Ship Based Hate
Spoilers under the cut lol Hey Hi Hello Y’all
so i was just browsing Danganronpa content on this hellsite, as you do, when i came across something that i realized is a problem.
Ship Based Hate
it started because I wanted to look at Gonta ships. I am, as you all should know or will come to find out, a multishipper. Its sorta my brand. So i was scrolling through various ship tags for Gonta, most of them a bit short, lacking in content, but cute nonetheless. Then i went to OuGoku. If you dont know, OuGoku is the ship between Gonta Gokuhara and Kokichi Ouma. Its pretty cute in my opinion, and has a pretty solid fanbase.
But i started seeing various, almost random hateposts about it. Saying things like “this ship makes me wanna throw up” or “if you ship this you are toxic and should die”. Reoccuring posts all dedicated to the hatred of this ship. This is not the only Ship for which this happens either. Things like KomeNami, and even Naegiri get hate like this.
If you are not aware, as i was not before now, there are people who dedicate themselves to hating these ships, among others, because its “toxic”.
I personally dont consider this toxic, as in the case if OuGoku they were genuinely friends towards the end of the line, two people who cared for eachother. The biggest issue is that Kokichi manipulated Gonta into killing Mui, a plan that he thought would work, but instead got Gonta executed.
I feel like people forgot a few details, like the fact that both of them thought the plan would work, that Gonta, though Gullible, is still an Adult human being capable of making decisions for himself, and that Mui was going to get everyone killed if they did not go through with their plan.
The biggest one though, is a concept that this fandom seems to forget a lot. No Ship is Non-Toxic If Developed In A Killing Game.
its that simple. The mental and emotional stress put on a bunch of barely adults— who are locked away from society, never to escape unless they kill a peer and get away with it— is ASTOUNDING. The fact that you genuinely think a functional and emotionally stable relationship can bloom under such conditions is foolish and naive at best. So to hate someone based off of a ship and their interactions during a killing game is just plain stupid!
The trick to overcoming such stupid hatred is this: Think about the relationship outside the killing game.
And no, I’m not talking about the Pregame version of the character either. Take thses charcters as they are, outside of the killing game. Is it really as toxic as you say it is?
Okay, and yes, some ships are bad regardless, like Junko and Mikan, which is just straight up abuse, or Kazuichi and Sonia, in which one person is aimlessly pinning and somewhat inappropriate to the second party, who has no feelings whatsoever. But most ships aren’t like that.
And after all this, yes, you still have the right to ship who you want, and vice versa, but needless “ship hate posts“ is really dumb. Nobody is forcing you to consume said content. If you dont like, dont look/read. Its really that simple.
Anyway this is my longest post so far, but whatever lol. Drink water babes.
Ciao for Now
-Clay :3