Au where Kagami can’t speak Japanese and he kind of has to bullshit his way throughout the knb plot with even more aggressive posturing against/with the miracles and godawful google translate and ball is life-isms
i've had an itch to share my ocs for my "fanganronpa" on here lately.. unsure if anyone will be interested, but if u want to know anything more about these guys pls feel free to ask ^_^ this is the main oc project i have.
premise: "Sixteen Ultimate Alumni of Hope’s Peak Academy, both from the Japanese and International branches, are kidnapped on their way to a conference and wake up trapped in an abandoned building reminiscent of a school. Their only way out? Murdering a fellow alumnus and getting away with it. Will they prove their merit, or will they lose everything?"
for my version of hope's peak, there are two schools that students attend depending on where they come from. the japanese school was the original (built in the 1950s) and the international school in the usa joined it not long after. more broadly, they are run by the Ultimate Talent Development Program (UTDP) which has international acclaim. the schools have a main course which hosts the scouted ultimate students & a reserve course which functions like a "normal" private fee-paying academy
ok anyway here's the first 8/16 of the main cast
Himari Takehara (武原 陽愛): Ultimate Judoka (the protagonist)
Age: 23
D.O.B: July 27th
Pronouns: She/Her
Height: 5'6
Weight: 150lbs
Blood type: O
Home country: Japan
Likes: Early mornings
Dislikes: Celebrity gossip
Favourite food: Strawberries
Former classmates: Yahui Mei, Misaki Momoki
A fiery woman who seemingly posseses endless determination, Himari's motto is "Just keep pushing!". She fell in love with judo after watching a televised tournament and the fighting spirit on display captivated her. At that moment, she knew she wanted to pursue nothing else. It took a while to convince her parents of judo as a hobby, much less a career path, so even today she fights with the intent to make them proud. Himari has never lost a fight while in the public eye, is the youngest member of the judo association to achieve the sixth dan rank, and her current goal is to win gold at the Olympics. She likes to be relied on.
Moremi Adefope: Ultimate Historian
Age: 24
D.O.B: October 1st
Pronouns: She/Her
Height: 5'8
Weight: 132lbs
Blood type: A
Home country: Nigeria
Likes: Editing Wikipedia
Dislikes: Generative AI
Favourite food: Fried plantain
Former classmate: Orazio Ovidi
Pragmatic to a fault and hungry for knowledge, Moremi takes her position as Ultimate Historian seriously. Hailing from a family that prioritised education, she was encouraged from a young age to observe the world around her and share her thoughts. During her years at Hope's Peak, Moremi gained a reputation for her dependable nature as the President of the student council and student representative for her class. She takes naturally to leadership roles and commands authority in any room she's in. Although she jumps at any opportunity to share her knowledge with others, she has a low tolerance for people who speak against her ideas and try to prove her wrong.
In an ideal world, Raichi would be a social butterfly surrounded by people at all times. He's an extrovert who thrives around others, but constantly moving from city to city, country to country as a kid stunted his ability to make friends. He's not used to staying in one place and long-term relationships have proved difficult to maintain. Throughout this, Raichi found comfort in making music and sharing it online, becoming somewhat of an internet micro-celebrity in the circles he frequented. Raichi is optimistic and this in some cases drove potential friends in real life away, as they struggled to comprehend how he could act so at ease with life while disabled. For Raichi, he is simply content with his cerebral palsy, treating it as he would any other part of him and rejects the expectation of shame. Many perceive him as naive, but, far from it, Raichi knows better than anyone the world's hardships. He finds them exhausting to dwell on and would rather express himself joyfully.
Avery Avalon: Ultimate Patissier
Age: 22
D.O.B: October 21st
Pronouns: He/Him
Height: 5'3
Weight: 147lbs
Blood type: O
Home country: England
Likes: Caring for rodents
Dislikes: White chocolate
Favourite food: Welsh rarebit
Former classmate: Hasan Jamil
Placed in a caretaking role for his mother from a young age, Avery's talent for cooking and baking grew naturally as he took responsibility for preparing her meals. His skill in making pastries and other sweets became evident, giving him a great deal of notoriety in his home town. Children at school always wanted him at their parties, he was always sought after for chartiy events. Avery didn't mind any of this. On the contrary, he is at his most content when people express gratitude towards him. Although in the first few years of his life Avery had a more troublesome reputation, he soon became known as simply a kind and thoughtful lad. He's learnt to read others well and understand what he can do to help them. It helps that he hasn't got a sweet tooth himself and so the only natural course of action is to give his pastries to others.
Finola Delaney: Ultimate Chorister
Age: 21
D.O.B: December 12th
Pronouns: They/Them
Height: 5'2
Weight: 121lbs
Blood type: O
Home country: Ireland
Likes: Music festivals
Dislikes: Self-checkout machines
Favourite food: Cottage pie
Former classmate: Narciso Jacinto
Finola's permanent nervous expression reflects a meek, unassertive nature. They are a sheltered individual, growing up with the epitome of helicopter parents who hovered around them at all times and almost didn't even let them attend Hope's Peak because it was too far away. Singing is the only time Finola feels slightly at ease. They have been a member of their local choir from as long as they can remember and are considered high and above the greatest talent among their fellow choristers. Confident in their skill, it is the one time Finola will never back down when challenged. Usually averse to conflict, Finola's vindicative strike becomes evident when their skill for choir is contested. Under normal circumstances, Finola is the type to let others handle conflict for them, letting their group of friends take revenge on someone who wronged them while watching with a satisfied feeling. For disputes within the choir, however, they'll happily take the reins.
Narciso Jacinto: Ultimate Ecologist
Age: 21
D.O.B: April 22nd
Pronouns: He/Him
Height: 5'0
Weight: 112lbs
Blood type: B
Home country: Peru
Likes: Superhero comics and cartoons
Dislikes: Capitalism
Favourite food: Inchicapi
Former classmate: Finola Delaney
For Narciso (alias: Nepenthes), his love for superheroes and the environment go hand in hand. He has an indestructible sense of justice cultivated by the comics he's read since a young boy and his love for plants, fungi, algae and ecosystems everywhere gave him something to apply it to. He views ecosystems and individual organisms as citizens in need of a superhero like himself to help. Growing up in a city bordering the Peruvian Amazon made him extremely aware of environmental destruction by corporations and more widely governments. Witnessing crime after crime committed with no repurcussions disillusioned him somewhat to humanity, but a group of activists in his area steered him from outright misanthropy and broadened his perspective. Green colonialism and capitalism are now just as important to him as the underlying forces behind ecological destruction. Many brush him off due to his eccentricity, but Narciso takes to everything with utter sincerity and refuses to tolerate those apathetic to the world around them.
Hasan Jamil: Ultimate Perfumer
Age: 22
D.O.B: February 7th
Pronouns: He/Him
Height: 6'1
Weight: 147lbs
Blood type: B
Home country: France
Likes: Flower arranging
Dislikes: Shopping
Favourite food: Tarte tatin
Former classmate: Avery Avalon
Though it may be counterintuitive to his status as an Ultimate, Hasan prefers to fly under the radar. Originally, the UTDP scouted him for the title of Ultimate Model, but Hasan rejected it and requested to be the Ultimate Perfumer instead, a situation otherwise unheard of. Hasan was a child model, considered one of the most promising in the industry, and thus spent much of his childhood in the spotlight. He tends to be perceived as cold due to his minimal expressions and monotone voice, some even view him as stuck-up and arrogant. Anyone actually close to him would instead call him introverted and awkward, but unfortunately no such people exist since he cut off his family. His interest in perfumes stemmed from a broader interest in chemistry and dissatisfaction with many perfumes already on the market. Hasan found peace in a hobby that was for himself first and foremost.
Yoru Kurotsuka (黒塚 夜): Ultimate Undertaker
Age: 21
D.O.B: April 4th
Pronouns: She/Her
Height: 5'5
Weight: 100lbs
Blood type: AB
Home country: Japan
Likes: Folklore
Dislikes: Crime dramas
Favourite food: Nori senbei
Former classmate: Raichi Arashi
Yoru is strange, even by Ultimate standards. Reserved and stoic, she seems unassuming at first. Merely a quiet woman who only speaks when prompted and tends to say unintentionally ominous things. However, a little probing exposes a troubled family history with an impact that still lingers on her. Yoru grew up in a small town surrounded by death and tales of vengeful spirits, especially concerning rumours about her own family, with her father being the town's mayor. Yoru always believed herself firmly to be cursed, to be a bad omen that brought misfortune to her family and town. After her parents died, she took solace in observing and later practicing funerary rituals. In a society with a changing funeral industry, the UTDP scouted her as the Ultimate Undertaker and she became trained in Japanese and Western practices.
HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away
Hey y’all I have an announcement! My web app that I’ve been working on, Afro Index, is now live! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, for artist, animators, writers, and anyone who wants to learn more about them!
Check it out at afroindex.org! 💛✨
A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming,
structured filtering, and curated reference images.
What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?
What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?
What if the rainforest ADVANCES?
What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?
What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?
What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?
What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?
What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?
What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?
What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?
The condors are back. The whales are saved. The sea turtles are no longer endangered. The cranes are back. The bees are recovering. The air in LA and Tokyo and London is clean again. The aquifers in the LA Basin are refilling.
Children are kinder than previous generations. Parents are stopping the abuse cycle. Being trans and queer is more acceptable than ever on a ground level.
It's hard to see if you're young, if you don't know how to step back from social media and the news. But remember--bad news sells, and the algorithm knows despair keeps you scrolling. It's a skewed lens.
We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.
People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.
Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.
Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.
We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.
In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide. In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.
When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.
When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.
When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!
We fixed it.
We CAN fix it and we ARE fixing it and we DID fix it.
Believing that things can get better is not blind hope or optimism--it is based on hard data that many things have consistently gotten better over the arc of history.
In addition to all that was mentioned above:
The likelihood of dying in infancy or childhood--or losing a child--has plummeted just in my lifetime. The likelihood of dying in a natural disaster is the lowest in recorded human history. Yes, even with the uptick in natural disaster intensity from climate change!
Humans alive right now are more likely to have access to healthcare, electricity, education, birth control, clean water, and nutritious food than at any other point in human history. There are so many diseases we can treat now that were a death sentence for 90% of human history.
This is not by accident. This is because generations of humans put in work to make life better for their communities.
Some of our solutions had the side effect of creating other problems--better access to electricity that ultimately made people's lives easier and safer led to pollution and climate change, for example--but we are tackling those knock on problems too. Our generation's solutions to our current problems will probably create their own less-bad side effects for the humans after us to deal with.
Is it silly and naive to believe we might actually be able to make things better? Not at all. We have many times before. We are doing it right now.
I did my PhD in a fish lab, and one time I was emailing a fish company, and the guy emailed me back with the signature “Best fishes,” followed by these guys
A piece about caring and bonding deeply intertwined with survival, and death as a legacy to the building of love and community.
Some may recognize this piece being on display during the spring of 2025, it was purchased for a surprise and was finally unveiled last month so I'm now sharing it online! :)
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