person on by cast members from UDG. The others meanwhile? They never actually have to meet someone they personally wronged. There are no survivors of Novoselic (which got completely genocided in their version of events) ever confronts Sonia for example.

This is actually the case in a lot of fan works. It is very easy to tell when the writer has a bias against Komaeda. Personally, a thing I noticed when reading is that it feels like they all tend to put the other remnants in a good light while he is just. Separated. Similarly to how the fandom treats him in general by acting like he is the worst of them all. There's always that subtle undertone that shows they only hold things against him, which, again, is often because of the rooted ableism in how the fandom portrays him.

Funny... Since his actions really are tame compared to the others, he never even directly hurt anyone, unlike them. It's weird how the fandom doesn't hold the characters accountable for actual murders in the first place, but can I just mention how Komaeda (including Hinata) was the only remnant who didn't do anything violent and messed up except cutting his arm off?

As for Komaeda being the only one to face the people that he wronged, I saw that people even tend to make the remnants forgive each other immediately (or easily) or don't write any tension between them, making them friends. It's very confusing since they don't have normal relationships even in sdr2 and because they always make them target Komaeda with all the negativity... And because they literally killed each other. They would all be aware of how messed up they are and have to learn to accept it... They don't even have a reason to call Komaeda fucked up anymore because they've done worse, or rather he's fucked up too. They don't have to like him (they would realistically only tolerate everyone except the ones closer to them in the first place anyway), but it'd be way different, and they wouldn't be hostile. The fact that Komaeda would be peaceful makes that even more believable.

(Also do you mind sharing the name?)

Blah blah blah I wanna help my cousin this, I wanna help Monaca that. If your words are genuine why not joined despair Miaya? It could be fun, plus I don't think you'll win her over by apealing to her "morals" is gonna help you.

Yeah, right? You're basically already there at this point.

Back up a minute. You said something about "my" method of brainwashing?

Yeah with your thingie. The...New Universe Simulation or whatever?

That's not true at all...! The Neo World Program doesn't brainwash people, it undoes brainwashing!

Hmmm, are you sure? Brainwashing in its simplest terms, is making someone change their personality to your liking. And isn't that what you did to the Remnants? You didn't like them being Despair so you changed them?

What?! You have no idea what you're talking about! It was designed as a psychotherapeutic simulator to undo trauma and triggering memories for the users! That's exactly why we used it on the Remnants of Despair!

.....Okay Auntie, let's play a little game here.

Let's say for instance, the Remnants of Despair weren't brainwashed. And that Big Sis Junko just merely...talked them into becoming the big bad terrorists you know them as today. Would you still use the program for them anyway?

Well....yes, but-

But why? They're not under some mind control or order from others. They would be fully cognizant of their actions. Morals and all. There'd be no way to know for certain what those guys would be thinking.

To that end, let's go further. Who would you use this on? Serial killers? Predators? Embezzlers? Gang members? Other terrorists? Where does it end?

You'd be replacing other people's already preconception of ideals and making them have new ones to better fit your image! See? Brainwashing! Plain and simple~

They have a term for this sort of thing. I think it's called...Death of Personality.

And I get a feeling, you'd want to use this on me too, huh? Riiiiiight?

Wh-What?!

Mhmm, mhmm!~ That's why you're so adamant about getting me on your side. So you can shove me in a pod and make little old Monaca a "proper" little girl. My my, even you want to use Monaca too for your own purposes, Auntie!~

Listen to yourself, that is absurd! I...would never....do something like that to you-

So say it.

!

Go ahead. Say you never had the thought. Say you'd tell me everything about my past life, and all about Big Sis Junko in that case. Go on. Lie to my face.

I.....I wouldn't.....

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I.....I'd....n-never....

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Uuuuuh-huh! Just what I thought. Adults are all the same! Only interested in what they want and what better suits them!

Monaca: Ahahahahahaha!

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Isn't the world of Danganronpa basically what happens when The Gifted Kids are put up on a pedestal of pressure and praise whereas those who aren't hyper-productive or don't have an exact goal in life get put down constantly and are set aside as "average" or "slackers"?

Just saying cus the way they treat people who don't exhibit any special type of "talent" is almost oppressive. Makoto and Komaru were in frigging high school and apparently they've been disregarded by society just because they haven't done anything super duper talented.

I feel like maybe their world was headed towards dystopia even before Junko did anything.