My Cinnamon Roll Izuku Midoriya Aesthetic

You know the more I play and replay Danganronpa, the more incredibly out-of-pocket it seems that the series ended on Naegi becoming the Principal of Hopes’ Peak Academy????  We’re ignoring V3 right now.  I’m just talking mainline continuity.

Like, even ignoring all the crimes against humanity that the academy perpetrated or that their ever-growing pursuit of talent helped Junko bring about the end of the world, reopening Hope’s Peak goes against the core message of the games???

Makoto may be the “Ultimate Hope” and the “Ultimate Lucky Student,” but in his heart and in reality, he’s just an average kid who won a lottery.  The fact he ISN’T special and yet becomes the savior of the world as his Super High School Level Classmates fall into despair around him is what makes him a great protagonist for the franchise!  To attend Hope’s Peak you have to be scouted, but no one in the before-times was ever going to recognize an extraordinary ability to remain positive!  The point of Makoto’s character is that people have talents that aren’t going to be recognized as useful or explementary, but they’re just as important to the survival of humanity as those who make ground-breaking discoveries or legendary artistic pieces.  

It’s not a coincidence that every main character in the franchise (up to V3) was a “regular” person: Makoto, Hinata, Komaru.  They may not be “special,” but they still do great things, because every human has the ability to make a difference in their world!

And it’s not just the main characters, because Ishimaru even states he hates being labeled as special, because he believes that “ordinary” people who work hard are the true Ultimates in society.  And in Ultra Despair Girls, Toko takes offense at Komaru saying she doesn’t understand weakness, because by being “special” it makes her strong.  Taking literally one thing a person excels at and making it their entire identity ignores the actual strengths and weaknesses that all humans have.  Additionally, it discourages people from finding those strengths within themselves as Komaru was always so quick to try and give up and use her status as “normal” as an excuse to run away and not try.  

On the other side of things, characters like Byakuya used their status as an excuse to hurt those that were “beneath” them.  He manipulated crime scenes and was a just a general douche to literally everyone, because he thought he was better than them.  By creating a society of stratification based on talent or wealth or whatever else, you are creating a society that is ripe to justify inequality and unfair treatment.  

And going back to those crimes against humanity, it is the drive to become “great” when you’re not that spearheaded all those human experiments and mistreatments and treating humans like a game character to level up instead of a person to be treated with respect no matter their ability.  

The fact that all of this was just ignored and that the series sort of turned its back on its very ethos in the last leg of the franchise is just baffling to me.  

huhuhu that nerd is wearing his jacket like some kinda her-OH

* MUFFLED HERO A PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND*

YGO/MHA crossover AU, I’ve been wanting to do this crossover for a while and just random doodled around so far but there,take this for now :’’’ and yeah there’s still the switching souls thing here,why? I hope to write it down properly someday =w=

One of my favorite things about Ultra Despair Girls is listening to the kid characters talk.

Like Jataro and Kotoko especially just ramble on and on about weird shit because their attention spans are still at this young age. Even Monaca just automatically gets bored with something if it fails to properly catch her attention. Nagisa doesn’t typically display this trait out of all of them because of his childhood and how he was pretty much raised by abusive parents to be an overachieving perfectionist to even get any scrap of worth or acceptance from them.

So many kid characters in anime are boring or there to be all cutesy. I really love that the Warriors of Hope are just… really gross and absent-minded. It’s not that they aren’t clever or anything, but their imaginations are at the age of just being on overdrive and so they go on tangents or lose interest and think of something better, cutting off their current thought processes…

Like Kotoko just has to tell everyone what her favorite food is and also what her least favorite food is and what she thinks about giraffes or eggs… and that’s just funny and cool of her. Hell, I love it even when the kiddy stuff covers up darker things like Masaru’s design of this standard shounen-esque kiddo with the little bandaids and scratches look is really hiding an outwardly and physically abused child.

It’s just really neat is all.

Ultra Despair Girls is honestly probably the best Kodaka has ever gotten at writing traumatized characters.

Soo... this probably wont get any attention but i dont want it to get lost between all the other ideas in my head-

As someone who's least favourite game is Goodbye Despair (shocking, right? I almost got doxxed on tiktok for this.) One of the many reasons why i dont like it is the atmosphere. In THH, the students are trapped in a school. Windows and doors are completely shut with metal plates, as we know. It creates a really claustrophobic atmosphere and makes it feel actually like a scary situation. Like, just imagine the dark halls of an empty school at night. During a killing game. Creepy.

In v3, we have another school. This time the windows and doors are not closed off. They have a huge garden, and some other buildings in it. But what makes it feel, again, claustrophobic is the huge dome/cage thing over them. Also, i think it fits so much with the "its actually fiction" plotline, like its not claustrophobic in the traditional sense. I think you'd feel less trapped, but more small and insignificant.

But in Goodbye Despair, i just dont get the same "trapped" feeling. Yes, they are in an island. They cant go anywhere. Except its a much bigger area than the other two, and definitely more comfortable. Though the "creepy" aspect still exists, due to island being abandoned. So, here's my alternate setting for Dr2! Of course this is just a idea, an AU of sorts... Im not trying to claim my version is better or anything lol.

What if Dr2 started in a cruise ship. It starts with class 77 on their way to the jabberwock island (for rehab since they are remnants). But before they could reach the island, monokuma stops the ship in the middle of ocean and starts the killing game. I think it would be scarier at night and more claustrophobic than an island. Since its in the middle of ocean, they could add a rule like "you cant kill a student by throwing them to the water" And someone will exploit the rule by throwing a dead body to the water. The cons of my idea is that chapter 4 wouldnt exist, which is one of my favourite chapters/trials in the whole series. And maybe Nagito bombing the hotel(?) In chapter 5 would be...uh..tricky. because if he bombs somewhere in the ship, it could start sinking. Actually, thats interesting too. The ship starts sinking, very slowly. So during chapter 5 and 6 they are racing with time. And the game ends with makoto,kyoko,togami coming to save them in little boats.

bomber neglects one tiny detail: the massive number of other gay people who also play splatoon

Holy wow...that...that whole thing actually happened...

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Wow....that....must have been a....intense memory to recall.....

But...I am happy you did so....confronting an event like that head on is-

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How could I.....do that....?

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Their....th-their faces were so....s-so sad.....so....much crying and.....and in pain, and I.....I........I just killed them.......H-how......

HOW COULD I DO SOMETHING LIKE THAAAAAHHHAAAAHHHAAAATTTT!!???!! *Akane starts bawling*

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Now, now Akane...Y-yes that happened but you aren’t a bad person because of it-

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*SLAM!* YES THE HELL I AM!

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They were mine! They were my little brothers and sisters! A-and I just killed them with my own bare hands!!!

It-It’s making me sick! They looked up to me, I was suppossed to take care of them and I just...just....

I...*hic*...I can still see there little faces....Niyo, P-Purin...Botamo....they were all so scared...scared of me...! Even Hotami and Moro....th-they were...I-I watched the life d-drain from thier eyes....! It...it-it...it’s haunting me....!

AAAAAAAHHHAAAAAHHAAAAA!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

I wanna let this out. Have you ever thought that the sdr2 characters just gave up their dreams after the shit they did when they were brainwashed (despite not remembering it)

Kazuichi gave up his love for machines and fixing them after hearing the horrible shit he did

*inserts ending theme of digital circus*

OOOO THIS IS AN INTERESTING THOUGHT!!! A concept worth to think about! But there are some where doing the things as their talent came off as a coping mechanism, just imagine how just simply doing the things they aspire or what comes off as stress-relieving to them became a trigger. Its a very deep in thought what-ifs, but I do believe this is the case logically enough in post-NWP. Though there are few that could and couldn't give up on their talents merely because...

Someone like Teruteru, Kazuichi, Akane, Tanaka, Nekomaru, Ibuki, and Mahiru are all purely because the talent they have are simply much of a hobby, something they find love, comfort, and inspirational, or motivation to move forward.

Ones like Sonia, Fuyuhiko, Hiyoko, and Nagito are all born or was already given a chance to the talent itself, where their fate has been placed down since the beggining (does not end well).

And people like Mikan, The impostor, or Peko were ones being put in bad situation thus grew a talent they view in a way that was a bit unhealthy (this could apply to Nagito as well)

Every people has a different thoughts on this ofc, I'd love to write out mine but I simply just doesn't have enough time to write out all of them. Ty for sharing your thoughts!!

BNHA x One Piece Crossover in that one scene during Enies Lobby Arc where I cried and crieddddd  😭 😭 😭