A Small, Old Thought I’ve Had
One of my favorite scenes in this game. Finally got around to it again.
What a conversation to have under the portrait of the founder (Izuru Kamukura) himself. “Wanted to become hope?” And “Were you really willing to sacrifice your body and soul?” Is so on the nose.
Did he really know about it? This scene is so ambiguous due to foreshadowing, and what he says later on before the trial where he references the twist of DR0 is not helping with figuring out how much he knew.
You might as well just say he knew.
I really doubt Komaeda would like the idea of the Kamukura project in practice, or at least have mixed feelings about it. It also seems like something Komaeda would like to be apart of if he ever has the chance, even if it isn’t anything that praise worthy. Komaeda is a bit of a hypocrite in this regard.
Saying Komaeda would have positive feelings about the Kamukura project is a mixed bag to indulge in. There’s something different about his potential feelings about the project and Kamukura himself in my mind. The Idea Vs Practice Dilemma, if you will.
It’s part of the problem of Komaeda ideology regarding the talented, as Hajime remarks on when he learns about Izuru Kamukura during Chapter 6. What Komaeda truly wants cannot be from the talented and he cannot recognize that. Komaeda’s belief that the talented are innately the good of the world is… definitely a belief.
Komaeda would not have very good things to say about the person who accepts the project, but I also think he would not shame them out of the malice for what they’re trying to do as anyone would love the opportunity being given. Komaeda acts the way he does about the reserve course students because they’re just normal people who bought their way into the realm of superhuman in his eyes.
Now imagine what he would say about the idea of becoming talented through this operation. It’s almost blasphemous to his ideals, and crosses the borders of the talentless and talented, when the whole point of these talented students being put on this pedal stool is that they're untouchable beings.
It would push his standards, but I don't think he would have a problem with it entirely with more thought and convincing since his actions in chapter 5 and his ideas around Komaru in UDG do have that “worthless people can become hope” notion around it.
So would be hate it or not? Well, Kamukura himself as a result would not gain his ire if he does not know where he came from. If he did know, I just think he'd be disappointed or confused on how to treat him internally. He'd maybe still treat him like he would typically, but it might eat at him on the inside and grow into something negative against something so artificial.
This also depends on when and where in the timeline. Do you mean in an isolated setting like Dr S, Post-Game, or Pre-Game?
I should save my thoughts for my actual Komaeda Megatext, but I'm a thinker and need to speak sometimes about whats on my mind.
