#*edit for clarification

[jacksmusesdrv3]

I think you covered a part of this but why does Shuichi react differently to Ouma's head injury than when he cut his finger in the last FTE? Is it because Ouma shows more pain in the FTE, because they spent some time together, or because of Maki being around or the class trial beginning ?

It would be a mix of those things, yeah: Ouma very visibly shows pain in the FTE, while Shuichi is watching the incident unfold in front of his eyes. He was also focused on the knife game - in a kind of awe at what he was seeing - as well as how “strangely serious” Ouma was about it (again, visible). More importantly, he doesn’t have any particular reason for his perspective to skew in the first place, thus was compassionate to Ouma’s hurt. I think this may have been why Ouma was laughing so cheerfully, and was genuinely grateful, since Shuichi truly isn’t a callous person by his nature, he’s simply… careless.

In the case of the head injury, Shuichi was more focused on Ouma’s “cheerful” aura - owing to the shock “Gotcha!” effect from his uh, “prank” - which immediately put him on guard and biased his judgement, despite that Ouma was… very obviously bloodied to hell and his expression fading due to blood loss, and hell even Maki confirmed that he was in a bad state. Meanwhile Shuichi only denoted that he was affected by the blood loss as he watched him walk away, but while he was close up, all he really saw was that Ouma was laughing away about what had happened, and didn’t observe as to the why; that may partly be because that involved a kind of thought process that he wasn’t prepared for, as he already couldn’t fully grasp ‘Ouma is actually being serious here’, which is something he didn’t have any trouble with in the FTE. It also didn’t help matters that he didn’t see the injury happen.

As for Maki’s presence, it sure doesn’t help that she was callously flippant about Ouma’s situation, which may have allowed Shuichi to distance himself from Ouma all the more. An additional to this is that he decided he would focus on what Ouma was saying about the incident, in order to note details before the investigation ends. Owing to all this, and Ouma’s seemingly “full recovery” when they met again, it’s like Shuichi completely forgets, and is more concerned about Kaito. Ouma even has to remind him that he fell and hurt himself really badly.

To be clear though: bad timing is a factor, but of course this doesn’t excuse how Shuichi brushed the entire incident aside when such timing was no longer an issue.

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theholylight

Yeah but Morgana is a stable Persona user, I never got why they established that as fact when you have Morgana with such dreams :v

He’s also an otherworldly being with amnesia. One wonders how stable that could have been anyway considering he wasn’t even cognisant of his full self, thus rendering *that entire point made by him... questionable at the very least

How the fuck did he even get his Persona, was he given it by Igor? Did he awaken entirely on his own?

[jacksmusesdrv3]

So uh, this is a periodic reminder that this blog (and all of Danganronpa, for that matter) is not safe content overall, so if this is going to be an issue, it’s probably best you don’t hang around here, for your own wellbeing. I’m tagging them as best as I can, but I can’t skirt around these matters forever.

Since we’re dealing with a lot of canon corruption - a common thing through the students and their talents - it’s gonna get dark, and with the theme of truth and lies you can expect to touch on real evil connected to that theme.

[jacksmusesdrv3]

So I've wanted to actually talk about [this] for a while, but I felt weird about doing so on the original post for some reason. Here goes, then!

I wanted to make something that was more whole and symbolic to do with the twin, so I picked a scene from Urasawa's Monster to reference with real Kokichi Ouma as Johan Liebert, the twin welcoming the other twin home. The key here is that Johan is pretending to be his sister - hair and all - but in this case it's the other way around, 'Checkers' Ouma pretending to be Kokichi.

Kokichi's eyes are swirling- much like Korekiyo and Tsumugi’s, as Kokichi himself has lost it (and likely not getting it back any time soon). Monokuma isn't moving at all, while being carried. That chair is basically a Renegade-esc bastardisation of Ouma's chair in his lab (who even knows where this is, he's definitely not hiding in his lab or anything).

The horses are self explanatory (horse twins), while also made out of wood (Trojan horse), those chain links are from the Saishuu logo with the cross-section 'crown' of sorts (which was a pain in the arse to space out and draw out properly, blegh), and the bright gem in the middle of it references an unknown gem that is stolen - may or may not be a powerful one even - in the Love Suite event (I simply made it red to go with the ominous Monokuma Eye imagery). Whether or not it has any underlying relevance, I just think it looks cool here, and appropriate that a childish villain would have a gem he stole on his crown, so to speak.

Of course, the dolls had to be hanged, and that wire is definitely barbed. Make no mistake, our mastermind has a really threatening motif going on as is, and there's even barbed wire in the academy. 'Noroi', or 'curse' is all over the place Okami-style, and purple is even the colour for cursed zones in Okami. Basically, the game is cursed; all the dolls are tinted with purple, too. (Wait, who is missing here? Hmm)

And, of course, 'Checkers' Ouma is present in the doll set while Kokichi Ouma is right there, in the middle. Similarly, the sticker set shows Ouma together with his Supreme Leader double.

Needless to say, I had quite a bit of fun with this one~

[jacksmusesdrv3]

Rantaro didn't stake out the library to catch Tsumugi in the act, he explicitly made to go for the *door*, and at the 11th hour at that. He had a plan, and he was sure of it (and let’s be real here, someone so sure of his plan wouldn’t not account for a hidden door being locked, that’s just plain stupid).

So why would he wait until the very last moment just to look? When it’s very possible that the ringleader had already made it into the room? Why even expose that door when he knows the ringleader will go through it? Why not barricade it?

....Unless he already had a means to go through that door?

If that’s so, then:

The Survivor Perk Monopad wasn’t the only thing that Tsumugi stole

Rantaro cooperated with a traitor of the game master

[jacksmusesdrv3]

oumanous replied to your post “That just tears it. Sakura Oogami: the mole, but had the situation...”

To add on: Junko, Izuru and our Ouma are all not on the cover and it's impossible to know the truth of the game unless they're discovered.

Right, and of course each one of those has a reason to be missing in them being tied with another. Junko, a twin of Mukuro. Izuru, a personality of Hajime (so to speak). Ouma, a twin, and with the expressed Kokichi Ouma also being  a ‘personality’ of his which is intrinsically tied (if not literally like Izuru).

[jacksmusesdrv3]

millixia78 replied to your post “millixia78 replied to your post “Not for nothin but, I feel there...”

Now I want to write a story where DICE actually functions like it's supposed to: running the world behind the scenes and all that... But I'm surely writing skills aren't up to par. And god fucking dammit Kodaka can go commit die with all of this teasing nonsense he's been playing in canon...

Not quite- DICE aren’t the ones doing that, they’re the ones after Team Danganronpa who are the conspiracy essentially, who want to bring the world to heel. With the killing game, no less. DICE is a threat to them.

The matter is, Ouma is masquerading as TDR’s ominous Supreme Leader, as a part of his dealio. He isn’t actually him.

[jacksmusesdrv3]

Jacks I don't mean to be rule or controlling, I really don't, but I see you in the tags again and I'm pretty sure you guaranteed you will stick to your personal tags? This isn't an attack I promise but...

Okay, the last time someone came to me about this I addressed them, but a’ight, I guess I’m doing it again, then.

First, I guaranteed that I would keep *certain. things* out of the main tags in my rules (such as, You Know What, the thing that got me into the mess), and those months ago when I had my issues, I said I would stay out of the tags indefinitely. Emphasis on ‘indefinitely’. It has a double meaning. 

Second, as said, I was in a precarious mental situation when I made the initial rule. It wasn’t long before I broke down and holed up my blog, and was absurdly close to it being the permanent indefinite, if you get my drift. A good few of the times prior to closing I spoke outside of my better judgement. I can’t change that.

Third: please, how many times do I need to say it? Block me if you don’t want to see me. I am not here to cater to everyone, just like 99% of the fandom who dominates that tag to start with isn’t there to cater to me. Do I go around telling them to keep their stuff out of the tag because it doesn’t agree with me, or outright offends me? No. I don’t. And I hate to break it to you, but a character as divisive and complicated as Ouma is going to have a lot of divisive suggestions. You’re going to have to get used to it, and accept that your view isn’t going to be uniform in the fandom sphere just as much as common sense isn’t uniform.

Besides, that 1% who is interested in breaking down Ouma and the intertwining narrative beyond the ‘obvious ploy’ is who I am reaching out to. Those people exist in that tag, too. It’s not you? Then fine. No skin off my back. But for someone who truly doesn’t want to control me, you sure are holding on to a past comment with the vice grip you would expect from Maki around someone’s throat. Nice words can only sugarcoat that for so long, you know. I’m not a fool.

If it’s not enough that I’m thinking through the things I post there more - like I said, besides the odd shitpost for good ol’ fashioned harmless fun, I don’t just post any old dubious context thing carelessly any more - then you should reconsider what you think is your authority here, Anon. Especially when there’s people out there still preaching whatever they damn well please with regards to Ouma’s supposed faults and nary anyone bats an eyelid, despite failing to get everything into perspective regarding his mystery.

And I still haven’t had an answer as to why my own perspective on the matter is wrong, despite patiently explaining time, and time and time again. Literally the last person who came to me on this only had a dismissal of the inconsistency level response *regarding a critical piece of evidence in contention - the motive video - and didn’t even address anything else much less bring a counter-argument. So if you’re going to lowkey preach at me, bring hard evidence. I will accept nothing less, so don’t waste my time again. Any further manipulative ploys will be deleted.

I do not trust your words, and you are overstepping your bounds. Good day.