#pekoshima

[midnightdemonhunter]

She just won't leave me alone!

[multishipper-baby]

Pekoshima... My wonderful evil women.

[rarepairronpa]

Wooah boy have I not been keeping up with posting what I've been writing to this blog. Nor have I been posting a lot to this blog. Partially because oh boy, has my health been bad already this year, so I haven't really been active anywhere. But! We have things to catch up on! Not a lot, because again: health issues, so I haven't been writing as much as I normally do, but. Still some.

First off, my Naejunko week fills. Posting here super late (already February when these were done in December, but. You know) so I don't really expect a reblog from people who run Naejunko week, but I thought my followers may be interested in it.

Naejunko Week, 2024, in all its glory. Also doubles as what I did for Junko's birthday; I know in 2023 I said that in 2024, I'd do a sequel to my big Junko character study, but uhhh. Yeah that didn't happen. Hopefully I can do that this year but I refrain from making promises (this time).

Now... I also did another installment of my Danganronpa/Bungou Stray Dogs crossover work, which... I debated including here but like, I did say crossover ships would count. So take (suck it up), which covers Mikan's HPA days in my BSD/DR crossover. Also includes Junkan, but is more focused on Mikan/Chuuya/Dazai. You can take or leave that one.

Next! I posted two new chapters of This is a Feature, Not a Bug. With the last one having an extreme Komanami focus. I definitely had fun writing that one, but it's definitely kind of "moments taken before disaster" because it's the last work I posted before a cyst I had burst :') Komanami tried to kill me, guys.

Now we're onto what I've been posting recently. Femslash February!! I did not have any of these works prepared like I normally would; they're being written as I go, because of my aforementioned health issues kicking my butt, making it hard for me to have been prepared. January was a month of many health issues, I'll tell you that much.

I'm using @danggirlronpa 's Danganronpa Femslash February prompts for this (and I will hopefully make separate posts for all the days after these first three, lol).

First day was for the prompt "remnants of despair" and I wrote to fizzle, which was about Hiyobuki in a world where the tragedy just sort of... faded without Junko to keep the momentum. Inspired by @mystxmomo 's work, something close to domestic, maybe. The backstory to this is when that work was coming out, I wrote a Hiyobuki work inspired by it... only to lose those files and scrap the whole thing as consequence 😭😭😭 decided to try my hand at rewriting the concept, though.

Second day was the ghost prompt, and I wrote Junkan! The thing with this is that I had already written ghost!Junko for Junkan Week (which hasn't come out yet; those works go up starting on the 11th), so I was like... what do I do for the ghost prompt this time?? I decided to write something of a prequel to the ghost Junkan I already wrote. So that's what eat me as I am is.

Lastly, for the third prompt, nail polish, I at first wanted to write Kaemugi, as I feel like that's very Kaemugi coded of a prompt, but I've already done Kaemugi with nail polish before, multiple times, so like... what more can I say? So instead, I pivoted to Junko! Since I do also associate nail polish with her. Specifically, I did Peko/Junko for this prompt... which honestly thinking about now may have partially been inspired by @midnightdemonhunter 's Peko/Junko art. The work, to be used is to be valued, is it not? Is all about Peko/Junko.

And now you're all caught up! Honestly hopefully from now on I can stay on top of this. Definitely not the best at these kinds of things, but I'll try.

[danggirlronpa]

Thinking about pekoshima. Because I know in canon Peko is brainwashed and blah blah blah but I'd we decide to ignore DR3 and make it so that Peko chose to follow Junko...

It's just. Peko has been forced from birth to be nothing more than a servant. She doesn't live her life for herself, but to follow the whims of someone else- and because they're part of the Yakuza, she's made to be violent. She knows so much about sword fighting that she's an ultimate and she's killed people even before the Killing Game. She was forced into the role of a weapon.

So I think there's a beautiful tragedy in the idea of her having a second chance at life in Hope's Peak Academy... And choosing to do it again. She leaves her old master, not to live for herself, but to live for Junko instead. She stops killing for the Yakuza and starts killing for the Ultimate Despair. She finds another love to be a tool for, one that accepts her for what she thinks she is. Junko likes the Peko that Peko wants to be: a weapon with no thoughts, no voice, no opinions that need consideration.

Idk I feel like people sleep on these two too much.

Oh I LOVE this actually. I feel like in popular headcanon, Peko's fall into despair is mostly just a natural consequence of Fuyuhiko's, but the idea of her redirecting Peko's loyalty, giving both of them what they "wanted" - Fuyuhiko, for Peko to no longer be a tool to him, and Peko, to be a useful tool - is such a glorious monkey's paw of toxic yuri. Peko/Junko as a real life bodyguard AU that Junko has shaped with her own hands to keep Peko teetering just on the brink of. I have to go listen to my playlist of songs about wlw stealing girls from their boyfriends. This rules

[midnightdemonhunter]

I use the force of my personality to....

[midnightdemonhunter]

she’s the sun.

[danggirlronpa]

Not the Pekoshima anon who originally talked about the ship, but I am so Invested in pekoshima my god, I have to talk about it. Okay so - with both Ultimate Despair's we see (discounting DR3 because. I don't like it), Nagito and Mikan, I find them very interesting. Mikan in chapter 3 obviously isn't behaving well - murder and all - but she also seems to recognize for possibly the first time ever that how people treated her was wrong (questioning why they treated her this way, acknowledging it wasn't fair, even calling the cast a bunch of bullies in scorn). Which is... such interesting characterization! It's one of the reasons I can't exactly buy how Junkan is presented in DR3 - in her FTEs, how people treated Mikan was normal to her, and she didn't seem to fully realize it was wrong. In the third trial, Mikan talks as if she knows how she was treated was wrong, and singles out Junko as being different, having forgiven her. In her final FTE, she says that Hajime has forgiven her too, implying to me that Junko did the same thing as Hajime did during their FTEs together, just with malicious intent (strengthening the Hajime/Izuru and Ryouko/Junko parallels and solitifying both Chiaki and Hajime in SDR2 as "the kindness the remnants never had" - kindness that ultimately leads to them triumphing over Junko this time). So in DR3, it didn't make much sense to me that Junko treated Mikan just as everyone else in Mikan's life has. Kicking her and berating her. Of course, with brainwashing she didn't need to be kind, but before DR3 came out, I always thought Junko operated more like... she would make you go one step forward, and two steps back. She would present herself as if solving your problems and helping you, but that was just to her own ends. We see this in Nagito too - when he's in DR:AE as a remnant of despair, his ideals have changed drastically from SDR2, and I'd go so far as to say what he preaches in DR:AE to be a better philosophy - though how far he's willing to go for it, still bad. So, the conclusion I reached was that every remnant would have some sort of ironic twist - something they improved upon, only for their other behaviors to be worse, like Nagito and Mikan.

So Hiyoko wouldn't be bully - but maybe it would be too much in the other direction, where she was obedient to a fault. Never talking without permission, sitting still like a doll, only doing what she was told.

Kaizuchi, perhaps, would no longer be obsessed with Sonia, someone who didn't like him back, and instead fixate on Junko, who welcomed his obsession...

And Peko, who used to think she was a tool... perhaps she would finally realize she was human. Perhaps she would realize this, and despair at such a fact.

Because it would mean she failed. She failed to become a tool for Fuyuhiko, and suddenly everything done to her wasn't "training a tool" but a tragedy. Her life was a tragedy. The very fact that she is human is despair, but that despair itself proves she is human. I imagine she could get very twisty and turny in her thoughts about this.

I also have the headcanon that Peko and Fuyuhiko during the despair times switches roles. Fuyuhiko always took on too much responsibility, and hey, here's your old pal Junko here to set you straight! You don't need to take so much onto yourself! It's painful, isn't it? Taking the burden of making choices. Being human. Who wants that responsibility? Why not give it to someone else? Oh hey, look at that, it's your old pal Peko! She'll take the brunt of responsibility from now on! From now on, Peko is the master and Fuyuhiko is the tool!

I just love the idea of Junko doing these ironic little twists. Helping them in some way only to fuck them over in others. Junko makes Peko realize she's human, and because of that, Peko cannot help but both love and resent her. Real toxic yuri shit going on.

(TW this gets a lil gory at the end)

This is a really good take on Junko's strategy!! My Junko analysis is similar but not quite the same. I've always viewed Junko as a monkey's paw. Whoever you are, she gives you exactly what you want, in its totality - but at the expense of your happiness.

Mikan's desire for someone to care for her becomes excessive dependency and blind devotion. Ryota's desire to become a successful animator who doesn't have to think about talking to others or existing in the real world becomes the complete destruction of that world, and his animated work as the most influential to ever exist. Nagito's desire to become a force which others can step on to find hope becomes Nagito ensuring the legacy of the greatest despair he possibly can, so that no 'fake' hopes can bypass his rigorous test - only a True Ultimate Hope can overcome and finally lead the world to victory.

Despair - for Junko - is the knowledge that you have succeeded, and everything is even worse than if you hadn't. Because Junko is Always succeeding, and she's Always in despair. Nothing challenges her. The only thing that she can't predict is pure dumb luck, which Makoto leverages against her both in THH and SDR2 to enable her defeat. Junko, like Izuru, is one of the most successful people to ever exist, and it SUCKS. So of course she is dragging people down the exact same way she herself is dragged down. Of course she shows people obvious, glowing success, in such a way that it tears down the entire world they once knew. Because this way - if one day unimaginably, they break their bonds - they will never, ever experience true hope again. Because their hopes are what destroyed them. Their hope brings about despair.

So from that perspective, I think you're dead on the money with Fuyuhiko, who loathes his position and wants to be free of the burden of responsibility (wouldn't it be easier, to be a tool, too? Aren't you tired of telling people to die? Shouldn't you take responsibility yourself, if there's killing to be done?). But Peko's desire is to be a tool. Rather than teaching Peko how to become her own person, I personally think that Junko would put Peko through the paces of both physical and psychological torture to turn her into a complete unfeeling instrument, exactly like Peko wanted. Once you've been in a 1-foot cell with no other people for a week, once you've been given Pavlovian training to receive an endorphin rush when holding your own spilling viscera in your hands - affection, agency, memory all fade away. There's just the next order. Exactly like Peko wanted.

[danggirlronpa]

Danganronpa F/F Rarepairs Seed A2 Round 1

Junko/Peko

Chiaki/Maki

Voting ended onApr 12, 2023

Seed A2 Masterpost

Peko/Junko art by midnightdemonhunter

Chiaki/Maki art by @vhsghostricks

Peko/Junko

What if I was an evil person who treats others as tools, and you were someone who considers yourself devoid of personality except as an item to be wielding by the person you’ve been charged to, and we were both girls,,,

Peko can distinguish Mukuro and Junko at a glance in UTDP, even when Mukuro is actively disguised as Junko, and that means she’s either studied Mukuro or studied Junko’s fashion articles enough to know their face fairly intimately. And either way. Gay

Perhaps two of the girls most intimately familiar with torture tactics and, when Peko is in despair, would probably delight in discussing it. Which. Um. Is sure a point of connection they’d have!

Chiaki/Maki

This one comes entirely from UTDP/Danganronpa S, where Chiaki drags Maki into becoming her go-to gamer buddy and you get to watch as they slowly become best friends who have sleepovers and beach dates and it’s honestly a really cute, organic relationship

Two people who are both touch starved and consider themselves Solely Existing To Aid Others. They could heal so much together

Everyone loves Maki with bisexual haircut. But no one asks HOW Maki gets bisexual haircut. And the answer is Chiaki gives it to her in a spur of the moment over Winter break. I will accept no disagreements

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