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Chapter Three

but Monokuma cured Mikan right before her execution

i just had this idea for this longest time and HAD to draw it or id go crazy sorry

YOU! ME! DANCING! so i kinda like, made fancy outfits for the bucci gang and didnt know what to do with them, and then i had an idea.... and this was born.... bucciarati team bonding :)

design refs are under the cut!

real sad i couldn't fully display some of these because im really proud of them!!! i love giving characters outfits....

wanna see how hard i can avoid other drawings lol

art dumpp

Mello isn't well liked but if Matt grew up at Wammy's and Ohba said he was Mello's friends, does that mean Mello had at least someone, Matt, to be with him and play with him so he wasn't alone most of the time, cause generally speaking if they really are friends and Mello had called Matt and Matt accepted they had to have been friends before the phone call otherwise Matt probably would've been more reluctant to help, sorry i just need to know that Mello had someone when he was that small.

I’m sorry Nonny, but buckle up, this is going to be hella long!

I think the thing to take away isn’t that Ohba said that Matt and Mello are friends. It’s that Matt despite having anything to do with the Kira case, despite being uninterested did what he did for Mello.

You have to understand that Ohba saying it isn’t the only, or even the biggest, proof of Mello and Matt’s closeness. As a matter of fact it’s a tiny unnoticeable footnote that doesn’t require a lot of consideration because there’s a million and 1 other things that prove that Matt and Mello were close. Even if you don’t ship them. They’re closeness is pretty obvious.

I’ve talked about it so much that I feel like it’s a waste if i do it all again. But most of my points are pooled into a meta about Matt. So let me explain them again in a separate post:

In this post I talked about how Mello is alone and doesn’t seem to be well-liked and all of this weighs on his self esteem.

I also mentioned Mello’s attitude during the mafia arc being different from his attitude before and after it. This is probably because Mello feels accomplished, on top of things.

But the thing to note about his interaction with the mafia is that Mello often distrusts them [for good reason….i mean?]

This is from volume 8. We as readers at this point ddon’t know what Mello’s real motives are. Is it Kira? Is it Near? Is he really a criminal. But after realizing that he was going after Kira to prove that he was worthy of being L, in volume 9, we can conclude that here Mello was speaking in riddles. He’s talking about Kira, the second L [which at that point he thought was a different person from Kira] and Near. They’re all in his way. But this is how Rod interprets his words:

Mello doesn’t correct him. Why would he? He can’t tell the big boss man that he’s actually using them.

Another thing of note is that every conversation Mello has with Soichiro happens in front of the rest of the mafia. It should be noted Mello is playing a character in front of the mafia so he’s not free to say everything he feels. He has to play his cards right and not let the mafia suspect him.

This conversation however happened without the rest of the mafia:

and it’s only in this conversation that Mello touched upon the topic of L. All this shows that Mello wasn’t honest with his mafia buddies and also that he didn’t trust them very much.

Also note that Mello had an elaborate system of explosives at his HQ planted for the mafia.

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Knowing that Mello didn’t have very many friends at Wammy’s House and didn’t have friends among the mafia, Mello is pretty much established as a one man show. Until Matt shows up.

What was really interesting to me all along was the way Matt behaved around Mello and how Mello behaved around Matt.

Look at the way Mello is treated in the mafia. Look at how he treats his subordinates. He’s not just some guy in the mafia. He’s feared, perhaps more so than Rod. Rod is literally his only equal in this gang. And people all seem to be more comfortable with Rod than with Mello. They’d rather speak to him than Mello.

Look at how Mello treats them. He acts superior. He acts better than he feels about himself. It’s a classic thing. If you want people to feel like they’re beneath you, pretend that you’re above them and prove that you’re capable of living up to the threats you make. Fake it till you make it. It doesn’t matter if Mello is actually scary or not. He needs to pretend to be scary to keep his team under his control.

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Now I’ve already talked about the dynamic of the relationship between other kids at wammy’s and Mello. [x]

We’ve talked about the dynamic of the relationship between the mafia and Mello.

If bearing all that in mind we look at Mello’s relationship dynamics with Matt. It’s totally a whole other story. It’s a complete anomaly.

Firstly, Matt was called “Mello’s friend” when the NPA and Light found out about his existence …not accomplice…..friend.

Then there’s the part where Matt calls Mello to report about Misa.

There’s a little moment where Mello thinks Matt is joking [tho he’s really not amused] but perhaps Matt jokes with Mello a lot?

Another thing is everyone in the mafia is cautious around Mello. Matt isn’t. Matt tells Mello exactly what he feels.

Another thing to note is Matt whining about work. Think any of the mafia guys would get away with talking to Mello like that?

Moreover Mello says “it’s the same here” when Matt says “it’s boring.” Mello could mean…there is no movement and hence it’s boring. But Mello is admitting to his work being boring too. Can anyone imagine Mello the workaholic with his mind only on Kira and Near admitting it’s boring? I conclude that Mello is more honest and straight forward with Matt.

He let’s Matt whine, doesn’t get mad at Matt for whining.

Also notice how easily Mello let’s Matt get away with making mistakes. He doesn’t even look angry.

And we have another “are you serious?!” moment, this time with Matt thinking that Mello is joking.

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Like I said there’s a very big difference between how Mello treats anyone and how Mello treats Matt. Moreover, notice that Matt is the only one Mello trusted with his plans, didn’t seem to threaten him to do his bidding, and even gave him wiggle room, LOTS of wiggle room.

I’m not going to shove my ship down your throat, but it’s at least clear that Mello and Matt were on good terms and had a lot of trust between them. And you’re absolutely right, there is no way Matt would’ve put himself in that kind of danger if there was no trust between them.

This level of trust, cannot have just happened over night. I think therefore we can conclude Mello had Matt even when he was at Wammy’s….

According to the DN wiki Matt was at Wammy’s in his early teens to his late teens. I dunno if that’s a trustworthy source but if it is, that gives them about 2 to 3 years to have developed this kind of trust. Even if Mello didn’t always have Matt, after Matt came around we can be sure that Mello’s [social] life might’ve gone through some kind of dramatic change.

Still, as a kid, not as a teenager, Mello probably relied entirely on himself. But that’s only if the DNwiki can be believed. If not, then we can be sure Mello had Matt on his side for most of his life. Either way Mello had Matt on his side.

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So y’see “Ohba says” is really the smallest most insignificant part of the argument. There’s canonical proof that Mello and Matt were close. So there. I hope that gives you some peace.

I literally can't stop thinking abt how liz and patty are full on hardened criminals like they have probably murdered someone but they still agree to do kid's silly little poses and dance the can can with him

Since Kid doesn't have a legal last name (I decided it and it cannot be changed in my little brain now) what about him taking the sisters last name?

Like Liz explaining to him what a last name is and how some people even fight with their partners about what last name would their children have etc etc

And Kid realizing that he doesn't have one so he decides to adopt "Thompson" to show his relationship with the sisters

when i say that soul eater episodes 10 and 11, the episodes where tsubaki goes to fight her brother masamune who is on the verge of becoming a keshin, are the best episodes of any show ever to air on television you best fucking believe i mean that shit. nobody was doing it like her. from start to finish that episode had it ALL. black star tells tsubaki about how he comes from a family of assassins who had their souls taken by lord death who then took him in because even if his family were horrible people who would do anything for money, black star was a baby who had done nothing wrong. when tsubaki feels like she needs to tell him something about masamune in return for his openness, he tells her she doesn't have to say anything until she's ready. this is a character who up until this point we have believed to be nothing but a selfish ego maniac who is nosey as fuck and now we're seeing that, regardless of how he acts, he cares so much about his partner and puts her feelings above all that shit. and then we get to see tsubaki go and fight her brother and while black star can't do anything to help, he watches her and gives her encouragement even though she can't hear it, and during this entire ordeal he is getting beaten by villagers who saw his clans tattoo and assumed he was there to kill them. and he does nothing to stop them until they go to touch tsubaki and then he says if you touch her, i'll kill you. IF YOU TOUCH HER. I'LL KILL YOU. OUGH. and don't forget that while black star is waiting patiently for tsubaki, she is fighting for her life and thinking about how black star has made it clear to her that even if her name is tsubaki, she isn't a scentless camellia blossom who will die a tragic, plain death. he made it clear to her that she isn't boring and she isn't a nobody and that her thoughts and feelings matter and she doesn't have to be strong all the time. i'm just. oh my god. oh my god im insane. and THEN WHEN SHE GETS PULLED INTO THE SWORD AND BLACK STAR THINKS SHE'S DEAD. AND HIS FIRST INSTINCT IS TO DEMAND SHE COME BACK AND CONTINUE HER PERFORMANCE, TO DEMAND SHE GIVE THEM ALL AN ENCORE. and then when she DOES come back HE ASKS HOW SHE IS AND HE CAN TELL SHE'S LYING WHEN SHE SAYS SHE'S FINE SO HE TELLS HER TO COME GIVE HIM A HUG. AND SHE STARTS SOBBING AND APOLOGIZING BECAUSE HE'S THERE, COVERED IN BLOOD, BECAUSE HE WAITED AND WATCHED OVER HER WHILE SHE GAVE HER PERFORMANCE. FUCKKKKKKK LITERALLY NOTHING CAN EVER TOP THE EMOTIONS IN THESE TWO EPISODES.

I feel like Misa is unrealistic in some way. Kind of reminds me the scene from Frozen you can't marry the man you just met. Misa begged Light for being her boyfriend and they just met in a few minutes. I understand that her parents get killed but at least can't she just like wait for a bit.

I think you might be approaching that scene from the wrong angle here - it's not really about Misa genuinely falling in love.

Misa is a character who dreams of romantic love as a fulfillment that will fix all her problems - which is painfully realistic. You see a lot of people who assume that they would not be miserable if only they weren't single. Society encourages this view of romantic love as the cure-all that will bring meaning to life.

At this point in her life, Misa is still only a year removed from a traumatic event that destroyed most of the world as she knew it - and it was only Kira killing the murderer of her parents that gave her real new hope after that tragedy.

So a good few things come together here:

1.) Misa feels intense gratitude to Kira for anchoring her after her life felt like it had lost direction.

2.) Misa at her core thinks of a relationship as the highest goal.

3.) Light is conventionally attractive.

and debatably 4.) Misa has experienced intense loss and then traded for the eyesight which allows her to see every human as mortal, all the time. Light, being a Death Note owner, does not have a lifespan and is the only person who subjectively seems secure and not likely to be taken away. I don't know if that one is an intentional inference on part of the writing though.

Misa isn't in love with Light.

She's in love with the idea of Light.

You are right, it is deeply unrealistic to fall deeply in love with a person you just met. But Misa doesn't - her care for Light is deeply superficial. She hardly knows him as a person and that... doesn't actually improve ever, at all. She never does learn to care about who he really is. She just wants him to play a part.

And honestly, that is how a lot of relationships in the real world also function and ultimately fail.

Simply saying "I am in love" does not actually make it so.

✴ unlikely (or very likely) duo ✴

some of my favorite cards from the death note tarot set i made. which you can get here, by the way

Do you have any headcanons for how m2 shows affection to one another?

Hmmm well Matt wants physical affection/attention for sure lol. Even if it's just having Mello leaning on him while they sit on the couch. He gets really moody when Mello doesn't, like, give him a goodnight kiss. Mello only wants physical affection when he's in a good mood lol. Like a dog vs a cat. A dog is always happy to see you and a cat may or may not invite you to pet them depending on the day. He does really like backrubs/massages though he KNOWS Matt thinks they're foreplay. Mello secretly (? Not so secretly?) likes praise/affirmation of whatever he's doing. Wants Matt to fawn over everything he says/does like it's the best thing in the world and be his permanent hype man. Literally if he farts Matt better be like "wow that smells amazing babe." 110% support no matter what. Mello will also pretend he's not listening when Matt talks about new videogames/silly things he wants, but likes to surprise him once and a while by silently leaving an unwrapped "present" by Matt's side of the bed. When he was in the mafia Mello looooooved being flashy and throwing around cash like it meant nothing (cuz it didn't, it wasn't his lol) and he still relives a little bit of that by splurging on stuff for Matt.

The wip for this comic had been sitting in my comp for two years and after redrawing most it I finally got around to finishing it. So Happy Birthday Nagito. It only took two years but here it is.

so. this was a while back but you know in that one comic. how Gundham. has the power to summon dead animals? can he- can he summon Chuck? For Mondo? As a treat?

i’ve been sitting on this idea for a while. let them have their pets, man, they’ve been through enough.

join me in my ramblings and talk about akane ! for the analysis thingy

Akane's openess is what always strikes me about her character. Truly nothing is off limits and she just tells it like it is. I find that really admirable and also reflected in everything about her, from her design to her expressions to the way she speaks, she's just very open and like. Objective? I also find it cool how akane's backstory informs her character. It doesn't come out of nowhere and you can really see why she does the things she does. ALSO it's FASCINATING to me that she doesn't like actually give any single damn about her talent? Like not in a Leon way where she actively hates it and wants to be something else it's just like not that important to her. That's something that i think is really necessary for balance in a dr cast (and it's also another reason shes foils with nagito 👀) and for that matter i think that element allows her to compare and contrast well with the other characters and particularly the survivors. Akane cares about what she finds important, and what she finds important is a lot more practical and straightforward than the other characters because of her life. Her down to Earthness really stands out and is pretty critical for such a colorful cast. I think it's notable that akane's color scheme and design is a lot more similar to something you'd see in thh, a game that's overall aesthetic is more like. Based in reality? (As based in reality as dr gets anyways) and i think that describes her well. She's more connected to reality than the other characters in a really visceral way even with her intense strength and heightened senses she still has limits and that really frustrates her, she's not all knowing or superhuman. She's just a person who uses her skills to help her get by in whatever way she can.

💖Happy Valentine’s Day!

Song: BUMP OF CHICKEN「新世界」

Series: Danganronpa 2 Goodbye Despair

Couples: Kuzupeko, Hinanami, Komanami, Komahinanami, Akanidai, Sondam, Ibuki?

THH Bad Ending Theory

Spoilers for Danganronpa 1 below

Okay so what most people assume is that all three of them had kids with Aoi and Toko killed herself because of the fact that Byakuya had a kid with someone else, but i actually think that Byakuya's child is Toko's!

My reasoning is that the two other children have the exact same facial expression as their father in the picture but Byakuya's kid has the same expression as Toko, also i feel like him even agreeing to hold her picture shows a great improvement of their relation from the killing game + Togami being the first to be close enough to Aoi to have a child with her would be weird as well since during the killing game they really weren't on good terms.

So yeah, tell me how you feel about it ^^

THH's Moral Alignement and Reasoning

[spoiler for danganronpa 1]

disclaimer: I haven't read the novels, also these aren't character analysis, just my reasoning for why i put them in this category, also please add onto it if you disagree or have anything to say ^^

Lawful Good

Sakura Ogami: She always takes decisions that she considers to be the best for the people around her : trying to proctect her dojo by accepting to work with Monokuma or committing suicide and making sure to write a letter explaining to everyone why she did it as to resolve the situation and create a more peaceful atmosphere among them.

Kyoko Kirigiri: She has good intentions and i feel like what pushes her to act is kind of a "i can do it therefore i should do it" mindset.

Chihiro Fujisaki: Cute baby sunshine, never did anything wrong in their life.

Ishimaru Kiyotaka: He's the Ultimate Moral Compass, pretty self-explanatory.

Naegi Makoto: A genuinely good person who tries his best to be kind.

Neutral Good

Aoi: We can see during chapter 4 that she put her personal beliefs above all else but even if she tried to kill everyone i still think that she is a good person.

Toko (Ultra Despair Girl): If we were talking solely about THH i would've put her in Neutral Evil since she doesn't care about anyone but herself and is pretty mean (also something that i find very interesting during the 4th trial is that even if throughout the game she seems totally devoted and in love with Byakuya + her obvious lack of self esteem she still chose to defend herself when she thought Genocide Jack had killed Sakura which could've led to his death), but the character development she gets in that game is golden so yeah.

Chaotic Good

Mondo: Feel free to disagree with me on that because of the fact that he killed Chihiro who very much did not deserve it but contrary to what Naegi says in the game it absolutely wasn't a cold blooded murder, himself stating that he blacked-out while killing them. I still chose to put him in good because otherwise he really tried to do the right thing (protecting Chihiro's secret by moving their body or even when in the anime he covered Mukuro's bldy with his coat it showed that he was a kind person) + we also know that he uses his influence to minimize tensions between gangs.

True Neutral

Byakuya: I feel like his god complex makes him kind of uncapable to relate to other people and consider their struggles on the same level as him so he doesn't care about anyone + we saw during the 2nd trial that he definitely can't be described as a good person. I truly feel like he couldn't care less about rules or moral implications as he considers himself above it.

Leon: His actions only seem to be motivated by what he wants in that moment without a lot of reasoning behind it, like changing from baseball to music or killing Sayaka when he could've totally ran away after she tried to kill him.

Chaotic Neutral 

Sayaka : I feel like she's morally neutral in the way where she's so goal-oriented that she doesn't care too much about the means to get to an end (which is also implicate in her backstory) but she's aware that what she does might bad : she was willing to let everyone die and pin the crime on Naegi but once her plan failed she still made sure to save everyone instead by writing Leon's name.

Yasuhiro : I hesitated to put him in chaotic evil because of the fact that he quite literally could have/tried to kill Sakura + he never was particularly kind to no one in the game and tried to steal money from us during his free time (tbh im still kinda mad at the wasted potential of making him a nice chill guy but well). In the end i went for neutral because i feel like its more a case of picking the worst possible choice than being a bad person, even if he is quite selfish.

Lawful Evil 

Hifumi: The reason i put him in "lawful" is because what convinced him to kill Ishimaru was Celestia accusing him of SA, which is an understandable reason especially paired with the chance to get out happy and with Celestia but he was still willing to sacrifice everyone to get out so lawful evil it is.

Neutral Evil

Celestia Lundenberg: It was pretty complicated but i settled on this alignement if we take the things she tells us at face value (since i've seen a few people saying that she wasn't actually trying to win the game and that's why her plan was so sloppy). I don't feel like she's a bad person but she doesn't care about doing bad things to get what she wants.

Mukuro Ikusaba: That's where me not reading the novels probably makes a difference because i know that she gets more development there but based on the game and the anime i have to put her here, even if she was obviously manipulated by Junko she still seemed to agree with her.

Chaotic Evil

Junko Enoshima: Do i really need to explain ?

Genocide Jack: I mean, she enjoys killing people and has no other reason for what she does.

Thank you if you read all of that, sorry for any typos/grammar mistakes, english isn't my first language and i wrote it all in one go. Please tell me what you think :)

I think that regarding the ghosts in particular itd make a lot of sense for them to be the ghosts of humans, like actual ghosts not just ghost-shaped monsters, that would explain Mettaton's obsession with humans and his want of a more "human" body + we know that ghosts dont work the same way that other monsters do, like being immortal and all.

Also i think its interesting to see the way they cope with being undead beings, depression/sadness from Napstablook, Anger from Mad Dummy and Denial for Mettaton. Something interesting about Mad dummy is that we see that he stops being 'mad' when he gets a corporeal form (genocide run or mew mew kissy cutie) which furthers the idea that they're not whole as ghosts, probably bc thats not what they were originaly

Terrible feeling this has been theorized before buuut I just thought of it and want to make a post so I shall.

Considering the fact that Toriel was pregnant and gave birth to her son, I always assumed there must be some wacky mechanics behind the birth of skeletons.

But monsters may not all operate by the same biology. After all, what makes a monster a monster? Their soul. The Dreemurrs are goats, Undyne is a fish, Alphys is a lizard. We see slimes and glob people and hand face people, all likely with their own origins.

We know Toby to hide lore behind supposed throwaway lines and jokes. What comes to mind is the Papyrus quote, "I think humans must have descended from skeletons."

Obviously the joke being that all humans have a human skeleton. This is where human skeletons come from, which Papyrus adorably seems ignorant to.

Considering this, is it so outlandish to think that Sans and Papyrus may be the undead skeletons of once human forms? I'm not sure what the "animation process" would be, where their monster soul came from, etc. There's the possibility that theres some process in which the human soul of a dead human gets turned into a monster soul and its remaining power is used to animate the subject? I don't know, obviously there are a lot of holes in this theory. But where else would a pair of human skeletons come from than the remains of once living humans?

Also, consider the ghosts. Napstablook, Mettaton, and Mad Mew Mew. Are ghosts born? Or are they the ghost of something once living? Perhaps a human.

Consider the fact that six humans (plus Chara) died in the underground, but at that point we're getting a little off the rails. While I could probably make a good case, I'm not currently convinced that Sans, Papyrus, and the ghosts are the undead forms of the humans.

Please interact with this post. Poke holes, add evidence, tear it to shreds. Obviously the birth of skeletons may not be so deep other than that Toby wanted skeletons in the game and they give birth through plot magic. But I desperately want to hear the fandom's thoughts.

yeah