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Have YOU

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ever wanted to That's Wrong! Nagito Komaeda?

Do you think about Nagito's turn from Chapter 1's class trial onwards and miss the good old days of thinking that guy is scary? Do you also happen to be a x reader simp just like me and interested in romance accounting for these spooks at the same time??

Then you're in the right place because I have this Nagito x reader fic about all of those things and more wow more I can't believe it--

Danganronpa Another Episode: Hope Starved Theater Rating: M | Nagito Komaeda x femreader | Summary:

In a building too uncanny to be considered a hospital, you wake up from a coma struggling with the loss of years of memory. However, the gaps begin to fill when you come face to face with the only other person present, an old friend named Nagito Komaeda. He seems to have been responsible for you while you were unconscious, and was eagerly waiting for your awakening in preparation for something, but what exactly compelled him to transport you to this location? That question soon becomes inescapable, and whether the answer carries hope or despair is up to you to unravel…

Currently, the story has 8 chapters out but those 8 chapters total to 176k words which I don't know sounds like a sizable readable chunk to me! The intention here was to write a reader fic in which I would be able to portray as many facets of Nagito's character as I can think of, drawing from research of the source material. With this in mind, character accuracy and tone accuracy were the main focus of my efforts and continue to be as I write the second draft. Because that's right! I'm on a second draft stage I technically already finished the fic in other words ooooo stick with me it'll be complete for sure oooooo 👻👻

(fanfiction progress status below:)

Hi Archsimp I have a migraine so I'm functionally illiterate rn but I wanted to say hi and hello and I hope ur doing well and I always smile when I see you on my dash 😇 totally unrelated how do you think Komaeda would cope with a migraine? Do you think he gets them often? Would he just tank it and move on or would he rest? Or would it be situational? I assume situational as are all things Komaeda AKA the number one "Idk it depends" guy but idk take this concept and go wild

Henlo!!! always greeting me so polite 😳 First off, 🫂

The afflictions are spreading within the moots again... I wish you a very ability to rest and recover if possible 🫂🫂

As for this line of questioning, ngl I almost never think about these types of headcanons unless it came up somewhere like in my fanfiction incidentally so it's gonna be off the top of my head and skipping over the disclaimers you already stopped to bar me from the long-winded version of them but hmmm! Nagito with migraines... Hmmmm... You see left by myself and with full freedom I always end up thinking, "Which would be funnier?"

I guess to put him through a situation similar to ours like draw out the migraine energy by putting him in a specialized magical field for migraines, let's yeet Nagito into an office. Summoning ritual (disclaimer one does not technically need a summoning ritual to summon migraines unfortunately).

Man but I like when Nagito is at a just right level of annoying so then to me I feel like it would be great if everyone around him is struggling like dead on the inside and outside, afflicted by all the ailments

And then there's Nagito "Haha all the easy cases fly to me" Komaeda just ^^ Haha you guys look like ghosts, he says ghostly after downing the 5th soda of the day Do you need any help? I was just about to ask for more work ^^ And he does get the work distributed to him but it's gonna turn out to be easy anyway because he magically gets the easy ones

There's gonna be a huge spike in volumes of work one day and it's gonna be the exact day Nagito is struck with a technical issue on his computer that renders him unable to work the entire day, and he approaches his co-workers like, Sorry haha if only I could help... I'll cheer you on from afar! and they are in shambles

It could also be the worst work day of Nagito's life he got all the hardest stuff to do that day and then it turns out he gets to leave early and then he rests up, he comes back he's doing great he always looks like he's doing great (inwardly he's not doing that great) so then in my jester heart I'd want him to not have the migraines 90% of the time just so he can be that guy like I don't want him to have that relatable dying work guy factor

I feel though like in that sense too even if he was a dying office guy he would probably mask it with a smile until he just about passes out or needs a hospital and so then maybe he's suffering with a migraine, he sounds slower he seems to have no patience he snapped at me :( what's up with Komaeda today but then people don't know he's actually having the migraine of his lifetime which also makes him grumpier about things that would've bothered him less before but now they're annoying I feel in my brain Nagito would be like the type of co-worker who is inwardly keenly aware of how incompetent other people are and thinks about it but usually handwaves it it's okay everyone is nice anyway the work gets done anyway it's all good but then if it's this type of stress situation then some kind of harsh comeback happened and the recipient of it is like scarred for the foreseeable future

So I think in a situation where Nagito would have to do something he might tank it and then only let his guard down in a place where he can rest and doesn't have to do anything. I think it wouldn't even be that he deliberately hides he's feeling terrible it'd just be that since he'd be like yeah haha... I'm feeling pretty terrible right now... the ^^ energy would make everyone else not take it that seriously until he looks like he's about to pass out or something, and then if he doesn't then Nagito could probably be absorbed into what he's doing while feeling terrible that he's focused on that task instead of his own health maybe? Maybe

I guess in that sense the Komaeda in my heart for now would situationally get migraines, but I think there could be a nice enough foundation for a Nagito who is afflicted with migraines at occasion I just have different priorities aka the comedy

Either way thank youuuuuu for asking I like to think thonk about Nagito headcanons!! Would also be nice if the comedy weren't just funny for me but could make you feel a lil better in spirit 🫂

#archsimp asks #putting komaeda in an office because I'm not biased at all #I don't know I think it's generally that thing where komaeda doesn't mean to be annoying but can find himself positioned where #people may find him annoying for some reason though personally I wouldn't find him annoying for this scenario if I were there #I'd be amused honestly like this guy this guy's RNG is impeccable that would probably be me but I do know people who are weird #and wonky at work about people who do better than they do in some way or another #I also say annoying but I don't think that it's necessarily annoying but you know it's kind of funny where everyone would look #terrible and komaeda would look super okay but then tbf truthfully komaeda has his own other concerns and is just used to #having felt so terrible that this is all less terrible for him and I'd want that sense of like him standing out from his peers

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They're had my EIto plushie held hostage all month where IS HE

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They've trapped him!!!! They're so mean >:(

Let him out!!!!!!

#archsimp reblog #I know very little about eito aotsuki but one of the very few things I know was that he's for some reason in a cage I'm so sorry #could not resist

Checked Akane's height and felt the whiplash at Nagito being taller than her

Now I understand my wife (nearly the same height as Akane) when she was complaining about how /reader fanfics always describe the guys towering over her despite her own height and she learned fear when I told her, "Well, Nagito is taller than you so you don't have to worry about that :)"

#archsimp tweet #my wife was so shooketh when I told her she was like STOP and then told me she'd get reminded of this fact while watering her plants #KOMAEDA WAS LOOMING OVER MY WIFE #how dare he...#I'm really short but I don't really care about people being taller than me

I realized that my style of posting lends me to not being particularly annoying since I concentrate everything I want to say into one post in other words I'm so ignorable in a dashboard

#WHAT AM I SPINNING THE WHEEL FOR IF PEOPLE WILL TOO LONG DIDN'T READ #but then againnnnn IT'S SUPERIOR TO HAVE EVERYTHING COMPILED IN ONE PLACE (cope)#how do I tweet .... HOW DO I TWEET #archsimp tweet #like this maybe #sure lately I've been annoying in terms of replaying and re-reading that's a lot of posts but how am I doing this about shipping #how do I become annoying about things people are needlessly intense about.....

Hiiiii, Archsimp! I wanted to drop by and share a theory—though I should make it clear that I’m terrible at coming up with theories; I just really love your fanfic. What if Mitsui—aka the reader—had succumbed to despair before Nagito put her into a coma? Maybe she killed the people close to her while driven by despair, or perhaps the people who mattered most to her died, and that trauma pushed her toward the side of despair. And maybe, seeing her like that, Nagito thought it would be best to stop her in order to preserve her image of hope. If that’s the case, Nagito probably figured that if she woke up, she could end up either on the side of hope (without memories) or on the side of despair (with memories). Anyway, this might all sound pretty silly, but it’s my theory, hehe. Thank you so much for creating and sharing this fanfic!

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aaaaaaaa henlo !!!! Finally got time to type longer stuff gosh

But anyway I don't think it sounds silly at all! I did write this story sort of hoping it would spawn theories surrounding what exactly is going on, or like I guess at least engage one's brain to be wondering what the truth might be? I've seen a theory here and there and I'm happy to get more from that perspective of keeping people on their toes. However, I'm also in this position where I can't lightly make comments on what I think just because I wouldn't want to let something slip that would alert the theory to being true or false. I'm not too sure myself what the boundary for yapping would be, like for example if I said it was interesting, would that sound like the observation of an outsider and make it seem like I'm saying it's not true? Or like if I said that it follows the themes of the story, would it make it seem like I'm saying it's true? Or vice versa? I love to yap but my yap is being put to the test. Either way what I can't express in words I will express in LURV SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And maybe if I can't speak, I can make someone else speak...

#archsimp asks #this was definitely the sweatier junko moment I'll probably regret all these lines right after I see her again in a replay or review settin #yes she is voicing her own sound effects for a double layered meta joke I would not put it past her to do this one #that part I'm not insecure over but yeah this is a manifestation of my pocket junko once again because I can't give spoilers but #I suppose I can give junko... I hope that was okay... I think it was very cool I'm very happy to receive an ask like this #hope starved theater

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Nagito Komaeda And RNG

Have you ever thought to yourself, 'Damn, I wanna figure out what to do with Nagito but I don't get how his luck works?' Or even, 'How come his canon husband Hajime Hinata won't get struck by a meteor the moment they shake hands?' Because so have I! The goal is to try to and fail to embody Junko Enoshima and her inexplicable ability to predict Nagito's luck!!

What Is Luck?

I think that because of how for example, being the one person to win something out of thousands would make you lucky, it would mean that other people being unlucky would make you luckier, and other people are thus prone to being unlucky around Nagito. This manifests also in the source material, both in the death of his parents, how Byakuya dies in his stead, etc... However, as for whether this exact principle is absolute should maybe be taken with a grain of salt. I think that believing this holds true is just as valid as thinking it doesn't, and the reason I'm saying not fully buying it is possible is because this is something Nagito is saying in the simulated universe where he's just unlucky, which doesn't truly happen in the Danganronpa universe, considering being lucky implies being unlucky (as in having bad things happen to you) necessarily. Additionally, in V3's bonus mode, when Celeste, Makoto and Nagito gather, this fixed luck principle doesn't come into effect either as only the headmaster loses in mahjong while the three remain lucky. The context for this line in the OVA is that Nagito then wants to say that there's no greater honour for him, who has no talent, than having the ability to make the world better by absorbing bad luck. This being a world that's meant to simulate an alternative happiness, I think it's plausible to conclude that this absolute principle is exclusive to the simulation in order to make him feel useful despite his still lacking self-esteem, and that other people being unlucky relative to how lucky someone else is is applicable but also depends on their own luck that they're born with. Basically, there is a clear element of truth here anyway from the fact that other people are usually less lucky than Nagito, but that luck being limited might not be that clear and certain outside of the OVA. Other than that, though, the answer to what luck truly is and how it works is, 'Who knows?' Considering it only manifests occasionally and without a specific time pattern, Nagito's luck basically happens whenever you the writer can will it so. The same applies for what type of luck it is. Still, in lieu of the general statements made by Nagito plus all instances of luck he names, I have this following handy dandy mind chart:

#old but maybe relevant because personally I was also disturbed at how easily komaeda's luck system was being presumed #as working x way and how this was in turn being utilized to demean people who were curing komaeda #I think at least that it should be acknowledged that komaeda's luck is not so clear cut a matter unless your name is junko enoshima

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oh this is great

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I feel from this ship a distinct Fuyuhiko/Teruteru tier of difficulty and cursed power...

#it has cursed power because akane wants to yeet komaeda like the entire game's run and I've only ever seen these two #talk past each other like any instance of the game that exists they're talking past each other so they're such opposites it's impressive #but hey you know what they say about opposites in the shipping scene am I right fellas #of course I'll never say it's impossible lest my name is not archsimp there's an arch in there for my power level (?)#rather the moment we're in the fandom space we are only ever dealing with the impossible because nothing canon does will ever #be written the way we do so even something plausible will never be possible in the confines of actual canon #I'll be coming for you komawari/owakoma whichever it is people are in the mood for soon...

yikes yikes yikes yikes--

I very specifically aimed for that phrasing of truly, undoubtedly and unmistakably alone because I felt like at this stage of yapping, Nagito could probably use that type of phrasing for the flare of it and emphasis, which in a way detracts from this element of consideration for Mitsui's feelings and more into looking at it as a spectator. I didn't think the entire like Japanese script in my head through for it, but had the concept of 天涯孤独 (for completely alone, no relatives, no nothing) and just figuring that in a setting of localization, the original would have had these words stretch to be bigger as Nagito is specifying just absolutely and completely certain it is that Mitsui has no one else. It's of course not fun news to receive. There's referencing from flashbacks, and this definitely was a doozy as the flashbacks were getting rewritten for second draft purposes so then everything had to adapt based on whatever changes I made.

But yeah both this and the above are together one Komaeda monologue which is meant to set the tone for Nagito being spooky and leaving no room for doubt on that end. The first chapter had Mitsui scrambled on what to think because of the gravity of the situation and her condition, and has to get this wake-up call that implies there are bigger things at stake than her own health, and they're based on something like hope. In that sense, I was hoping to mimic the type of horror that comes in from Chapter 1 of Danganronpa 2, the realization that Nagito can be dangerous and that he is looking at things in a way different from most other people. The first half while bleak at least is being explanatory but the second half sounds only terrible to be hit with. I would just about disintegrate. Nagito has these moments while speaking where he's demanding a hope-related thing from the other party, and here I'm emulating that, envisioning that swirly eyed Komaeda vibe here while hiding from you the fact that I edited this in post and who knows I might even edit it harder

This part is like augh oof goshie trying to evoke the vibe that other characters in Danganronpa 2 did where they view Nagito as having no empathy regarding the events except here we're getting deeper into the depths of hell because the circumstances are more extreme. The extreme here was also contemplated in the scope of this being a Komaeda with The Hand, but there are essentially themes here from Danganronpa 2 that I was hoping to get in there strongly about the impression that Nagito can give with the ideas he has, and his imposition of them.

"Your predicament right now isn't just 'as if it was' a game. It really is a game..." is a line I was very particular about like full-on vivid in my mind where essentially Mitsui is taking real life to be different from the scope of the game, something heavier, but here I'm taking a page from the Servant book or trying to anyway where there is the emphasis on a game, which is being used to cause growth. This IS a game. Games are real in real life, Mitsui. Get with the program...

This is one of those things where I know that I feel this way from Ultra Despair Girls, but my memory really just has it recorded like that without big detail but it's vivid in my heart that Nagito could probably actually say this and in that exact way. Trusting myself bro after spending too long in research hell...

A few things about the story's structure in general are that since this is a mystery story where a lot just remains up in the air for a good while, I knew there had to be an element of the reader character making theories as she goes for what might be going on. The other thing is that in terms of the plotline itself, it ended up this way because I wanted to engage in some form of Danganronpa gameplay where I could portray Nagito in a situation of debate. For that end, this premise about being forced to investigate a murder serves to bring the horror and the gameplay simulation into one place and is NOT there for yandere purposes I swear

I originally wanted the explanation of all the caveats and etc faster but honestly there's so much going on in terms of like getting dropped into the setting, getting dropped into feeling terrible from being fresh out of a coma, gettting dropped into feeling terrible because Nagito is terrible, etc that just the impact of these things was enough for me to keep the basic information as is, where we at least for this chapter know that Mitsui is there to investigate a murder.

The fact that the chapter ends on this note

real

#hope starved theater review #that would be me too after getting those komaeda monologue bombshells dropped I'd be also like RUN IT'S TIME TO RUN #not being able to run sucks.... in that sense the first chapter is a chapter very focused on setting up eerie and spooky things #well spooky fic after all I at least write hoping it's spooky #chapter 1 is done and will try for the rest tomorrow after I churn out the nagito/akane we all deserve #I'd like to pay particular attention to the interludes since I'm going to be rewriting an interlude #it is kind of awkward but also just how it is that truly I describe this fic and I'm always like yeah so this part right I did this because #I'm taking from the source material where it was spooky and making it spooky here look it's horrifying right #never escaping the is this even romance allegations #hope starved theater

This dialogue is also a bit on the archaic (first draft) side, but this moment in particular is not only the arrival of the strange name that is Mitsui Chirikata (kanji is 治理方満依), which the latter was out of compromise with my wife because she was in charge of telling me what would fly in terms of my target audience, and she told me to make it Mitsui. My original idea was that the name was going to be for someone who is meant to be cool and intimidating, and with the Danganronpa naming convention being broad enough I was going all the way for a shounen anime vibes name like Ryouga Chirikata (治理方療雅) but this was also a timeline where I expected reader to be called Chirikata-san instead and also my wife had disapproved of that one too anyway and Ryouga wasn't gonna cut it either I was surrounded on all sides is all I'm saying

Here is still significant though because I figured it would be sort of spooky sort of a flex if there was a segment in which Nagito was double-checking if the amnesia thing was for real while also introducing this key name to the fray, though the fact the name plate was there wasn't for that 4D chess (as in the one about the amnesia) originally. So it's also meant to be adapting to this situation, so it's trying to imply some form of cunning.

This phone call gets more cursed from here though it only goes downhill from here

Mitsui takes her conclusion about these lines fairly fast but this is a string of lines that I wrote considering the possibility for some level of ambiguity where was it really a taunt? Or did he actually mean it? Since Mitsui is a narrator like Hajime who made his own judgements of what Nagito means, the vibe check isn't law which is good for me to take advantage of in this story that's meant to be spooky. But it does have its basis on Nagitos ranging from Chapter 1 to 3, even if not fully a 1:1 of the lines, but this idea of answering more to the side than directly and with it implying some taunt that isn't very clear on its intention but manages to be scary. The scary part isn't fully the taunt but more like the implications behind it, since Mitsui had been weighing in the red flags since he left the building and so the response is as if reinforcing those red flags.

This Komaeda paragraph is notable to me because I remember being in discussion with my friend about different iterations I had of it in an attempt to have it in-character. It was an important moment because it's when Nagito finally kinda tackles the part where Mitsui is kinda been very kidnapped but then again!! It's what you wanted anyway (so it's totally okay)! And okay you might not want it right now but it's for your own good totally (so it's okay)!! And I mean it's not like you can move or even remember where to go anyway (so it's totally okay??)!! The point was to showcase what I call a horror by purity of intent where Nagito tends to justify what he does as righteous and is acting thinking he's doing the right thing for people even if said people are not very happy about it, and there's some kind of reasoning and argument attached usually, which he won't much budge on.

There's a chimera of different Komaeda things going on in this paragraph, taking from the "I understand how you feel, but" plus "Think about it this way", describing the situation in a sort of succinct way, ellipsis... change of mood, round of questions which to Nagito actually have an answer so it's more asked to guide the other party's thoughts to that (correct) conclusion and then asserting it as final

Like, I knew I wanted a sort of argumentation that made it seem like yeah I know it sucks... but anyway no you still have to be here and if anything it's a good thing you're here actually-- which is of course meant to be baffling and conventionally make zero sense. I have a few of the early attempts archived while talking to my friend and they're definitely funny to look at behold the archsimp OOC of all time

idk friends writing komaeda is hard 😶‍🌫️

#hope starved theater review #am not truly sad it's okay but gosh I thought of putting more moments into this post but splitting into two posts instead #also ngl I call reader mitsui in the author's notes for my fanfiction and on tumblr but that's about the only place I do this #because with my wife I call her reader so then in my head she's reader and with my friend she has another name #but I feel like it makes sense for me to call her mitsui since that's the name that's happened from the plot advancing that way #it's also the name of the murder victim who was going to be big and cool and important so I was like chirikata ryouga sounds like that #none of the names I put forth are very conventional but that's okay #also while replaying the game I feared maybe I didn't make komaeda very assertive but nope nope I don't think I have to worry #the archsimp from this chapter was an archsimp from may last year and I guess that archsimp was thinking about that too...#hope starved theater

this is lies and deception this is the cover for an iteration of the distant past where I was ignoring the localization and so had everything in the format that I guess I see with some frequency too, like with honorifics and stuff. I guess if this fic were like the localization of an original japanese script (it isn't but you know) it would be that right now it's covering the original issue here where reader does remember Nagito's name, but calls him Komaeda-kun, and from there Nagito assumes that there's something off

And from there is piecing together that there's some for real amnesia going on based on the whole... blunt head trauma ow

It's meant to be a little unsettling because it's accounting for the possibility that reader is actually faking the amnesia, even though there were good odds she could have memory issues. The idea in my mind was that actually I'm not that at liberty to say-- but I guess to some extent it's meant to be spooky also in the way where in this situation, there's a part of Nagito that is still composed and also calculating, while accounting for multiple possibilities.

You might have just woken up from a coma and have amnesia and all, but...

You'll be fine surely!

Pull yourself by the bootstraps and get over it!

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mister officer the red flag is right here--

Overall also an absolutely eerie scene but haha the deeper reasoning is outside my spoilerful reach ohohoho

#hope starved theater review #I think an argument can be made from a danganronpa 3 perspective that komaeda wouldn't see the injury as an obstacle to overcome #and instead want reader to be there at peak condition but the logic from danganronpa 3 is pre-tragedy and assumes the possibility #to wait that long and more than that so here we have a sort of inevitability being assumed and that stands as an obstacle #thus then my logic was that komaeda would want to see it from that perspective of something to overcome #and that being able to reach that thought process in the first place you know being able to not find that to be the priority #would be spooky to begin with and that scene has a lot of things going on gotta shut up rnnnn take red flags only

I feel like Chapter 1 (first half) has the most leftovers from the first draft as in things that are really old to the point that they're more so from older iterations than the actual final ones. Like, me right now, I wouldn't have written it like this? If I were to have the prose match the reader character. At the same time, to be honest, I didn't really replace it because I felt like it has some degree of sense with the character anyway so it's just barely in-character (with the reader character? archsimp what--).

With Nagito's dialogue I feel a bit the same way here where I think I'd have a different character voice altogether if I did that from scratch, but as technically I get where I was going with it here (some English localized equivalent of also some kind of ツイてないな…), I figured that it's not too off the mark and still have it this way. Rare lenient archsimp moment

When it comes to the turmoil, there's meant to be a set of contradictory emotions happening for now, but where it seems to end up boiling down to fear, this massive regret and anxiety...

In the end it's also pretty significant to me how essentially reader's current physical condition is so bad that it also has to be the other way around, that since there's nothing to resort to and otherwise it's complete despair, that at the same time there's this hope that Nagito would save her, even though she also doesn't want that to happen, and it's very sad 😢

I had a few things to think about regarding reader's condition, of which a few are more related to how to have that lean more to how it might happen in Danganronpa while others were in the interest of being more bleak, but one thing I drew from research off of waking up from a coma and the general condition was the concept that there were different levels of consciousness, and how the process of waking up from a coma isn't just opening your eyes and everything's cool. There are also other things I had in mind, in particular relating to blunt head trauma that are being combined with some effects from coma that I drew from research that at this point barely remember, but I was taking advantage of the absolute terrible combo of afflictions here (dizziness, limbs absolutely sore and hard to move properly, memory is scrambled, and waking up had happened before lucidity). The latter in the parenthesis was on my mind that moment because I felt it would also be bleak for there to be this type of confusion right now, like... Am I actually properly, completely awake? Does my memory still even work properly? Can I trust my own memory?

I guess before everything somehow gets worse, it was already pretty bleak because this story has as its foundation the massive debuff that came with waking up from a coma...

#hope starved theater review #I don't have the full prospective japanese lines in my head since my brain is not that powerful I do just a sort of partial check for #a sort of line or structure I remember in my head and then write with that in mind since otherwise it'd be like translating my own writing #which sounds like it would take forever and be a huge pain no no it's just partial while I write in english #these elements of the coma are in the story and I did do some research but I was afraid that being too particular about them #would have me at odds with in-universe tone aka would kodaka care about the realism of it? I ruled that no and it would exist for the #general characteristics/aesthetic but probably not at a level of depth where accuracy was the concern so I didn't pursue this with full #medical accuracy as honestly waking up from a coma caused by blunt head trauma is actually even more bleak than what's up in this fic #the fact that there's zero people watching over reader right now is actually horrifying #hope starved theater

My wife's favourite character...

#hope starved theater review #I literally like opened up danganronpa 1 like “I swear a door's been pulled at before I am going to steal the sound effect”#I saw this and contemplated my life choices but then tanked it anyway I tanked it anyway I tanked it anyway #my wife loves this the same way I love my favourite character in danganronpa ding dong bing bong

Yeah that's pretty sudden

#hope theater review #when you want to organize your scrambled memories but junko enoshima threw the world into chaos that feel when

(absolutely skipped the prologue yes I honestly can't say anything about it at this point in time)

Here was particular to me because Danganronpa protagonist law from 1 to 2 (and Ultra Despair Girls had that kind of but as an intro cutscene) dictates (?) that the protagonist introduces himself in a sort of proper official introduction kind of way that is also half awkward since it's this official introduction but they're no one special supposedly and also they're continuing to give a bit of an intro exposition about the context of the plot

And so by that law, I felt like the reader character required to have this type of introduction too, because the role taken here is the role of a Danganronpa protagonist. However, she has no name, meaning she can't do an official introduction where she gives out her name woops? But as our predecessors introduced themselves to the audience, I felt like the same had to apply for the sake of tone accuracy and followed with this reasoning where I tried for that meta angle of, "Here would be an introduction, but... Woops! Amnesia!" DR seems to also tend to be conscious of clichès in its writing at a meta level so I incorporated also the idea that thus the fact that reader has no memory could probably be seen at a meta level in-universe as part of a trope that isn't bombastic to the audience and combo'd that with the awkward tone about the introduction but this time because of not knowing her own identity.

Before this was also a segment trying to describe the room reader wakes up in because while the aesthetic going in for this story was always "murder hospital" (this is what I usually call it to my wife), it also was meant to not be rocking a 1:1 architecture of a hospital for convenience and have this bizarre property to it that would add to the horror and so I first wanted also to establish how uncanny the room was to set that tone in stone for the time being where later it's more or less understood why this is.

#hope starved theater review #this was gonna be done sooner but I got almost no sleep then had a massive 6 hour power nap to compensate #I did also skip parts of the first chapter but it's mostly the commentary to entertain me as I re-read so hopefully that's okay #I'll be organizing this commentary under one tag and probably later on into the fic I'll be compiling all of this and #I guess update my author's notes accordingly #it's also a scene that sticks out to me as this story has a bunch of times that's just establishing the tone and #here reader had this hope that it was a hospital but then it's slowly getting weirder from there #hope starved theater

archsimp

I'm gonna be so real never trust anyone telling you what to do and they start talking about how it's because that's more canon since 99.5% of the time it has nothing to do with canon but absolutely everything to do with limiting your creative freedom

Legit this is all I see when people are adamant about how you should be following "canon" which conveniently just so happens to align with what they'd like to see in fanfic

archsimp

#don't get me wrong I love seeing people's criticisms and negative takes but it's different to me when it's trying to #dictate what you should and shouldn't write and on top of that is not based on actual canon fact despite the premise being that it is #absolute double combo because not only do people not need to care about canon but the canon shield isn't even real it's just your take #certified posts archsimp would have never made without having peaced out from tumblr before

I sorely underestimated the courage necessary to re-read my own fanfiction and react to it on this blog and I have this distinct feeling that when I do I'll be scrambling to edit whatever I find in post whenever I feel like I have to show it

you will see a different chapter than you saw the last time you read it from any blog post I make surely

#archsimp tweet #also screenshots of the fic from my computer look tiny 🤏but from my phone they look huge #I could just copy the text and format it to look like a quote to differentiate but I've been considering if maybe #the screenshots being tinier would be like the real spoiler protection for the people who haven't read yet #you have to squint to be spoiled... gotta train to yap about my fanfiction somehow!!!#this is a fanfic-related blog!!!

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