The Court Jester

... at your service !! read pinned pls ♡

[arlos-toybox]

Why, hello, hello! Welcome to my toybox! I hope you enjoy your stay! .°•ˎˊ˗

.°•ˎˊ˗ Arlo / Ko ˎˊ˗ 19 ˎˊ˗ Taken

.°•ˎˊ˗ INFJ ˎˊ˗ 9w1 ˎˊ˗ They / He

This is a little silly blog for me to be free... It will be a lot of my interests, maybe I'll post a little art here and there, maybe I will yap some too. Have a nice visit to my toybox. 👋

ko-fi ˎˊ˗ tellonym ˎˊ˗

I am an alter !! So I may talk about that sometimes. Or like, missing my friends. Which is why I made this blog. To just, reblog fanart. And be silly. And free. Tee hee. (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

Think of this as... A Danganronpa repost blog with a little spice of other fandoms here and there on occasion, and the Jackson Pollock smattering of the ramblings of a guy with mental disorders doing the disordering !

Some ground rules, however, especially if I post art and you interact with it:

DNI .°•ˎˊ˗

BASIC DNI // -18 // Trumpie // Bigoted

ALM // Endo Sys // Pro-Genocide

Hateful // Drama Hungry // Pro-Ship

Not Critical of Media Consumed

I'm honestly pretty laid back and chill, but these things are kind of non-negotiable for my own mental health and well-being if nothing else. ^^;

Erm! I think that's it. I would add like, a list of my interests for what's to be expected to pop up on the blog, but honestly, I'll leave that as a surprise! Or maybe I'll add it to the tags on this post as I go so things can be found easily? We shall see!

All that to say, so long, farewell, thank you for visiting, and enjoy your time in my little dreamland while you're here. (๑>◡<๑)

[rosieyart]

black n white

[rosieyart]

maybe in another life

[chubs-deuce]

at long last... they're all complete! :D I had a blast working on these~

Edit: before more people ask: Kinger is dead in this AU, hence his exclusion

[kmnm1403]

emergence

[genoskissors]

[rottenpeppers]

rem is watching from somewhere in absolute horror

[aether-stars]

Hi I’ve returned from my 2 year hiatus to bring you this meme I made as an excuse to post Light being all cute and stuff

[arlos-toybox]

Hiii, I saw art request inbox is open! May I request a cute Kokichi enjoying a sweet lollipop and being happy in general <3

Yay !! I love this. Ask and you shall receive. (〃＾▽＾〃)

Meant to only be a sketch, but I got carried away... Whee... (｡•́︿•̀｡)

[meow-parties]

dnd ocs :-]

[wisteriasonthemoon]

Do coincidences strike twice?

oh yeah, my replay. I got distracted. I was in chapter 1, at the very first free-time event

this is a great place to start blogging about it again, because there's a question that has been bugging me that Kokichi's event provides great context for. I would like to call upon fandom collective memory for a potential answer

in his FTE #1, Kokichi claims that he and Kaede have met before, but she's forgotten about him. after Kaede questions him, Kokichi goes into a very short story about how they supposedly met. he then rescinds his claim

Kokichi: Hmmm, let's see. We met... Kokichi: ...under hostile circumstances similar to this. Kaede: Huh? Kokichi: You sheltered me while I was on the run from my enemies. With your piano skills, you managed to raise enough money to fund my escape... Kokichi: But then I betrayed you! I sold you out to my enemies and you were swiftly killed! Kaede, thinking: Th-there is no freaking way any of that is true... Kaede: That was all a lie! Kokichi: Yup, it sure was! We met each other here! I can't believe you fell for that, Kaede. You're such a sucker. Kaede: Geez... Kaede, thinking: Yeah... This is the sort of prank a kid who wants attention would pull.

because of the fantastical and vague nature of the story, Kaede dismisses him without much consideration and some agitation, yada yada, Kaede leaves annoyed

okay, context established. smash cut. tumblr town time now

so, there's this DRV3 theory post from 2021 by tumblr user fit-artichoke8738 that I really enjoy. well, I say theory post, but it doesn't attempt to conclude anything about the game or its' mysteries. it's more of a musing connection between two background details: the DICE logo and Kaede's research lab door

for those of you who didn't click the link, basically, Kaede's research lab door resembles the right half of the DICE logo. or, to put it another way, the right half of the DICE logo resembles piano keys. like this

that's it, that's the whole post. fit-artichoke8738 doesn't further speculate. which is all well and good, because although nobody points it out in the notes, the right half of the DICE logo is ... the "C" and "E" in DICE ...

... probably??? right???

which means this could easily be explained as an artistic coincidence. both are black and white, composed of common shapes, and the devs might have not been thinking about the similarities given all the time and work that goes into creating a game like DRV3

I have an addition though. is this *also* an artistic coincidence

IS IT?

did the devs consciously choose to write Kokichi doing a "you were my ally once! psych!" rug pull on Kaede in his first free-time event with her and then they just. spilled paint and accidentally made this design on her shirt

a design, btw, that I am aware is officially listed in the DRV3 in-game gallery as her former high school emblem. it also names the school as "Shining Star International High School". it's a reference to Seisa International, a real conglomerate of International schools in Japan, or so claims the danganronpa.fandom wiki

the only post I can find of similar speculation is from 2020 on VK, a Russian social media, where someone else pulls "LIE" out of the same emblem, just without utilizing the whole thing

and jokes aside, I can guess why this isn't talked about much. this is a background detail, the framework that most people (seem to) view the truth of DRV3 is through Tsumugi's game-show explanation, and there are several ways to dismiss the "DICE" reading, including but not limited to the fact that Kaede has a very inconsistently rendered emblem between her cut-scenes and sprites

but I expected to be able to *find* that dismissal. like "oh. that's weird. ANYWAY." kind of posts. nada. am I missing them??? where are they??? I'd love to understand where the logic for current DRV3 interpretations comes from. the lack of theory discussion these days makes that difficult for me. might as well start with what happened with this idea, since I'm interested in it

if anybody knows, that would be cool. and with that out of my system. I'll resume replay next weekend. maaaaaybe tomorrow

[arlos-toybox]

Danganronpa Requests?

Go, to my ask box! Give me fun little guys to draw! No OCs, as fun as they are, just the canon characters, please.

You can give prompts too! Be free, have fun, be silly, share headcanons even! I just want more fun ideas to doodle out. Hehe. (๑>◡<๑)

[thelostmoongazer]

kissy spots :3

[acoffeegato]

I come up to the danganronpa au stage

“Pokemo-“ im immediately booed off stage

[funtergeist]

i imagined an animation to this song a lot so i made it

[your-dear-memmy]

Picturing DICE as a group of people so chaotic it makes Kokichi look reasonable in comparison is SO funny to me.

I think Kokichi would keep his childlike mischievous attitude, but I'd really love to see a serious and stern leaderly side to him where he needs to be the one to scold someone his own way, or even when he needs to bark out orders quickly.

Some DICE members seem older than him, but it'd be funny if his overly responsible nature (hidden by his loud personality and silly hijinks) would turn him into some sorta dad friend, especially since the fandom at large headcanons DICE to be made of orphans. It's even more amusing with the older members.

How can someone be a little brother figure and a dad friend at once? By being as confusing as Kokichi, of course!

(A single dad who works two jobs, who loves his kids and never stops, with gentle hands and the heart of a fighter, I'm a survivor🎲)

[your-dear-memmy]

RIGHT, LIKE, Kokichi being a leader is a massive part of his character, and it's crazy how people dismiss it since that serious side of him appears more than once, so it's nice to portray him in his element with DICE because that part of him is very much hinted at in the game. It's also the reason why he pays so much attention to Miu and Gonta! It's just like a leader to know how to -for lack of a better term- make use of every asset. (I do think they could've been good friends if their circumstances allowed them to be, especially since Kokichi and Gonta in particular are often seen hanging out together.)

Outside of the killing game I'm sure he could seem a bit more leaderly even to people who aren't members of his organization without needing to use reverse psychology, since he wouldn't need to worry about Monokuma and the ringleader targeting him with the motives just because he tried to get others to cooperate. He says it himself that cooperation gets you killed in the killing game!

I wish that both Kokichi's ultimate level leadership abilities and intellect were displayed even in Despairless AUs, because they're a fundamental part of his character that are easy to miss. From what I see he's always portrayed as either a silly class clown who wastes his potential or a tragic anti-hero with trust issues even outside of the game, never an in-between, which is crazy to me due to how he supposedly has 9 friends who he considers family, so it's clear to me that, imo, most of the trust issues are caused by the environment where robot bears are forcing them to murder each other.

Naturally, given his background (hinted to be hardous by that one interaction he has with Kaito) he might have had some level of trust issues to begin with, but it would just be the type of him not saying much about himself rather than constantly villanizing himself to push people away- that's killing game exclusive, or at least it is to the extreme level it reached, fueled by mania and grief and resentment.

[paffshy]

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