Because I don't think I have it in me to write actual fic for this at the moment so just picture it with me ok?? I call it Anhedonia and it's Miu centric!
Plot / more art under the cut~
Basically, everyone's data is recovered from the NWP and Shuichi & co use it to simulate Miu, thinking she can help them rebuild Kiibo. She agrees under the condition that she builds her own body first so they can't throw her out after (which they were kinda considering ngl).
Once in her new body, she realizes she doesn't have her constant stream of ideas anymore and it really freaks her out. She starts spending all her time trying to recreate her perfect goddess body (because she believes it housed all her talent — but also fueled by a disastrous attempt to seduce Shuichi). Since her self image is completely unstable, she’s stuck making a never ending series of robot models, each one a more distorted caricature of herself than the last.
Of course she’s too busy doing this to design a new body for Alter Ego Kiibo, so she just sticks his AI inside one of her older models. But now she can’t really stand to be around him anymore, since looking at his temporary Miu body just triggers her own obsessive dysmorphia. She’s also starting to resent her existence as a robot in ways that Kiibo really doesn’t appreciate.
The bodies are named MIU3.0, MIU3.1, etc. because Miu considers this the 3rd incarnation of herself. The first died in a car crash, and the second died in Danganronpa.
Kiibo is also on his third life; his first self died after hurting Iidabashi, and his second self died after destroying the school — which starts to make him wonder if the world is just better off without him, since it seems that in each life he’s doomed to snap and destroy himself along with everyone he loves.
Not to mention he now has to share his Ultimate title with someone who's actually very knowledgeable and accomplished... and who won't look him in the eye anymore.
So...... basically it’s a huge trainwreck!
^^^^ Art has been most to least recent btw! This is the fake CG I drafted right after I finished V3... I started planning robot Mius the second I found out she died lmao
also reread the dance recently and realized samantha tarly’s political power move and defining moment is specifically motivated by ending the war and bringing peace. Feeling insane feeling unwell feeling like a genius perhaps
today was a good day. i did cry for a little while, but i think im better now. so much of what i am worried about is out of my control. i will try to let go of it. it is not worth holding on to.
